Okay. Maybe not confide in Lily, but everything is absolutely pointing to Lily being the go to person for Quinn and replacing Rio as her new pawn. The only thing is, Lily is a little too smart for that so it's gonna take a lot more. But it became obviously in Ep 9 that Rio is being left out. See her conversation with Camila after seeing Quinn and Lily together and all other interactions with Quinn following that moment. And as for Lily, she bailed Quinn out at the party. She ensured her she has her back. Quinn asked Tommy about trusting Lily. And then Quinn and Lily were pretty much inseparable at the BBQ. Everything is pointing in that direction. How you don't see it means I probably pay more attention than you do.
As for Buddy. If there's any realism to this and DPC is trying to give that feel to the story, then Buddy only cares where his money is coming from. He doesn't care if Vinny and Quinn have an equal share of the market. If Quinn is pushing more product, Buddy will be happier. So any dialogue with Buddy and anyone, only has one goal in mind. Where's his money coming from? So you can't read too much into what he said to Vinny. He doesn't care. He cares about his money. It's Vinny's problem that he's not carrying his own weight. So I doubt Buddy had anything to do with Rio's kidnapping. And if DPC runs with that in the story, he clearly has no clue either.
Quinn asks Tommy about trusting Lily since Lily came into knowledge about the prostitution ring, and while yes it is fully possible that Lily might become Quinn's partner in the future, such remains to be seen, and Quinn is still not including Lily in her business by episode 10, if Quinn does so in the future, we'll see. Lily herself said that it must be frustrating for Quinn not having anything on her, but Lily being aware of the prostitution ring and drug dealing means that she does have something on Quinn, it would be a good idea for Quinn to try and find leverage on Lily.
And for realism in drug dealing, Buddy being a supplier doesn't want his subordinates wasting their time fighting each other, as they're supposed to be bringing him money, not competing with each other for the same clients. When did I ever even mention an "equal share" of any market? The market is divided between his dealers, how equal it is, is irrelevant. Buddy has his dealers divided into particular market shares so that they don't compete with each other, the size of said market share is not elaborated on, besides noting that they exist. Seems like a fairly basic concept. Like just basic simple organization. Do I really have to explain this shit? They literally talk about who's territory they're on when they're talking at the party, and Lily and the other strippers were on Vinny's turf, B&R is Quinn's turf, it's literally stated in the game.
And it's not a question that Buddy is involved with Rio's kidnapping, you literally see Mick (who is Buddy's muscle) helping Vinny kidnap her, they use Mick's blue van that Mick was using to stalk Rio.
