Notes for season 4 episode 16, “Blunt“
02:14 There’s a pro-privacy “Stop Big Data” protest on campus.
03:14 Reference made to “Far Cry 4”, released in November 2014, three months before this episode aired.
09:31 The cash in the duffel bag had been swapped out for New York telephone directories. Definitely a move you’d see in a 20th Century movie – but in 2015 where do you find printed directories? The library? New York was one of the places where printed directory distribution became opt-in after 2010.
15:10 Samaritan, for some reason, makes a few graphs suggesting marijuana legalisation would be a net positive.
23:34 “Get me more gamers” Huh, Dominic is laundering the drug money MMO gold farming in 2015, despite it mostly dying off in the years prior. Did he not consider cryptocurrency?
25:55 Ah, a Pelican 1470 stuffed full of cash.
28:00 They’re clearly auditioning Harper as another potential Shaw-replacement. They’ve also made her sound like the De Niro character from Heat in her life philosophy.
31:18 Talking of Heat, Dominic and Reece do a version the Pacino/De Niro diner scene.
37:00 Harper’s plan is reminiscent of the one Will Smith’s character uses at the end of Enemy of the State.
41 The boss of the company with the compression algorithm is Caleb Phipps – the student who coded on paper in season 2.