I can just about believe Juliette survived that fall, but the drive bounced off concrete, it would absolutely be in bits after that.
Really liking Patrick and his ginger IT buddy. Hope Bernard doesn't trace them and they pull all the info off that drive.
Goddamnit, Billings. Burning the book really pissed me off. It was hid well enough that the Judicial raiders missed it, he easily could have put it back where he found it. This happening after his little speech about the Syndrome makes me think destroying the book was personal, like he's so obsessed with proving he's good enough he's rejecting anything that makes him question his path.
Raiders are definitely appearing to be the scum of the show. Rooting for every single one to be sent out to "clean."
Oh, Bernard. He really seems to like the moustache-twirling bad cop schtick; first his "how could I know about the hard drive" with Juliette and now his increasingly terrifying threat sticks with Lukas before dangling the "or I suppose you could tell me everything you know" carrot. Seems like Lukas is now either locked up or under house arrest; wonder what will become of him.
Man what a cliffhanger. I'm really curious about that little keychain that Bernard had. Why was it flashing red sometimes but then stopped? Why does it have the same number (18) as the hard drive? Is the shape of it significant?
The whole 18 thing is making me think there are other silos, and other masters. Until this episode Bernard has seemed like top dog, but now we get scenes with him being obviously freaked out and looking afraid of something. It could just be fear of the information getting out, but my feeling is there are people above Bernard who are very interested in what's happening in our little silo.
Crazy Camera Theory Corner: Probably ridiculous, but when I saw the cameras going out I wondered if George had written a virus into his video file, and when opened it started disabling the camera feeds in the vicinity of the access point. Seems unlikely though - it's possible George knew about the surveillance, but it's a huge leap to go from there to writing and inserting code that will infect a part of the system he probably can't find and definitely doesn't have access to. (But people also called him Computer George, so ....
I've seen it suggested that Jules was smashing cameras after she left the Sims'. Could be possible, but wouldn't there then be some indication? The feeds just go out, people aren't reacting and we don't see, e.g. A weapon flying into frame. Maybe it was Sims' wife in there covering Jules' tracks, she's a cypher at this point.
Speaking of her, I don't know what to make of Sims' wife. She certainly didn't seem surprised by anything that was on the drive, and after getting the cuffs off she easily could have incapacitated Jules rather than warning her and letting her go. Seems she's either
a) protecting their little fascist kid above all (possible, the way we've seen Sims be about him),
b) a Flamekeeper, without her husband's knowledge (Sims reads like a true believer so it's quite the long-term deep-cover ploy if so, being a jackboot for over a decade and marrying the head of the secret police), or
c) the two of them are working together for ... what? Control of the silo seems most likely, what with the shadow convo with Bernard. In that instance, did she let Jules go in the hopes she would weaken Bernard's position, allowing them to take over from him? And to what end? Whatever the reason, her motives can't be explained with the information we have now.
Nitpick: if an alert goes out whenever the hard drive appears on the system, why didn't that happen back in E1 with George and Holston's wife?
Wondering how the final episode will end. Would be an interesting bookend if Sims and Bernard win and Juliette goes outside - sans suit, just legging it over that hill? But we spent so much time with Jules and George beneath the silo, my guess is that's where she's going. Braving her fear of the water and finding the door George talked about in the video. How she gets down there past all the checkpoints is another question. Chekhov's Recycling Chutes?
Predictions for S1 finale: Jules notices the duplicative bird formation across multiple cleaning videos on the hard-drive, which leads her to believe the HUD (heads-up display) in the cleaning helmets are pre-recorded and thus fake. Bernard and Sims eventually crack down on where she's located and capture her, sentencing her to a cleaning that is soon to follow. However, off-camera, Jules has somehow learned how to avoid death whilst outside-holding her breath while the suit is initially put on her, for instance-so she becomes the first ever person from the silo to survive the outside. To avoid chaos, Billings allows her back in to the silo for answers. She reveals the truth, Bernard is put in jail, and the episode ends with mechanical opening the basement 15-foot door, where season two will take place.
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