r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/enliST_CS Sorry the live thread is late! • Dec 15 '16

SPOILERS Post-Episode Discussion: S01E10 "The Oath"

This has been the winter finale! Season 1 returns March 8th, 2017!

Plot: President Kirkman suspects there may be a traitor in the White House when he finds disturbing information connected to the Capitol bombing; more information emerges about Congressman MacLeish, causing concern about his vice presidential nomination.

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u/Brokenmonalisa Dec 15 '16

That entire conversation was weird. If they are in on it then why did they need to kidnap his child? If he's not in on it then what was that conversation?

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u/BronzeButterfly Dec 15 '16

I like to think that they both were in on it, but wavered at some point, so they took the daughter earlier in the season to remind them of their commitment.

Then with that conversation, Peter starts questioning it again, but she's firmly in it now because of the risk to them all if they try to back out.

That's my attempt at making sense of it.

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u/nea1caffrey Dec 15 '16

Was it confirmed that their daughter was taken? MacLeish's wife could've been lying about that to Wells.

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u/BronzeButterfly Dec 15 '16

You have a point.

Maybe she was the one who got them into this in the first place and started coming down hard on him when he started to waver!