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Notes for season 2 episode 7, “Critical<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:30 Leon is running a gold farming scam in 2012. I think gold farming’s cultural peak came with the suggestion that prisoners in China were being forced to grind<\/a> in mmorpgs. I didn’t really hear much about gold faming until Axie Infinity tried to make gold farming the point of the game, with the gold being “Smooth Love Potion”, a crypto-currency that rocketed up and then collapsed over the course of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

07:30 Finch notes that Madeleine and Amy have been married since June 2011, but presumably not in New York which only recognised same-sex marriage from July 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00 Julian Sands appears as Alistair Wesley. (At the time of writing in 2023, Sands is sadly missing and likely dead.) Wesley tells Madeleine, a surgeon, he’s going to kill her wife unless she kills a high-profile patient. Interestingly this episode aired in November 2012, and just a few weeks earlier<\/a> Warner Bros \/ CBS had also committed to a pilot for a similar premise, Hostages<\/a>, based on a then-unproduced Israeli script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45 Fusco shows Carter the CCTV footage on a Dell Latitude XT2 XFR rugged tablet. It’s no Toughbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:49 I know it doesn’t matter in the context of a dose intended to be fatal, but it seems like you often see doctors on television use the same needle to draw from a multi-dose vial as to inject. (Normally, in case of contamination from the silicone seal, separate needles are used.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:22 Of course Madeleine’s office has the same Dell 2009W monitor (with third-party VESA stand) as half of all offices seen in the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:27 Despite the name (“Network Data Analyzer”) Finch is clearly using an interface based on Wireshark<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45 “Can you use [this single image] to triangulate the sniper’s position?” More loose trigonometry from Finch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00 Finch hacks the hospital’s blood inventory via their website. The inventory is expressed as units per ABO\/Rh type, but all of the types have roughly equivalent inventories. This is poor management by the hospital – the amounts should really reflect the blood type distribution of the location. This means holding mostly O+ and A+, and relatively small amounts of AB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:50 “I’ll be seeing you.” Did I mention my theory that Person of Interest takes place in the same universe as the 2009 Prisoner mini-series?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:50 Carter tampers with evidence for the benefit of… slow audience members?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21:54 A patient monitor screen is mocked up as showing vitals in a simulated 14-segment display, in a change from OCR-A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25:32 It’s not clear why Leon passes on the hacked insider information about Veldt rejecting a wind farm proposal. Feels like it lowers the stakes. It pays off later, I guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30:50 Even in an emergency situation, Reese can’t hold back from offering up his opinions on New York bakeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31:50 “Agent Snow, freeze”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

35:47 Wait, did all of the hidden operatives in the park have very obvious radio ear pieces this whole time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

36:50 “You’re the surgeon, doctor – I’m just the nurse… or in this case the backup plan.” I’m assuming, at this point, that the the audio in the operating room isn’t being recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

37:50 Ah yes, a tablet with a smashed screen – you won’t get any data out of that thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

40:05 The front page of the newspaper also includes a 1989 NYT story about fonts<\/a>, but where “Bill Gates” has been replaced by “Kevin L Rapier”, and “Microsoft” has been replaced by “Eight O Eight” (indicating the source of the prop<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

41:00 It feels like they’re setting up Wesley to be a reoccurring character, but ultimately he’s never seen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n