S01.E08: The Man Who Kept the Secrets

[TiffanyNichelle]

Xavier had some issues with his eyesight I think and that's why he couldn't become a professional pilot like his dad.

Edited 8 hours ago by TiffanyNichelle

[marinw]

12 minutes ago, TiffanyNichelle said:

Xavier had some issues with his eyesight I think and that's why he couldn't become a professional pilot like his dad.

Yet he could become a secret service agent?

[Paloma]

4 minutes ago, marinw said:

17 minutes ago, TiffanyNichelle said:

Xavier had some issues with his eyesight I think and that's why he couldn't become a professional pilot like his dad.

Yet he could become a secret service agent?

The vision requirements for pilots might be somewhat stricter than for SS agents. My husband was accepted to the Air Force Academy but told he could not be a pilot because he has a slight color deficiency (he can see red, but he doesn't see green clearly). Obviously perfect color vision is important for pilots, but I don't know if it's essential for SS agents. I don't see color vision mentioned in the SS qualifications, and they don't even require 20/20 vision uncorrected (though it does have to be 20/20 corrected): https://www.secretservice.gov/careers/special-agent/qualifications

[SeanBug]

24 minutes ago, chaifan said:

I vaguely recall something in their conversation about X planning on following in dad's footsteps, but couldn't for some reason.  So maybe he learned how to fly, but never pursued it further?  I can't remember 100%.  

Maybe we'll get a remembering flashback in S2.

Another thought, the supervisor/librarian waited 3 years to kill the wrong person? Cal was convinced to do this by Sinatra.  Why didn't he go to the media when he found out what was going on with the excavation?  Instead he made a Carrie from Homeland crazy board and killed a couple people to sneak into the compound, not knowing if he'd ever have the chance to do anything. 

Finale was a bit of a letdown. 

[bilgistic]

2 hours ago, marinw said:

In terms of the class structure, Sinatra was being served by a maid!! I wonder how she got on the approved list. Or if Sinatra snuck her in because god forbid Sinatra would have to make her own coffee.

I said to my husband, "Imagine being chosen as one of the 25,000 to rebuild humanity and you're forced to be a maid for a billionaire."

[chaifan]

1 minute ago, bilgistic said:

I said to my husband, "Imagine being chosen as one of the 25,000 to rebuild humanity and you're forced to be a maid for a billionaire."

Eh, I look at it more as "imagine being a maid (for a billionaire) and being given a chance to be one of 25,000 people to survive and rebuild humanity."

 

 

[meep.meep]

2 hours ago, bilgistic said:

I said to my husband, "Imagine being chosen as one of the 25,000 to rebuild humanity and you're forced to be a maid for a billionaire."

Reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica episode where the people trapped on the ore-processing ship decide they've done the most dangerous job too long.

It's also what Adam was ranting about at the end. 

I too was wondering about Xavier's piloting skills. 

[90sfan]

I still think there is something more on the Wii. The way Sinatra responded when Jane asked for it made it seem like she was crazy for asking...like it was too much. I know we see her just playing with it in the end, but my hunch is that either there are files on it or that Wii was a code word for something else in addition to just the game.

In one of the early episodes, we were told that Xavier had learned to fly. When Jeremy took Presley to see the airplanes, I remember thinking that this was a sign that Xavier was going to fly them out of there at some point. 

I agree with whoever said that it is strange that Xavier is so trusting of Jane. He would have questioned how she got a gun. Maybe not in that moment, but shortly afterwards.

[Js Nana]

On 3/4/2025 at 6:19 AM, Snazzy Daisy said:

Jane is diabolically cunning

But I kinda get the feeling that, in her own sociopathic little way, she genuinely likes Presley - - but then, I also believed that she was in love with Billy Pace until she was revealed to be the biggest, baddest thug in Sinatra's arsenal.