"I've never heard of him."

"Worth a try."

...well Anemone doesn't feel much better but she doesn't know what else to ask about. She is going to not read horrible things on the way back and instead try to take a nap so she is READY TO GO when they get back to LA.

Mordred has noticed that Lev isn't reading so he is going to sit conspicuously near him and read one of his linguistics books out loud.

😍

Oswald considers his options in silence so he has something better ready by the time they get to LA. Really not liking their odds right now.

Lev can make out about one sentence in ten of what Mordred is reading but it's the most linguistics he's had in a decade and he feels like a thirsty man at the oasis. 

He goes from "oh! linguistics! yay!" to "why is Mordred reading out loud, no one is listening except for me" to "...he's reading out loud because I couldn't read books" to "and he didn't ask, which means he doesn't want anything" to a feeling of formless wordless gratitude. It takes about twenty minutes, because Lev's entire brain is fog and because of all the unfamiliar concepts. 

From then on Lev's expression is pathetically grateful and mildly disbelieving.

Mordred, meanwhile, is way overthinking how to phrase his question.

Eventually he sets down his book and says "so, uh, what did you mean by 'well that's romantic'?"

Lev is good at answering questions of this form in a way that is mostly not lying.

"Daniel Lowman, the guy who sent the thugs? His girlfriend is Savitree Sirikhan. She's Thai. She was a member of the inner circle. If she survived she's the obvious person to send Thai thugs after you. I had a crush on her. Before. It's. Kind of sweet if you think about it. Even though the thugs were probably mostly watching Henslowe."

"...that is kind of sweet if I think about it."

"I, uh, take what I get on the people caring about me front."

"So I'm not totally sure how much they told you but - to be clear the reason I got you out of the hospital is that I hate asylums and have devoted my career to exposing how terrible they are and don't want anyone to be left in them who has any other options. It's not - something you have to prove yourself about. I promise."

"Oh. You got me out?"

"Yes? Or, I snuck into the records room and discovered that Keaton was embezzling from the person who was paying for you to be there, then told her about it so she'd stop paying Keaton for anything, but like getting you out was the goal."

"Oh. ...thank you?"

Oh, he's so nice and good and also so pretty. Lev wants to kiss him. 

...oh no. 

"You're welcome."

WHY does Lev have a crush on the FIRST MAN IN TEN YEARS TO BE NICE TO HIM.

...when he puts it like that the answer is obvious.

Lev mumbles something and stares at the floor and turns slightly red because his entire internal monologue is "want to HUG mordred want to put my head on mordred's SHOULDER want to KISS mordred want to PET MORDRED'S HAIR" plus very vivid sense-memories of what various men's hair felt like.

"...do you want me to read to you again?"

"Yes."

He's so nice!!! and good!!! Maybe he would also be nice to Lev while holding him!!!

This is definitely an unrealistic daydream.

Mordred begins to read.

Now Lev is getting one sentence in twenty because he keeps getting distracted by how much he wants to pet Mordred's hair. It's fluffy. He badly needs a haircut.

Fortunately he'd never conclude that Lev had a crush on him or anything. Homosexuality is so taboo that it would never occur to anyone that someone would actually do it. So Lev can stare at him as much as he wants.

Unfortunately for Lev, Mordred has read Lev's patient records and is also himself a queer, so homosexuality is something he would think of.

Fortunately for Lev, what would not occur to Mordred is that someone might have a crush on him. 

Meanwhile--

Zoe feels like they have a ton of information now, but she doesn't have a lot of ideas what to do with it...

They could look up Olivia Claredon, but probably they cannot get a famous movie star to talk to them about her ex-boyfriend's mysterious death ten years ago. At least not on short notice.

They could try to find records of where Spend died, and investigate that house... they could look for records on the barn fiasco and see if they could find where the barn is...

Dammit she wishes Lacie were here, she had been going to ask her if she recognized anyone in any of the photos. She bets the first one she would have showed Lacie Lacie would have been like "Holy crap, that's my dad holding that knife!" or something.

She is trying to figure out if there is any way they can go to the police and be like "see these 10 year old photos of gruesome murders? can you tell us more about this event?" that doesn't somehow go terribly. She is not sure how it would go terribly but she bets it would.

"Oh hey wait! I know someone in the LAPD! It's helpful for Suicide Club people to be friends with the cops. It reduces the trespassing charges. Now what was Walter's number..."

"Do you know him well enough to safely meet him alone? And if not could we swing by the library first so I can try to pick something relevant to research with meanwhile?"

"I don't know him all that well... I couldn't for sure say he wasn't involved in a cult 10 years ago? He doesn't really seem like the type, but one never knows. We can probably swing by the library first, depending on his availability."

She calls Walter and lets him know she's in town and they agree to meet at a coffeeshop for lunch. Carrie collects some likely-looking newspapers from the library.