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Rabbit Hole : Ace in the Hole - Episode 7 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1138d
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  1. ›Rabbit Hole : Episode 7 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1145d

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    This is the first episode where the inception effect felt the most, through the entire episode John felt paranoiac having a hard time to figure out whats real and whats not, him and Valence after cracking Ben safe box were together for life, both have unique skills and John was good at identifying different possibilities to the point that he would have a great guess at what others where thinking, its kinda what Dr Strange did at end game see the different outcomes but in John's case he was just guessing to identify probabilities, sometimes he fall into this mix of realities and even put words on others people mouth when they didn't but its all on his head, most of this thought process was based on experience and always be prepare for the worst outcome, he cant tell the future, but during this process sometimes he takes it to the extreme to the point he cant identify whats real and whats not that's when he starts falling into the Rabbit Hole and Valence was the one bringing him back to reality, in his absence Ben is the closest to Valence but John doesn't trust him at all. For me its still not clear what Hailey wants or where she is coming from and now seems that the old guy with silver hair and no name is not Crowley as I thought, this episode was great, not the best of the season but still close to the top.

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    After they manage to pull the briefcase Senator Evers wanted the crew finds out its all numbers that could take them ages to figure out, they start arguing why did she wanted so bad the content of the briefcase, they thought there would be something more clear to the naked eye like a USB with a bunch of emails, photos or videos that incriminate her and this is when John starts to fall through the Rabbit Hole trying to figure out the reason why it was so important and what the numbers could mean but during this process same as when he was a kid starts to imagine people saying or thinking things they haven't so its like he repeat the same scene many times in his head like a time loop but with different outcomes and sometimes this lead him to the truth and other times he gets lost in this case without Valence to pull him out, this is when he told Ben he is the one who want the Data Act to pass, but Ben never said that and its Hailey who pull Weir from the Rabbit Hole.

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    Homm #edisnotdead stays at the safe house with Ben as John and Hailey have other plans, well at first it was just John going after the possibility that Valence could still be alive since he was still getting chats on this online game they use to play, John was not sure about it so decided to go out without telling the rest this is when Hailey thought it was a good idea to go after him, see this are the things that get me thinking she got good intentions with John but then she does other things like hiding the fact she stole crypto from her previous boss, the story she find out about John on a dating app I still don't buy it and on previous episode she was getting between Ben and John to the point telling John he doesn't have to listen to Ben, I get Ben sometimes is too hard with John but he still his father and a fkn spy, their job is to be hard on others and trust no body. John is not thinking clear and goes out in plain day light because he thinks his link at the safe house is compromise, but the guy who I thought is Crowley already had face recognition cameras after John the moment he goes public, his data collection company already has a lot of power over the city with cameras and all kind of monitoring services at his disposal.

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    John goes to this electronics store to enter a chat session on one of the computers for sale, some one might do that to connect from a outside internet source although its not the safe option for many reasons but I think at this point it doesnt really matter, all eyes are on John the minute he goes out, on this chat session he continues the conversation with a user who is suppose to be Valence and starts writing on encrypted code, alpha numeric where a combination of numbers would give him the real message, the person on the other side wants John to betray Ben pretending that Ben is with Crowley, then John is given a very long message that he didnt have time to decode while on site or at least he didnt show it on camera. John figure out a guy from the shop is about to rat him out and police will be there any minute so decided to walk away from the store and Hailey found him, she called John a record the call to figure out where he was, this was very clever from her, it here when John explains how his method of figuring out things work but sometimes its too dangerous putting him on a spot he cant come back and usually is Valence who help him out to stay focus.

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    John gets rid of Hailey with the old trick of getting together into a bus and then he goes out at the last second leaving her trap on the bus so she goes back to the safe house, where Homm has figure out everything, same as he did before the guy is a genius with numbers and finds out everything is connected, he did it in a very short time but there were a couple of USB with all the data, don't know how much data it could be but still he figure out that ll the numbers represent accounts that were connected receiving payments probably as bribes and who ever got this information would control everyone on the list, this was Crowley operation, Senator Evers wanted the information for herself not because she was been blackmail, Evers most likely work with Crowley but now she is dead so we will never knew what was her connection with the man.

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    After everything Homm and Ben explain to Hailey she still took the stupid decision to take the data to agent Jo Madi, I really don't understand why she would do that if the real enemy or the ones shooting at John or trying to get him is not the Federals, they don't even have a clue where he is at, its Crowley that is after him and trying to kill them all, when Jo Madi show the files to his boss he intermediately bribe her because he knows the magnitude if this data goes out, probably he is with Crowley without even knowing it, Jo Madi either is naive or she is in it too, asks for her old job posision and be the head of the task force after John, either she is obsess with John or at some point will do the right thing and help him out, I still believe at the end she could work with him against Crowley.

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    John picks up a package at his ex wife house that Valance schedule to send him before he died, it was this old stone he had at his office, at first John thought it was an encrypted message so he takes it his safe house but on the way the intern shows up again and takes him to "Crowley" or at least the old guy I thought it was Crowley, actually had a hinge he was but they never confirm his name, the guy is sitting in the middle of a plaza trying to brain wash John until he snaps and found a microphone on his ear, it was some one else watching them and telling this guy what to say. Obviously that brain wash session had some effect on John so when he gets back to the safe house with Valence package it takes it on Ben and had one of those paranoia episodes again thinking that Ben is with Crowley, John is not sure if to kill Ben but then Homm was playing around with the old stone inside the package and found a USB with Valence last message to John before he died.

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    After Valence died things between Ben and John were very turbulent because none of them knew why Valence kill himself and John always blame Ben for Valence death, on this video that Valence took with his cell phone before he died, Valence clear things out of John, it was obvious that Crowley had something over him but all Valence said he infiltrate Arda and he was going to kill John and Valence, Valence decides to kill himself but why not tell John and run away with him? what difference does it make him jumping out of a balcony to put more heat over John, not only Crowley wants to kill him but now the police thinks John killed Valence, everything started with the case Homm was working on that Ben and Valence knew about that's why they kidnap Homm to safe him but still I'm not sure if Valence killing himself helps John at all, finally John makes peace with Ben for good and they plan to do what ever it takes to stop Crowley.

    Hailey haven't told everyone she gave all this valuable data to Jo Madi I wonder what will be John and Ben answer to that, on this episode a lot of information is reveled, things that were a mystery like why Valence kill himself, he did it to safe John since he was too comprise by Crowley knowing everything about his plan and no matter where he goes he would find him, its like having an infected computer sometimes its just better to get a new one but since you cant get a new body and transfer your conscience yet, he decided to end it but I still think he could have run away with John and figure out how to get Crowley, with Valence video we also confirm that Ben is on John's side because there were a few moments that it wasn't clear enough with Ben hiding things from John, also its confirm that the old man with grew hair is not Crowley just another of his employee. Great episode, I got no complains and never felt things were rush or too easy, loving this tv series, would give this episode an 8 / 10, based on IMDB there are two more episodes to go.

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  2. ›Rabbit Hole : Episode 6 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1154d

    Episode 6 looks like a very important one and the first episode when every situation feels like a rabbit hole, from John trying to reach Valance even though he saw him throw himself off the balcony but him and his dad Ben are masters are creating situations that look and feel real but are not or probably he cant get over Valance death same goes for Hailey that again in my book looks like she can be trusted but her background still a bit foggy for me, she also fall into the Rabbit Hole when John ask her to trust him her $26 million in crypto to pull the job, she start thinking this can be John creating a hole story to finally get to her money and at the end John got a text from Valence so what is actually real anymore? well at least I know its not John going after Hailey money and that was clear since the start of the series, its not about her but the Valence situation got me thinking if he is really death or someone fake his death.

    I'M SORRY, JOHN, BUT I HAD TO MAKE IT LOOK REAL

    This is suppose to be Valance at the end of the episode talking to John again through a chat but could this be his dad or Hailey trying to comfort him after Valance death? I don't think so, this has to be someone else, I'm not saying its Valence neither, its all a bit confusing, I really like this episode because of all the mind games, at the end you got two shooters and two possible targets Senator Evers and John but the ending tells me Crowley doesn't know John and Ben location anymore.

    This series is solid with a great cast, action on every episode and on this one I really felt the inception effect when Hailey asks John

    What if all of it is engineer to ... make me give you all of my money...I mean is what you do right?

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    For the first time some one is identify as Crowley and based on his face I can now tell the guy I though was Crowley most like is, didnt want to work around an assumption but I have no doubt, this is Crowley working with Ben back in the 80's cleaning up a mess, a guy dies from over doses seems some one important and they are send to clean up, Crowley offers Ben to sell data to the highest bidder but Ben refuse, data farming on its infancy.

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    After last episode when Ben told John a few things he must have said like discovering the Intern or knowing his team was dead, now John has no clue who to believe even getting to the point to think that his dad is against him, all we know about Crowley is what his dad told him so what if Ben is actually the bad guy, what if Crowley is the one after Ben but for good reasons? there are many possibilities.

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    John gets to talk with senator Evers and tells her about the money she is getting in donations to her campaign, but the plan goes farther than that and Homm got it wrong thinking at some point Evers was going to run for president, this was all well planed by Crowley to get enough attention to Evers and then make her a martyr to get her data law approved by the government, also for the first time someone working with/for Crowley accept they are been blackmail

    lets just say, if that gets out, anyone that got my last name they going to change it for something else

    Thats why many of Crowley workers end up killing themself before what ever he has on them go out.

    John decides to help Evers get a briefcase with all the data Crowley got on her so then she helps him track Crowley, senator Evers also is the first one who accept she know and work with Crowley.

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    Either Crowley knew John was in contact with Senator Evers or this was going to happen anyways, Kyle the intern have been working / brain washing his girlfriend to help him pull a job, she thought it was her going with politics initiatives, going to rallys, the classic bs about power to the people but it was him all the time working her to eventually kill Senator Evers.

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    The briefcase with Senators Evers evidence was on a safety deposit box and an ultra secure facility, John brings in Hailey and Senators Evers guard to pull the job, I rather not spoil the plan but it was intense and Hailey was a big part of it, Ben constantly told John he was going to get cross by Evers guard and he did, but John had it all plan out using a decoy briefcase. This is all fiction, keep in mind this kind of things done happen in real life but Hailey got caught using an infrared laser to trigger sensor but I'm not sure how she got out, there has to be an explanation and they fail at it on this scene, that I don't like.

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    Hailey finally got John, he start to have and show feelings for her, I dont like this neither, probably its true Ben could be a double agent or even the bad guy and she was getting between them on previous episode but Im still not clear on her true intentions with John, probably Im just falling into the series rabbit hole and dont trust any of the characters, lets say its true she found John on a dating app and have nothing to do with Crowley, in that case good for John, after all she did gave him $20 Million as escrow to pull the job and safe his ass after he left a key behind in the safety deposit facility.

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    After watching the last scene again where John, Ben, Hailey and Homm are watching the news of Senator Evers killer they were all in the same room, John gets this two text on a chat session for a game he play with Valance, so it was not Ben or Hailey working John, its either Valance or some one else trying to trick John, for the second time on the episode the inception effect kicks in hard.

    Probably the best episode so far in terms of mind games, before I was not clear on Hailey but now I'm starting to doubt if Ben is really on John side after all he never told him about his team been dead and that he knew about Kyle the intern, that would have help John a lot, also more than one time during this episode felt everything was fake, when John ask Hailey to borrow him $20 million and when John gets the text from Valence at the end, after all isn't that what John does? create an environment to trick people into doing things without having to force them? I would love this series to be like five season.

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  3. ›Rabbit Hole - Who is Tom - Episode 5 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1160d

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    This is an episode I actually enjoy, more and more secrets between John and his father Ben are reveal, they both are very different with John been the one that panics and freaks out when an event hits him hard, on the other hand Ben is more cold and cautions about things always trying to stick to the plan and taking hard decisions that John cant do. Hailey did a few things on this episode that got me to doubt her intentions again, after previous episode where she tells the truth of why she wanted a phone so bad and said she was actually running from her previous boss after stealing $26Million in Bitcion I trust her about 70% of her story but she is now trying to get to John at a personal level, trying to be more than a friend, I think Ben is going to kill Hailey eventually.

    John team, this is another mystery since the intern was an infiltrated why was he the only one to survive and were the rest of the team local or are they really dead? they were suppose to be alive, then dead and now they dye but not for the reason intended, on this series not everything is what it looks like.

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    So lets start with John's team, from the start John thought the intern was working for Jo Madi or someone else but as the old silver fox Ben is he tells John he is getting too soft but only says this because HE KNEW the intern was working for someone else than the FBI, Ben seems to be a few steps ahead of John most of the time. A guy who fake his death to give his family a chance to stay alive knowing the could never see them again at least is someone that can stick to a plan a follow the rules, John on the other hand, even though he likes to manipulate people, he expect too much from some of them like the intern "innocent FBI informer" meaning he trust the kid in a way, when ever you do not suspect from someone is because you trust them at some level.

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    FBI agent Jo Madi keeps investigating the case even after her superior gave her orders to stop but she knows John, he likes to manipulate people and build up a stage, most things are fake around him, she had the idea this is all stage and there is something else. She is investigating each of John team more than ever because she saw John and the intern fighting out of the police department that time John went in to get the token generator that belong to Valence. At some point Jo Madi is going to figure out things that could help John and work with him, this series is about a political conspiracy to take over the country, its about power not about money so its on Jo Madi benefit to help John.

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    This guy shows up, I have a feeling this is Crowley, his name is not mention but he asks for Mr Gao and then the shot change to the outside of the office with only mystery background sound, it was a very short scene.

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    Homm is turning to be a cool character, the guy is an accounting genius and can go 0-100 real kick kill you with a fire extinguisher, tier 5 forensic accounting, #edisnotedead, this scene was so funny he was al excited about figuring it out where all the donations go, Senator Evans is the winner with a low profile on politics will soon run for president based on all the donations she is getting.

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    Some how they were followed, two mercenaries with assault riffles got to the safe house and shot Homm on his left arm besides he cant hear anything after a sound bomb detonated next to him. I here were Ben again tells John he is getting soft, refers to Hailey as why is she still with them questioning John if there is something between them, Hailey is very empathic, even told John to not listen to Ben, BIG red flag. Ben tells John to stop panicking, he is loosing it and Valence sold him but he wouldnt accept it.

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    This scene right here got me fired up, Hailey tries to calm down John as he is trying to figure out how they were found by Crowley, she again tells John he doesnt have to listen to Ben and then tells him she is staying because of him, because she have feelings for John. John understand his father is right and some how he was either sold by Valence or one of them is leaking information.

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    Here comes the Rabbit Hole again, John has been calling every single number that Valance got contact on that day he jump out the balcony of his office, turns out his dad got contact with Valance that day, John calls the next number on the list and Ben phone start ringing on the next room, he admit it and start telling John how he knew the intern was working for someone else than FBI and how he got stab. Ben explains John he couldn't tell him about the Intern, his Team and Valence because he knew John would freak out instead of focus on the plan. Ben also confess to John he was the last person to talk to Valence and his last words were "shut up let me think....you tell him I had no choice" and then he jumps, Valence did sell out John but the question is how much dirt Crowley had on Valence while John was not aware of anything of this happening.

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    John was trying to reach his old team, they are suppose to be alive since the bomb and their corps were fake, it was all setup, Tom was not a person but a job they had to pull, the job was to fake their deaths and it was nothing new to them as they have done it in the past, the problem is the Intern killed them when he felt he was compromise by Ben, he thought Ben was after him to kill him so he had to rush his plan and starting taking down everyone around John until he gets him, Ben knew all this because he follow the Intern and saw him throwing the corps down the elevator.

    Jo Madi was tracking down John team, even after the FBI got DNA confirmation of the corps, everything was plan and they knew how to fake all the evidence, she was still trying to track down John and his team, going back to the scene she ask Anna at the FBI to call Cara cell again (she was on John team), it start ringing and that got her to find the corps at the bottom of the elevator. She is getting closer to John and now this might reactivate the FBI investigation giving her more resources to get closer to John and his father.

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    After getting track down by Crowley mercenaries John figure out what was the only thing they carry before they got located, the fucking whiskey bottle, had some sort of gps at the bottom of the bottle.

    Ben is right, everything that is happening is because John is getting soft and trust people, I'm back at the camp that Hailey is working for someone who probably got dirt on her, Ben is always steps ahead of John just because he doesnt trust anyone and to pull this job it has to be done that way, even Valence sold them out and not even Ben knew about it until he confess before jumping. Its time for John to get his shit together and start to focus on the plan, forget about what happen and get rid of Hailey because she is getting between him, his father and the plan to get Crowley, not considering that now Crowley knows they are after him and that Jo Madi is getting closer to figure out whats John plan and she will get FBI backup to continue the investigation.

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  4. ›Rabbit Hole : The Person in Your Ear - Episode 4 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1167d

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    Hailey lies were not as bad as I thought, we get to episode four where John and his father Ben will loose some of the advantage they have over Crowley, this episode is not as slow as the previous one but reveal a few things that got me tense every time I watch the series, one of them was waiting for Hailey to sell John or his father or Ben caught her lying and becoming a problem between them.

    John keeps using agent Jo Madin as bait, in this episode John find out a key component that leads him to who ever was probably blackmailing Valence, I think its blackmail because nobody kills himself just becomes someone else commands unless they know or have something important that belongs to that person.

    On last episode I thought Xander kills himself the same way as Valence, throwing himself out of the balcony but the motive of his death was different, shows up the Intern again, a kid who use to work on John's team, he was a double agent who infiltrate John team, on previous episode we saw how he tries to take Valence token validator from him by beating him up.

    The Intern shows to Xander office after John took all the data from the server, Crowley has eyes in the sky and sees everything so he knew right away and send the Intern but not really to kill Xander on that fashion.

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    The intern tells Xander he fucked it up and then throws him out the balcony, that's why Jo Madin sees Xander splash all over the lobby.

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    Before the Intern leaves he takes a small sculpture of V. Lenin

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" was the architect of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the first leader of what became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Source

    We already know the intern is into liberalism, power to the people, sheeple, revolution and all that, so may be either he left this because is something he believes in, his trade mark or Crowley is from Russia?? not sure but something I think might have to do with them in the future.

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    Ben goes through Valence data without finding anything, John still insist he wants to give it a try because there must be something it cant be empty, Valence and John always encrypt data, John knows him way more than Ben, they just going back and forward on it until John reminds him what he always say

    "If you want to understand people study their patterns and the brakes in those patterns."

    John finds out Valence was buying and selling NFT but dont know why until Homm explain them its because its easy to launder money with crypto. Ben knew Homm was after something big and now they found that braking point, Homm tells them who he thinks send him emails about NFT trading to Valence, a guy called Elliot Gao in exchange to let him call his wife but Ben refuse so Homm ask to watch his wife and they agree.

    Looks like Valence was trading NFT to launder money through a guy called Elliot Gao that Homm was investigating too, its here when Homm starts to work with John and Ben.

    John and Ben start working on a plan to get Elliot Gao to talk, their plan is to use Jo Madin FBI status as bait again and have Hailey act as she is Jo Madin and interrogate Elliot Gao.

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    Jo Madin office get the anonymous text from John with the hint that Arda was trading NFT with Gao, Arda was Valence company, she calls Gao and fells John is messing with her again so decide to trace the number only to find out he or someone close to him have been using that number more than once to get calls.

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    Before John sends Hailey to replace Jo Madin he takes her for a test, had her shop lift a puzzle book from a store without anyone noticing by giving her instructions over a microphone on her ear, things turn a bit hot when a police enter the store but she manage to distract him and get away with the book.

    She love it and thought it was a game, I knew it was not going to be so easy when things turn sour in plain act.

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    John and Hailey proceed with the plan and go to a gathering Gao was having with high profile people, but all of the sudden she panics, Gao notice something was wrong.

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    Hailey finally comes clean and tells John she didnt got fire, she left because she stole money from them, she stole crypto but at the moment was not so much, now its worth $26 million after crypto went up a few thousands. Thats why she wanted a phone and the crypto wallet update, she is a hodler LOL.

    Unfortunately Gao boss finds out about Jo Madin and thinks Hailey is her but at the same time, remember the guys who wanted to take her on episode two on the blue Mercedes Benz, those work for Hailey ex boss.

    John and Homm helps to stop Hailey ex boss agents by cutting the elevator service and have them walk all the way up but Gao already have her waiting for Crowley to show up.

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    Ben shows up, Gao thinks he is Crowley, looks like nobody knows who Crowley is, how he looks like, I really though for a second Ben was a double agent too but I started to notice how he tries to squeeze Gao with random questions like did you tell them about our plan and Gao doesnt know anything about the plan, what plan?? Gao gets a text

    "Send me a photograph of the man claiming to be me then hand your phone to him"

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    After that Ben knows he was been discover and they going to shoot him, John at this moment was in a tunnel when he hijack the building cameras, spy movie stuff right?? for some reason there was a main electric panel there too then he takes a big screw driver and stick it on the panel creating a black out on the building, some how Hailey is a kind of MMA fighter and puts down the two guards that were with them and Gao.

    They manage to get away in a van, Homm, Ben, John and Hailey, they know now they have no advantage over Crowley other than John is still alive and they have Homm.

    Homm reveals to the crew because he now work with them, that Intaverse is a web media company that had to do with a scandal on the site gettogether.com, Gao mention that company while talking to Ben, a congressman resigned because he was been blackmail after he sing up the website and use it.

    This was not the best of the four episodes so far but I think was the one where we get the most information when it comes to the conspiracy and Crowley plans, we also know Hailey intentions also why sen wanted a phone so bad, John crew is still alive, how I dont know yet, he just mention it but it would be interesting how they fake their death or how they manage to survive the bomb.

    I still wonder why the intern left that small sculpture of V. Lenin on Xander desk.

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  5. ›Rabbit Hole : The Algorithms of Control - Episode 3 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1168d

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    With episode 4 to air tomorrow this is a TV series I want to keep covering, so far its probably the best action series on air right now, besides The Mandalorian. First season looks like wont be too long with only eight episodes announce on IMDB and I don't see the word Mini-Series been use so I guess there will be a second season.

    From the first three episodes we know John Weir specialty is to manipulate situations to stimulate or force an specific result for his clients advantage, he and his best friend from infancy Valence somehow this time are the ones been manipulated, they both get tricked and Valence kills himself but John finds out its way to survive after many attacks but he didn't do it alone, his father had to do a lot. I expect two episodes at least where they will go back and forward in the timeline explaining how everything start because his father fake his own death and now comes back??

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    The third episode starts with Valence and John sitting on the same room with John's father Ben Wilson, he is giving them orders and a briefing of the plan moving forward, this was on 2018 years before their current time line, they have to trust each other but how can John do that now after Valence throw himself out of a balcony in front of him while at the same time John has someone trying to get rid of him.

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    After his father fake his own death, John and his mother move out leaving their house empty but never sold it, she must have known what Ben was involve or at least had an idea, John gets obsess with his father safe box and tries to open it many times to the point of maximum frustration, once almost burn down the place trying to open it, constantly getting in trouble at school his mom couldn't manage the situation, drank too much, decided to send John to boarding school where he will be teach to be more discipline and stay out of trouble, well at least that was her plan besides don't have to deal with John troubles. On every similar story that hardly works and John stay been the same, a little more limited of course but nothing that can stop him from his end goal, open the safe box.

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    Its on this school that John meets Valence, at first as classic John he didn't like him that much but he understood how brilliant Valence is, so both started studying some documents that his father left behind with letters and numbers circle that could help them figure out the combination. One day they decided to go and give it a try, see if they could open the safe box.

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    Back and Forward, the episodes keeps moving explaining things that happen before Valence decides to kill himself, this time how Ben comes back after many years of faking his death, tries to explain everything to John but he freaks out. Ben is a psychologist, he is very direct, feelings don't move him that much and tries to reason with John but he is MAD AF, after traumatizing him and his mother, Ben start to reveal things to John but at the moment is just too much to process and that's the life of many people who have this type of jobs where everything is a secret and are constantly in danger, not only them but their family too, some decide not to have family. John has a kid but doesn't life with him and tries to stay away for security reasons.

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    Here comes the tittle of the series, Rabbit Hole, John goes to Valence apartment to vent out because he cant handle the situation alone, he says "I cant go through that Rabbit Hole again..." its his father conspiracy theory that would make him go crazy, he fakes his death, now his mother knew about it and she dies because of all that situation, that is no way to live, constantly thinking you and your kid are in danger and that your husband fake his death to protect you but cant tell your kid the truth.

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    Valence, John and his father Ben agree to have lunch and clear things out. Ben work for the government back in the 80's where technology like computers, cell phones and many other things were not develop as when they had this meeting in 2018, back then they already develop algorithms to control population similar to what social media now days use to predict human behavior. At first they saw it as a tool to defend and protect the country but after some time Crowley, someone who we don't have much information so far, decided to sell data to the highest bitter and started his empire of manipulation. John and Valence new this because they found his father study on the safe box. Ben is worry that Crowley is not for hire anymore, he is willing to get something more important than money and that's power, going for a nation that he suspects is the USA, he ask for John and Valence help to stop him.

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    On previous episode we saw how John puts his life at risk for Valence token generator, he went into the police office and infiltrates with cheap tricks to manipulate people, then after getting the device from the evidence room one of this ex employee, the intern, is working for who ever wants him dead and try to steal the device from him got into a fight but Hailey run him over and both John and her got away.

    John is now trying to get into Valence server access to check his email, files and other type of evidence that can help him figure out whats going on, he needed the token generator and his password, he and Valence use to encrypt messages and some how manage to learn how each other think after all that's his dad research that they discover and make a business out of it.

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    Xander was monitoring Valence access and use it as a honey pot to get John, at the moment he tries to access Xander gets notify and is on top until Jo Madi visit him because Xander send her an email saying they need to talk about John at 10:15 a.m but he didn't send the email, some one else did and that create the perfect distraction, its like John had everything planned but I have seen the episode again and cant find when he did it, probably some one else is helping John from the inside.

    John manage to crack Valence password, download all the data but Xander went out of the room giving direct orders to not doing anything without consulting him so the IT didnt log out John while Xander was talking to Jo, at the end John got away with the data he needed and now has to run since he knows the chances they locate him are very high.

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    I still dont believe the Hailey story, how she have nothing to do with John or who is trying to kill John, there must be a connection, she is just too clean, too innocent.

    Hailey sneak out to the backyard with a cell phone she took from the house without John or Ben noticing, she opens an email with a Crypto Wallet update, probably checking on Bitcoin??? look at the screen and does nothing because on that moment Ben shows up.

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    She is scare to death of Ben, she knows he doesn't have any attachment like John has and wouldn't doubt to kill her, Ben explain her how with one question he can tell if someone is saying the truth, how he identify patterns on someone who is lying. Hailey starts shaking, nervously smile and Ben with his psychotic smile ask her to answer one question, she is shitting bricks at this point, Ben ask her are "you who you say you are?" then "who you working for?" , she answer the The Homeless Aid Network. Well it was not enough, the questions was a distraction, he knew she had something in her hand, probably his intention was just to stop what ever she was doing to investigate latter on and get the hole truth, why killing her without knowing what she is up to than let her believe he trust her and find out her real intentions. He ask Hailey to show him his hand but some how she drop the phone on time, show him her hand and went back into the house both smiling as "friends".

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    The people behind John do not forgive errors, they must have dirt on all this people that keep killing themself without thinking twice, Valence did now Xander kills himself after failing to catch John and letting him get to Valence data.

    I like how this is the first episode where we dont have shooting, chasing and violence during the most part of the episode but it remains interesting, how well the story is structure with certain details like when did John or someone else send the email to distract Xander and the app on the phone Hailey had, a Crypto Wallet?? what could it had to do with everything or is it a mistake from production?? sometimes this espionage TV series try too hard to sell the perfect James Bond situations and really try to make things mission impossible getting to far away from whats real and more into the fiction side of things. Still a good 7/10 for me.

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  6. ›Rabbit Hole: At Any Given Moment - Episode 2 - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1174d

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    It looks like Rabbit Hole is the new triple A TV Series for the weekend, I like they are not releasing the entire series at once, about that I have been thinking and really don't know what is the purpose of releasing an entire season for many factors.

    I didn't wanted to watch the pilot and episode 1 or 2, depending on what you think the pilot is, this tv series shouldn't have a pilot its already good, it doesn't need approval, so now I'm watching two and three.

    Do they get more traffic or views by releasing the entire season at once?

    Is there more value to release an entire season at once rather than episode by episode?

    After watching an entire season, when you are dont its very unlikely you will watch it back again, only those hunting eastern eggs will do.

    I get that you get people to stay watching for a longer time on the short term but to make that a business then you need a schedule with more interesting content for the short term future, because instead of milking 8 to 10 episodes you release it at once, people take one weekend to watch all episodes and are done, waiting for whats next, the problem is when there is nothing else to watch. Netflix introduce this years ago and Im still not sure if its a profitable business.

    A conspiracy theory for a tv series about conspiracy, Rabbit Hole is just good period, the entire series seems to be action from start to finish, at this pace we might not get any boring episodes, something similar like The Mandalorian, Kiefer is that good when it comes to conspiracy theory tv series so I doubt he is going to drop the ball with the Rabbit Hole.

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    Episode two shows a bit more about the relationship between John and his father, John's father was a very mysterious men, very intelligent too and always trying to keep John's brain exercising playing memory games and rewarding John when ever he was right, its like he was preparing John for something special in life or just life itself.

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    John's father was also very paranoid always talking about he is trying to protect them, to safe them, he is working with the government 200% sure of that, any of the alphabet boys, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, you name it. I'm sure his wife knew about it, usually wife's are the once who carry that death sentence secret in them.

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    There are many things that are not clear and one of the is who is Hailey Winton, John is not clear on that and as any good paranoid person he wont rest until he gets the truth out of her, so he follows her and in this case rescue her from two agents that Im not clear for who they work but when she oppose to go with them they shoot her with the taser, thats not friendly and cant be good.

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    He pretend to be filming and got more people to do it until it was too much pressure on the two agents, Hailey got away by hitting both on the face and John takes her with him when the agents pull their guns out.

    Both start to argue on the car because Hailey kept saying she doesn't know who John is but he doesn't believe her, probably her worst one night stand LOL

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    We get another scene of John and his father, its a flash back when they were hunting where John's father clearly tell John

    "you and your mother are going to move way, you may not see me for a long time"

    His father was everything for him and when he die it was so hard on John and his mother.

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    John takes Hailey to his safe house to find out more about her, who is she working for, why and how they got together that night.

    After some time investigating and connecting dots with her they assume one of employees play John a joke by making him a profile on a dating app, now I wouldn't trust that because his office was under surveillance, the reason I assume this is because they got bomb too out of no where when shit start to hit the fan. I still dont trust Hailey at all.

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    Surprise surprise, the guy they accusing John of killing, he didnt, he is alive, he safe him and kept him on his safe house. After seen this and trying to let her go Hailey decided it was safe to stay with John than been out by herself.

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    John needs answers and fast, he goes to the second in command after Valence, its Xander and he is scared as F of John and who ever is behind all this, he keeps saying they are listening and watching them, have no clue how to get Valence communication data access since he had a token generator that work with the system and is gone after he kill himself, who knows where it is.

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    Each episodes looks like a mission impossible movie, John some how manage to fool the police department security, not only that he also fool their evidence storage department and got Valance stuff out of the local police station, this was some intense moments during this episode, love it, its all fiction, nothing is real so don't watch this tv series thinking awww its all fake, that would never happen in real life, YES thats the point.

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    Remember this guy?? the intern, well he is working for who ever is trying to frame John, another prove that John's team was infiltrated ever since he accept the last job.

    The intern kick John's ass when he was trying to get away with Valence token generator.

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    Thanks to Hailey who run him over John escape and got away with the token generator.

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    I already know Rabbit Hole is pure gold but here comes the golden lion, direct from castle rock, Mr. Tywin Lannister himeself "a lannister always pay his debt" OMG this one blew my mind, Charles Dance play Ben Wilson, John's father and has been working with him, he is at the safe house John takes Hailey too, this will be a challenge for her now comes the real interrogation, John was just the introduction.

    There is no climax on this thing, this tv series is a conspiracy trying to get John killed from start to end, constant action every five minutes, like having Kiefer was not enough we also have Charles Dance, the cast is sick, this series again is turning out to be as good as the Mandalorian in terms of action, never appointees.

    I still dont believe who Hailey is and how John and her met, it will take a few episodes for me to trust her.

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  7. ›Rabbit Hole: Pilot - Personal Thoughts@skiptvads1181d

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    I like to watch low rate Tv Shows trying to find rough gems and sometimes I find them, on my free time I like to spend part of my time watching TV series, not exactly a Movies guy, I'm also constantly looking for whats new and today stumble with Rabbit Hole, a TV Series that brings back Kiefer Sutherland a man who is always running away and explosions follow him.

    Kiefer Sutherland work on two of my favorite Tv Shows, Designated Survivor and 24, on both this guy keeps running away, disaster and conspiracy follow him every where, it looks like Rabbit Hole is not the exception, why reinventing the wheel when its not broken, take a good script with the same theme as the two series I mention and let Kiefer do his magic.

    Main Cast Kiefer Sutherland - John Weir Charles Dance - Dr. Ben Wilson Mega Golding - Hailey Winton Enid Graham - Jo Madi Jason Butler Harner - Miles Valance

    This case is savage we got a nice group of already known actors from Walking Dead, The Kings Man, 24, The Hunger Games, Surrogate. Its almost a certainty this tv series wont disappoint.

    Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.

    Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/rabbit_hole

    This time Kiefer plays John Weir who has a business of making things look like they happen, perception is an asset a very delicate one and all you need is a picture or a video to create reactions from others in your advantage involving one of the oldest trick in the book of dirty business, blackmail. In such type of business you cant trust anyone and must know that you are in danger to be betrayal by those who you work with.

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    The episodes starts with John pulling a job on this guy, John is sitting at a bar doing his own thing watching a futbol game while this desperate investor who a few minutes was talking about going big to make money asks the bartender to change the channel because of some tip he got about news related to one of his trades.

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    Bartender eventually change the channel and the investor pull a trade he had open at the moment.

    Been paranoid and have bad feeling about almost everything.

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    After completing his plan, not because of coincidence, John ends up sleeping with Hailey Winton, on this episode they don't explain that much about her but John does start to investigate her since things don't make sense.

    Thats Hailey face after John tells her it didn't work, she wont be able to blackmail him and he things everything is part of a plan from FBI agent Jo Madi, this two are main characters on the series. John pulls a camera of a clock next to the night stand so its true someone was watching them but Hailey tells John she knows nothing about it, latter on this episode seem she was saying the truth and for sure John will look for her to get answers, on this series nothing happens because of coincidence.

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    Here is Jo Madi, the FBI agent John was talking about, she comes to John office and tells him she knows what went down on the bar and it was all manipulation to get the investor sell his position and dump the stock so John's client could buy cheaper, the news on the tv were a lie, local transited just to that Tv as it was part of the plan to send a fake message to the investor phone and tell him to watch the news, the fake news so he panic and sell. Remember, if its on the Tv they already doing it, this kind of things do happen in real life believe it or not, social engineering is very well paid, there have been big cases, data manipulation and social engineering have let to hacks like Twitter hack a few years ago where accounts like Elon Musk and Barack Obama got hijacked because a Twitter rep who had access to certain back office panel could control this accounts.

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    On this episode they tell a bit about John and his father, how it looks like they were very distant, this two pictures I think its them, John as a kid with his father. John ha a son but he doesn't life with him, probably because of his job, not much is said about it but for sure will develop latter during the series.

    Its hard to spoil a series like this since its more about the details than anything else, its how things happen that makes it special, all the clues that let to another searching for the truth.

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    John gets a call from an old friend Valence who is now a big shot, Miles Valence, he is not working at a big data company, Arda Analytics and wants John to get his hands dirty and makes things happen for him, Miles wants two person to show up together potentially sharing information if possible.

    Plan: have Banomar Group rep show together with a Treasury Department either on video or phone, the scene has to potentially assume blackmail or bribery, what ever fits the story as the rumor is Banomar Group uses child labor investigated by Treasury Department.

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    Money shot that gets to Miles hands thanks to John's crew who pull an excellent job, during this entire time John is pending a meeting for assuming a big job with someone name Tom, part of his crew has met Tom in the past and everyone likes the guy, not much is explain about him on this episode.

    After John gets out of Miles office he sees Hailey across the street taking a cap, he goes back to his office and ask his crew to investigate her, it looks like she was saying the truth and probably was manipulated by some one who wants to make John look dirty or have something on him. This is where everything blows apart for John, literally.

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    He locate Hailey again and while he was trying to get answers from her in old fashion Kiefe Sutherland, he gets frame and now has to run for his life, John is accuse for the murder of U.S Treasury Office, as a result his office gets bomb, police is looking for him, Miles office hangs up the phone on him, its a total mess that he now has to find a way out

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    Looks like the job was more complicated than just frame two person now with both Miles and the Treasury Officer dead and John accuse of murder.

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    WTH isn't that the Treasury Officer John is been accuse of murder, did Miles plan failed or was John ahead of it the entire time? did his crew die during the bombing? The mind games on this series is great.

    Rabbit Hole is the clear example of a triple A series with a well known cast, so far I cant find anything wrong with it and love the mind games, Kiefer is a specialist when it comes to this kind of stories and well known for it, this is a must watch tv series if you like thriller/action/manipulation theme series, conclusion turn out to be very short but there is nothing to be said other than MUST WATCH!!

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