《致命旅行》的影评10篇
《致命旅行》是一部由David Nutter执导，Logan Marshall-Green (Taylor Fog) / Matthew Bomer 主演的一部冒险类型的电影，特精心从网络上整理的一些观众的影评，希望对大家能有帮助。
《致命旅行》影评(一)：不看此剧的两个理由：画质渣，剧被砍。
只看了第一集，感觉故事的背景设定还是可以的。
就是好多地方让紧迫感推着剧的前进这就不好了。
最不爽的地方我举个例子：
第一集（我只看了第一集）里刚到酒店的那个服务生，
表面很贪财的样子，
其实后来劫车杀人啥都干得出来。
当男一问他，是谁？为了谁？的时候，
回答，赶紧走吧。
又问，
赶紧！
然后，二人走了。
怎么？
来日方长？
你将来的人生理想是大律师这就放弃自己人生了？
至于其他的本该严谨而合理的剧情就不要想了，
电视剧嘛，进度和走向还是编剧说了算。
以下情节来自某猫网剧情简介，
不喜欢看剧情的同学请绕行。
第5集
看到威尔被人劫持上车，杰和泰勒跟曾经救过他们的黑人一起开车追了上去，可是对方利用两辆车骗过他们，带走了威尔。杰等人继续追踪跟踪器上的消息，却发觉威尔身上的发信器已经被人取下来了。杰和泰勒这才发觉，黑人救他们只是为了追踪到威尔而已。 此时，警方在验尸时找到了新线索，根据面部复原，马洛警官得知在爆炸中死去的人根本不是威尔，而这个威尔究竟是何方神圣又成了她调查的目标，但是FBI的上司却把注意力完全放在了杰和泰勒身上。 而威尔醒来时，一个叫凯特的女人前来照顾他，他们都在为组织效力。组织的原计划是让杰和泰勒在爆炸中死去，可是威尔却故意放跑了他们。争论过后，凯特把威尔绑了起来，因为让他拿的画丢了一幅。凯特利用威尔的女友威胁他，他才说出了画的下落。可是女友最终还是被杀了，威尔一怒之下杀掉凯特，逃出了组织。 杰和泰勒找到了一个旅行团的老人家，问出了威尔那把钥匙的来历。随后他们来到了最古老的一个图书馆，威尔的钥匙能打开其中一个资料柜。泰勒在那里找到了证明威尔存在的东西，他有很多个身份，另外还有手枪。 经过调查，杰和泰勒发现为威尔出资的公司根本不存在，而唯一的线索就在纽约，他们不得不再次回到最危险的地方。
第6集
杰和泰勒回到了纽约，他们要查明三洋投资的底细，调查他们为什么要资助威尔。他们刚到纽约，就有人向警方报案，说他们曾经在波士顿出现过。警官马洛立刻前往波士顿，找到了有关两个人开车出行的线索。 此时，从组织逃出来的威尔马上回到了他和女友曾经的家，但是他发觉让女友收藏的钥匙已经不见了。不久就有人追踪而来，不过威尔轻松制伏了对方。随后他也来到了图书馆，可是存放在那里的东西早就被杰他们拿走了。这次威尔被监视器记录下来，警方锁定了他的身份。 根据公司地址，杰和泰勒找到了三洋投资的办公室。可是他们还没来得及看清那些被毁坏的证据，就有人杀进了办公室，两人只好夺路而逃。当晚，泰勒提议去找人帮忙，调查一下保险记录。他们发现，泰勒的父亲早就知道要发生爆炸，杰认为这一切是个圈套，但是泰勒不相信父亲会故意伤害他。 因为这件事，泰勒和杰闹翻了，泰勒独自回家去找自己的父亲。泰勒质问父亲是不是早就知道一切，早就设计了陷阱让他跳进去，当父亲看到他手中的证据时，他再也没法狡辩了。为了脱身，他连儿子都可以舍弃。 杰跟泰勒分开后，再也没有其他可以依赖的人，他只能到金的公寓附近去等她。此时威尔买了很多武器，希望能为女友报仇。
第7集
泰勒不相信父亲会对自己痛下杀手，他不顾杰的劝阻跟杰分道扬镳，可是他刚准备出去调查情况，马上就被警方盯上了，好不容易才摆脱了警察的追捕。警方查到杰和泰勒回到纽约了，他们希望金能提供杰的消息。当晚杰和金见了面，金已经快要不能接受眼前的现实，她无法承受这样的压力。杰跟女友说起威尔和泰勒的事，他们找到一段录音，能证明爆炸与他们无关。 威尔抓了组织里的成员，问了一些有关女友玛雅的问题，他下定决心要找到杀死女友的凶手。威尔从女友的照片上找到了一些凶手的资料。他看到凶手的肩膀上有纹身，于是按照这线索打听出了那个纹身的作者。 这天半夜，威尔找到了那个杀手，他告诉威尔自己服从弗利德的命令，威尔一怒之下杀了这个男人。此时，泰勒来到了一个刚相识的酒吧女郎家里。他在互联网上查到父亲跟安全局的大人物弗利德有关联，无法跟杰联络的他只能打电话给金，告诉她这起案件涉及到很多人。 杰把马洛警官约到舞厅见面，想把爆炸时的证据交给她，但是马洛却想捉拿杰归案。情急之下，杰逃出舞厅，可是最终还是被马洛追上了，杰不得不做好了束手就擒的准备。想不到这时候泰勒挟持一名警察出现在他们面前，身后还有一个人，正是失踪已久的威尔。
第8集
杰和泰勒跟马洛警官对峙的时候，威尔及时赶到，虽然他们不再相信这个人，不过情况紧急他们不得不跟威尔一起离开了。马洛的上司非常不满她的做法，但她还是不愿放弃这个案件，她认为这背后一定有隐情。 虽然杰和泰勒知道威尔的一切都是假的，但是为了了结此事，他们只有跟着威尔继续走。在路上，威尔提起弗利德，他说整个计划就是因他而起，而且在爆炸中威尔的确救了杰和泰勒一命，他没有按照命令直接杀死两个朋友。 杰费尽力气才从被警方拖走的车子上找回了威尔留下的重要筹码，威尔想利用它做交易直接杀死弗利德，但是杰和泰勒都劝他不要这么冲动。 马洛警官找到一个重要相关人约瑟夫·兰登，本想调查一下有关爆炸的问题，可是兰登还没说出指使人的名字就中枪身亡了。很快，警方又拘捕了泰勒的父亲，不过途中却被人狙击。虽然马洛的搭档鲍里斯追上了凶手，可是他却被随后赶到的上司射杀。 威尔打电话直接联络上弗利德，跟他谈好了交易的地点。弗利德又想耍花招，不过威尔先下手为强将他挟持。根据威尔的计策，他们把弗利德讲的话录下来，还绑架了弗利德。三个人把弗利德留在车子里，希望这个爆炸的幕后主使人能被曝光，可是车子却在他们离开后突然爆炸。
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该剧总共8集就被砍了。
不难看出，这剧在下一盘很大的棋，
至于在深挖过程中的各种阻碍和现实的逼迫，
在原本设定好的第一季结尾，
按照套路，至少要有个明确的阐述。
是谁，为了啥，干了这么档子事儿。
因该剧年代相对较远，
找不到好资源还是不要尝试了。
毕竟，严谨度不够。
《致命旅行》影评(二)：一切是为了“第四权”
上午10点过开始，到下午4点，一口气看完了8集。
中间阴谋、逃亡、释疑过程还算流畅，所以一口气看了下来。
杰的女友挺漂亮。
第8集，被抓后的弗雷德口中吐出一个词汇：第四权，字幕括号加注“指的是对美国立法、司法、行政有影响的媒体利益集团。”很容易让人联想到《越狱》中的“公司”组织。当然，还有《绝对界限/Rubicon》中的组织。
片子有趣在于拿几个耶鲁法律专业的研究生做文章。黑暗处在于，竟有父亲牺牲儿子性命参与阴谋。
至于卧底，女友被杀后，变成了复仇天使。
被砍，着实可惜了。
第四权又名第四权力，是指：在「行政权、立法权、司法权」之外的第四种政治权力。事实上，即便是欧美先进国家，也没有具体的宪法、法律、规令来解释、设立第四权，第四权是约定成俗、自然而然形成的，第四权所指的即是媒体、公众视听。以美国来说，美国最高的行政权代表为总统，最高立法权为国会（由参议员、众议员所组成，包括参议院、众议院），最高司法权为最高法院。三权分立、三权相互制衡，不过在第四权（媒体）出现后，制衡的力量又多了一个，可防止前三者的滥权与偏误发生。举例而言，1980年代时，美国总统Ronald Reagan的夫人：Nancy Reagan希望将白宫官邸内的卧房床铺换成好莱坞（Hollywood，也称：荷里活）式的奢华大床，此事被得知后，经由媒体的广大报导，引起美国人民的普遍愤慨，认为一国之首不当有铺张浪费的生活示范，由于公愤形成，迫使南茜打消此念，此即是第四权发挥制衡效用的一例。
美国联邦最高法院大法官P.斯特瓦特认为，将新闻自由解释成言论自由就会丧失其意义。在今天，新闻自由已不是言论自由的附属品，而是思想自由、言论自由的基础。言论自由保护的是个人基本权利， 而新闻自由则更多从一个制度性权利的方面反映出来。“新闻自由作为一种制度理论，其目的就是通过保护新闻自由，达到使新闻媒伴发挥监督政府的功能。” 帕克在《法国革命论》中就说“舆论的作用是与滥用权力的人数呈反比的。为能使政府权力不至腐化，从霍布斯、洛克一直到盂德鸠，西方政治制度思想中逐步形成并完善了三权分立，主权在民的理论建构， 并同时得以在各国建立、实施。三权分立的精髓在于防止各政府机构权力的滥用，体现出相互制衡的原则。它所依靠的足政府机构之问的权利制衡机制，但事情往往并不这样简单。正如杰弗逊所说，再好的政治体制也不能保证出现权力的腐败，人民才是统治者唯一的监督者；政府组织庞大、严密，而人民则处于弱小、分散的地位，这便需要一个代表人民公意，起到监督政府作用的机构： 新闻媒体。
1974年11月，斯特瓦特在演讲中，根据新闻媒体在现代社会的重要作用，从法学角度提出了“第四权力”理论。他认为，宪法之所以保障新闻自由，其目的就是保障一个有组织的新闻媒体，使其能够成为除政府三权之外的第四权力，以监督政府，防止政府滥用权力，发挥制度功能。他是这样解释新闻自由条款的：“宪法保障新闻自由的最初目的是要在政府之外建立第四部门，以监督官方的三个部门。”第四权力理论强调新闻规定的言论自由。它不同于在新闻媒体工作的每个个人所享受到的宪法规定的言论自由。这是因为新闻媒体运作的复杂性，使得它报容易受到政府的操纵及压力，从而伤害其自主性。根据上述理由，第四权力理论指出，“宪法保障新闻自由的目的是为了维持媒体的自主性，使媒体能够提供不受政府控制或影响的信息、舆论和娱乐节目，促进人们关心政府的工作，对公共事务进行讨论，以发挥监督政府的功能。”
第四权力理论以其侧重点不同，它所构筑的新闻自由观有与以往新闻自由观不同的特点： 第一，新闻自由是一项制度性权利。即它与宪法中保护的作为个人基本权利的言论自由不同，是保护民主社会的一项基本制度。第二，新闻自由的权利主体是新闻媒体。言论自由是任何人都可以享有言论自由来监督政府，但新闻自由必须是新闻媒体才可以享有。新闻自由保障一些特殊的权利，使得新闻媒体可以更有效地发挥监督政府的责任。第三，保障新闻自由的目的不是为了媒体自身的利益，而是为了制衡政府的权力，保障人民的民主权利。这就需要一些言论自由未能提供的保障。
从自然人的言论自由经过爱默生的过渡到第四权力理论，三者的发展密切地和当时的社会联系在一起，秉承着思想上的演进关系，在逻辑内治的基础上反映了传媒技术与社会经济结构的进步。同时，新闻自由与表达自由，以及言论自由和出版自由的意义在精神上已经形成一体，无非将一种思想扩散于外，且对他人发生影响，则其来源都起于个人思想自由的权利，而演化为集体的表达自由。 从天赋人权性质的思想自由市场到制度性的第四权力理论，体现了新闻自由观念的历时性过程。一种理论的产生并不意味着另一种的过时与失效，相反，三者之问存在着相辅相成的关系，只不过各个注重点不同而已。在现代社会中，与思想与表现自由相对应的言论自由和出版自由需要与第四权力相对应的新闻自由作为表达形式和保障， 而新闻自由如果失去了言论与出版自由则显得毫无意义。当然这三种理论在参与实践中时，会受到经济、政治、文化习惯等等因素的中和，有时甚至会产生背离其初衷的现象。但从总体上来看，基本上保证了新闻业的正常发挥其作用，从而适应了资本主义制度的要求。
《致命旅行》影评(三)：玩大了
Traveler被砍的消息不知道是真是假？近期持续更新的美剧里属这锅最有跟进的欲望。
看完六集（目前全数），很看好Traveler的亲民和痛快。
起码，1，这剧的煽情和女人没有滥用，线索回放的部分有节制，没有耽误剧情高速。算是物尽其用。
2，情节象越狱2+亡命天涯，青春版，比较俗。但是主角定位在普通大学生（只有一只受过训练），对抗国家阴谋，高度宣扬兄弟情谊，提供了完备的美国大城小镇导游图（包括越境逃亡tips）～～～～有实用价值。
3，男主角。看外型，然后，看身手。合格。
4，剧情还算紧张，节奏明快。在节奏慢下来的时候，第三男主麻雀变老鹰，抓走了注意力，可以接受。
希望能持续到结局。希望终极阴谋别太拽。
《致命旅行》影评(四)：悬途末路-黑锅-致命旅行，DO YOU LIKE WHICH ONE?
这也许不是个很有讨论意义的话题，呵呵~~但同样一部片子在千万个BT人or驴友的磁盘上或比基尼或T-shirt地躺着也蛮有意思的
我周围美剧同好稀少，但不定哪天，我走进这样一个场合，“嘿，黑锅蛮不错，你觉得呢？”，“我不看国产剧！”，“哦，也叫致命旅行”，“嗯，听起来瞒酷，血浆片吗？”，“OMG,TRAVELER!”，“OH,I SEE 悬途末路！”
不知从什么时候开始，我上BTCHINA和VC搜索不能再以习惯性的24小时、越狱、迷失等关键字搜索美剧，而要以E文原名得到我想要的信息再去比较我中意的字幕组版本，当然这三个山头的铁杆fans不会有此疑惑。
我印象比较深的例子：
HEROES: 英雄-天骄-超能英雄
DEXTER: 嗜血判官-双面法医-嗜血法医 这部片子极为典型的三个译名反映出的字幕组多么想独树一帜实则辨识度更低，令人发指，呵呵！
有这番唠叨源于今天看到一部新片：Burn Notice: 黑名单-干嘛炒我-火线警告， 聊君一笑~~
http://www.friends6.com/forum/viewthread.php？tid=64750&highlight=
《致命旅行》影评(五)：可惜被砍了，只能看看简介，在脑子里自导自演一下
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrity-blogs/Closure-19625.aspx
Celebrity Blogs
Closure
David DiGilio
ep 28, 2007 08:22 PM ET
y David DiGilio
Hello Porters, fans of Traveler and any folks who may have randomly found this page. First off, on behalf of the cast, writers and everyone involved in Traveler, I want to thank all those who fought so hard over the past two months to get our show back on the air. It was inspiring to see your effort and devotion. And you fought valiantly. But in the end, I think the same thing that doomed our show - lack of awareness - also made it impossible to muster the kind of numbers needed to save it. So, while I will never forget the great - albeit frustrating - experience of Traveler, the time has come for all of us to move on to new season passes, new Web page bookmarks and new "save the show" campaigns, as I'm sure there will be some deserving series this fall that will get the short end of the marketing/ratings stick.
ut before I get to your much-deserved (and lengthy) Traveler answers, I also wanted to say that it's been a blast interacting with you here and on the Traveler IMDb message board. Speaking with you and answering your questions was the best and most fulfilling part of the show's summer season. I hope our discussions can continue with my next show, Darwin's Law, a one-hour action comedy about a CIA hit man who becomes a homicide detective, which you will hopefully see on ABC (yes, I aim to woo all angry Porters back to the network) in the fall of '08. Now, in my efforts to provide closure before people have completely forgotten what happened in our fun and fast eight-episode run, I offer this final blog entry the once promised and now delivered closure that you guys deserve.
Q1. What is the Fourth Branch？
This was to be the driving mystery of Season 2, as Will, Jay and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization that Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in "The Exchange." The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful Western democracy since Athens. And in many ways, America was viewed as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government？ This was the great promise of early American democracy.
ut what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power？ Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place？ A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government？ That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America that implements checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence？ Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part.
And while our founding fathers believed in using the branch to foster a youthful nation, today the branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch？ It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
Q2. What's with the Painting？
The second season was meant to have a Da Vinci Code-esque historical fiction element, and Trumbull's "The Declaration of Independence" was the key that would start that engine.
Trumbull is a fascinating figure. In 1773 he graduated Harvard at the age of 17. He went on to fight in the Revolutionary War. Then he traveled to London in 1780 and studied painting under Benjamin West. There, he was captured and imprisoned as an American spy. Later he returned to the United States, where he went on to become one of the most famous painters and politicians of his time, including a stint as governor of Connecticut. He died at the age of 88 and was interred beneath the Art Gallery at Yale University a crypt that Will, Jay and Tyler would most certainly have visited in Season 2.
If you have looked into "The Declaration of Independence" painting, you know that the "signing" was a complete fabrication in regard to the document itself, and historians have always wondered why there are five people in the painting who were not actual signers of the Declaration of Independence. This sent our little hyper-creative minds spinning in the writers room, though I will admit that the painting was the object of much debate. But we came up with the idea that the painting was in fact the Holy Grail of the Fourth Branch. Because in truth, this painting does not depict the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but rather it captures the formation of the Fourth Branch itself. And looking into the families of the men present in the painting holds the key to finding the current members of the branch.
At the time of our story, rumors of the Fourth Branch have increased in the corridors of Washington. Freed and others have decided to start a campaign to increase their control of the country with the Drexler bombing. A bombing that would serve two purposes: to strike a new chord of fear in the American public, as suddenly young, well-educated white males would be seen turning against their own country; and to destroy a piece of evidence, which if discovered, could expose the existence of the branch itself.
Q3. Who is the Porter？
The Porter is actually a rogue CIA agent named Jon Anselmo. He ran a CIA black ops team in Pakistan and was taken out because someone in the Fourth Branch did not want a certain high- level terrorist captured just yet. Anselmo was furious. Not only did he lose five good men, but he could not get answers about what went wrong. Despite being told that he'd wandered into a mystery well above his pay grade, Anselmo kept pushing. Eventually, he heard whispers about the Fourth Branch and tracked the conspiracy theories to a Colorado real-estate baron. Rather than hide the truth from Anselmo, the Baron saw an opportunity to gain an important ally in returning the branch to its proper purpose.
As with most multilevel Hydras, the Fourth Branch had fractured due to infighting. After a lengthy battle from the 1960s through the 1990s, two factions emerged: One, led by Jack Freed's family, wanted to completely wrest control of this country away from the people. The other, led by the Baron, had hoped to return the branch to the benevolent presence it held at our nation's birth. And if that did not work, the Baron was ready to disband the branch altogether. In exchange for compensation to the families of the men Anselmo lost, Anselmo became the Porter, a man bent on destroying the corrupt side of the Fourth Branch. His first mission was to follow Will Traveler to the men who were giving him his orders. That leads us to the next question.
Q4. Is Jack Freed dead？
Though Neal McDonough would hate to hear me say this, Jack Freed is dead. Yes, he was in the limo when it blew up. And, no, he did not blow it up himself.
The Season 2 premiere was meant to begin with the same scene that ended Season 1, only this time we would see it from a new perspective. We would open on a small, remote control bomb packed with C4 as it tore down the damp, dark streets of New York. Unnoticed, it would zip past Jay, Tyler and Will as they had their final conversation at the phone booth. Then it would slip underneath the parked limo, and we'd cut to the person controlling the bomb the Porter. As the Porter clicks the kill switch, Boom! the limo, Freed and our boys' alibi, would again go up in smoke. Why did the Porter kill Freed？ Because the Baron had given him orders that once he had identified the tyrant, the cancer had to be removed before evidence of the branch could leak to the public. Which leads us to
Q5: You can't just keep the guys on the run forever, can you？
I'm sure this is something that the writers at Prison Break are dealing with right now. And in a way, I am relieved that I will not have to deal with the same issue. But the answer is no, we were not going to keep the guys "on the run." In fact, in the Season 2 premiere, after we see the limo blow up, Will and the guys would then escape Freed's forces and New York with the help of the Porter. Jay, Tyler and Will would end up at a train yard, with Will boarding a freight train as it picked up speed. Jay would reach a hand out for Will's help. But Will would tell him, "It's better if we split up." "You don't honestly believe that？!," Jay would answer back. And in a moment of decision that would determine the fate of Season 2, Will would stretch out his hand and help the friends he betrayed onto the train. They will search for the truth together. As the train rolls away from the New York skyline, we FADE TO BLACK. And when we fade up, it is three months later.
A mining town in Colorado. A news report in a locker room tells us that another month has passed without any sign of the Drexler bombing suspects, and officials now believe that the three "Ivy League Terrorists" have surfaced in the Middle East. Amongst the workers getting ready to head into the mine, we find Will Traveler. And yes, his appearance has finally changed! It turns out that Jay, Will and Tyler have not left the country. They have laid low in a middle-of-nowhere town. And now that people have moved on to other current events, like more domestic bombings and the approaching election, Jay, Will and Tyler are ready to start their search into uncovering the truth behind the Drexler bombing and the Fourth Branch.
Q6: Did Carlton Fog survive the season finale？
Most definitely. In Season 2, Carlton Fog would be remanded to a criminal hospital - similar to the one we saw Johnny Sack waste away in at the end of The Sopranos - while his case bounced from one appeal to another in the justice system. While recovering, he would be visited by a young vet in officer uniform just back from serving in Iraq. This vet would sit at his bedside, an intensity in his eyes that speaks of devotion to the wounded man before him. And Carlton would tell this young man, "we have a problem with your brother." This is how we meet Gabriel Fog, the nemesis that will be hunting down our guys throughout Season 2. Ultimately, we had planned for the two brothers to meet at either the midpoint or finale of the season. And Tyler would actually have fallen at the hands of his brother.
Q7: What happens to Chambers and Marlow？
To be sure, the Season 2 premiere would have picked up their story in the present day. Chambers realizes that Marlow was the one who called his cell phone, and after a major cat-and-mouse chase through the FBI field office, Marlow would disappear. Three months later, she's also gone underground, and the media has been sold a story that she was in fact in collusion with Will, Jay and Tyler, and she helped them escape New York.
ow, Marlow is on her own hunt to find out how Chambers was involved in the Drexler bombing. Meanwhile, Chambers has been promoted to head of the entire New York Field Office. Everything is going great, except for the fact that Chambers' daughter - the one mentioned in Season 1 - becomes suspicious of her father's involvement in the Drexler conspiracy. His daughter, another new character for Season 2, would eventually become convinced that her father had framed Jay, Tyler and Will. And when the boys resurface, she would reach out to them, eventually becoming a new love interest for Tyler.
The Fourth Branch would learn of Chambers' daughter's indiscretion. And Jack Freed's mother, the woman now pulling the strings, would tell Chambers that his daughter would have to be removed. Through flashback, we would learn that Chambers faced the same situation when he was stationed in Israel. His wife discovered he was pulling off covert raids, kidnapping Palestinian soldiers on behalf of the branch. And that time, he sacrificed his wife in hopes that it would help return his family to prominence in the branch. This time though, Chambers will choose his child over his loyalty to the cause, allowing one of our great villains to end his arc on a redemptive note.
Q8: Is Kim still alive？
Yes. She's alive, though she's not doing well. At the end of Season 1, we left Kim as she was about to experience "rendition" firsthand. She has spent the past three months in a Central American prison. She is a broken woman. But not broken enough to stop believing in Jay.
Jay has attempted to find her, risking everything to return to New York and reach out to Mr. Doherty for help. Unbeknownst to Jay, Kim was pregnant when he was forced to flee New York. And while in custody, being tortured, she miscarried. A major storyline for Season 2 was to be Kim's struggle to stay alive, while Jay slowly and surely tracked her down.
Q9: What is Jay's connection to the Fourth Branch？
In the finale, Jack Freed told Jay that his father had worked for the Fourth Branch. Throughout the first season, we hinted that there was a mystery surrounding Jay's father's death, questions that had haunted Jay his entire childhood. Without knowing the truth, he had held his mother accountable for his father's suicide, believing that she abandoned Tom Burchell in his hour of need. But in Season 2, Jay was going to look into his father's real work for the military and how it connected to the branch. He would discover that his father was part of a unit in the first Iraq war that was run by none other than Jack Freed himself. While not a member of the Fourth Branch, Burchell's father had served Freed and his objectives with loyalty. But when the unit became dispensable, and their operations needed to be covered up, Tom Burchell was set up to take the fall.
The person in the government who betrayed Tom Burchell？ Jack Freed. With Freed dead, Jay will seek revenge from the person they find to be running Freed's half of the Fourth Branch - Freed's mother, a Washington socialite who shares more than a few characteristics with Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. Rosalind Freed will offer to return everything Jay lost after the Drexler bombing: his high-power life as a New York lawyer, a normal life with Kim and his freedom. But by this point, Jay will have found Kim and will know the endgame of the Fourth Branch, and Jay will refuse Rosalind Freed's offer, ultimately having her arrested as the first step in bringing down the families that feel they can control our country.
Q10. Who was Will Traveler？
We answered the "current tense" of this question in Season 1 (Who is Will Traveler？ He is a domestic spy working for an undercover FBI operation meant to spy on American citizens), Will's mystery goes much deeper than the Drexler, and we were going to tell Will's origin story as we pieced together the mystery of the Fourth Branch. In fact, I was hoping that the flashback element of Season 2 would be Will putting together pieces of how he came to join Operation Hometown and work under Jack Freed.
In a long ago reality, Will Traveler was Stephen Mailer. (Not even Aaron Stanford knew that name.) You are hearing it here first. Stephen was a lonely kid who was raised by a single mother in a small town in Arizona. Stephen was not the biggest kid in the bunch, so he had to learn to defend himself early. He was aided in this by his uncle, who moved to the small town when Stephen was 12. This uncle gave Stephen's mother money. Soon, they'd upgraded from a trailer park to a two-bedroom condo. This uncle also knew martial arts. He taught Stephen the fighting style of Krav Maga. And it was not long before young Stephen Mailer was the one to be feared on the playground.
While Stephen's mother was frightened by her son's violent nature, his uncle seemed to foster it, using hypnosis and behavior modification to prepare Stephen for a life of service. To what end？ Stephen never knew. All he knew is that he and his uncle were patriots. When Stephen turned 17, his mother said goodbye to him, and his uncle took him to join the military. Stephen understood weapons, combat and battlefield strategy 10 times better than the officers who taught him. But he was meant to be a foot soldier. Nothing more. He had always been taught to obey commands. And though overqualified for his service in Afghanistan and Iraq, he felt his uncle placed him there with a purpose: to save lives. He was known, jokingly, as Nightingale. Because when you were about to die on the battlefield, Stephen would swoop in and get you the hell out.
ut, amazingly, Stephen never was promoted and was never given medals for his heroics. Instead, he simply moved from unit to unit, and with each move, he was given new dog tags and a different name. During his three years in combat, he saw his uncle three times. The last time was in Baghdad's Green Zone, when his uncle arrived to take him home for his final patriotic assignment. A man named Jack Freed had started an FBI program called Operation Hometown. Something that was essential to winning the war on terror.
It seems that domestic terrorism cells were on the rise. People who appeared to be normal citizens were in fact fomenting revolution. Taking a page out of the CIA's Family Jewels, Freed had established a covert operation to use human intelligence assets to infiltrate and spy on American citizens. Stephen would be one of Freed's best recruits. He helped bust up a Chechnyan sleeper cell before it could attack the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. He stopped a group of neo-Nazis from assassinating a black governor in the South. And then he was sent to Deer Harbor to train for what would be his most important assignment. By then, Stephen went by the name Daniel Taft.
Against every rule in the book, he fell in love with the woman who ran the Operation Hometown safe house in the small town that was used to ferry Hometown operatives in and out of the country. Maya helped Daniel create his new alias. And though it was exceedingly reckless, he picked his new name to remind him of the woman he loved. In the summer of 2005, "Will Traveler" left for New Haven, Connecticut, where he would live with two men with serious bones to pick with President Shears and the U.S. government. He was gradually given his orders, always by his handler, Joseph. He needed to get video of Tyler Fog speaking his true mind about President Shears. Jay Burchell was writing for the law review, and Will needed to make sure Jay wrote about the illegal detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay.
Will had been raised to obey orders, not to question them, but even he knew something was not right. In secret trips to Deer Harbor, he began to make preparations to leave Operation Hometown and the country with Maya. And when the final directive came, his worst fears were confirmed. He was being asked to murder Jay and Tyler, innocent American civilians, while framing them for an attack on New York's oldest art museum. All efforts to reach his uncle were unsuccessful. So, Will decided he would have to improvise. He would let Jay and Tyler live and then blow up the museum. But while researching the plan to blow up the Drexler, Will discovered that the Drexler bomb was to be placed in a gallery filled with paintings by John Trumbull, right below the crown jewel of the Shears' Collection, Trumbull's Declaration of Independence. He began to suspect that the bombing might also be connected to the paintings. Knowing that he'd be punished for betraying his orders, Will decided to steal the painting as a piece of leverage should his plan fail. The rest, as they say well, you saw the rest in Season 1.
Obviously, when Maya was killed (and yes, Maya is dead), everything changed for Will. Like Jason Bourne, he set out on a path to avenge his girlfriend's death and find out who was really running the corrupt government program. This led Will back to his old roommates, and ultimately to Freed.
Q11. How would it all end？
Well, I've touched on Tyler's untimely demise and Jay's refusal to give in to the temptations of the Fourth Branch, but what about the ultimate end of the series？ Well, I can tell you that this likely would have changed a bit as we moved through the show, but this is what I was thinking for the series' progression when we finished up:
eason 2: In Season 2 the driving question becomes: "What is the Fourth Branch？" The Season 2 flashbacks reveal how Will was raised and groomed to become a leader in the secret society that has now turned against him (yes, Porters, Will is in fact the heir of the Colorado Real Estate Baron mentioned in the Porter paragraph above). And Jay, Tyler and Will set out on a journey to find and expose members of the society, and this time they will have the help of Agent Marlow, who wants revenge for her partner's murder. The return of Tyler's brother leads to Tyler's murder. And Marlow will ultimately fall at the hands of her former boss Chambers.
ut in the Season 2 finale, Will and Jay are miraculously saved from a brutal beating at the hands of Fourth Branch forces. When they wake up, they find themselves in the middle of the Oval Office. President Shears enters and they reveal everything they know. Unfortunately for them, it's here that we learn that Shears is not just our head of state, he's also the heir apparent of the Fourth Branch.
eason 3: In Season 3 we learn the truth about the Fourth Branch's plan. They have used the bombings against the Shears family interests (and there would be more bombings besides the Drexler) to instill fear in the country and create sympathy towards the administration. And just as they hoped for, a movement has arisen to change the constitution, allowing President Shears to stay in the White House for good.
In order to stop Shears, Jay and Will pretend to turn sides and effectively infiltrate the Fourth Branch on behalf of the Porter - Jon Anselmo - and his unknown boss. But in the Season 3 finale, their efforts are thwarted when Anselmo is killed and President Shears successfully wins election for a third term.
The Endgame
The word "traveler" evokes an image of a wanderer, a man without a country. In a way, that's how many Americans feel today. The Fourth Branch is really a metaphor for today's divisive political climate, the current disconnect between the people and their elected politicians. But Will Traveler is not willing to settle for a false government. He does what we all wish we could do: He changes things. In the final episode of our show, whenever that day would have come, Will sacrifices himself to save Jay from the corrupt Shears administration.
And as the series closes, Jay Burchell is the only one left of the three friends who started Traveler on a seemingly innocent road trip. With Kim's help, Jay completes Will and Tyler's legacy, exposing the lies and deceit of Shears, Carlton Fog and all the privileged few who have tried to make America their private kingdom.
The End
And, yes, sadly, this really is the end. Thank you guys again for your passion. It was inspirational. And while this conclusion can not please everyone, I hope it at least answers your questions and allows you to move forward down the road.
《致命旅行》影评(六)：《Traveler》——致命旅程
说到《致命旅程》就不得不说本年的另一部美剧《人间蒸发》（《Vanished》），这两部剧实在有其曲同功之处，都是政府高层的很有历史的秘密，都把FBI、CIA牵连进案情，有的是帮凶有的是查案者，最后都被砍了。《人间蒸发》13集被砍，好歹也能算是一季，《致命旅程》8集就OVER了，留下一个要说不说的大秘密让人郁闷，怎么着也先把谜底公布了再说啊。
《人间蒸发》的看点对我来说就是Gale饰演的精明干探，编剧在第9集让这个警探死了，听说是Gale主动辞演，但不论是什么原因，这个角色的死就已经标志着这个电视剧的终结。
《致命旅程》演到第8集，刚刚渐入佳境，把好学生Jay、富家子Taylor，由什么都不懂的大学生刚刚锻炼成能跟FBI斗智追逐的苗子，一直消失的Will终于出现，这个长着一张娃娃脸的“火人”竟然是杀人不眨眼的超级特工，3个人为了洗清冤屈、查明真相刚刚重新走到一起，开始很有潜力的旅程，电视剧就CUT了……郁闷……
不过，Jay的那双大睁的总透着傻气的眼睛简直让我受不了，就这还帅哥呢……我晕……