ECS follows Carolyn to Paul's hotel room, and really lets him have it. It's good to see Joan getting a scene she can sink her teeth into, and throwing herself into it. Sam Hall wrote it, at least according to the credits. Look how I hear some good writing, and figure only V Welles could have done it. That's unfair, I guess. She did some writing on DS that was credited to someone else, though.
I like Elizabeth's line about Paul just having said: Carolyn trusts him, therefore Liz should. She calls it blackmail, emotional rather than financial.
Paul runs into a sailor at the Blue Whale who just happens to have info on the Naga, a "creature without a soul"... he's played by Ken McMillan, who also played Rhoda's boss at the end of her sitcom, and the Baron Harkonnen in the 1980s film of "Dune". Visitors to the Blue Whale from out of town seem to speak like they're all from NYC...
Liz on Paul: "He's a very complicated man, not to be trusted." That made me think. Do people generally consider being complicated a bad thing? Do many people trust simplicity much more? I hear that someone's "complicated" and think, it might be someone who's interesting, and might have something to say. Is Liz voicing a sort of reverse snobbery on a writer's part?
