I imagine Wynn Duffy the women's tennis aficionado is also very relieved about that…

Definitely. If you can see no end to bad shit happening to you or people you love, instead of a singular horrible incident, that's a very different thing.

Good point. After all, money in and of itself isn't really useful for much, it only becomes useful if you can exchange it for the stuff you need (i.e. guns, equipment, men, ammo if you're fighing a war, or w/e else have you in a specific situation).

Yup, it would appear so.

Ha, I had the same reaction to Kai showing up at that service; at first I thought "Wait, didn't they bury his mother already?". I appreciate that they let us figure that out on our own (unlike, say, Person of Interest, which is a show I really like as well, but an utterly horrible offender in the "Department of…

I wonder if Frank Underwood is going to start aging as rapidly as real-life US predidents apparently do…

Hey, there are few things which get me as hot and bothered as trade wars and bridges, that's where the sexy's at!

Yeah, I'd wondered about that as well. Personally I think there was a decent chance he wouldn't have killed her because he was sort of not his usual homicidal self temporarily, but once her neighbour showed up I reckoned Chayton would snap out of that and switch back to terminator mode.

Very good point, yes.

Hm, now that's some serious inflation. :D

Plot-Induced Stupidity/Idiot Ball, if I'm not mistaken. ;-)

Yeah, could be. In general, I don't really mind exposition per se, especially when it's about the larger story arcs (since one tends to forget a lot of details when it's spread out over the course of a 22-episode season, although I do actually quite like playing catch-up myself instead of the showing neatly explaining…

While we haven't really seen him do any badass things before (he's tried to take a few swings at Hood, but he's obviously no match for him), it has been mentioned a few times that he's a former marine.

I remember watching a docu about the Iraq war last year and they interviewed a few people who were pretty high up in the command chain, and indeed there literally were people going around with briefcases full of cash paying off local militia and that kind of stuff. I don't think it's much of a stretch to think that…

The money is left over from a military stash they used in war zones for paying off informants, buying weapons off the street to keep them out of the hands of the Taliban and such, paying bribes to tribesmen etc.

Same here. While it wasn't a large scene, I thought it helped tremendously in rounding out his character, showing that he is still somehow connected to reality and not merely a killer robot or something like that.

Indeed. The sky is blue, water is wet, Chayton kills people, such is life. The lady helping him was a rather weird decision to me, but him killing her made more sense to me than letting her live.

Well, at least he's not suffering from a brain tumor and having fake sex with his ex…

"Rescue" Mindy's dad might be a bit of an overstatement though, or not? ;-) (sorry to twist the knife).

What makes a show (or a movie) "dumb" for me more than anything else is characters acting against established character traits (see Plot Induced Stupidity/Idiot Ball, or a completely unwarranted Heel/Face or Face/Heel turn just for the sake of it, inserting a random rape because rape obviously equals character…