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Sloppy, heavily parenthetical/bulletpointed recap. Will need more time to process, but wanted to get this out so I can maybe start Episode 5 later tonight.

We're back to reality, and is it wrong for me to be slightly disappointed? The William-lives timeline is so powerfully drawn. We cheer as David leaves the cast and grab the records he left behind. Creepy, but useful.

According to our messages, Chloe apologized for freaking out about Rachel and Frank ("hey man / i suck again / sorry i got in your face today and took out my bullshit rage on my best friend ...that is your one get out of emoji jail free card"). Then when we visit Kate at the hospital (I love the way Max's eyes light up when she hugs Kate), Chloe also apologizes for flipping out about when we took that phone call. In short, the volatile, clingy Chloe is starting to stabilize toward Max... and instead begins directing her anger at the Prescotts. It's easy to say in hindsight, but I did feel it at the time - there is a sense that Chloe and Max's relationship is done developing, and it's time to get into plot mode.

It's terrifying, but we absolutely let Warren beat the shit out of Nathan Prescott. Bastard's got a real creepfest of a room. It also sets a disturbing precedent in which we 1. ignore Warren's ability to help us out and 2. keep leaving incriminating evidence lying around. (Is it my fault I didn't rewind a bunch of sequences, to keep the files on the shelves later, or to fix Nathan's lock?)

This a complex subject here. I generally don't condone violence as a form of "redemption" for a character. Warren is Mr. Friendzone (and he's been called a beta by Nathan), but if this alone is enough for us to root for Warren to pound Nathan's face in, it's disgusting. But when you remember the photo of Nathan beating on Warren, and the fact that Nathan fucking shot Chloe and drugged so many different people... it's terrifying, but I'm all for it. It helps that Max herself is pretty cool with it after the fact - describing it as an "epic beatdown" at the EOTW party. It also helps that Warren seems to struggle with what he's done - he seems wasted at the EOTW party, possibly grappling with his "ultraviolence."

I'm really glad I managed to save Frank there (even though it's not super-believable that Chloe overpowered him - if we hadn't seen her helpless over and over, maybe.) He's obnoxious, but I found myself enjoying his character. The dialogue tree is pretty damn impressive, and it's shockingly touching at the end when Frank chokes out that he doesn't miss Rachel's hotness, but rather her voice... and her laugh. Damn.

The next step has us linking together clues in really satisfying, Ace Attorney Investigations sort of way. Frank's decoder shows us what times he's met up with Nathan; David's stalking and photos let us link Nathan's vehicle to GPS coordinates; Nathan's birthday (?!) lets us unlock his phone. From there, we further Logic our way into figuring out exactly where Nathan went on the night of the party where Kate got hammered last week - a creepy barn.

To the barn we go, and we have a third straight neat puzzle - using some gravity to leverage open an underground vault, and then breaking in with the code. How nuts is it that we have no record of Nathan's doodlings when we have to break in here? I actually remembered "523" being the only three-digit combination and immediately went to enter it, but it was actually "542." Thankfully Max's internal monologue tells us to check the faded buttons, so I tried 524 and finally 542.
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