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It's pretty clear that Hector's (future) paralysis was the result of a stroke.

If you've got a season pass on Amazon, the episodes go up at 1 am! So if you're a night owl (like me) it's not unreasonable that you've seen the episode by morning.

I thought networks only began officially tracking online viewership last year? Don't they mostly still rely on (horribly outdated) Nielsen numbers when making these kinds of decisions? Also, as someone who actually does pay for my TV, sales would probably go up if they'd make those episodes immediately available for

REALLY OLD SPOILER ALERT:

Five or six years, actually.

I had to keep turning down the volume because they went from characters practically whispering to sudden drums, and man, nothing takes me out of a scene faster than having to frantically scramble for my volume key.

Season 1 Nora had nothing to lose. Season 2 Nora has everything to lose, and she's doing all she can to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Because one is asking money to perform his "gift" and the other is merely performing an act. Exploitation is the keyword there. Honest spirituality is encouraged but taking advantage of people is punished.

I'm shocked by how many readers here can't differentiate between mysteries and worldbuilding. The town of Jarden is populated by weirdos because it's a magnet for superstitious folks who assign significance to something that was probably a matter of pure coincidence (that is, the fact that no one from the city was

Possibly he realized he needed them. Possibly it seemed like the path of least resistance in dealing with someone whose services he might require in the future. Possibly a whole lot of things it seems too early to rule out. It was his phrasing, "I'm an aspirin man," that gave me the impression, when you factor in all

You might be right. However, Mike has demonstrated a lack of control in the past, which he tells us about in his Half Measures speech. If he was fully in control of his emotions, he would never have threatened a perp the way he did.

Mike's refusal of the pain pills at the vet's office makes me think he might have been through the program and fell off the wagon following Matt's death, but he used others' perception of him as a drunk to help this plan of his play out convincingly.