the Avril/Wayne tableau: the two Québec-linked figures alone

The private tableau puts the two most Québec-charged figures in the novel alone together — Avril, the R.C.M.P.-watch-listed Québécois-Separatist associate (020), and John Wayne, the disowned Québécois of opaque allegiance (065) — in a cheerleader/football roleplay Pemulis stumbles on. Read only for the possible-A.F.R.-tie angle, the scene is the intelligence-datum where the avril-afr and wayne-afr cruxes touch: a watch-listed Separatist-linked mother cultivating a stateless Québécois star in secret, the possible "recruitment/handling" reading. (The affair itself, Avril's motives, and the family-system meaning are family-hamlet's, built; landed here only the two-Québec-operatives inference — an inference — the scene carries no explicit A.F.R. content.)