Spider's Web
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kashifatif-1 — 18 years ago(May 02, 2007 09:59 AM)
I am having difficulty understand uing what you mean. When you say: "He simply didn't took the file and let it at its place", are you saying that he did not take the file and left it at its place (the filing cabinet?). Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
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dhman — 18 years ago(June 21, 2007 04:42 PM)
The file was trapped. It had all the information he wanted to know about himself that they had. So they were sure that he would risk opening the file so they trapped it with the gas.
He finaly resisted and did not get the file so they got it. He just left. In the next episode he comes very close to reading his file again but to no luck. -
Rex_Tex — 18 years ago(August 06, 2007 05:36 AM)
yeahthat episode didn't make much sense. How did this writer know all the stuff he was writing???
And why would the end that they wanted be the death of Tom Veil? If they simply killed Tom, then they wouldn't get the negativesright? -
cp73 — 18 years ago(August 07, 2007 11:43 AM)
THE SPIDER WEBB happens to be one of my favourite episodes.
The theme behind this one is the phrase that keeps popping up:
"Once a man becomes desperate enough, he becomes predictable"
The idea is to convince Tom that his quest is hopeless because "They" can predict his every move.
At the very end, Tom has the whereabouts of his file and knows about the gas that will make him helpless. He goes so far as to enter the file room but DOESN'T take the file because he knows that's it's booby-trapped.
When Webb and the other guy burst in, they are puzzled to find it empty. They instinctively check the file drawer and are caught in their own trap.
Tom's note tells us that THEY are the ones who have become predictable in their desperation to trap him.
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jonmichaelspangler — 17 years ago(November 08, 2008 06:23 PM)
I have NO answer to this except to say I am REAL surpised someone else is looking on this board and posting right now 13 years after the show ended.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own"-Adam Savage -
jclinard-344-344673 — 13 years ago(April 15, 2012 01:08 AM)
The Spider's Webb is one of my favorite episodes as well.
The only way to reconcile the episode with the rest of the series is to view it as an early test of whether the experiment should be continued or let to run out the course. If Veil is totally predictable then there isn't really a point to letting it run out. He'll fall into all of their traps.
Another way to look at it is if Webb is battling for position in the organization and attempting to discredit the people behind the Veil experiment. He "wins" if his point of view is shown to be correct.
Ironically, Webb was the one that tipped the scale too hard. He rubbed his smugness in Veil's face. Webb was sure Veil would want the file so desperately he'd risk the trap. Veil decided Webb, being sure Veil would take the risk because the bait was so good, took every step until the last one, which he declined in favor of leaving the post-it note for Webb.
I don't think Veil meant for the gas to kill Webb and his goons, only to get the message on the post it showing he wasn't going to be predictable anymore. Webb was in such a rush to check the file he set off the trap himself. -
foxboro27 — 9 years ago(April 29, 2016 12:37 AM)
I was confused about the bearded man in the limo. He pulls out a syringe during an altercation with Veil and and stabs himself with it saying "its not for you". This apparently kills him, but he's seen alive later in the episode. Was is just a drug to knock him out? If so, I see no possible reason why someone would purposely make himself unconscious during a fight.