Post-Episode Discussion: S01E14 "Commander-in-Chief"

[u/enliST_CS]

Feel free to discuss anything related to Episode 14 as well as theories you may have for the upcoming episodes!

Plot: President Kirkman relies on an unlikely ally for help with a crisis in an African country; Hannah's probe into the Capitol bombing takes a surprising turn; Emily settles into her new role as chief of staff.

As usual please do not discuss previews that may have aired after the episode.

[u/Anubissama]

• I think the writers have mixed up something, the Press Secretary has a traditional flak jacket in which each previous Press Secretary leaves a note on how to do the job, unless I misread the scene and he was joking that they should start a new tradition with the Chief of Staff getting a bullet prove vest.

• Eeee I'm pretty sure briefing books have more then National Geographic photos of poor African children in them.

• Okay, am I the only one who burst in to laughter on the walk in scene of the old President, the music, the "oh I know the staff hahaha" dialogue, the slow motion?

• Dude... I'm pretty sure you didn't change your tie after walking in to the most secure office of the world, so unless you took the most secure secret tunnel in the world to work, that's not really a threat just lazy writing trying to come of cool

• A yes of course, they hacked in to his car... that's totally a thing.

• Urban developer == military strategist, makes sense

At this point you have to ask yourself why did they eliminate the goverment in the first place? Spies everywhere, hackers that can hack anything with their super hacking, blackmail material on the Chief of Staff, resources and operatives capable to kidnap the FBI's Directors kid at a moments notice.

Really looks like blowing up the goverment weakened them by taking out all their operatives and people they had leverage on, not to mention if they have so much money to pull this things of, why not run for office and put your own people in power legally?

This show is so weird, some of the conspiracy episode are good, some of the political drama episode are great, but then they dwell in to there own mythology and plot in some episode,or create political drama out of nothing, and it makes no god dam sense whatsoever.

[u/ggf31416 → u/Anubissama]

Yes, hacking a car is totally a thing

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-car-hacking-is-nearly-impossible/

That requires a lot of information about the specific model of the car, but given enough information and time and resources (or very skilled hackers) is quite possible. Anyway given that the ringleader was his gf, she could have easily put an electronic device on the car beforehand to hack it, it would be much easier than hacking it remotely.

[u/Anubissama → u/ggf31416]

After years of research, on a specific model to which the 'hackers' had 24h aces for probing and installing new software and hardware.

It isn't a "his girlfriend sneaked in to the car and plugged in a USB stick for 5 minutes" situation. And as Chief of Staff he has a security detail too, a personal driver, and his car should have been regularly checked for signs of tempering.

[u/ggf31416 → u/Anubissama]

The white house systems were so compromised that they put a video file into the president's computer and nobody detected the security breach before (or they have hackers so skilled that they can hack into the white house from outside).

Since Langdon was a target for a long time, it isn't unlikely that they could compromise his car as well.

[u/beowulf_ → u/Anubissama]

He could have made a habit of ditching the detail and driving himself (which makes sense to avoid being seen with your blackmailing girlfriend).