The bike people don't even think of this as charity or specifically doing something nice for him. They are just rectifying a weird situation (Cool People have bicycles, Dyson is a Cool Person, but he doesn't have a bike? does not compute) with what it just now occurred to them that they happen to have lying around.

Damn you people for making me care so much about people who don't exist. *sniff*

OK, analysis:

The takeaway message from last ep and this one: repetition is going to become a problem for the FBI sooner rather than later.  Gamma incidents are happening in the same places frequently and conspicuously enough that people are taking notice, to various effect.  Celentano's going to have to push a little harder with Justice and the Congressional oversight groups for increased visibility.

And speaking of oversight: Reyes did what now?  I really hope we're not going to end up with a pair of ancillary domestic sitcoms attached to the main SU plotline. =)  OK, so Esther takes over leadership of the team.  Brady is the next ranking agent, and the only other SSA, so he's second in command - unless Celentano sends Pauley Down the Hall to keep an eye on things.  Speaking of SSAs, I think Nikki's about due for a promotion.  And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed that the WTF contingent of Active Agents Allowed to Have a Weapon in the Field is, with Reyes' retirement, down to four: Esther, Brady, Nikki, Chaz.  There's gonna have to be *some* new blood, budget cuts or no.  Bets that Tan gets a transfer?  Padma's not gonna like that *at all*.  (Alternately, you could roll the WTF back into the main BAU and make this part of their essential mission.  Raise your hand if you want to go into the field against a gamma with Murchison watching your back....)

Indeed!

I can just imagine the conversations those two have:

"So how was work today, honey?"

"Uh, it was ... well, I spent a lot of time watching a video, uh, not a very nice video. Also there was paperwork which was uh. Hm. Well, there was a lot of it. And how was your day?"

"I ... also ... did ... lots ... of paperwork. Because um. Unless there was something about it on the news already which there should not have been, we're having a problem with people from Country Name Redacted not doing what they said they would do. So we're trying to sort that out."

"Damn those recalcitrant foreigners."

"Indeed. And people who still want things in quintuplicate on carbon paper."

"Yeah, damn them too. Wait, no, damn them first. Recalcitrant foreigners might have some kind of valid justification."





....I think enough of us here have worked for a federal agency to have encountered the quintuplicate carbon paper form, but in case you haven't: I didn't make that up.

"You think his son is robbing his banks?”

"I think we need to find out."

*

... And now for something completely different. I know the details take it a wee bit off the SUverse map, but the feel of the encounter in this video is all too buggy for me not to post it here. So, for your delight and delectation, First of the Year (Equinox), by Skrillex.

I've been thinking about this, and I'm thinking this wouldn't be Chaz's next hobby.  I think the common factor between climbing and BASE jumping is that fundamentally it's you, gravity and the mountain (or building, etc).  Nothing's mediating the experience, as it were.  And there's nothing or no-one else you can blame if it goes wrong.  Okay, BASE jumping has the parachute, but you pack your chute in a more direct way than you build your bike.  So succeed or fail, it's all on you.

...I gotta remember to use this power only for good.

(Or money. If anyone wants me to summon el_jefe, just transfer fifty bucks into the PayPal account for...  )

Stu.  That thing we don't believe in?

I believe in Stu.

Where's eljefe? I expect him to pop in any minute to say, "Hey, cool!"