S04.E1: Frequently Recurring Struggle for Existence

[thewhiteowl]

Jane confronts her past while the team rushes to keep a deadly weapon out of a terrorist's grasp.

[mxc90]

Now that Keaton is out of his coma, he has no way of clearing his name for something he went rogue doing???? This guy is a high level CIA employee? This story line is falling apart! Keaton should ask the doctor to be put back in a coma!

It's always the old blankie that brings back warm memories of Shepard.

Plutonium is missing and the DIA sends "one" creepy looking man with a bad hair piece to work with the FBI!

Good to know Silver Marks Industries carried out an extensive back ground check on Greta Smalls. She didn't need to do much to get that job.

The Russian didn't get a vibe when Patterson kept pausing to give answers?

It's nice of the alpha team to not scream "Freeze! FBI"/not cause a major commotion in the room below Greta and not tip them off.

Cameron Gibbs is on the FBI's Most Wanted and still looks like his driver's license picture? I guess when he walks the streets of New York, the cameras and facial recognition suddenly stop working.

I'm sure Remi didn't tell him it's OK to cry in front of his teacher.

I would love to play that board game!

Who's mystery person? Maybe Jane's daughter?

[Free]

1 hour ago, mxc90 said:

The Russian didn't get a vibe when Patterson kept pausing to give answers?

They never do for some reason.

[blackwing]

I loved Rich's board game and would definitely buy it.  I did find it interesting that per the statistics on each agent's card, I think Weller might have rated higher in each of the three categories than Jane.  He got 8, 8, 7.  The first one was definitely Strength.  I think the other two might have been Stamina and Tactics, or something like that?  Jane is a better fighter than he is.  Each of the agent's cards had three "special powers" on the left.  I forget what most of them were, but we saw Weller, Jane and Reade's cards.  I cracked up that one of Reade's powers was "Red Tape".  Weller should have had "Growling Voice" or "Neck Beard" as one of his.

I didn't fully understand what the plan was with selling the suitcase nuke, or whatever it was.  Patterson and Clay Aiken were in a room on the second floor trying to make the bomb a dud.  Weller and Jane were on the third floor negotiating the sale.  Then at some point, Patterson and Clay were supposed to switch the deactivated bomb with Weller and Jane's fake?  Why didn't they deactivate it in their HQ first?  And what was with Rich making the elevator with Greta and LongHair stop at 2 instead of 3?  Wouldn't Greta have noticed she got off on the wrong floor?

I couldn't care less about Tasha at all, and I don't care for all the angst about her wondering if the FBI is still her home.  Reade should be removed as Assistant Director because he lacks judgment.  Weller used to be Assistant Director and gave it up to go look for Jane (I think?).  Why can't he get the job back?  Reade sucks.  He should have lost his job ages ago, for many reasons, but chief among them that whole thing with the coach who molested him and this Tasha debacle.  I'm pretty sure sleeping with a subordinate is one of the bigger no-nos at the FBI.

[Loandbehold]

54 minutes ago, blackwing said:

I didn't fully understand what the plan was with selling the suitcase nuke, or whatever it was.  Patterson and Clay Aiken were in a room on the second floor trying to make the bomb a dud.  Weller and Jane were on the third floor negotiating the sale.  Then at some point, Patterson and Clay were supposed to switch the deactivated bomb with Weller and Jane's fake?  Why didn't they deactivate it in their HQ first?  And what was with Rich making the elevator with Greta and LongHair stop at 2 instead of 3?  Wouldn't Greta have noticed she got off on the wrong floor?

They renumbered the rooms on the floor. How they managed to change the numbers on the elevator remains a mystery to me.

[AnimeMania]

6 hours ago, Loandbehold said:

They renumbered the rooms on the floor. How they managed to change the numbers on the elevator remains a mystery to me.

They hacked the elevator, made it move slower and display "3" instead of "2" on display panel. It is a mystery to me how out of all the large plastic carrying cases in the world they happened to pick the same exact color and model for the nuclear bomb detonator that the bad guys chose. 

[paigow]

I must have dozed off after they had a choice between deactivating the bomb but losing the tracker or vice versa....then I heard someone say lose the tracker....then Jane says she needs to help plant the bomb because there is no tracker...then Jane is worried the bomb will explode...what exposition did I miss?????

[HunterHunted]

On 3/19/2019 at 5:48 PM, AnimeMania said:

They hacked the elevator, made it move slower and display "3" instead of "2" on display panel. It is a mystery to me how out of all the large plastic carrying cases in the world they happened to pick the same exact color and model for the nuclear bomb detonator that the bad guys chose. 

Now had they been smart, they would have set this up on the 12th and 14th floors. Those are the floors when the numbering gets a little wonky. Thirteenth floors will become the 14th floor or the spa and lounge floor or the conference suites floors. It's so common that people expect weirdness around floor 13. The City/County building in my hometown is super old and has a weird 3/4 height floor to get around the 13th floor problem. And it's listed on the elevators as the 6 and 1/2 floor.

On 3/19/2019 at 7:40 PM, paigow said:

I must have dozed off after they had a choice between deactivating the bomb but losing the tracker or vice versa....then I heard someone say lose the tracker....then Jane says she needs to help plant the bomb because there is no tracker...then Jane is worried the bomb will explode...what exposition did I miss?????

It's pretty much as you've described it. The expert was told the wrong model number by the seller. When he went to do what he needed, he realized he could deactivate it or set up the tracker. They told him to deactivate it so Jane had to contrive a way to follow the bomb. And earlier on they said that even with it being deactivated, he could turn it into a dirty bomb by just blowing it up.