Line #1 Fridge/GeminiMan


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2	!!FridgeLogic:
3	* Since his diving accident, Casey's natural state is being invisible. Okey-doke. Since he can only stay invisible for fifteen minutes a day or he'll disintegrate, they've given him a DNA stabilizer so he can stay visible. Fair enough. ''How did he stay alive long enough for them to get out of the sea and into a lab, diagnose the problem, and invent a solution?''
4	** And his invisibility is kinda haphazard too. Hospital gown and bandages? Visible. Normal clothes and DNA stabilizer? Invisible. Gun held in hand? Visible...
5	** It might be that whatever he's touching at the time he turns invisible turns invisible, but things he comes into contact with later (like the bandages) don't...
6	* And if tripolodine is such a powerful explosive, why not market it as, say, ''an explosive''? Instead of using it as a prop in an ill-planned fuel-additive scam?
7	** That one's easy; Dr. Hale is stupid. Why else come up with a ridiculously circuitous plan to... wait, what was his plan again?
8	** Dr. Hale's plan was to say that he had invented a new fuel additive, embezzle the 10 million used to finance the project, and then fake his death. Everyone will assume that a big oil cartel killed him because he was going to make them obsolete. Which is why he staged the thugs attacking him in the parking lot.
9	** They make a big deal about how tripolodine is unstable and [[InformedAttribute incredibly powerful]]. Maybe Hale decided to bail once he realized he could steal the $10 million from the original project instead of spending more time experimenting, assuming the project wasn't taken over by the military.
10	* Not to mention, what was the point of Denby's evil plan to blow up a random jet some... where for some... reason? And then to blow up his own expensive race car? They didn't even bother to attempt to make-up a motive for this guy. The whole investigation into how he did it kind of glosses over ''why'' he did it.
11	** He's a freelance industrial saboteur. He's getting paid by someone who for whatever reason wants the jet and the car blown up. Denby can do it because he came up with a way to send a signal to a chemical and cause it to explode remotely with no trace. Either that, or the jet and race car were just testing to see whether he could do it or not. Being able to blow up something remotely is incredibly usable.
12	** Well, the jet was presumably the test; there still seems no motive for blowing up the car -- at least, not until Driscoll shows up, but the "blow up the car" plan was already underway before that.
13	* How exactly did Dr. Hale pass off his tripolydine scam as a fuel additive if it didn't actually work? The tests were all done at Intersect, so surely someone there would have noticed it wasn't getting the mileage Dr. Hale was claiming. It seems like a pretty simple audit would have undone this scheme.
14	** Who said it didn't work? The fraud was in the undisclosed fact that tripolydine breaks down into an explosive within three hours (and that Intersect had spent $10M more on the project than was needed); there's nothing to indicate that in the meantime, it didn't do exactly as advertised.
15	** And what incredible confluence of events kept the tripolydine mixture from sitting in the tank of any of the test vehicles or rigs for more than three hours? Imagine some hapless test driver who got the test started late, accidentally hitting a bump after three and a half hours....
16	*** The test vehicles had their tanks filled just enough for the test and any remaining fuel was drained right after to prevent theft.
17	* How did Karl (the brakeline-cutting station attendant) fit into the Tripolydine scheme? Dr. Hale had instructed Casey to "step on it" before he stopped at the station for a seemingly pointless look at the shock absorbers; was Hale enough of an evil mastermind to predict Casey's stop and have a henchman in place, or was Karl just some random psychopath who saw an opportunity to cause an accident?
18	** Presumably a henchman, since there were the two goons from the parking lot.
19	* How could Dr. Hale possibly have maintained that whole "CB from a chopper pretending I'm still in the truck" charade? Helicopter engines and rotors are '''not''' quiet; the sound of them would surely have bled into the transmission for Casey to hear. (That's even forgiving the standard Hollywood convention that a chopper pilot has to talk '''much louder''' into his radio in real life than what you hear on TV, for that same exact reason.)
20	** Most likely the writers didn't know. If they did, it could be played off as background noise from the "lab equipment" that was picked up during the trip.
21	* Instead of just escaping to Switzerland with the money, Stark insists on landing the helicopter and inspecting the smoldering ruins of the truck to make sure Sam was killed -- but he thought Sam died in an explosion so powerful it would have scattered him into ''atoms''. What evidence was he expecting to find? And doesn't this mean the villains' plot was foiled by a completely unforced error the heroes had no control over?
22	** VillainousBreakdown most likely.

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