Intelligence: Home Base + Primer

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This is the homebase post for discussions of Intelligence! (The 2014 US version; not the older Canadian show by the same name.)

Discussion Threads

1.01 Pilot
1.02 Red X
1.03 Mei Chen Returns
1.04 Secrets of the Secret Service
1.05 The Rescue
1.06 Patient Zero
1.07 Size Matters
1.08 Delta Force
1.09 Athens
1.10 Cain and Gabriel
1.11 The Grey Hat
1.12 The Event Horizon
1.13 Being Human

If anyone's looking for caps for icon purposes, you can find some here.


Also, a primer for anyone who missed the show when it aired.

Introduction to Intelligence

What happens when you take a man and stuff a computer chip in his head? Besides a lot of cool special effects?

The Premise

Intelligence is about Gabriel Vaughn (Josh Holloway), a former Delta Force operator with a particular genetic quirk that allows scientists to implant a computer chip in his head that gives him mental access to the information grid. They then assign Secret Service agent Riley Neal (Meghan Ory) to protect him and keep him in line. The former she's happy to do; the latter...not so much.

The Characters

Gabriel Vaughn. Highly-decorated soldier turned human computer. Courageous. Skilled. Occasionally reckless. And desperately searching for his CIA agent wife, who vanished seven years earlier while undercover in Mumbai.



Riley Neal. Secret Service agent. The youngest women ever assigned to Presidential detail, and the only one who made it through the vetting process to be considered as Gabriel's protector.



Lillian Strand (Marg Helgenberger). The director of US Cyber Command, with deep roots in the intelligence community.



Dr. Shenendoah Cassidy (John Billingsley), the neuroscientist who created the chip, and his son, Nelson Cassidy (P.J. Byrne), who also works as a scientist on the project.



Amos Pembroke (Eldon Henson). Yet another technician working on Clockwork.



Chris Jameson (Michael Rady). Cyber Command all-purpose extra body, good with a gun or a computer.

Comments

1.10 Cain and Gabriel

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Lots of Lillian this week, including an introduction to her artist-daughter and mention of the daughter's father, whom Lillian does not appear to talk to.

Also, our local scientists are uncomfortably interested in how Gabriel's feeling. Apparently they think he's feeling more than he's admitting to. And a quick hint of what Riley's life looked like post-shooting. It seemed to involve some pretty profound estrangement.

Re: 1.10 Cain and Gabriel

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So much sympathy for Gabriel in that first scene. I wouldn't want people poking around in my head like that either. Although it might also be because I find Nelson a touch creepy.

Lots of personal info about Lillian, which was awesome. Hmm...I wonder how Rebecca feels about her grandfather?

I loved that we got Lillian talking individually with both Riley and Gabriel, with each of them telling her the same thing.

Only three episodes to go! Will we get a Cassidy episode next?