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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5382653" data-attributes="member: 8863">That's because he is one himself.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />I liked her "Get it done" moment in this episode.  She finally managed to do something useful and not look weak and incompetant.I was kind of expecting that her partner was going to break up with her, with the sullen way she was behaving this episode, but it didn't happen.  Maybe it's just the glacial pacing of the show (note to producers: drama in real time isn't exciting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) My guess is that he didn't.  He's such a bastard, and I don't mean in the admirable way, no he's a rotten, dirty, no-good rat bastard.  Brody and Park are getting suspicious of his actions.  So when they mention their suspicions to Young, Rush deflects and passes the blame to Chloe.  Then he takes Chloe aside too see if the alien influences can help him with his equations.  When she solves a problem he's been stuck on, he takes it right to Young, who locks poor Chloe up.  Then he comes up with that chair scheme of his to cover more of his tracks.  He figures it'll work because Chloe likes to clam up when something bad happens to her.  I was wondering if he came up with that plan because he was either jealous that she was able to solve a problem he couldn't (shades of Daedalus here on his part), or if he thought maybe he could somehow isolate the alien stuff happening to her and use it for his own end.I wonder is he has any fans left at all.  How could anyone like him after all his manipulations?I think it's his mind, with Franklin representing his intellect and his wife his conscience.  Especially with his wife, she keeps telling him he can't keep his crap up.  He's going to slip and get careless.  I don't think his ploy with Chloe is going to buy him as much time as he thinks.  And even if he managed to lessen Brody's suspicions with the whole chair stunt, he's going to need to be more careful than he was before.  Brody seems like he's getting irritated with Rush's actions, and he might even discover that Rush has gained control over the ship and is hiding it.  I don't think anyone on the crew is going to be happy with Rush when that little detail comes out.</blockquote>

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