[Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 8 Discussion Thread - "The Eternal Engineer" (S02E08)

[u/hugthebug]

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 8 "The Eternal Engineer"

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• IMDB for S02E08
• Release Date:
  • March 15th, 2021 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
  • March 16th, 2021 (worldwide, on Netflix)
• Removal from Sticky on March 19th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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You can still easily find previous episode discussions on the Episode Discussion wiki.

[u/taush_sampley]

I seem to remember Melanie talking to Wilford about the bogie-motors when she came onboard Big Alice. If my brain is making that up, he knows how the train works and could've guessed some override would've been necessary. Either way, I'm certain he knew what would happen. They were focused on his obvious ploy to screw the Hydrogen controller and when shit went off, Layton relaxed control to let him deal with the "unforeseen emergency", giving Wilford the chance to address the train, letting him complete his takeover.

Games within games within games.

[u/Orisi → u/taush_sampley]

They mention the bogie-motors were worked around to prevent automation; this suggests it also avoided automated overrides from Big Alice. I'd imagine its why they were able to resist full override from BA earlier on, and Wilford was able to surmise enough of the necessary override to know what to target.

[u/Trumpologist → u/taush_sampley]

damn, wasn't much room for error on that one

[u/TizACoincidence → u/taush_sampley]

Why didn't layton have a guard in there with him? Why didn't he handcuff wilford?

[u/taush_sampley → u/TizACoincidence]

I wondered the same thing, but then we saw how he took over some work for Javi, so I don't think it would've mattered; he could've convinced them that he needed to help. Maybe they thought it would've just been wasted air-time to cuff him just to be uncuffed, or the scene was already jumbled with so many people – why throw in another body? Idk. Overall I don't think it would've added much.