The penultimate episode turned out to be the calm before the presumed storm of the finale.  It featured many scenes of quiet introspection, a character study of two desperate men; one with no choices available to him at all, and the other with a few good choices left but lacking the will to act on any of them, too prideful and stubborn to admit defeat.  Not to his lawyer, not to the authorities, not to his family, not to death himself.

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