CATWS Minutes 56-60 • The Marvel Disguise
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The episode discusses espionage and character dynamics in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, featuring a cameo by DC Pierson.
Two of America's most wanted fugitives walk into an Apple Store, plug a stolen flash drive into a display MacBook, and run a SHIELD trace program from the showroom floor while a microdosed Genius Bar employee named Aaron — played by Derrick Comedy's DC Pierson, the latest Russo-era Community cameo — gently asks if they're going to ski school. We have some questions about Apple's threat model.What follows is five tightly engineered minutes of espionage, unresolved sexual tension, and the universe's most reliable counter-surveillance technique: pretending to be a couple openly making out on a public escalator, which Brock Rumlow's strike team apparently was not trained for. Then it's into a politely borrowed pickup truck, a quietly devastating "Who do you want me to be?" / "A friend" exchange at sixty miles per hour, and a defunct New Jersey training camp where the SHIELD logo turns out to be etched into a basement wall like a 1945 cry for help. Plus: a vigorous debate about who Natasha Romanoff should actually be dating in the MCU. Matthew is Team Bruce. Kyle is — scandalously — Team Bucky. Pete, having now seen Linda Cardellini in Dead to Me, is back on Team Hawkeye. There is no…
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