Ah, the mystery deepens. Things are getting freaky in the city of Amnesia, and every new episode just raises more questions. Or specific to this episode, our protagonist. It didn't really occur to me until now, but we don't know much about Roger do we? We know he quit the police a while ago and became a Negotiator, but he's still an enigma for the most part. There's more I want to talk about, but I'll come back to Roger's secret past.
I'm still fuzzy on what a negotiator is. Before I thought it was an illegal profession in some way, but if so why is Paradigm Group hiring Roger? According to him, they basically own and run the city, so I don't see why they'd need some criminal to do work for them. I was wrong about that then, hopefully this gets clarified. Anyway, Roger goes to Paradigm HQ for a new job. There's this really cool subway-car elevator thing there I love the design of, it's strange but fits into the setting perfectly. While there, Roger runs into Angel again.
I knew she'd be back. She's working for them under another fake name but doesn't do much this episode. Mostly be a secretive spy babe and flirt with Roger. The Group has hired Roger to go find a missing reporter who used to work for them. Apparently, he's written a manuscript that could cause them trouble. You know, Roger says he would never take a job from the Group, but this is the second time he's done it. Some consistency Negotiator?
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One of the themes running through this episode is Roger's lack of introspection. Both Dorothy and Dastun (the police captain) bring this up to him, but he kind of brushes them off. But Schwarzwald, the episode's villain confronts him with it too. I like this, the show acknowledges that we only have a surface understanding of Roger by this point and makes it the point of the episode to dig into him more. This leads Roger into going down into the subways to investigate and he has... a panic attack? I'm not sure. See the deeper he goes under the city, the newer the walls become and he eventually reaches a point where ghosts, or hallucinations appear. This leads Roger to be overwhelmed with fear and faint where he dreams of his mother. And from the way he recognizes her, something bad happened to her.
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