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Date Posted: Friday, May 16, 07:18:49am
Author: Chani
Author Host/IP: 89-156-8-80.rev.numericable.fr / 89.156.8.80
Subject: His friends
In reply to: Lij 's message, "Trust no one....." on Thursday, May 15, 11:15:40pm

were the people at the contras base, the ones Philip and Elizabeth killed at the beginning of "Matial Eagle". Larrick was furious when he heard about the mission.

I think that the KGB is wrong about the Echo thing. The guy Stan talked to, said something about Echo not being easy to take away.

The cancer man from the previous episode mentioned bats who died because of the paint fumes...so maybe ECHO is not a computer program at all!

It would be a nice twist and an epic fail for Oleg, the technology guy.

So I believe that Stan, even if he's ready to betray his country in order to save Nina, won't be able to give Arkady what he asked...

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[> [> [> Ok... they are looking for two parts of the Stealth tech -- Lij, Friday, May 16, 12:31:24pm (adsl-99-137-203-238.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.137.203.238)

The bats that died were from the RAM - Radar Absorbent Material - which is paint infused with micro-'balls' of iron. That scatters radio waves - radar. That is what cancer man was talking about.

ECHO is the program that tests whether the design of a plane with the addition of the RAM will disperse radar waves in the desired way.

ECHO would not be easy to remove probably because it is only on the one non-networked computer in that testing facility Stan visited. You would have to be in physical contact with that one computer (which in the 1980s is probably a large 'supercomputer' of that time) to download the program or steal a disc or several discs or tapes that the computer is stored upon. The written code that is the computer program is probably locked away somewhere - maybe on old Hollerith [punched] cards? I remember writing programs in Fortran IV back in the late 1970s and then submitting them to the computer center to have them run in a 'batch.' But even if they could steal ECHO the Russians may not have the requisite computing power to run the program.
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Yeah, I was pretty sure they were talking about the Americans at the contra base. And that's what is so confusing. Why then follow Jared to New York? Does he think Jared can direct him to Elizabeth? How did Larrick even know Jared existed? The only obvious answer is that Larrick murdered Jared's family. Likely though, the show runners have another idea!!

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[> [> [> [> Re: Ok... they are looking for two parts of the Stealth tech -- Chani, Friday, May 16, 12:46:20pm (89-156-8-80.rev.numericable.fr/89.156.8.80)

I think Jared was his only lead to find Elizabeth and Philip, hence the tracker he put in his backpack.

Larrick told Elizabeth and Philip that he didn't kill Emmet and Leanne but wished he would have, and there was media coverage about the murder, so even though he didn't know about Jared before he must have found out that he had survived thanks to the news?

Of course there's still the possibility that Larrick found infos on Jared in Kate's apartment though. We know that Kate met Jared, she might have kept his address at home.


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[> [> [> [> [> Yeah, I was going to come back and say that...... -- Lij, Friday, May 16, 02:52:29pm (adsl-99-137-203-238.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.137.203.238)

It's also highly probable that Larrick means to kidnap Jared to lure out the Jennings. But would that work?

And yeah, who did write the message on the toilet tissue cardboard. We assume it was Kate because she took all the paper off the roll to expose it. That should have been a tell that she left a message there.

I wonder if they (the writers) had Kate meet Jared without any appearance change just so they would have a way to say Larrick found Jared? But your point about Larrick reading up on it in newspapers would suffice. So there should be another reason for Kate's meeting with Jared.

Hope they clear it up!

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