LOL - I guarantee you he's been running a pardon bidding contest for at least a year where he knows exactly what he gets from every single pardon/commutation in terms of money, future contracts, relationships, etc.
Don't disagree and she may have absolutely given tours to Insurrectionists the day before, but I can't stand the quick react media bullshit where they see her post that picture and tag it to this story and it's not even a picture from the US Capitol.
So what is the evidence we truly made a play for Lanning? Chip Brown?
Sexton leaks him the story and his client has a raise on less than six hours.
I don't believe CDC and Sark who have been running shit in stealth mode all of a sudden fucked this up.
I also wouldn't think Marco would blow it up, but the more I think about it - he just has to make sure Holden or anyone else can't capture it. Whether the Belters have it or not does not matter. It's the threat that they do.
I got the impression that Holden's crew was chasing the ship that had it (zumaya I think, right?) but it was off scope for a significant amounts of time. That's why they were scanning for the Mars ships also that Marco just acquired because they could be meeting with the ship. Earlier in the episode, Marco asked to borrow Naomi's ship from Phillip which was unusual. So my thought was he would send Naomi's ship to offload the protomolecule because it was some random ship that Naomi purchased/rented that no one (Holden in particular) knew about.
Look...... I think CDC is just playing chess here. Leak sark, make Saban tell him he's out after this year, then hire urban. Only thing that makes any sense.
It's hard not to realize that tonight was quite possibly the best night possible in terms of Urban coming to Texas:
1. Methhead Herman
2. Bijan
3. Thompson
4. Bijan
5. More athletic than JJ Watt and the Bosa brothers.
6. News coming out a few days ago about NFL teams interested in Meyer - all a negotiating ploy by Meyer's agent.
It's happening.