This continues episode eight: The Thin Red Line.

This is another one where your mileage may vary, but in the scene where Lisbon interrogates Preciado, this line earns her a significant look from Jane that clearly meant something, even though she didn't notice it. This is my guess at what it meant.

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chapter 53: "Good-looking man like you, there had to be more to it than that."

Usually Lisbon is transparent, remarkably forthright. Calling Preciado "good-looking" could just be a way to flatter him into giving things away. That her words are more than a gambit is a notion I find both surprising and unaccountably disturbing.

Not that she is attracted to him personally. His machismo is too pronounced for that. But if Lisbon has a physical type, Preciado embodies it. Dark, tough, Physically imposing.

Everything I'm not.

This is a good thing. I needn't worry about leading her on. She wants nothing from me but my crime solving skills.

What a relief.

No, really.

So. The slightest hint of jealousy, a heaping dose of denial. It isn't the beginning of a romance, but it might be part of the preparation of the seeds it will spring from. Anyone agree? Disagree? Why or why not?