{"id":338,"date":"2023-10-08T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/?p=338"},"modified":"2023-10-28T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:42:52","slug":"person-of-interest-s4e11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/log\/2023\/10\/person-of-interest-s4e11\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of Interest S4E11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes for season 4 episode 11, “If-Then-Else<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:30 It’s 2015, cell phones are ubiquitous, and a crowd has gathered on the street to watch an LED stock market ticker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:20 What’s the timeline here? How recently did the market crash? The guy on the train apparently lost all his money, conceived of a revenge plan, built a suicide-vest, and then got on a subway train the same day? Was it spontaneous and he just happened to have a bomb already?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:26 The first piece of tech on the stock exchange server level? A Dell 2009W monitor. (drink)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:58 2003-flashback Finch communicates with his era-appropriate flip phone. Except the prop being used is a Samsung T139 – a phone released in 2010, several years after the original iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:26 The wealth of the NYSE is such that they can apparently hang Degas sketches<\/a> on server sub-levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:01 Root shoots her way into the server room, and there are four people sitting behind four Dell 2009W monitors. Three immediately pick up guns and start firing. Initially I thought these were particularly jumpy NYSE sysadmins – but the machine identified the shooters with red reticules, suggesting they were probably Samaritan agents. So who’s the guy who shouts “don’t shoot” and runs away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:11 Harold gets fatally shot… so time reverses back to the shoot-out at the break room. On a long enough timeline every show does its “Run Lola Run”, but this one at least has a long-established conceit of a supercomputer running projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22:42 The motivation of the bomb-vest guy on the subway is that the market crash has prevented him from paying the large medical bills for his sick wife. So he’s decided to take revenge against a broker. There are maybe other parties more responsible for medical bankruptcies in the US, but I guess some of them are major advertisers on the TV networks that commission these shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24:31 We can see on the screen that the code being run is the example test for a bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 known as Shellshock<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31:59 “Unrelated attempt to deflect subtext.” the simplified simulation gives an opportunity to make the Root\/Shaw dynamic clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

34:53 “I don’t think anyone is worth more than anyone else” muses reclusive billionaire Finch in 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

42:16 Rewatching Shaw’s final scenes knowing that everything had to be shot in a way to hide the fact that the actress was visibly pregnant with twins. The familiar black clothing and an open jacket to break the belly’s silhouette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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