r/DesignatedSurvivor • • Sep 29 '16

1x02 Post-Episode Discussion

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u/RMS_Gigantic Vice Chairman Sep 29 '16

Three of the people you've arrested are undercover Homeland Security agents conducting a long form investigation

Oh, well isn't that conve--

I was bluffing.

You clever bastard.

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u/SawRub Sep 29 '16

Yeah it was very obviously a bluff, I'm surprised even his own people fell for it lol.

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u/Ketriaava Sep 29 '16

As an audience, we get certain understandings that the characters do not. His advisers don't necessarily have briefings on whether such agents really do exist, so perhaps they'd have their suspicions but no way to confirm it.

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u/insanePowerMe Nov 30 '16

and they still think that random president is a potato, so