So from what you pointed out and what we observed so far is that Liam may have a lying problem now too. So I guess we can say that Liam's marriage may be in trouble not from gambling but from lying if you choose this path.
But this is worse, means that Liam has brought his wife into the wolves' den on purpose.
The only question is, how much does the L&P see the mafia as dangerous wolves? At the moment, L&P portrays Don as a man of honor and word. But usually in reality, this does not apply to victims! The Mafia gets everything it wants at any cost. In our case, while some kind of comical, funny story is taking shape.
We can clarify this only after Don's next meeting with the Parkers.
I see your point, but I think the story is allowed to take some liberties with timelines. A quick setup does not break my suspense of disbelief. God knows we need to speed this game up, not find ways to low it down.
I don't think L&P intends on portraying Liam in such a negative light. So far I get the impression that L&P wants to write Liam as a loving and flawed husband. I do not think that includes making Liam into some sort of habitual liar. In the end I think L&P wants Liam to be a sympathetic character to the audience if/when Sophia cheats.
That was my takeaway. I took it as something similar to "math vs maths". Debt or debts, neither is really wrong but a native speaker would only use "debt".
You can have some liberties with the timelines or time-lapses as long as it makes sense on the other end. If we find out down the road that Liam's has been visiting the casino without Sophia's knowing this then the explanation becomes clear. I'm replaying the Casino Don Morello scene again to see if I missed the word Debts.
Don uses the word debt until the very last part of the conversation where debts and all of them were used. So then the logical conclusion would be Liam was visiting that casino more than once, which means he was hiding and lying to Sophia or Don Morello has no intention of letting Sophia go that easy.
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."
Someone disagrees with you:
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...
