Woodie's life could have been saved by such people as you! Perhaps Dave can even be preserved, now with our knowledge of various people and what bars they work in. You never know.
Not sure what I was getting at here.
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TV is full of that behavior (telling the villain your suspicions), or it was. Maybe it was a safer time for people in everyday life, or maybe crimes weren't as well reported yet, but I think a lot of people have some impulse or assumption that being right and virtuous, or maybe middle class and therefore 'worth' (country club Republicans) more than some, means you don't have to worry so much, about crime, or about authorities, or danger of any kind. Found a body in your house? You're innocent, no one will accuse you, go to the police. Suburbia is a bit insulated against harsh things in life.
On the other hand, lots of TV shows in the 60s showed virtuous, unlucky people in trouble with the law, who had to hide or run, with the police often being the bad guys. I like that. These shows may have been written by the people Republicans would have called "pinkos".
Anyway, DW being a professional man, respected and perhaps prosperous, may have had myopia as regards danger, underestimating his vulnerability because bad stuff just doesn't happen to his kind of person. A good guy, but priveleged, so his instincts were wrong for the situation. RIP.
I do sort of appreciate the growing sense that Dave is just doomed, with no way out, though. He gets closer and closer, and you know he can't give BC away. I know the show doesn't go that way. An innocent, sympathetic character is going to get
stopped, in a way that both BC and JH keep their mouths shut about later. How the f is that going to happen? You know a brick wall is waiting for him to crash into any day now, but what is it? How are future protagonists going to get rid of his interference? It's not going to be pretty, you know that. And it wasn't.