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Notes for season 5 episode 9, “Sotto Voce<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

00:51 The absolutely weird colour grading<\/a> tells us this is a US show portraying Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:05 Reese places an Anthora on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

07:50 Another reference to “self-deleting text” messages, which appear to be a standard facility in this reality, rather than a feature of specific apps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:50 So the bad guy in this episode is a call back to an unseen character from an episode that had aired more than two years previously. (Or, on my rewatch timeline, at the end of July.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:25 “I’ve managed to extract location data from the digital photo of Clara.” Finch is making this sound a little harder than just pulling the geotag out of the Exif attributes<\/a>. We see the metadata on screen, and I was surprised to see “serial number” as a field. I don’t remember seeing this displayed for an image, but I’ve checked the spec (version 2.3 at the time this episode was made) and there are<\/em> attributes for body serial number and lens serial number. I’m not a photographer, but do high-end replaceable lenses communicate their serial number<\/a> (via something like RFID) the same way the replaceable heads on my electric toothbrush do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45 “Everyone out, it’s a trap!” It was obviously a trap. The Voice would have known about Exif metadata. Most people (not working for Vice<\/a>) had been aware of it for years. It’s almost odd that a messaging service that has a facility for “self-deleting” messages wouldn’t also include metadata sanitisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22:44 Is this the third time that the police station has been the site of an “Assault on Precinct 13” scenario?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29:10 “Open up, Amir.” shouts the gang-member. Mate, Amir is a murder suspect in a police holding cell. If he could open the door from the inside that would be quite the “design fail”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29:30 “It’s just Chen” assures Fusco. I don’t know man, you already established the gang has a cop working with them, and Chen appears to be the only other cop in the building. My spider-sense would be tingling. It’s not like Fusco has a naive trust in other officers – he’s a former corrupt cop who worked to take down a network of corrupt cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33:00 Shaw’s back, but has been subjected to computer-based mental-manipulation for so long that she can no longer trust her own instincts. 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

42:24 After 99 episodes, Fusco finally gains his halo – the golden reticule of AI awareness. And there are now five silhouettes under the Queensboro Bridge, where Reece and Finch spoke in the first episode. And this is a bookend – the last episode of the “person<\/em>” focused series, because all that remains is AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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