If the "evil lawyer" frequently made use of the "what colour are my eyes" ploy, and everyone knew it, why hadn't the DA and the people prepping Jack warned him of that beforehand?
Mikaela, that is an excellent point - and Jack's lack of preparation regarding his
cross-examination is something that I raised in my comments on Lori's lj. It makes me suspicious of Brad, the prosecutor. As a prosecutor myself (not a big-shot fed, just a lowly county assistant prosecutor), I know that the direct testimony of your witness is the easier part - you can control that. You know exactly what you're going to ask and your prep your own witness accordingly. It's the
cross that holds all the minefields, and a good prosecutor will
always role play with his witness, actually go through a mock cross-examination to try to anticipate where the defense will trip him up and prepare him for that. When we heard Jack thinking that he didn't know what to expect from the defense lawyer, I thought "uh oh." You can't know exactly, of course, but he should have had at least
some idea of what to expect. And then when Brad mentioned at the bar that the defense guy used that eye color thing before - that rang all kinds of warning bells for me.
Now that Jack's testimony is on record, why didn't the hitman just kill Jack in the bar, or outside the bar? Why the intricate plot to abduct him somewhere first - risking the hitman's life up close and personal, and involving hidden helpers, and syringes and whatnot - much that could go wrong? I thought at this stage the whole point for the brothers would be to kill Jack to show other potential witnesses what happens to anyone who don't keep mum. And if so - they'd want the death as public as possible, wouldn't they? Shooting Jack in the bar would be perfect to get that point across. And if Jack could have a note pressed into his hand, he sure could be killed. (Eeep!! 
)
I believe Janice is right - they wanted D, not Jack - they know Jack has a personal relationship with D because of Jack's own testimony that he was involved with someone while in hiding (it had to have been D - they were on the run together) so they were counting on the fact that Jack would risk his life for D. I did understand why Jack went outside, I thought his internal dialogue and the way he argued with himself was great, but I don't think we know yet whether the two separate bad guy groups are communicating - we don't even know yet exactly why the second group wants D.
And, I have to agree with Janice - Churchill agreeing to let Jack go to that bar was a bonehead move, letting him out of his sight at the bar was another bonehead move, you just can't take chances like that, no matter how sorry you feel for the witness ..... but, it did bring D and Jack together! I am so anxious for the next chapter!
Marie
