Jess’s conversation gambit apparently worked. Instead of interviewing Tess about her hog-hunting group, as Mark was assigned to do, he is being led down an irrelevant side road of matrimonial kismet. I suppose there is some justifiable curiosity in knowing about their first meeting. In another context, we might suspect Mark is deliberately playing the role of a gullible and inexperienced reporter in order to disarm Jess and Tess to reveal more than they intended. But so far, we’ve seen no support for that idea. Yeah, I must be projecting, once again.

Okay, I hear what (some of) you are thinking: “Hey, George, you big dummy! Maybe it is Jess that was conned by Tess; not the other way around. Her amnesia is just part of her con so he wouldn’t ask too many questions about her background. She needed a place to hide out and a meal ticket.”