Excellent point. After all there was no reason for Max and Silver to bring up families in London or the fact those families paid people to whisk their problematic (which is RUBBISH Alfred as you should be thanking anyone in sight you have a son as lovely as Thomas) family members away. Then to have Silver namedrop Thomas as though the fandom’s brains didn’t immediately leap to him and THEN had Silver going “I want to give up this war for Madi like you would for Thomas”. It’s going somewhere.

Exactly. If they were just going to have Silver question whether Flint would ever give up the war for anything, they didn’t need to have him ask Max which families in London had used that plantation, or even have her mention it. This is headed somewhere – particularly because this has always been a story about stories and that’s all Thomas’ death has ever been – a story, one mentioned by Richard Guthrie who quite demonstrably does not have all the facts and backed up by a letter from a man who lied with every breath he ever took. Peter Ashe could have said the sky was blue and he’d have been lying about it somehow.