Kitty's Notes On Episode 4 Of The Payday Web Series
Okay we have a time skip, two days after First World Bank, that also means that everything happening in the previous episodes was definitely happening within those days, likely the same day as the heist, which means a few things
1. Hector's location is close to the parking garage that Lukas and Isabella had their discussion, if my Sofie = Sophia theory rings true that would mean that all of this happened within DC
2. That black eye Dallas got lasts multiple days, good job Houston
Here is where we learn it's a thing with Jordan as she corrects Mr Steele aka Dallas when he calls her Agent Griffin instead of *Special* Agent Griffin, to quote her “I [Jordan] am pretty picky about that part.”
Also now is a good time to discuss something, while I know fanon mostly agrees and hell even my writing partner agrees with (meaning this bit of fanon shows up in my works) the idea that Natehen Steele is Dallas's true name, I earnestly suspect it isn't, Dallas as a former member of a mob who put a bounty on his head and also has connections to someone with loan sharks after them in their civilian identity (Houston) would likely not be able to hold a legal identity as a bank employee & even if he could that could have quickly got him undesired attention from non-Crime.net criminals and we have to assume he took time to get the job he had & amount of trust he is given as Natehen Steele so the mobs and loan sharks would have also had time to track him down.
Also may I say the costumer really didn't know how to dress Jordan as a character, in episode one there is this one button that isn't properly done which leaves a hole making it clear the shirt is too tight for her breast size and in episode two we can see her bra strap which doesn't even seem to be like a sports bra which would fit the athletic looking tanktop & pants.
Also unproper gun safety as Jordan has a hand gun sticking out of her pants weist line instead of a proper holster.
Also Jordan is repeatly put in like high high heels, not like full on club heels but way higher than professional dress code high heels
Also Dallas drinks tea with no sugar, he asks for this instead of the coffee that Jordan offers him.
Jordan's first question is about if First World Bank suffered any cybersurcity attacks prior to the heist, Dallas tells her that the bank is cyberattacked about 1000 times a day but almost none get past the firewall
Her second question is if Natehen has heard of something called CRIMENET, Dallas just tells a flat no to this but seems more emotive to the question, sighing and shaking his head.
I think at this point, if not from the start Jordan is very suspicious of Natehen, as her next question is something he's already probably had to answer in a police report “can you tell me [Jordan] exactly what happened that day? [The heist]”
Also a side note Jordan's voice is more like how I remember it, I think my memory of her voice is mainly from this scene and the one with Vlad in episode 6
Note from future Kitty who is done the episodes, yeah throughout the rest of the series it is more in line with this than her first appearance.
We get to see Dallas's pov or well shortly before & the very start of the heist
it also shows him doing things like directing co-workers away from where the heist will take place, Dallas isn't the most moral person in the world but he cares about innocent lives
Ultimately though it seems like Natehen just directs Jordan to read the police report, which doesn't work the best as Jordan tries to press
But just in time Jordan is called to go do something involving “9-2”, something like “director key”, I think I am mishearing what is being said, in general I wish I had access to the script as it would help with things like this & names.
And Dallas takes this as a chance to get out of there which admittedly I am surprised doesn't bite him in the ass since Jordan wasn't dealt with immediately after this encounter.
But also, I think Bain definitely had a foothold in the FBI already, outside of Agent Riker which is why the call happened when it did and probably why Jordan had no recourse when Natehen bailed.
During the time of the web series Sentor Simmons aka The Elephant had a setent race ahead of him and was surcuring funding both legally and also via Crime.net/The Payday Gang given what Bain says at the end of episode 3 about someone needing funding while Elephant is shown on one of Bain's screens
One of Elephant's legal supporters is Whitmore Development which is likely a construction company given the name and golden hammer the ceo gives Elephant as a gift. Also the ceo's wife is cheating on him with Elephant.
Also the company name is the same as the ceo last name, Whitmore.
Elephant seems to have a bit of a bantering relationship with his driver (named Duffy) as the driver asks how the event went and Elephant outright tells him that he's been sleeping with ms Whitmore.
It also seems the driver is the one to have came up with Elephant's political slogan at the time of “I/We get the job done.” and seems like Elephant workshopped it a bit for the full speech. In general both seem actually pretty happy & light-hearted talking to each other, and given that the driver likely sees Elephant drop someone off later to be assassinated I think it is safe to assume that the driver is a bit of a confidante to Elephant.
Also random note about Bain's set up as we get a good shoot of it, he has 5 computer screens total, three on a desk which tends to show contacts, security footage, relevant information on important items and map information, then two smaller wall mounted screens which look like in this scene have map info, so I can assume are in general used for things Bain considers secondary information during his schemes.
The man Gage assassinates with Elephant's help, Charlie, was involved with Crime.Net and had a title “The Lobbyist” I feel confident in assuming he was a way Bain could try to lobby for things.
Apparently Charlie got on Bain's bad side by siding with Don Elis, who Bain just calls “My [Bain's] enemy”, So Bain sees Charlie as a potential source of conflict that needs to be gotten rid of.
Also it seems like Elephant banging that lady is a open secret as Charile asks him about it.
Also for the assassinion Elephant pretended to Charile that he needed him to get into Crime.net which is very funny given the likelyhood that Bain has known or known of Elephant since his days before even being a hister
Spefically Elephant requests “full access” which to me suggests there is a tier system to membership/use of the services
Charile apparently didn't have full access
Full Access may be able to be given if you yourself have it, perhaps it is something physical like a usb with a different version of the program, either way Bain monitors this and would kill anyone giving it out without his permission
Elephant asks Charlie “who else knows about him [Elephant]” which I am assuming means Elephant's criminal ties and connection to Crime.net. Charile repiles with “Overkill” (which is later retconed to be a bikergang, outside of being a reference we don't know the intention of what Overkill was in universe at the time) and Bain.
We see the pair drive by a scene with police and a ambulance, I think this is intended to be the assassinion we see Greta preform as the parking lot & building look like it.
Okay future Kitty again, it is unlikely given Charlie is dropped off by a shady club meanwhile the assassinion takes place at a decently fancy hotel. Interestingly though before the assassinion scene itself in the drive with the victim we also briefly see a police scene like here. It seems like a symbiotic choice to have both victims of assassinations drive by police shortly before death.
Gage is honestly probably the best actor in universe, easily being able to pretend to be a homeless burned out war vet, which does take influence from his own life but all good actors include a nugget of truth in their acts, either way it does make Charile lower his guard and get close enough for the kill.
Also Gage smokes
Admittedly the murder itself is pretty sloppy, it takes four shoots total at point blank for Gage to feel confident he killed Charlie, we see Gage touch parts of Charlie's clothes as he kills him, he steals a lighter out of Charlie's hands leaving more chances for fingerprints oh and the gun isn't silenced and while it seems like they are in a bad neighborhood that still is gonna give Gage less time to get away from the scene and he had to stick to paved areas due to use of a wheelchair so he can't really take unexpected routes.
Oh and Charlie isn't even fully dead after the four shoots, we still hear him moaning while Gage takes the lighter
We also see that Gage uses cocaine, lazily leaves a bag with the body as some sort of false lead? Either way he handled the bag with his barehands
THEN HE CALLS ELEPHANT WHILE STILL RIGHT NEXT TO THE BODY! HOW THE HELL DID NO ONE SEE HIM?? NOT EVEN JUST A NOSY HOMELESS PERSON????
Anyways it is very clear Elephant was already in touch with Bain before this all as he already had the name Elephant and Bain's phone number and was in chage of the assassinion. This also means very very clearly that people in Crime.net do not inherently know each other's ranks within it, which I mean is befitting of everything else but good to soildly know.
Bain says that Crime.net is ready to launch at the end of the episode and while that is probably a reference to the game, I also think in universe this was a era where Bain made Crime.net, the program and organization a lot more avilable to other criminals, I suspect even it being a time where Bain made a major update to the program itself.
Wolf is for once not credited as himself but a actual actor!
