Funny / Rabbit Hole (2023)

• John refers to Madi's daughter as "Agent Eilish" in the first episode.
• The morning after John and Hailey's initial one-night stand is utterly hysterical, mainly because of Hailey's utterly bewildered reaction to John's assumption that she's a mole sent to spy on him by Agent Madi. (The reality is that she saw his photo on a dating app his team made him a profile on as a joke and really just wanted to have a hook-up.)
  Hailey: I'm not into any weird fantasy voyeur cosplay shit, or whatever the hell this whole thing is!
• Everything about Hailey, John, and Ben's first shared breakfast together. Special mention goes to Ben's repeated efforts to convince John that they'd be better off killing Hailey as to not threaten the plan if they were going by CIA rules directly in front of her, before proceeding to admit to both of them that he actually doesn't know what the CIA rules are now, given that he hasn't actually been involved in it since the 80s.
  Hailey: You said he wasn't going to do this again.
  • Ben and John's bickering over John's willingness to consume turkey bacon, which Ben claims is secretly part of a government conspiracy, and that even if it wasn't, it still tastes like salted pig asshole.
  • John and Ben's bickering over Ben's faked suicide. Six years and it's clear that John is very much not over it despite any claims to the contrary. And poor Hailey forced to bear witness to forty years' worth of pent-up family drama.
  John: You know what, next time you wanna fake your own suicide, don't fake it.
  Hailey: Wait, what?!
  Ben: You weren't supposed to know! How many more times am I supposed to say it? We agreed to leave this in the past and you keep bringing it up!
  John: [sarcastically] Fine, whatever.
  • And then Ben proves that John isn't the only one unable to let it go.
  Ben: It's not as if I beat you. I was there for you! I was there when you played the turkey in the play.
  John: Oh my God. That was kindergarden! A lot of stuff has happened since, oh yeah, you faking your fucking suicide!
  • And Hailey, saying what we're all thinking:
  Hailey: Oh God, no wonder you're so fucked up.
  John: What? I think I've done pretty well, given the circumstances.
• Hailey's attempts to get to know John better slowly morph into her giving him a step-by-step guide on how to make people at parties feel excruciatingly uncomfortable when they ask about your parents or childhood. The best part, John seems legitimately interested in the idea when she explains it to him, and tells her that he's willing to give it a shot the next time he's able.
  Hailey: You gotta make it awkward. I'm telling you, it's the best.
• Hailey wonders just how many "creepy secret hideouts" John needs.
  John: I don't know. A lot. I keep surfing these government auction sites. Can't help myself.
• Ben and John discover through the crappy walls of the safe house, Edward Homm can hear everything that they're saying as long as they're not mumbling. Later, they discuss whether or not to include Hailey on an upcoming mission and Ben asks what makes John think she would even want to be involved. "I am so in!" shouts Hailey from the other room.
  Ben: We need to find a better safe house.
• Poor Homm's denial and then horrific realization via watching his home's security cameras in an effort to see his wife again that not only does she not seem to be particularly fazed by his faked death, that she was almost certainly carrying on an affair with their neighbor beforehand, whom he angrily refers to as "Topknot Kevin."
  • Bonus points for the fact that he's stuck with Ben as the only person he has to talk with about this series of events, who is simultaneously the best and worst-equipped person for this kind of situation. Once Homm has no possible way of denying the situation any longer and begins to freak out about it, he immediately proceeds to book it out of the room as fast as humanly possible.
  Homm: N-no, wait, you can't go. Who am I going to talk to?
  Ben: [already out of the room entirely at this point] God?
• Hailey, frustrated at John's attempts to teach her the art of subterfuge, responds by deciding to only answer him in insults about his appearance and his failed marriage. Even John seems rather awed by this display of pettiness.
• Although it's a fairly serious moment in context, given that it comes in the middle of Hailey's first and extremely important covert op, her reveal that she stole cryptocurrency from one of her corrupt previous jobs prior to the series start, whose boss just so happens to be at the auction she's infiltrating, her reaction to having to tell John about this and John's incredulous reaction to hearing that Hailey of all people stole what wound up being over 26 million dollars in crypto from a guy she now has to avoid is utterly hysterical.
  John: Okay, Hailey, exactly how much more?
  Hailey: [taking a swig of extremely expensive whiskey] 26 million dollars as of Friday.
  John: What the fuck?
• John's Blatant Lies reassurance towards Homm that the guy he just hit in the head with a fire extinguisher that just fell down half a flight of stairs is completely fine, while consistently glancing back towards the guy's lifeless body on the steps whenever Homm's not looking.
• The Brick Joke of the extremely expensive and rare bottle of whiskey up for auction at Elliot Gao's party, which is so fancy that it needs its own security system to even be at the party? The final shot of the episode shows Hailey, having stolen it when John shut off power to the entire building and therefore the whiskey's security system, beginning to down it when John announces that they're going to need to revise their plan.
  • And by the next episode, Ben's stolen it from Hailey, clearly having gotten through a decent portion of the bottle before anyone else notices.
  • Homm's review of the whiskey (which wound up being chipped and led to just about every escape attempt they had to make throughout the episode)? That it was worth the gunshot wound to the arm he got on their first escape attempt just to get to drink it.
  Homm: Monsterously epic shit.
• John's Percussive Shutdown method of eliminating his burner electronics before either the FBI or Crowley have any opportunity to track him through it. One begins to get the impression that it's become less of a safety precaution and more of an impromptu anger management method, given the force with which he does it.