August 28, 2021 - Move marathon this chill Saturday morning... Here's my 2 cents on the TV series Designated Survivor S2E4.

With all the political and terrorism issues the Designated Survivor has been up to until it wraps up to its 2nd season finale, there is one episode na tumatak talaga sa akin. It’s not about how President Kirkman resolves and confronts critical issues at the White House, but it’s about a scene on Season 2 Episode 4, subtitled Equilibrium #DesignatedSurvivor scene between a top senior White House staff Aaron who is a Mexican, and Nadia, also a Mexican who works as an aide to an American senator who pushed on legislative matter relative to US-Mexican labor issues specifically on undocumented Mexican immigrant workers in America. Nadia reminds Aaron that there are Mexican families (and relatives) on the other side of the border.

Nadia to Aaron: 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒕.

Na-pick up ko dito is that: 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 and must 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄.

No matter what we have accomplished, no matter how busy we are at work or what we have been up to, we should look back to where we are....𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠.

Well, the redeeming part here before the episode ends, is that Aaron with his guilty conscience is finally reconnected with his heritage.

2You and Gloria Perez Baay