Andrew: I Noticed Our Bank Account Balance Looks A Bit Lower Than It Should. Any Idea What Thats About?

Andrew: I noticed our bank account balance looks a bit lower than it should. Any idea what that’s about?

Neil: Oh, yeah. I had Stuart put out a hit on an ex-Raven while I was in LA. Some asshole who wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer when Jean told him to fuck off.

Andrew: Cool, just make a note about that in the budget.

Josten-Minyard budget item from July 2007: “$500,000; Los Angeles garbage disposal fee”

thinking about my girls once again

Jean swallowed hard against everything he knew better than to say and managed a quiet, ​“I will burn the house down.”

The way I see it, Andrew was like a garden stake for Neil and Kevin: he couldn't do their growing for them, but he could be the solid, unbending support rod that they could use to grow toward the sky without having to worry about falling to the ground when they were not ready to hold themselves up ("the main function of a garden stake is to ensure that a young or weak plant can hold itself up against the elements").

And I think that's what Kevin and Neil are trying to be for Jean now. They are finally steady enough on their own that they're able to support someone else, and Jean needs them.

Kevin provides guidelines that make sense within Jean's worldview (you have a new master, obey him by going to LA and building a new life for yourself / you made me a promise so you can't kill yourself), he asks Betsy to break his own patient confidentiality as much as she needs to show Jean that Kevin trusts her and he can too, he coaches Jeremy on how to best support Jean (if you tell him to submit, he will / he will need someone to go to class with him / he will fall apart without a buddy system).

Neil encourages Jean to make meaningful connections with people because it will help keep him safe, he anchors Jean when dealing with the FBI, he actively removes a threat to Jean's safety so it won't hinder his slow growth, he uses a lil bit of emotional manipulation to drive the message home that Jean is worth saving, he makes himself someone Jean can talk to about the things only the two of them understand.

Jeremy, Cat, Laila, Rhemann, the Trojans, they are all vital for Jean's healing, the soil in which he'll put down roots; but it's Kevin and Neil who have been in his position before and know exactly what they needed to survive and thrive in a new environment. They needed Andrew to prop them up, and now they'll do that for Jean.

ALSO. Renee giving Jean her cross. Jean with his childhood faith in shreds. Holding the metal because it's warm from her skin. Jeremy seeing a hint of the chain the first time he gives Jean something. (Possibly the first time they touch?) Jeremy seeing Jean shirtless for the first time and seeing first his build, then his cross necklace, then his scars. Jean grabbing his necklace instead of his neck by the pool.

something about talismans of protection, something about metal being a conductor for intimacy, something about a dog on a chain putting on a necklace given to him by someone who cares

*tsc spoilers*

fuckity fuck what happened between Zane and Grayson

confused to why Riko cares now?? because it was in season?? either way Zane paid somehow...

Okay so it involved both of them...I thought they just had beef bc Zane was always fighting Grayson to protect Jean, but this is diff if Riko's involved

:((((