Marathe's quadruple-agent calculus — "The woman had a ripe spot…"

Pat has just offered desperately-addicted "Henri" the rear-office Convertisofa this very night — an unscripted kindness Fortier prepared no lines to deflect. Marathe's cold professional read locates its source precisely: her soft spot for the disabled, the one American response his cover was built to exploit and the one this scene complicates three paragraphs later with her non-solicitous gaze (spine).