Time for theories on CH26.
- I think we will start seeing some light humiliation of Dan from Sarah without Lester's prompting
- BC will stay in the background for a couple of chapters before we get a reveal of Lester's plans
- Same w/ the Daughter's Bigfoot sighting - that won't happen until Dan returns home for a visit
- Lester will push Sarah for more home visits - on this front I could see a scenario where Lester persuades Sarah to take him on as a lodger (fixing up the basement), convincing her why should he give money to a hotel when he can help her with finances by giving her the money as rent. This allows her to introduce Lester to the daughters as a legitimate reason for him being in the house. As a side note I think the basement will eventually become Dan's dungeon, since Lester will claim the marital bed and there's no guest room for Dan to sleep in.
- Dan will be too busy running in circles trying to find out info on Lester, along with more fluff about Sentinal and TLG
- (Long Term) It occurred to me that a possible scenario is that Dan being out of his element with the technology side of things I can certainly see Dan making a devils bargain with Byron and TLG (they want to find the hacker and Dan wants to burn Lester) to help him track down info on Lester. Alternatively Dan might go to Sentinal for help (though this as someone else pointed out would fuck up his security clearance and any future work with them).
Im still curious to see if Don will use the girls as a tool for Lester to complete her seduction. Except for the small blurb about Lester finding someone to take the kids, I don’t see Sarah leaving her kids willingly for Lester so maybe he needs an alternate plan. As Sarah’s excitement wanes for a return to Chicago since her family and new love life is in Middleton, I can see the scenario where Lester rents the basement from Sarah to help her out financially. This will give Lester an opportunity to interact with the girls, ride share with Sarah and the girls to school and work, and manipulate the girls to help in his plan to complete his takeover of Sarah. “Uncle” Lester will then become a comfortable fixture inside the house while keeping Dan’s wife and side of the bed warm at night.
We have not heard from The Lincoln Group in this chapter which is surprising. Since Lester is already aware of their capability and shady dealings, I assume Lester has planned for their imminent attack or the possibility Dan will leak his information to them. Which will make an interesting scenario if TLG tracked the hacker back to Dan’s laptop on purpose. Lester know they will grab Dan for interrogation and immediately gives up his name. He will expect Byron will want Sarah in exchange for his freedom or life. The reason for all this to prove to Sarah Dan is a weak pathetic man who will pimp out Sarah to save Dan‘s life.
Dan is clueless making bad decisions one right after another, chasing half ass leads and not seeing his wife is falling for Lester. Dan will spill the beans to Sarah about what he and TLG/Byron bargained while pinching the bridge of his nose. Dan says they can finally be free from Lester and be a family again. Will Sarah want to leave the security, freedom and excitement big, strong Lester provides her? Will the pinching of his nose remind Sarah the night with Lester on Dan’s futon and she finally sees Dan as the weak, pathetic man she coddled, cared and made happy for their entire marriage?
“The stupidly feckless way he would pinch the bridge of his nose because he couldn’t handle something“.
Which I feel was part of Lester’s master plan to have Sarah betray her husband once she she’s the “truth”. With her assistance they will team up to take down TLG and make Dan the cuck he deserves to be. Dan will be banished to the basement and sleep on his futon reeking of Lester and Sarah’s sweat and sex.
Some of this could be affected if Lizzie gets reintroduced into the story. How will Lester or Sarah react? Since Dan calls her a smoke show, how will he react when he sees her again? Will Dan and her hook up? Or is Lizzie still part of Lester’s master plan to help seduce Sarah