Oh. Darn. I was all excited for a longer episode.

He was going to yell out what the code was. (Or could in theory.)

The theme is that change is possible, and we are not defined by our worst moments—Root's entire story illustrates this. Reese, Shaw, and Harold too. (Bear is probably just Bear.)

Thought this was a set thing when they announced 4? (As much as I love the show, it's definitely the sort of "and then the clones won" long plot that needs to resolve at some point.)

Ever since Todd swore that he had not made up the two (two!) competing shows about aquarium installers, I just assume every possible show and network name is not a joke.

OB, the POI finale next week, and the next day I leave on vacation. It was very considerate timing of everyone.

I honestly can't think of any other classic murder scenes? At least on that level. Death scenes, like an alien climbing out of your torso, maybe, but straight-up old-fashioned murder?

Up.

I think Sunday we moved into the post-primary, busters or not.

I'll counter your blurb with the blurb that Warren was one of the people who encouraged Clinton to run this time. (In previous contexts, why the dreams of a Sanders endorsement any minute now were never going to come true.)

Shh! The laws about whether write-in votes actually count in most states are a secret.

I recently rewatched Chuck with my son. While the problems are still there in the later seasons—lord is it just good clean fun.

I think we've got Chekov's nuclear missile silo in play.

With Control. And the bunny slippers.

That always really bothered me. Like Greer was going to say "gosh darn dickens, I guess I'll give up on world domination" and stop because of one inconvenient politician.

That was even how they saved the biochemist! They told everyone about the powdered vegetable thing, so there was no point in killing her.

"Oh, standard dual backups: human and electronic, with instructions to give the information to every journalist in existence if I don't check in regularly."

To drag out and torture a chess reference: if pawns, they were pawns with the potential to be played all the way across the board and become queens. If they switched sides somewhere in there, Samaritan wins.

Oh, I agree that it's desperate. But desperate to save its own life. There's no appealing to some larger moral structure to try and sway Harold.

I think Root's death was a genuine accident, not a ploy to manipulate Harold.