Mark, you are such a moron.  Seriously.  OK, get on a plane (or ride your horse for all we know…) arrive in DC, amble up to the Senator’s office, and OMG, he’s not there!!  What a shock.  The body language in the first frame is very curious.  Almost antagonistic… but then not… But clearly Trail is pissed, otherwise we would not have thrown the chair away from in from of Annie-the-Aid’s desk…

And why wouldn’t Senator Mason be at his Lake Home?  I mean it’s probably recess, right??  But Mark will do anything to get into his nice blue suit with the white shirt and red tie.  How patriotic.