Very true that Jake is quite the fibber when it comes to his past. He definitely could be just saying that. You can't see anything on the cbs site? There's a clip on there that's supposed to be a sneak peek at Jake's past and he's at a job interview type thing for a private airline and he gives a similar story and also says that the reason he's flagged as a person of interest is that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He says he worked for a independent contractor, one of the big ones, and spent 2 years in the middle east with them, but he refuses to name the company.
It is definitely possible he's CIA or some very covert branch of the military (it's all almost like something out of a Dean Koontz novel or something). One thing I keep coming back to though is how he told his dad that he kept trying to prove him wrong but everywhere he went he seemed to prove him right. I think when he said in the beginning that he was a fuck up, he was right on the money. And speaking of money, I would think that if he's a government operative, he'd be making pretty decent money, so why does he need his inheritance so bad? What's it for?
And you're right that the series being set in 2009 does affect what's going on in the outside world b/c we don't know exactly what has happened to change it from the world we know.
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Date: 2006-12-04 08:27 pm (UTC)It is definitely possible he's CIA or some very covert branch of the military (it's all almost like something out of a Dean Koontz novel or something). One thing I keep coming back to though is how he told his dad that he kept trying to prove him wrong but everywhere he went he seemed to prove him right. I think when he said in the beginning that he was a fuck up, he was right on the money. And speaking of money, I would think that if he's a government operative, he'd be making pretty decent money, so why does he need his inheritance so bad? What's it for?
And you're right that the series being set in 2009 does affect what's going on in the outside world b/c we don't know exactly what has happened to change it from the world we know.