hey,
xcalibar4. I think I wrote a very similar recap much earlier on, all about this bathroom scene too. it's the one that haunts me the most.
That "
Whatever you want" line is the real killer. I've said it before many times, and I'll keep saying it again... This line here would be the nail on the coffin, the straw that broke the camel's back.
Hutch having heard that... there's just no going back. This is why the following home scene between Hutch and Vivian felt
flat to me. I know what the Dev was trying to get across. I just don't think the context worked following the bathroom scene. it could have been reworded/reworked differently, being more in line with a betrayed husband, and still end up being at the same point in the story. e.g. no hugs, no holding hands, and when she asked for his promise that they would be ok afterwards, he should of said something in the lines of "I can't promise you that, I hope we will, it will depend on... you. I just can't make any promises".