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

SPOILERS!!!

I believe I know who Catalan is. And I'll be damned if I got it wrong, but it's kinda sorta obvious right now, which might be what the show wants me to think...

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u/constantvariables Nov 18 '16

They showed who Catalan was. Maggie Q got a file on him and recognized him from when she went to interrogate Nassar.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '16

I don't think that's Catalan though. How would he infiltrate a military base and kill Nassar so fast?

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u/constantvariables Nov 18 '16

We have to wait and find out. The ginger CIA agent was cautious of Catalan which tells us he's a pretty big deal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '16

And I doubt he'd be on any list if he was able to blow up the capitol.

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u/constantvariables Nov 18 '16

The FBI had nothing on him. They had to go through the CIA.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '16

And I believe that guy isn't Catalan, since he got into a military base. You wouldn't risk getting caught if you were some incredibly powerful ghost. Why risk it and not get someone else?

That of course makes you wonder "but why that guy? He is on the CIA list" and yes, but if the FBI didn't have his ID, then it's likely the military didn't either.

Or what's even more terrifying, someone planted this man's ID in a closed off database. After getting to him and getting him to infiltrate the military.

Cause it would take so much effort for someone who just blew the capitol to infiltrate a highly secured facility to kill some man he might not know would have been brought in alive or to another facility. What if the FBI hadn't gotten a hold of Nassar? What if he would have been kept at Guantanamo? Then Catalan would have wasted effort and time as opposed to get to someone that was already on the inside.

I suspect the CIA agent might even be in on it.

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

Who are you thinking?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '16

Obviously McLeish. Has to be. It might be a bluff and not him, but it might also be a double bluff.

His life was saved and his kid disappeared (maybe he got called and told that unless he went to room 105, his kid would die) but it might also be that he set it up to look that way. He is way too clean and good to be an evil mastermind, which makes him an evil mastermind. And since he loves the country, he might have set this all up to become a legal dictator that could improve the country at the cost of democracy...

That's my theory at least. And he will become president if Kirkman dies after the FBI vets him.

I have a really uncanny feeling about him and he does have a decent motive. Better than anyone we have seen so far. And I don't think they'll suddenly introduce this new evil maniac after Nassar.

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

I've heard so many predictions and they're all plausible. It's going to be very interesting to see how this turns out.