I thought a nice way they could have wrapped up that plot-line would be to have some government agency hire him.
Except he actually killed at least one person that we know of, and assaulted others, not to mention causing the widespread power outage that probably injured or killed innocent bystanders.
I didn't think that would be an obstacle for employment with a covert government agancy. His crime spree demonstrated initiative and advanced technical abilty.
... and excellent time managment and muti-tasking skills. On the other hand, his 'people skills' might need a bit of work.
And shockingly good IT skills under severe pressure. And amazing internet speed, even when all the cell towers were down.
Except he killed that guy in the car that flipped over. Technically, he's guilty of murder by remote control. Also, he's a weird, twisted, stalker teen, and that alone is grounds for sending him to the bottom of a deep pit. My point was that it's interesting that they didn't even mention what happened to him. I think anybody who took down the entire electrical grid of Washington, D.C. would be considered a terrorist and would be put so deep into a jail cell for all eternity, it might as well be on Mars.
I too noticed that they never mentioned what happened to him. After that blackout of Washington, D.C., with all communications down - something that I imagine would in real life trigger an emergency response like nowhere else and - regardless of the death of the man in the car and the subway crash - would result in a serious prison term. Got me to thinking it would have suited the context of the series to find out he [computer genius and weird, twisted, stalker teen"] was not charged and imprisoned, but instead was subsequently enlisted to work for some covert government agency.
Far too often, dramatic serialized shows like this tend to drop loose plot threads that explain what happened to people like this. It's puzzling, because one :30-second conversation would solve the problem. "What's gonna happen to the kid?" "That's up to the blah-blah agency. They're having the hearing next week, and I suspect he's going to have at least ten years to think about what he's done, with good behavior."
There are a lot of shows that never explain what happens to the criminals that are caught. Bones for instance never tells you, they catch the criminal and that's it, but it makes sense because at that point it becomes part of the court system and the investigators are off to the next case.
This show isn't a procedural, I don't see any need for this kind of follow-up, beyond the apprehension of the villain of the week.
Eh, it's another loose plot thread. But I agree, it's not a pivotal detail... and yet it could've been handled very quickly, as I said. It is a procedural in that it's about an FBI group investigating crimes and criminals, aided by one of the world's biggest criminals. I've worked on a few detective-type shows before where I asked, "hey, whatever happened to <omitted plot detail>," and the post producer usually shrugs and says, "yeah, we covered that in the initial edit, but we had to lose two minutes to make our time slot, so that's on the cutting-room floor."
Yea, I agree. I was unsure about what the brother would do, but it didn't really surprise me. Nor did it surprise Red, apparently. Spaders's dialogue with the guy in South America was pretty funny.
I think at this point Spader is playing it for laughs. Whether or not that is the director's intent...
I don't think Spader's performance has changed any since the pilot episode. I think he approaches this as a silly bit of fluff that he is paid a ridiculously high amount of money for. He's probably enjoying this very "gravy" role that allows him to just be as quirky as he wants to be with minimal effort. He could do this part in his sleep.
God, I miss Bob Ross, and his happy tree's and the way he could create a landscape just with palate knife . I was rolling Spaders with dialogue.
