Local Cricket Team

Description

The ramp signal agent joins the local cricket team after accepting his airport job in Guyana and rises to co-captain. Danny references this role to C.J. as proof of the agent's integration into his new life abroad. The team anchors his community ties through amateur play amid relocation.

Event Involvements

Events with structured involvement data

2 events
S4E14 · Inauguration Part I
Briefing Call Cuts Off a Near-Transgression

The local cricket team is mentioned as the organization that the ramp signal agent co-captains in Guyana. Its mention humanizes the agent, implies local integration, and complicates narratives that might cast him solely as an intelligence source or suspect.

Active Representation

Invoked through dialogue as a social tie that anchors the agent to his new community.

Power Dynamics

Relatively low formal power in this scene; exerts social soft-power by providing cover and credibility for the agent's new life.

Institutional Impact

Its mention underscores how informal community ties can obstruct or humanize international inquiries, reflecting how social structures complicate intelligence work.

Internal Dynamics

Not depicted in scene; assumed to be a typical local amateur sports group with leadership roles like a co-captaincy.

Organizational Goals
Provide social integration and normalcy for members (including the agent) Serve as a local credibility anchor that reduces suspicion about members' pasts
Influence Mechanisms
Community reputation and social belonging Providing routine activity and local status that complicates investigative narratives
S4E14 · Inauguration Part I
Copier-Room Temptation Denied

The local cricket team is invoked in dialogue as the social anchor that the ramp signal agent joined in Guyana; it functions here as a humanizing detail that explains the agent's assimilation and diminished usefulness to the White House, while briefly shifting the scene's stakes from geopolitics to personal trajectories.

Active Representation

Mentioned through character testimony (C.J.'s description of the agent having become a co-captain).

Power Dynamics

A community-level organization exercising informal social influence over the agent's life; it indirectly diminishes institutional leverage by integrating him locally.

Institutional Impact

Minimal in policy terms, but functionally important because it explains why an individual source is no longer responsive to U.S. inquiries and therefore affects the White House's intelligence posture.

Internal Dynamics

Not developed in the scene; implied cohesion and normal amateur-sport functioning rather than factional conflict.

Organizational Goals
To integrate members into local community life (implied) To provide a social identity that anchors the agent (implied)
Influence Mechanisms
Social belonging and reputation within the community Local status that makes the agent less available to foreign/US inquiries