As quickly as it escalated, I'm glad the Carter situation resolved when it did, because I was finding it excruciating that the MC was having Inspector Gadget levels of obliviousness regarding Carter's involvement. I know there's such a thing as dramatic irony when the audience is in on something the main characters are not, but when you're playing AS the MC, it's just excruciating to have to sit through the stupider decisions. (Using "decisions" loosely here, as I don't think we've made any of the actual bodyguard decisions, just "how friendly/romantic/fatherly do we want to be" decisions.) I think the Dev is knocking down all the red herrings (or partial red herrings, since it's not as though they have zero involvement), until eventually we learn who the "final" stalker is. I'm thinking MC's buddy Steve, who we saw at the mall and who's trying to get the mom to the bar. But I hope I'm wrong.