Lacy stage-whispers to Keon that they need to have a little meeting about how they are terrorists. Unsurprisingly, he does not meet her eyes, and goes off to get rid of all those wires and plutonium and whatever, because every time Subtlety tries to have a talk with Lacy Rand she goes all, "Can I have some sugar for my tea? And some lemon? And a little spoon?"
Daniel is so not impressed by Priyah's script for his Sarno appearance, and though he's not grossed out by the constant disculpation of Graystone Industries and the holoband stuff, he's still troubled by all the talk about his mindset, his love of his troubled daughter, et cetera, because that's actually the inauthentic part. Cyrus as usual knows how gross they're being, and Priyah's like, "Use your own phrasing!" Amanda clomps through the room in a cloud of rage and cigarette smoke, and Cyrus totally goes, "Is she going to go nuts and fuck everything up for everybody? You know, like she usually does?"
Team Graystone tells Daniel to act "a little guilty," because people love contrition and fakeness and whatever -- that he missed the signs and will never forgive himself -- but also to keep talking about the holoband, because of money. Daniel goes, "No, it had nothing to do with the holoband! That's just true!" And Priyah points at him with her finger, all excited: "That was great! Do that!" It's pretty amazing. I love the scary realness of Priyah's whole thing. Daniel as performance.
Across the lake, Sam's watching them with binoculars and a bobble-head Tauron bull on the dash of his awesome car. Joe calls to bitch at him about how Amanda's not dead yet, and Sam -- who actually knows what's going on, unlike Joe at all times -- tells him to shove it because there's all kind of media and stuff in the house. "How big a bloodbath do you want?" Joe is just appalled at the idea that his murder contract might end in somebody's death, but then stares at a picture of Shannon and Tamara and thinks about things exploding long enough for him to sack up again. You get the correct impression that this is about the tenth time Joe has already waffled, because Joe's only friend is inner conflict and his only reason for living is to make shit as inconvenient as possible for everyone around him.













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