Personal boundaries?  Property rights?  Sovereign integrity?  They mean nothing in the Trailverse.

And what exactly is the tip-off to you Mark?  Regarding the observation that “none of this taxidermy equipment looks like it has ever been used!”  Is it still in the shrink wrap?  No fish scales about??  It would certainly explain why “Marlin” gave you the ol’ brush-off… Too Busy, huh? Well, it appears that he is busy with things OTHER THAN TAXIDERMY…  this plot is now thicker than Candy-apple-syrup…