and Paul should have, at least, gotten that.

Nah. He was in such foreign territory here, he wasn't getting anything.

I loved the dynamic of Rebecca's understanding of the S&M scene. To the point where I've written and deleted three paragraphs trying to explain it, but I can't. It was just...good.

This may actually be the first time I've ever found any fictional story abut S&M interesting. Normally, bondage stories either bore or annoy me. (Which comes from knowing too many people in the scene who won't shut up about it. Other people's kinky sex is boring.)

Also, I live in the woods.

Note to self: watch Tivo'd Inside eps during the daylight.

Did I mention my house is really dark?

I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.

Other people's kinky sex is boring.

"Really, I'm glad you have weird sex. That's great. But I don't care."

My problem tends to be that it's played so blatantly to titillate (not this time, I'm saying usually) and wavers between glamorizing and moralizing, so the people involved are all gorgeous and wearing fantastic clothing and in opulent surroundings -- and they're also pretentious and/or violent. Okay, Brandt was a bit pretentious. But other than that, well avoided!

I'm off to dance now. Have fun.

He was playfully testing her.

And I think, up until the handcuffs, Rebecca was enjoying it. She sure didn't back off when it became obvious he was going to kiss her. I don't know how much of that was supposed to be "FBI testing the suspect" and how much was just "female curiousity."

Plus, he was innocent, so it would just be a little head game.

Even general guy on the street would know an FBI agent doesn't usually show up just to chat, and she wanted to see the room. My take was, he thought she was curious -- maybe not in terms of doing anything that moment, but someday -- and since the conversation turned that way, he wanted to illustrate the whole control issue.

I think he was genuinely freaked when she started screaming.

I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.

Or this.

Paul seems to be as driven by his past as anyone else. My impression was that he was rejected by the late DA some years ago and he has since married, yet that rejection still really bothered him. I wonder if more than one woman has rejected him for someone who's not such a nice guy. (I'm presuming he's married from the baby thing. I guess it ain't necessarily so. Do we know?)

And I think, up until the handcuffs, Rebecca was enjoying it.

Oh, yeah. She was testing herself, too.

Had to catch up with the new Good Eats (oh the irony of following up The Inside with that) and catch the non-interview portion of the Daily Show, but just wanted to chime in with a "Wow, that was really disturbing. In that good way. Kudos."

And now, to bed.

Had to catch up with the new Good Eats

Ooh, that's right! It's Wednesday!