I honestly think Root's death is what's snapping him *into* that breakdown. I think that's what we're going to witness in these final episodes. Someone above mentioned Harold's moral event horizon. I think we just passed it.

Harold's responses have always felt delusional—in the medical sense—to me. His over-reliance on his moral rightness, his incessant need to literally remake the world according to his rules (which is essentially what you're doing if you're 'making god'), and the way he clung to those rules and beliefs in the face of…