I had a fair amount of trouble with S7.  At the beginning, Michael is required to help take down this "terrorist organization."  As far as we know, he doesn't ask, "Oh? What terrible things have they done?"  And when he tries to join that organization, and James welcomes him to it, he doesn't ask, "Why should I join?…

"They have no idea where Anne has gone, so they just stroll out and
search on horseback in potentially hostile territory in broad daylight"

Seemed strange to me as well, especially since the writers could just as easily made the plane-crash site something like fifty miles from Charleston (or some distance just far-away enough to avoid Charleston sentries, just close enough to get there by commandeered-car credibly) instead of four hundred.

Cochise's reply is certainly non-responsive (if violin-laden), and nobody seems to have asked him directly, "What about after?"  (A credible response might be "We will ask you for volunteers to join our galaxy-wide war against the fishheads.)  And there are also a lot of things that we (the viewers) don't know, and…

Seems to me that if I were a mid-level executive who has frantically been ordering many murders in order to cover up a big big secret, and if I knew where many of the bodies were buried, and if I were reporting to my boss my failure, and if she asked me to hand the phone over to my ruthless hit-man flunky for a…

FWIW, the Gaffer, or Chief Electrician,is named for the job of taping electrical cables to to the floor of a set, using gaff tape, similar to duct tape but not leaving a residue.  I don't believe that long poles are involved.