twop p27 dandy1 -Kudos to the wardrobe people for how they dress Timothy Hutton. Very streetsy or very classy. And he pulls them both off so well. yes he does.
Conny and the disappearing lover. and Sully dead. Maybe he did kill them both, and he just has so little conscience as to be cool as a cucumber about it afterwards. Maybe 'I got really pissed off because he crashed my party so I killed him' was the truth.
About our young agents plot twist----I kind of feared that the need to wrap this up in a short time might lead them to make some moves they would not ordinarily. I've decided to cut them alot of slack for that. They are under tremendous pressure. It seems to me like they are far from a resolution to this thing, but this is one show I can't really predict. I love that about it and how good they are at revealing character slowly. The creators have obviously thought a lot about their characters and they really know who they are and they know how to slowly and subtly reveal them. So good. The greatest mystery is, "Who are these people?" So good.
-I was just wondering if The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Conny's big Chinese deal have any connection---I mean China supresses Tibet, lots of accusations of human rights violations, etc.--sort of ties in with the kind of little man laid off kind of speeches we've seen. Just a thought. unlikely but smart interesting observation.
Leo is an extreme activist? Enough to plot his own kidnapping? this bcs the note to Kellogg giving phone number was in Leo's favorite book. and signed Jaynes, name of the author of the book we saw him reading that big white bicameral mind or whtvr book right? right: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

catperson, top p28 -Did I point out yet here that my new suspect is Aubrey? She's being passed over by Grandpa for the "grooming" that he's forcing on Leo, since she's not a male, probably. She's probably mad about that, she's selfish, she's wild, she smokes (they use that in film these days to show who's wild and possibly bad; notice the good people rarely smoke, and the one time Ellie does, she's doing what she's not supposed to). Mind, I don't think she did it all. I think they looked for a weak link, even went up to Leo in the park to see if he was amenable (he wasn't; he got a bodyguard), and settled on Aubrey and her anger. And milked it to get the Cain's personal phone number, etc.
p27-It said, "Dear sir, thank you for your past kindness. Let this be a small step towards repayment. 212-555-0133. I remain etc. Emerson Jaynes." Someone who reads British literature would recognize this kind of talk as the way they wrote in the 1700s and 1800s, not so much the 1900s. But the rich people still learn it. And! The key here is that the "payment" for the person's kindness was to give Kellogg the private Cain phone number!