For a long time The Machine didn't had a character, but in this episode the Ai becomes so obvious that the viewer cannot miss it. And the play it gives to Mr Reece, to win him back, is marvellous.
Not that Mr Reece isn't nothing sort of hurting, and in his shoes I would have done the same. Machine or not, and even in the fact that so many women have hots for the man in the suit. Except in this one Reece is out from his icon, but he's not out from the character. And when the Machine really lets loose, it feels as if it had calculated this to from the get go. And the chances are that it even put the players in the plane, cos if you look back in the last episode, you'll see how r00t's not even sweating in the chair.
She knew no matter what, the Machine will do its
very best to keep its analogue interface operational, and even in the worst case there is a slight chance that she will get out from it alive, but not unharmed.
Reece however completely refuses to be operational until he has no choice but to interface to the situation, and even then he says no. And that drives the Machine into the situation, where it's about lose one of its
most precious administrators. Not only that but also an yellow line marked asset that turns out to be so in this world, as we've seen the writers lending from the popular culture news. Like the infamous, "Don't taze me bro!"
But in the same time, the episode is talking about the awareness that has been rooting up in the scientific and tech-circles recently as we near towards the point, where true Ai's become true.
It could be tomorrow, and it could today as well, because who knows what's really bubbling under the hood of big companies and the curtain that hides under it the other side. It could be anything, and it wouldn't be necessarily from the American side even though there's strong possibility that it will come from them.
So, where The Machine recruits Mr Reece in this episode, it's also shows how vulnerable it's operations really are. And Carter didn't die for no reason. She lives in our hearts and she lives in Finch and Reece's memories. And on that note, I'd like to say that this series is true wonderful and it's currently propelling towards being one of best loved, but not most talked about series.
