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The Physicist's Nightmare
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The paramedics rush someone in to the ER. The paramedics on this show are much less attractive, I mean, much more realistic than they ever were on ER, which is kind of funny for a show that is soooo not realistic. I mean, as far as this reality is concerned. The doctor asks about breath sounds and some other medically stuff, but the paramedic wants to get done with the small talk because he has something much more interesting to show her. He pulls back a blood-soaked blanket to reveal a highly futuristic bionic arm. The camera pans up to reveal that the victim is Nina Sharp, the de facto head of Massive Dynamic. What sort of crap bionic arm can't deflect bullets? If that's the future in this reality, I'd rather go live in the parallel universe where Wonder Woman exists.

Agent Dunham gets the briefing on Nina's shooting. Agent Francis is already cueing up the security footage. They watch as three men, one heavily wrapped in bandages, the others masked, walk in, shoot the guard and then wait until Nina arrives. They surround her, and the tape goes blank for four minutes and then they walk out leaving Nina on the floor of the elevator. Quick question: if you have the ability to delete the security tape, why not do the whole thing? The FBI is more concerned with what the masked men did to Nina that they didn't want anyone seeing. The boss, Broyles, helpfully points out that whatever it was they did it in only four minutes. Like is this one of those firing up situations? Because that was an incredibly dumb thing to say. More helpfully, Olivia asks them to enhance what the bandaged guy said. They enhance it and then run it through voice recognition. The man in question? David Robert Jones, the man so nice they named him twice. You remember him, right? The Hannibal Lecter-channeler from the prison in Germany who broke his attorney's neck for a suit of clothes and then beamed away to annoy Olivia? Yeah that guy is wearing a mummy's-worth of bandages and sunglasses, and a fedora, because if you're going to go for the Invisible Man look, you might as well own it. Olivia doesn't understand why he's wearing the bandages, either, which is somewhat reassuring. At the sight of David Robert Jones she insists that Broyles let her bring in William Bell for questioning. They have good evidence that he is funding the activities of ZFT and many of the acts have been carried out by David Robert Jones. Even William Bell is not above the law! She almost stamps her foot, but Broyles stops her. He agrees with her, but would like it if she would stop cutting him off before he can agree with her. She smiles wanly, glad that she didn't make too much of an ass out of herself.

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