McMafia episode 4

[shallowness]

Alex took the ‘information’ to Kleiman and then an Indian gang of thugs tried to make something of it. This episode was really good about the use of technology to facilitate crime. I rather liked the fact that when the Indian hacker got into the port’s systems, these dropdown menus and confirmation boxes appeared. It wasn’t just the hacking, though, but the weather app and so on. I was less excited about the dynamic between the head of the thugs and the family guy geek. I suppose they were trying to contrast it with Alex’s relationship with his hacker, but I was mainly trying to figure out if I’d forgotten Alex sacking him in the first place there.

Meanwhile Rebecca (still not wearing a ring?) and Alex’s friend/compliance officer got suspicious. I mean, he convinced the former and she’d convinced the latter FOR NOW, but Kleiman did let him know that another person had got killed. And Kleiman sailed too close to the wind by deconstructing what the drug dealer had done with Alex.

As for the recurring motif of daughters, Katya’s very understanding boyfriend should dump her, as she’s so high-maintenance, although I suspect she’s worked out things are awry between her parents and it’s her father’s fault. Actually, that little scene was a bit mangled in the edit. It turned out the new kingpin in Prague had a daughter, because of course he did, and for the first time, we saw that Vedic’s BFF was in the FSB and using their resources. (Chances that Vedic’s all too innocent daughter will get caught up? Although it seems like they’re higher, she might walk away all-unknowing – depends on whether her father takes her back to Prague. Of course, the show could end with her going down the same path as Alex. Sorry for the sidebar about a character who didn’t appear in this episode, but she looks a bit like Emilie de Ravin).

We only had one scene of the parentals’ marital drama, but it featured him literally being on his knees and the line ‘you spat on my soul’ and I was all ‘RUSSIAN DRAMA’ and amused.

There was something that I liked that was an echo of a previous episode – hmm, possibly the irony of cross-border co-operation between Pakistan and Iran for trafficking (drugs in this instance), as there’d been between Egypt and Israel (people).

Or it could have been the first suit Alex was wearing.

But then the ending made me go ‘how conveeeeeenient’ that Chopra’s replacement got led to his body.