All I've worked out is that the red plants act like hallucinogens.

Her interest in Goines is that Goines is part of the "period of interference." She wants to ensure that events play out exactly as they did the first time, so that Goines will end up giving Ramse the message in 2043.

"It’s classic cult-recruitment language"

"…and none for Harper Rose. Bye."

I agree that they most likely can't make conventional relationships work, but I don't think that will drive John to pursue a relationship with Zoe. Looking at someone and thinking "she's my only option because I'm totally screwed up" doesn't seem like an aphrodisiac.

He's overworked and overtired and not thinking as clearly as he normally would. But the combination of grief, being down a team member, worrying what Root is up to, worrying whether Harold is okay and trying to figure out what Samaritan is up to is a justifiable excuse for being off his game.

My take on the ethical issue is that he opened up and revealed things to her as his therapist that he might never have revealed to someone he was just dating. It puts them on unequal footing, kind of in the same way that a teacher and a student couldn't have an equal relationship because the teacher is in a power…

I'm tempted to judge all comments by literary reference to word ratio from now on.

I think the issue with Ramona is that she was the governor's attorney when they slept together, and they could very easily have been caught. If that happened, then people might have realized that Alicia and Peter were only staying together for appearances.

Same here! When I watch I keep thinking "do I actually like Prady more, or is it just that I really like David Hyde Pierce?" (which I do)

I'm not sure he didn't suspect he'd jumped. He felt himself splintering right before the explosion. But regardless, he needed to get out of there to figure out whether he was successful, so that took priority over him working out the mechanics of drone strikes and time travel.

"It's Not Easy Being Green" would be the big number.

Egomaniac is the best way to describe him. He thinks his plans are so brilliant that everyone he tells them to will just bow down and worship him.

I would imagine since they're trying to stop a plague from getting out, the fact that a mysterious bad guy is wearing a gas mask is significant. We just won't find out why for a while. I'm guessing the final episode of the season.

Yeah, I think damsel in distress doesn't apply to Shaw. I think at the moment she's more of a damsel in discomfort.

When Finch was rattling off the people that VAL was targeting, my first thought was that Samaritan was trying to weed out society's "riff-raff" and/or undesirables; I was happy to be wrong.

But on the flip side, Samaritan's motivation isn't as clear. The team has its suspicions, but they can't know for sure what its endgame is.

I was really hoping the phone call was going to be from the Machine telling him to stuff Claire in a coffin and run like hell.

Upvoted for knowledge of basic math.

I would have given it an A-, but I had to demote to a B+ for that close up of Greer's face. He really needs to get a dermatologist or wear a mask or something…