In Search Of … Rubicon’s Chess Board

Episode 8 of the AMC-TV series Rubicon opens with Ed and Will playing chess outside.

I’ve located that.

All photos can be clicked to enlarge; mine have been resampled and recaled down to VGA size.

In the episode:

In real life:

How do I confirm it? Like this:

Later in the episode, Ed is accosted by Kale. Ed is sitting at a different bench then:

Distinguishing marks:

From the episode:

In real life:

From the episode:

The bench area in real life:

There was no white mark exactly like this, however:

Clearly that was just leftover dried bird poo that’s since gone away.

Now some different views of the chess board setup and some shots of what it looks like overall:

And this is located at:

Now for some views approaching the API Building:

What the API Building looked like this morning:

It was eerily quiet.

And one update from this post:

From episode 10:

I reshot it in real life from the correct end of the street:

Now we keep waiting for word from AMC about a second season.

Previously here:

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