I've just finished watching episode 2 and something happened that I did not understand. (SPOILER ALERT) Why did Pine beat up the guy who furnished him with the fake passport for Thomas Quince? I rewound and watch the scene in the bar a couple times, but I haven't a clue what went wrong, why he beat the guy up.
shareIt was all faked to establish him within the village that he was a badass. Later when the woman comes to the cottage and finds all the blood they all assume he murdered the guy and disposed of the body. But that guy was another gov't agent.
The thing that didn't make sense to me is when Pine joins Roper's organization, they give him a new passport and identity of Andrew Birch. The police are after Jack Linden, the ID he had when he was posing as the drug dealer. And i believe they were also looking for Jonathan Pine because he "stole" the money from the ski resort where he was working. But he never committed any crime as Thomas Quince and no one knew to look for him under that name.
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Thanks for the response, Falconefans. Truly, appreciate it.
That makes sense. But, was I supposed to be able to figure that out from the single episode or is that something that was revealed in later episodes? As I said, I've only watched the first 2. I'm not sure I'm going back in to watch any more.
It was determined by the conversation Pine had with the guy in the cottage before the bar scene. If you go back and watch that scene, they're clearly discussing the set up for the guy's "murder". He even mentions he hopes his funeral is a nice one. Plus the first thing he said to Pine was he had a "message from London". Meaning I'm an agent sent here by your handler to help you.
As for why Roper got rid of the Quince passport, when Burr had the APB put out for Pine she had it put out under all his aliases as well, including Thomas Quince. So none of the names were any good hence Roper giving him a completely new one.
Pay attention to the dialogue, people. It's important.
But no one knew he took the alias of Thomas Quince... except Burr and her team. But if Pine was keeping in character, he was on the run and took the ID of the girl's exhusband. The reason he took that ID was because the real Quince didn't have a passport.
So the only way that Burr and team would know about the Quince ID was because they gave it to him. From Roper's point of view, no one knew about Quince so there was no need to toss that passport.
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No she doesnt.
But she put the APB out on the name Quince as well. When she orders it she orders it under every name he's got. One of the things she has him charged with is identity theft. Thereby giving Roper the notion the cops clearly know he's taken this guy's identity. So "everyone" does know about Quince. It doesn't matter how Burr and her team know since they're the ones issuing the APB. As long as all the other enforcement agencies know.
The only ones who even know the any of it's falsified are Burr and her team. To any other cop, international police agent or criminal leader doing a background check looking at this APB it's completely legit. So Roper runs the check, see he's wanted under all these aliases, including the current one and tosses the passport as an excuse to keep Pine close. It's not like Pine can leave the country or continue using the name for anything. He gets picked up for so much as a traffic violation he's screwed. So Quince has to go.
Okay, thanks. I must've missed that.
I just thought it was odd that anyone would even know Quince since Pine/Linden pulled the name randomly when the girl mentioned him.
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No she doesnt.
Oh sorry, my mistake.
From what i remember it's episode 2 where Pine and Roper finally meet in Switzerland. Did you see the scene where Roper and several people including his son go to dinner?
There are flashback scenes to his time in Devon where the "murder" occurs. The girl tells him about her exhusband who never got a passport, and after they sleep together he goes through her phone and sees the pictures. I think that's where he got the idea to steal Quince's identity.
I think it's the 3rd episode when the passport issue comes up.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.