Probably Unanswerable Questions
Delayed lawsuit; Mickey’s generosity; award amount; sobriety; Laura; disbarment; higher settlement
In the discussion (10)
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- Whether Galvin would accept a 510,000 settlement is explicitly unanswerable.
- Unanswerable: why the suit took four years; family relocation needs and Galvin's long inaction are possible explanations.
- Mickey's business and motives for giving Galvin a 70,000 opportunity and extensive unpaid help are questioned; an older-generation friendship/fence-building anecdote offers context.
- Unpaid substantial favors are contrasted with the hosts' lesser willingness to help each other,defending Mickey as an older-generation friend.
- The award is guessed at one million,then several million,including four or five million.
- A further estimate is three to four million,with one million for Frank.
- Whether Galvin stays sober is disputed: coffee suggests reform,but others expect continued drinking and note he never fully stops; refusing brandy at the archdiocese is admired.
- Laura is proposed as an ultimate Chris Ryan attraction,contrasting her darkness with Dana Wheeler-Nicholson's upbeat appeal.
- Whether every lawyer and the judge should be disbarred receives a joking probable yes.
- The doctor's paid disappearance renews questions about why the defense did not simply raise the settlement or locate the nurse.