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.