S01.E02: Syracuse

[Snazzy Daisy]

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Ed’s work catches the attention of NSA operative Taylah Sanders and a mysterious institute.

Air Date: Jan 22, 2025

 

[Snazzy Daisy]

NSA Olson — the second dead body.

Professor Alderman aka Master is as shady as the Kaplar Institute.

After 2 episodes, I find Taylah and Andrea are more likeable than Edward Brooks. His abrasiveness is unpleasant to watch. I hope the story will get more interesting once Edward meets Taylah and they start to uncover things. 🤞🏻

 

Edited January 29 by Snazzy Daisy

[ItCouldBeWorse]

So for some reason, Ed does not have a cell phone. (He had to use a Cambridge phone to call his father; borrowing a phone to call his professor's office # didn't bother me.)  I hope they explain that quirk, because being able to contact people and take pictures of clues would certainly be helpful when trying to solve a mystery.

Why didn't he ask Andrea about the receipt for 150,000 euros from the mysterious "KI"?

He uses his dead professor's credentials to enter the Cambridge library and log into their intranet to read articles about Safiya's genius. He doesn't do a Google search for her to see if she's done anything since grad school 30 years ago, but does say to the librarian: "I'm trying to get in touch with an ex-student.  She graduated 30 years ago.  Her name's Safiya. . . . Maybe if I left you my new address, you can pass it on to her?"

Because:

1) Ed doesn't have a phone #, and women love showing up to the apartments of men they don't know

2) The librarian is bound to run into a student from 30 years ago whose name she doesn't recognize

And then the librarian actually figures out how to contact Safiya's family and finds out that she "committed suicide" 30 years ago - that is a full-service librarian!

I had an issue with the message including "It wasn't ever anything that you did" because that's not normal speech for someone who speaks English.  "It wasn't anything you did" or "It isn't anything you did" makes more sense to me.  But then, wouldn't someone using AI be able to create any words they wanted?  There's no longer a need to clip phrases from actual recorded speech, so I decided I was being too picky. 

Other than that, the show is fine.