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Questions about Lipstick

posted 8 years ago by thisguy_86
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1. Alex didn't have any bullets in the hostage situation? Isn't that a little unprepared for a CIA agent?

2. She mentioned Hinglish. I didn't know that was a real language! Is that the reason for both her and Priyanka Chopra's accent?

3. Why did the guard sacrifice himself instead of going with Alex?

4. Why does the flashing timeline say 377 days, 5 weeks? Wouldn't it be simpler to just say the years and months?

5. Miranda's in on the whole thing? That was a shock, wasn't it?

[–] xXAssassinXx 8 years ago

3. I thought this was pretty obvious. The guard had been shot and needed medical attention. He probably wouldn't have survived just hiding in that bunker for hours or however long the situation is going to last. As he acknowledged, the approaching terrorists knew someone was down there, but not necessarily two people, so he hid Alex to try to save her life and probably in hopes that she could help stop the attack and sacrificed himself since he was likely going to die down there anyway. Pretty straightforward.

Nothing you have to say is anywhere near as useful or important as you think it is.

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[–] Emathy 8 years ago

2. Can't tell if you're joking there. "Hinglish" a portmanteau of Hindi and English (like "Spanglish" for Spanish/English). We know from S1 Alex's character spent 10 tears of her youth living in India.

3. To throw the terrorists off of Alex's trail. He was being a hero, counting on them to assume he's alone and therefore stop looking for anyone else, leaving Alex safe for the time being.

5. I would be surprised if Miranda was working with the terrorists, but it's not surprising to me that she'd have an undercover agent working on the inside. Alex can't save everyone alone. She and whoever this person is are going to work together to save the hostages. I also expect that we're going to go through a similar process of suspecting her fellow CIA training classmates and then seeing them exonerated one by one, just like the NATs in S1. This time they might make some of them truly guilty though. Jeremy Miller, for example, assuming he actually died.

[–] nuhor_lir_gurenna 8 years ago

1. Alex didn't have any bullets in the hostage situation? Isn't that a little unprepared for a CIA agent?

CIA at least in theory do not have any jurisdiction on US soil, most CIA agents are not even supposed to carry a gun in US.

3. Why did the guard sacrifice himself instead of going with Alex?

Of course if both are disappeared the terrorists would then search and might find the bunker, also the guard was shot and had no chance of medical attention so he was going to die anyway. Alex was a hero so he probably believed she would avenge him, might even save the day.

5. Miranda's in on the whole thing? That was a shock, wasn't it?

Yes, they also give away the people behind this from the beginning, for a change.

A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist - Sir Humphrey Appleby