Hmmmmm that's a good pickup. He does deliberately change to the plural in that last frame. This could definitely recontextualize Liam as a more severe gambling addict than we previously thought.
This is why I said in a previous statement several months ago, from a realistic standpoint, why did they choose to go to a casino if she knew he was an addict.
Well she may not know the extent of the problem. If he's successfully hiding it from her and it's only gotten worse recently, then Sophia may not have had any reason for concern.
These scenes actually debunk the extent of the problem with his gambling and the thing is that at the start of the novel, Sophia's narration explains that Liam has a "little gambling problem."
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I read their comments the night of the casino disaster as him defensively passing responsibility (like addicts do) and Sophia radically revaluating his addiction in realtime. My read on that scene is, if you reverse time 12 hours he would never say that and she would never think that. Gambling away the house causes him to reflexively ignore his responsibility while she realizes it's not a little issue anymore.
You should see her other swimsuit. Just straps without bikini.
I was thinking the same thing, but it would be too much.At this point we can go even wilder and speculate that he had been at the casino and lost many times, he had to sit down with Morello and he offered Sophia as an "asset" to pay back (something that an addict in desperate need may come to). Then the night at the casino Morello checked out Sophia and agreed to the deal. Then they played pretend the whole time telling Sophia it was only that time etc. beside that slip of "debts". Liam could have also pretended to have a phone call to leave the jail room to give Sophia the opportunity to do what asked.
I don't like it, but since we are speculating...
Clearly I've forgotten things - what was the more twisted version of the game early on?
I really don't remember the last time L&P had a smooth development period, we had the surgery last year, then we had to wait 5 months because the yoga event was too big, then came the move out, the failure of the graphic cards and now we return to another surgery, we’re really out of luck
As I said I don't like that and I too think it's a little bit too twisted for a side storyline. And like for the removed Twist, it shed a very dark light on the character.
This doesn't necessarily means more Sophia's action, but probably as hzjujk suggested he could be interested in getting involved in Liam's business once/if he becomes the CEO. I mean, I don't care about the business part, but as a reader I would find really unrealistic if in the next meeting he says "Good job Sophia, you guys can go, forget about your debt".)
100% agree, there's no way that the prison meeting is the end of that storyline.
It is seriously proposed that this IS how long it will take. L&P has even defended this timescale & to be fair, it doesn't bother me that much. (Like most people I have more than enough to worry about right now, without bothering about how daft a 10-year long game sounds). If you think of it like a soap opera, it may not seem so bad. I know of one soap that has run for 61 years........aargh!
As soon as this sequence was shown I said that Sophia's mini winning streak had been engineered by the Don, so that he could meet her, comment on her beautiful eyes etc. There wasn't complete agreement but now I think most fans accept that everything that occurred was no accident. Just how deeply Liam is implicated is one the major points of speculation & leads to a sense of anticipation for future revelations. I think that it's quite possible that he was gambling while supposedly 'working late.' I'm not so sure of whether he offered Sophia as a kind of collateral but after all, people don't always act in predictable ways.
