David Henesy was a busy boy today, with lots of dialogue. It occurred to me that when the series began, we tended to see him alone, with few lines, which made it easier for the directors to get what they wanted out of him. Now he talks and talks and talks, because the writers know he can handle it.
I liked the way Guthrie talked with David - and listened to him, instead of telling him he was imagining things. But would Guthrie be able to tell when David is lying?
Roger and Laura seemed far more like husband and wife to me than they have before. Laura said Roger only married her because she had been Burke's girlfriend, and Roger didn't deny it. I had been under the impression that Roger would have been interested in Laura anyway, but maybe, without Burke as a rival, Roger wouldn't have gone so far as to marry her. At any rate, it throws an unexpected light on the relationship between Roger and Burke. I always had imagined Roger and Burke as being great pals before the hit and run business, really enjoying each other's company. I figured Roger enjoyed slumming with Burke, and it made Burke feel good to be with somebody who had as much money as he himself wanted - but whatever the underlying motives, I thought there was a real, though shallow, friendship. Now I'm wondering: why on earth would Roger feel he had to have anything that Burke had?
When Guthrie came to see Laura, I suddenly envisioned him in two ways: first, as Laura's secret lover, and second, as somebody who wanted David for his own purposes. Or else, a third way:[spoiler]as a Julia type: somebody who believed that being a phoenix was a curable disease, and if he were able to treat Laura, she could become a normal person again. Not that she'd want to do that.[/spoiler]
