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Two things that have been bothering me. Didn't Susanna have a baby last season? Where is that kid? Also, are we 100% positive Ben is dead? August has never said that he's dead, only that his son got hurt. In one of the S2 trailers, he's briefly shown wailing at a gravesite, but that scene hasn't aired yet. And Patty's biographer also offered to write a letter to him for August. I don't imagine Patty is going to be very happy to learn August killed her fucktoy and appears to be traveling away from her with her Black Rose bait, so I don't think the Ben storyline is dead and buried yet (no pun intended).

I know my TV boyfriend plays the bad guy (I'm keeping hope for redemption in season 2), but I had to chuckle during the scene when Jeremiah Johnson told him they'd have to renegotiate their deal. It was the one light scene of the episode, relatively speaking.

Oh, I really want a Hollywood ending for everybody. I want Jonathon and Elizabeth and Rosalee to convince August to not let Ben have died in vain and then he sees the light and helps with the railroad, and then Rosalee and Noah get married and have a baby and name him Ben, and Steen is freed and August and Jay are like surrogate grandfathers and Jonathon and Elizabeth are the surrogate aunt and uncle, and everybody lives happily ever after and nobody ever speaks of the strange smell coming from the cellar. I REALLY WANT THAT TO HAPPEN.

I literally gasped out loud when I saw Sam hanging underneath the podium thing. I'm still reeling from that. I wonder why August doesn't ask Ben to read the letter to him. I would think he's more trust-worthy than the nastier slave-catcher. Meloni has said on Twitter that he can't be trusted, so I also wonder if he was lying about the bank wanting to buy August's land. I really want August to see the light before the end of this season. I hate watching my TV boyfriend play a slave-catcher.

I thought he only weighed the bag. The first time, he was so pissed off with the weight that he emptied the bag into the basket to make sure there wasn't anything extra mixed in with the cotton, like rocks or whatever, but I'm pretty sure the second day he just weighed the bag, told him his new number was 315, and then emptied the cotton into the basket and handed the empty bag back. I could absolutely be wrong though.

I keep telling myself there's going to be a second season and that's the only reason why my TV boyfriend still has that atrocious beard.

August bought his 11-year-old boy a hooker. And then had her himself. Detective Stabler would not be happy about this at all. I only watched the episode once; did anybody get the impression she and Ben did anything more than just talk? That look he gave August when he walked into his room the next morning after seeing her leave could have peeled paint.

Well, to be completely fair, it wasn't common for the fathers to be in the labor room during birth until the late 1960s-early 1970s. His action of being elsewhere in the house during childbirth was probably a pretty accurate representation of what fathers did at that time. The fact that he showed zero emotion to her obvious pain shows how he really feels about her, not his absence. What was the tongue-less butler doing while Ernestine was confessing to murdering Pearly Mae? I wonder if he was trying to match the color of Tom's red seal wax. He also had cut a potato but didn't do anything else with it, so I wonder if he was going to carve it into a fake seal. I don't recall the reverend discussing the need for a particular shade of red for his painting.