What was he doing with the passport and the disposable camera?
He attached wires to the dummy passport with some kind of substance and snapped the shutter a couple of times. What was he doing?
shareHe attached wires to the dummy passport with some kind of substance and snapped the shutter a couple of times. What was he doing?
shareA lot of passports now have RFID chips embedded in them, my guess is whatever he was doing was disabling it or spoofing it so that the chip wouldn't cause a problem.
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Agent Hill: ...Then aliens invaded New York and were beaten back, by among others, a giant green monster, a costumed hero from the 40's.... and a god.
Agent Ward: I don't think Thor is technically a god.
Hill: Well...you haven't been near his arms.
~Agents of SHIELD; Season 1 Episode 1 "Pilot"
I thought that initially but I now think he was actually supposed to be reprogramming it to match her details. Totally impossible of course, apart from with a laptop - unless what we saw was the 'erasing' phase and that followed? He did have a laptop, as it happens.
I liked that kind of detail, and the tradecraft and science dialogue sounded very good, but little problems like how on earth they got the plate to track the car annoyed me.
That, and the insane final reel when the T-1000 - sorry, LARX-3 showed up...
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The explanation is on the cutting room floor.
All through the film Weisz and Renner explain things or provide encouragement to each other for the benefit of the audience. In the end, the story didn't require us to understand what he was doing with the disposable camera, only to accept that he knew what he was doing, and to accept that the fake passports and IDs were credible.
If you really want to know, someone will have made a Youtube clip...