#1 Veronica Cartwright fan!!

I. miss this twink

After watching the episode and seeing that fleeting, seemingly insignificant shot of Chase reading The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge, I decided to take a closer look upon that scene.

In this close-up of his bedside table, we see Chase's watch, a box of tissues (naughty naughty) and a pile of books, upon which rests his phone.

Now, the books intrigued me, so I took an even closer look. These are my findings:

The bottom book is the most clearly readable one, which I pretty quickly found to be Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary by Susan Morrison.

With this being an exact, down to pixel match, I felt confident moving on to the next one. Boy, was I disappointed.

Squished between the previous book and what seems to be a personal diary (that he calls a journal, but is a diary), is a brown-tan book with the words [T-- Ch--ing] at the bottom (from what I could make of it).

I searched far and wide, looking for titles, authors, even publishers of that wordle result, only to find Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang.

While not an exact match, this is the closest I've gotten to IDing it, so we shall chalk it up to being some unique cover or varying fonts and text placements.

Now, to finish off this autism-fueled, time-wasting, utterly-concerning deep browse session, I decided to try to ID his phone.

What I thought to be a flip phone turned out to be a touchscreen the very next frame.

I've searched far and wide (again), looking through 2011 or prior released phones from the likes of LG, Samsung, Nokia, and even Alcatel, only to end up with no exact match.

Closest I got was the Samsung S3650 Colby, presuming the gray back with the black vertical stripe is the result of a phone case. With that assumption, we'd find that the single, dead-center circular camera matches that of the Colby, and the shape checks out for old Samsungs in general. It's a 2009 release, meaning it'd make sense timeline-wise.

Do with that information what you will. I'm going back to bed.