Actually the synopsis is off at the end as it
was a gorilla that set off the missile launch.

Didja notice that Donovan is growing a beard?

Loved it when Olga kept hanging up on Parker
during the Backstep.:)

Great Olga Line:"This is for humanity,depraved
as it is."just before she volunteers to strip
for the Penn State football players.

Uh, wouldn't the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs notify all personnel that the current codes are invalid as soon as the football is stolen?

Probably.

Also, I caught the end of this one, and does anyone else think that a gorilla would have had a chance in hell of punching in exactly the right commands and SIX-DIGIT PASSWORD on the first try to make all the nukes launch? Does this sound a little contrived to anyone else?

Overall good though. Some good Parker/Olga stuff.

Nukes are not launched automatically, specifially to prevent computer error. It requires two officers to confirm orders and concur. They must both use their launch keys to set off the nukes, even from a silo. "Crimson Tide" had it fairly accurate.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Nate Ramsey is looking at the President speaking without wine in his hand. In a sequential scene, Nate Ramsey is apparently looking away and now with wine in his hand.
2) Dr. John Ballad rather nonchalantly mentions the end of the world as the missiles are being launched.
3) Why the new tunnel effect to the Backstep process?
4) Earlier in the evening Dr. Isaac Mentnor was wearing a striped shirt, a sweater, and a red tie but later appears with a plain white shirt and brown coat during his appearance in the Backstep process. The same applies to Bradley Talmadge in that his gray coat with tie and striped shirt somehow later alter to a black coat and plain white shirt during his appearance in the Backstep process.
5) It has been vaguely established that Lt. Frank Parker's past counterpart vanishes after a Backstep. With that being said, exactly how could he have "bugged" Dr. Olga Vukavitch as he had in the original time line?
6) The voodoo-like woman dials roughly twelve numbers on the red phone. What type of phone numbers require twelve digits?
7) For a former Navy Seal and current NSA agent, ought Lt. Frank Parker have noticed being pilfered by those two bums situated at the fire?
8) Dr. Olga Vukavitch is a scientist whose intelligence is grandeur and impressive enough to have caused her to be enlisted by the Backstep staff. Yet, she is not allegedly smart to the point of arriving at another more rational solution than resorting to stripping to acquire desired information. What a pity.
9) I do not know about the rest of you, but this particular episode was rapidly becoming a peep show, more so with the frivolous bar scenes.
10) At least make the attempt to pretend that it is a legitimate gorilla! Proportionally, its arms appeared much larger than its body.
11) Lt. Frank Parker's asinine behavior in retrieving the lost "football" was humorous because it was by this time I realized how utterly •••••• this episode was in the long run. Moreover, an actual NSA agent employed for such a crucial project is permitted to and, in all likelihood, demanded to subdue all obstacles by any means necessary, including the gorilla.
12) No lines for Nate Ramsey in this episode, except for what he exclaimed to that brunette woman?
13) Perhaps it is the hair or physically dampening insomnia, but Justina Vail (Dr. Olga Vukavitch), in my humble opinion, has greatly become less appealing as of this premiere, not implying of course that she is and has at any point been unattractive. I am simply indicating that the beautician is responsible for a presentational mishap regarding Ms. Vail.

The voodoo-like woman dials roughly twelve numbers on the red phone. What type of phone numbers require twelve digits?

well..I need to dial 9-1-800-555-1212 to dial out of my office...that's 12 digits right there!

Otherwise- I thought it was an entertaining episode- I don't usually take this show too seriously-- it's sort of my guilty pleasure- and I think the writers are sort of on the same wavelength usually- hence the ridiculous prospect of the ape solving the codes, etc. didn't bother me as much.

by the way..this ep's title is "The Football"