Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 62 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT If Our World is Their Heaven
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
Alicia: "That works too, apparently. Cary, why are you phoning."Cary: "We don't have the office space."
Alicia: "Uh, actually we do. I put down a sixth of the earnest money myself."
Cary: "Well, apparently they want a reference from our current employers, which is a black fly in the chardonnay for sure, and I guess we need the full amount now..."
Alicia: "Mom, seriously get out of here."
Veronica: "Alicia, seriously, no."
Alicia: "Fine. Cary, I don't have 140 grand."
Cary: "Nobody does! If only we knew a crazy old bat with a hundred dead rich husbands and an intermittent case of motherly guilt."
NSA
So the NSA has a warrant for Danny Marwat, which gets us to Alicia and Diane, within the two-year window (the "bit bucket" of data they can access) since they started helping him. The interesting part -- and this keeps happening throughout the episode -- is the way they connect these random data points in such compelling ways, these narratives that make sense, but we were there so we know what happened, we know the roads they're traveling actually don't go anywhere. Neat way to illustrate it.
NSA Guy: "So we're listening to two years of calls with this person of interest's lawyers. Got it."
Boys: "Well, they also represent ChumHum."
NSA: "Sounds like a large firm."
Boys: "For now. Anyway, the question is whether the Marwat warrant is restricted by the fact that we're in active litigation with them for non-terrorist stuff. Or vice versa."
NSA: "Got it. Okay, for now, just mark all the ChumHum mentions for possible omission later."
Boys: "We love and respect you! Just kidding, you are a douche."
NSA: "Oh, boys? Have any of these lawyers done anything illegal?"
Boys: "Not yet. Although one of them is now FLOIL Elect. So there's that."
NSA: "I mean it's not like there's anything inherently corrupt about the Illinois Governor, is there? Listen, if this gets weird just remember that we can direct the DOJ to any illegalities we happen across now, because we live in a dystopian police state."
Boys: "Meaning...?"
NSA: "If you try hard enough, you can keep your left hand from ever even noticing the existence of your right."
SUPREME
Chief Justice: "I have two problems today. Number one is, Diane is still a woman and some kind of Democrat. Number two is, I gave you an engraved gavel and you don't have it prominently displayed."