3 Body Problem - S1E5 - Judgment Day

The scene opens with a brief exchange between Raj (love interest of Jin Chen) and Thomas Wade where it appears Mr. Wade is recruiting. The plan is ultimately created to obtain intel from "Judgment Day" in order to learn more about the San Ti. This plan involves a likely hijack of the Judgment Day ship as it sails through the Panama Canal. 

The mission proves to be successful and Thomas Wade and Jin Cheng are alerted to the ultimate plan of the San-Ti. The threat is revealed and the San-Ti makes its intentions fully known to conquer the planet by stifling science and 

Trivia

• August 15,1977 The San Ti Listener answered Dr. Ye Wenjie
• sophon - a proton sized computer that will be used to stop the progress of science. two pairs of two sophons exist and allow for instantaneous communication.
  

Foods mentioned in this episode

• Gan Guo potatoes were made by Ye Wenjite for Jin Chang whenever she felt homesick.  This article describes Gan Guo, a type of dry pot cooking, while this youtube video describes how to make it.

Major Characters in this episode

• Jin Cheng - after being invited to join the organization, she is injured during a police sting.
• Admiral Raj Varma - Jin Cheng's love interest, is recruited to lead the efforts to obtain information from the "Judgement Day" ship
  
• Ye Wenjie - revealed as the leader of the organization that has been recruiting through the use of the helmets.
  
• Will Downing - has a crush on Jin. Apparently is a physics professor and learns he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer with metastasis all over to liver and lungs. Gets more courage to ask Jin out.
• Thomas Wade - The rich boss of Clarence, however seems to be important and powerful, maybe more so than depicted.
• Clarence Shi (Officer) - has been fired from Scotland Yard, MI5, OSCT, is the lead officer on the case and surreptitiously keeping track on the scientists. He is visited by the villain woman while in the cemetery visiting the tombstone of his late wife. Saves Jin's life during a stink operation gone awry.
• Mike Evans - leader of Evans Energy, conservationist.
• Villain woman - murders Jack Rooney. Seems to be a human but with more capability than most, she could be an early alien presence. Shoots Jin during the Sting operation. She manages to crawl away and escape being arrested.

Lingering Questions

• There are a lot of dead physicists, why and what is the connection? Is this part of a pre-invasion preparation to prevent Earth from having good enough technology to defend itself? It appears so. This latest episode reveals the full plan and intentions of the San Ti.
• The silence from the San-Ti is ominous, have the abandoned their human correspondent counterparts? It appears so. The latest episode reveals the full plan and intentions of the San Ti.