Impossible to believe that in the 21st Century anyone would have trouble publishing the secret material. All he had to do is go into the nearest internet cafe. Wouldn't need to bother to send paper files to newspapers or even use his own computer. Surely Snowdon showed us that.
shareI'm curious to know how other guys would have shared the secret material, lol.
I thought about the cafe, but i thought, maybe leaving behind digital copies of the manual here and there?, lol. Sorta like taking a poop every now and then. Plop...(one flash drive).....visit the grocery...(plop)...etc. But, maybe agents followed him everywhere he went?
But that's just it, lecrismail. Have just finished the program in America. I was totally baffled as to why Danny was meeting results of sabotage and surveillance, but in the last several episodes we never had view of his being followed.
His estranged parents were enlisted. Scottie committed suicide (or was killed. Was unclear on that and did not want to go back to discern), the printed copies were returned blank, etc, but we did not see him being tailed.
Was the writer's intention that THEY are out there but we are never aware of their surveillance? I don't know. From the fine first episode to that disappointing fifth episode wrap up, we felt confused and let down. And that Charlotte Rampling jumping into the car smiling was way not convincing. It was like she thought they were going on a fun road movie romp.
I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?
My problem with the info is yes, in the internet age, go to an internet cafe, use a friend's computer, steal someone else's computer and disseminate the data anywhere and everywhere. Good luck them being able to track it down.
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Instead of mailing the info to newspapers, take it there in person. Hand it to a reporter. Leave it in their offices. He could have reached many in the UK and France and Germany just by taking a train ride.
but we did not see him being tailed.
"Instead of mailing the info to newspapers, take it there in person. Hand it to a reporter. Leave it in their offices."
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Yeah! Didn't the writers see the end of "Three Days of the Condor?"
I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?
I enjoyed this series very much but the whole thing was implausible. The return of the printouts as blank paper, the use of a family photograph as a way of destroying the files, the death of Alex after a lie-detector test while confined in a box, the room full of equations on glass and blackboard (and never dare erase them!), the decision to infect a man with HIV to prevent him from blowing whistles (????), the blazing maze--it was all completely implausible at any literal level, and only worked on a surreal level. It was all just as poetic as anything, but made no sense at the level of anything any bureaucracy, or even Bond-level villains, would actually do.
How much sense did it even make for Alex to put his stuff into a flash drive with a romantic tumbler lock code, in the first place? If he had published he would have been fine.
the use of a family photograph as a way of destroying the files
And all the pieces matter (The Wire)share