4.02: Nautilus

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Harold reluctantly agrees to help John protect a young woman who is participating in a dangerous and deadly game, meanwhile Shaw works with a group of thieves as her new cover identity.

We seen the new Batcave at the end. There are loads of old tunnels and rooms underground like that. London Underground has just realised that it can make money by renting them or selling them off.

The idea of that kind of game used as a recruitment tool has actually been used by software developers and possibly even by the secret intelligence gathering organisations too. This one seemed a might bit complicated. I can maybe believe that one or two people might play it for a year to the very end, dropping out of college, on the run from private security companies; and that maybe one of them had no parents or strings attached of any kind. However, it is a stretch to believe Samaritan was able to find operatives this way in every city in the world - or even in the few that were mentioned (which I forget now - Tokyo was one.)

Harold didn't try very hard to turn the girl on the observation deck. He should have told her the whole story, everything. If she believed him them she could work for Northern Lights/Prism/the Machine and the secrets are kept. If she didn't: well now she is working for Samaritan anyway; she knows who Harold is and she will have been told all the rest of the story in any case. Now she is a formidable enemy rather than a formidable ally.
 
Is it fair to say that until she solved the puzzles and was reclassified as an "asset" by Samaritan, that it didn't care about her safety? Without "team Machine" to help her, they private security thugs would have taken her out long before she completed... But as soon as she was an asset, it had a sniper in place to take them out!

Loving the new batcave, can't beat a disused Underground station for a cool set! I wonder how long it'll be til someone "hijacks" the train car with Finch inside it and drives off?!

So, any ideas how Samaritan got a code on a skull patch on the wall of a biker bar? I hope Greer had to go pin it up :D
 
I thought this episode was one of the "setting up the pieces" episodes and we'll only see the larger pattern and the pay-off later on in the season.

Also loved seeing the new batcave!

By those standards, it was a pretty good episode.
 
Harold didn't try very hard to turn the girl on the observation deck. He should have told her the whole story, everything. If she believed him them she could work for Northern Lights/Prism/the Machine and the secrets are kept. If she didn't: well now she is working for Samaritan anyway; she knows who Harold is and she will have been told all the rest of the story in any case.

I don't know - I don't remember him blowing his identity and, if he did, that's the problem I'd have with the scene. I think he tried about as hard as he reasonably could given that he really can't put his cards on the table. I thought the whole idea of "which side are you on?" and "do you even know?" was good. And, yeah, there's the potential for a recurring role there. And possibly it's not all in vain - maybe Harold's at least planted a seed that could bear fruit later.

Decent episode overall.
 
I don't know - I don't remember him blowing his identity and, if he did, that's the problem I'd have with the scene. I think he tried about as hard as he reasonably could given that he really can't put his cards on the table.
No, he say anything explicitly. However I thought that she looked like an intelligent person who once she was working for Samaritan would obviously go back and work that out herself. Harold didn't hide his face or disguise his voice. With the power of Samaritan I'm sure his cover as a professor could be blown from just those. Maybe I got that all wrong though, maybe we are meant to think that she believed he was just a kindly academic warning her of the danger of the game. One thing is certain, we will meet her again and when we do, then she will recognise Harold instantly.
 
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