In season 2, ep 5, mason reaped the bicyclist Herm Soriano but Herm recognized Mason when he was sitting on the curb. i thought reapers looked like other people, if so, how did herm know it was him or did the show abandon the whole reapers look like other people? (note: i'm at ep 5, no spoilers after that please)
shareHi onesunday,
Mason died in Britain in 1966 and after was moved to Seattle.
During his long stay in Seattle as a reaper Herm got to know him - as Mason indicated when he received the posit from Rube. From the episode we learn that they had numerous drug dealings over the years and Herm owed Mason money. Herm knew Mason after only Mason died so there was no problem with Herm recognizing Mason on the curb just before Herm died.
Episode 205 Hurry is discussed near the end of this thread:
http://www.ellen-muth.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1531
quote from the above comments:
"Time scale – We see extremes of time use efficiency and reactions to it.
One extreme is the example of the efficiency expert brought into Delores’ Happy Time office to audit goings on – he uses a stopwatch to measure time spent in the restroom by employees. Another would be the dating get together Daisy attends to find her reap – couples get 2 minutes to talk and decide whether there should be a next step. Mason stung by Rube’s criticism of his reaping sloppiness – a variation on just in time he says – sets out early to find his reap – a bicycle messenger – and wastes most of his day looking for him. Mason’s reap ends up finding him at the postit’s designated street corner almost at the designated time. Roxy finds her reap without much exertion at all at the airport. George tho wins the efficiency prize here among our reaper set. She shows up at her designated street corner to find her reap waiting at a stoplight.
At the other extreme we find the PTB and their reactions to a transgression to their ostensible reaper code some 77 years prior. Rube spends most of his day waiting in a post office line to pick up what he believes is a package, which turns out to be a dead letter – a message of sorts from the PTB to Rube. Some 77 years prior Rube sent a cash filled envelope addressed to Rosie, his daughter – five years old at the time. It seems the PTB’s time scale of response is a patient one. For reasons not made clear in this episode (or this season for that matter) they sidelined the letter at the post office for all this time and it seems very deliberately now decide to return it to Rube. A message perhaps to Rube that they know what he tried to do and that his attempt to help his family failed. Rube shows not a hint of concern for the former part of the message, but is devastated by the latter fact – that the money never arrived. Importantly we the audience aren’t told why this upsets Rube so much."