#then we learned porsche had brought pete there as a bargaining chip and i went oh. that's why. he's doing it for pete.

[lu-sn]

this is the face of a man who is connecting a lot of dots.

we know vegas had flagged porsche early on as someone to keep tabs on — he sent the assassin girl into that gala to report on porsche's skills as a bodyguard. but then we have this interaction:

vegas is clearly baffled that his dad cares about this random bodyguard, but gun provides zero context. just a vague, pointlessly harsh order.

so vegas makes his best guess at to why gun might care, and arrives at something close to "he's a point of weakness for kinn — we can use him." and he proceeds to do just that.

then, too-late, he learns he was wrong.

(shoutout to gun being angry about namphueng's son getting hurt while ACTIVELY hurting his own son. what a dickhead.)

i bet this new information just eats away at vegas, especially while he's trapped at the safehouse. how could he have possibly known he was supposed to keep porsche safe? when has his father EVER wanted to keep anyone safe? why the fuck is porsche so important?

once porsche hands him the photo, it all falls in place.

the consequences of being left in the dark were severe for vegas. it wrecked all of his plans from the start, and vegas had no clue how much it would matter. but neither did porsche — and as vegas says himself, kinn doesn't know either. this is a secret that goes all the way to the top.

gun cares about porsche, because gun cares about porsche's mother enough to have a photo of her in his office. and you can tell vegas is burning to know why.

sure, he says. he'll go find arthee. he'll fork up the five million in cash. he'll do whatever it takes to help porsche learn the truth of his past — because in some sense, it's vegas's past, too. and vegas wants answers.

#on my very first watch i remember being surprised about how easily vegas was acquiesing to porsche's needs #frankly i thought it was suspicious #then we learned porsche had brought pete there as a bargaining chip and i went oh. that's why. he's doing it for pete. #i don't think that's true anymore. i think pete was vital for getting vegas to agree to this meeting #but the moment vegas sees that photo? it becomes personal #kinnporsche #vegas theerapanyakul #porsche kittisawasd #gun theerapanyakul #vegaspete #kprewatch2023