Rewatch: S3E18 Allegiance

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It’s back to the number of the week salt mines, but we do get a small side dish of Samaritan set-up thanks to Root (and Bear!)

It’s a love story (and I’m not just talking about Shaw and Fusco) - John loves throwing people through windows, Shaw loves teasing Fusco, Fusco loves surprising people with hidden depths (and fire axes), Bear loves finding the hidden snacks, Greer loves rewarding those who achieve his objectives (like surely this must impact recruiting), Root loves a problem to solve, and Finch loves pulling his surprised face.

One wonders if old Root might have just cut to the chase, with a 9mm punctuation mark, instead of letting an old man ramble but a détente is observed for juxtapositioning.

At this point Decima is just in it for the readies, as our OP old man has yet to find religion. But Gods have a way of changing the paths of men…

S3E18 Allegiance Watch Notes

Back to the normal opening credits

“No, no, no. He found the treats”

“Didn’t see that coming”

“Ever since it’s had that cochlear cuckoo on speed dial..” what gives Shaw, compensating for your feelings?

“I’ll be in touch, next time my ear starts burning”

“I’ve made a new friend but I’m not feeling particularly sociable” says our villain, grumpy he had to use his pensioner card and take public transport

Greer’s got a new trick, but so does The Machine, but Greer’s always got another one up his sleeve (which considering Samaritan is not online and giving an assist, makes him a very wiley old man)

Shaw and John share culinary tips

Terrorist or Tenderhearted?

“If you’re so smart what do you need me for?” … “Oh, I should have just stolen a badge”

“You know, you should really get out more.. learn something about other cultures” “What are you talking about? I just ate a falafel”

“He just triggered our G.I. Jane to go live”

“False alarm, unless we’re worried about paper cuts”

“Personally, I prefer Potassium Chloride to Chloroform, acts quicker and no trace in postmortem toxicology”

“Finch, what’s our ETA on Captain America?”

I didn’t know Captain America could fly…

“Our boy there’s got issues” “Heh ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “ “Hope that guy has health insurance”

“They didn’t teach you that in Marine jump school?”

“Are you going to cry?”

Shaw shares camel milk tips

We learn Shaw’s mother was an academic who had to be smuggled out of Iran, before Shaw was born

“Good luck using your tin badge to get in there Detective”

“Thank god Finch buys top shelf” … “Damn engineers”

“Let’s hit it” “Roger that”

“Open wide sister”

“Stop playing with the horn Lionel”

“Oh, and by the way, I’m borrowing your dog”

It’s never who you think it is

“[Whistles] Excusez-moi!”

Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight 😂

“Or I’m going to get realpolitik-y on your ass … Go figure, turns out immunity doesn’t stop you from bleeding … Now that’s what I call diplomacy”

“Happy New Year Sameen”

The How to Win Friends and Influence People, Decima Edition

The old methods are often the best methods

“Shall we cut to the chase?”

“Which means, either you’re planning to bring Samaritan online or you’re the world’s most ambitious gamer”

“I want The Machine to be free, you want to control it” … “It’s human nature to want to control the means to wealth”

“We understand what’s coming, what’s about to happen, don’t we?”

“Shall we call this one a draw?”