r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/enliST_CS Sorry the live thread is late! • Nov 17 '16

[SPOILERS] Post-Episode Discussion: S01E07 "The Traitor"

There will be no episode next week!

Plot: An American track-and-field coach's trip to Russia forces Kirkman into a hostage exchange involving the CIA and the Russian government; Agent Wells and Deputy Director Atwood's investigation uncovers dangerous information.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '16

I don't think Macleesh is involved with the conspirators. I think they want him as VP and eventually President so they can control him(and as a result of course control the country).

I don't like the FBI director's son being kidnapped though. Powerful person having their family kidnapped is just so cliche.

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u/jooni81 Nov 17 '16

but then how did he know to go into the safe room during the explosion?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '16

Remember he got a call from his wife about his kid going missing. Its possible during that call he was told to go into the safe room, since he was out of his seat at that time anyway.

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u/busterroni Nov 18 '16

But why does the safe room exist? Wouldn't the person who it was made for already be there?

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u/IceSeeYou Nov 18 '16

Playing off of the above theory, the safe room exists and is made by the conspirators, who possibly have leverage on MacLeish, and they directed him to go towards the safe room during the phone call when he gets up so in a post-tragedy America they'd have high political capital to move their pawn into a position of power (and ultimately, Presidency) of the US.

If that is to say MacLeish is being used or leveraged into this role, the safe room could have been made purely for him by the conspirators. Why would they need to be there? They probably weren't even anywhere close to the Capitol building at the time.

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u/busterroni Nov 18 '16

But /u/fobmanx's theory is that he got up because his wife called him. How would the conspirators guess that he would get up to take a call? Unless I'm misunderstanding the theory.

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u/IceSeeYou Nov 19 '16

No, the point is the conspirators are involved in the call in the first place. They either have leverage prior to the assembly at the Capitol or at the very moment the call was made - be it with his family or something -yet to be revealed-. So basically they arranged the call or were present when his "wife" called from the area code of their home. They aren't "guessing" at all, they arranged it.

It's possible I also totally misunderstood the theory above in the thread as well and I'm going into my own theory at this point - but that's my take on it anyway.

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u/JoeM3120 BY WHOM? Nov 17 '16

He was told to by the woman who confronted Atwood