#agent brooks

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–– Enver Gjokaj as Agent Ryan Brooks. (Emergence, 2020) 💘

I’M IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN, YOUR HONOR (pt.1)

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–– Enver Gjokaj as Agent Ryan Brooks. (Emergence, 2020) 💘

I’M IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN, YOUR HONOR

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–– Enver Gjokaj as Agent Ryan Brooks. (Emergence, 2020) 🖤

LIFE IS NOT A PHOTOSHOOT MR. ENVER (pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.4)

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archaeomedic replied to your post:R.I.P Devon Grice. At least there’s still some...

It probably will be similar to shaw, not so much an awakening as a reason to take action. But who knows poi likes it’s parallels Brooks could go the opposite way and become a samaritan believer

I could definitely see that. Brooks being pragmatic, cutting her loses and, even tho aware that something’s up, deciding to just play along, do her job, keep her head down. That’s the read i have on her so far. And the interesting thing about this? You have the ‘no feelings’ sociopath taking the morally superior road. So, should it play out like that, this parallel would be saying that not only does a personality disorder not turn you into a selfish, uncaring person; but being ‘normal’ doesn’t mean you’re automatically a ‘good’ person. You know. Like in the real world.

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R.I.P Devon Grice. At least there’s still some hope left for Shaw in a mentor role (something i’d really, really like to see). Also, Shaw & Brooks teaming up to avange him, in whatever way (once she’s realeased from Samaritan clutches, of course)

Really, Brooks now suddenly has a reason to start wondering, to ask questions. Much like Shaw was reticent at first, and it took Cole’s death to open her eyes to what he was trying to say, I wonder to what extent, if any, Grice’s death will function as a similar catalyst for Brooks.

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so while im already avoiding work, i was thinking about this: we never got to know who was samaritan's double agent in the ISA Control recovery team. there's two possible reasons for this: one is this double agent doesn't matter beyond this one episode and this one plotline. the other one is, it matters and they're saving the reveal for later.

what's under the cut is speculation regarding the identity of this double-agent, under the assumption that it does indeed matter.

because the thing is, ctrl-alt-del clearly set everything up to bring Control in on the AI fight. at least she knows Samaritan can't be trusted, and has good reason to suspect it/Greer from making their own plays (i say Greer because i see Control as the sort of person who'll focus more on the human "mastermind" behind the machine, even if that's not how it works). and if Control is going to be a player in all this, and one working under so much survaillance from Samaritan, then that double agent might make or break whatever play she'll eventually be involved in. so then, that would means this 

if this is the case, then i'd speculate some more: the reason we don't know who it is, that we weren't somehow introduced to someone new, is because it's someone old. we've got two old someones there, guns ablazing to rescue Control: Grice and Brooks. so you can probably guess were im going with this. 

Grice has clearly stated he doesn't trust Samaritan, even tho he might not know of Samaritan's existance or how it works. We're reminded of this again in ctrl-alt-del, he doesn't like not doing his own research and just killing their marks. Brooks on the other hand, trusts Research implicitely, and mostly just humors him as one would do with any partner: overlook the annoying traits and get the job done. but what if this blind trust in Research is actually just a blind trust in Samaritan?

if anyone is going to be a double-agent in the ISA for Samaritan, then i'd say she'd be the most interesting choice, precisely because she is so close to the two people who've already been established as possible threats -Grice, when he let Shaw go and Control when she did her own op this episode.