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Nurse Joe timeline is the one in which both parents need to work to support themselves and the child, so Jenny delays law school and gets a job as a paralegal. I think Joe doesn’t go to the police academy, not because the salary is poor but because being a cop is dangerous. He doesn’t want to leave a widow and child behind as his father did. I agree that his dad was into some bad stuff and probably took the other guy’s place in order to go out heroically before it became known. Amy seems to like being the power behind a successful man. She sort of invents Rocker Joe and in Nurse timeline Eric runs a high-end restaurant. If she and Cop Joe get together, she’ll probably fast track him for police commissioner! Jenny can be annoying but I do not trust Amy.

Nurse Joe family would road trip to Atlanta because Chris’s needs would make flying difficult. And they have to drive his specially equipped van down there anyway if he’s moving.

The first question to answer is whether the present of the show is 2011, with Joe pondering what to do and where the various choices might lead or 2021, with him reflecting on roads not taken.

I wonder if the endgame will be to tell us which choice Joe made or if the three timelines will remain just what if scenarios. It looks to me that they will eventually become structurally similar. Joe should obviously be with Jenny and their child in their lives. In the timelines where this is not the case, it soon will. The Congressman will emerge as a true villain, probably having slept with Amy in each. I would love if we found out his real life went in still another direction

Yep, Buck was the failed savior baby who found his vocation saving others. He sure clued in fast once he knew Danny had leukemia and he was born during his brother's illness.

I strongly back the "savior baby" theory. Props to Ailianna who first suggested it on the thread for the previous episode. Buck would be useless and a disappointment to the parents if he either was not a match or the bone marrow he provided failed to save Danny's life. The most famous of the savior baby families, the Ayalas, conceived their younger child in 1988, so the strategy might have been in the news as Danny got sick.

Do we know the jury was sequestered?

The cops’ protection racket involved both casinos and brothels. Holcomb would have access to thugs from both.

Once Burger’s investigation showed that the ransom ended up on the church’s books, there would be way too much reasonable doubt to convict Emily.

He obviously arranged the bribe but I think Perry’s belief that he was that kind of person (while Drake was not) made him reconsider how low he had sunk. I had forgotten Tragg as the last member of the ensemble. Pete will be good in that role

A profoundly cynical wrap up. Who would have thought Pete would be the one to go legit out of ethical concerns. At least we found out Hazel wears gloves because she was a hand model. A finale whose biggest thrill was hearing the original theme song is not doing its job

It was burned in George Gannon’s fire place, by Ennis I suppose

I suspect Alice’s visions of God speaking to her were a response to rape trauma, that she mentally left her body behind as a coping mechanism. It’s like when abuse victims claim to have been abducted and probed by aliens.

The apparent solution to the crime is underwhelming, I have to say. I hope there are some surprises next week. Burger may have been happy to help Della out but is going to rue the day he helped Perry cheat his way through the bar exam

Featuring Alice to this extent only as the shill for the embezzlement scheme doesn’t make sense to me. She has to have a more direct link to Charlie’s death.