agnesgoesadventuring:

Someone kind of asked me about this in a passing comment yesterday, so I thought I’d give an expanded answer. They were wondering specifically about how the argument that Nott witnessed between Dalton and Horace might connect to what happened at the end of the episode.

In case anyone forgot, Nott followed Dalton and Horace home and watched them while they were inside their house. They were having an argument, that Matt described as more of a passionate discussion than a screaming match, but it ended with one of them in tears.

If that argument was connected to what happened at the end of this week’s episode (rather than being some sort of unrelated, relationship, “I hate your mother” type of argument), there are a few ways I think that could be.

• It could be that they knew that Ulog had that bead and that he was possibly, in some way, planning to kill the High Richter all along. Or possibly even that it was just some kind of contingency plan. Jack made note of the way Ulog kept checking his watch, and thought that maybe he, somehow, knew that the High Richter would be returning home at a certain time because his intention the whole time had been to kill her. Or, it could have just been a “just in case” thing, that he had in the event that they were caught by her. Either way, Dalton and Horace could have been aware of it and disagreed about the potential murder of a public official.
• The mention that they would conveniently not be around that night so that they would have “deniability” when they brought in the evidence to the law master could be pretty suspicious and maybe tie them into the larger attack on the city. There was also mention that other potential “allies” had offered the Knights of Requital help. Perhaps either the group as a whole, or Dalton and Horace without consulting the rest of the group, took one of those potential allies up on their offer, but it spiraled out of control and by the time they were planning with the Mighty Nein, the knew that they’d aligned themselves with something way bigger than they could deal with and that something huge was going to go down, and they now couldn’t get out of it. Or only one of them wants out of it and the other wants to go ahead, and it’s led to tension and arguing between them.
• Or the above all might be true, but the source of tension between them and the reason for the argument was in regards to dragging the Mighty Nein, who are relatively innocent, at least as far as this whole mess is concerned, into the whole thing. Maybe they’re doing it for cover or so that they can be scapegoats, and one of the pair doesn’t feel right about it.
• One of the possibilities I presented in another post was that one of them was the crick soldier or one of the mages or just someone from Xhoras in disguise.

That argument has just been so intriguing to me since it happened, and I’m dying to know what it was about and how it ties to everything.