Which means I still need to check it out, to see if my memory is giving me an accurate picture of a glance exchanged by LaCroix and Janette before she goes off. My interpretation of it for all these years has been that she's going after Sarah -- most likely on LaCroix's instructions -- while he deliberately distracts Nick with the philosophical verbal sparring about music and souls.

I was so struck by Deb's movement choice -- the way she tilts her head and then sort of sets off sideways as if spring-loaded -- that I backed the bit up quite a few times even over and above my countless viewings of any season 1 ep. At some point, the little silent exhange with LaCroix became very prominent in my head as the impetus for it, but as long as we're challenging long-held assumptions about the scene, it behooves me to look at it with fresh eyes!