At 5:17 there’s a small gap in the lyrics. This is throwback to the Schuyler Sisters and the missing word is ‘Peggy’ because she had died. Really lovely but understated way of acknowledging it.
@@Potato-so6zr yeah, I’m not saying that she died then and there. I’m saying that’s where LMM was acknowledging that she was dead. If that makes sense lol.
A super interesting lyrical tidbit: Hamilton sings that "my god she looked so _helpless_ " , a sentiment that Mariah echoes multiple times in the song. This, put together with "Helpless" by Eliza gives the impression that Hamilton has a bit of a type for impressionablle or vulnerable women, who he can feel like he is "rescuing" or "elevating"
Armchair psychologists unite 👊 100% and I wouldn’t be shocked if because she was in a bad marriage, he didn’t really see it as cheating because in his head he was helping Maria, not cheating on his wife
The Macbeth reference is really smart because there is superstition that if you say Macbeth you will have bad luck, and when hamilton says this, his downfall begins
It's only bad luck to say MacBeth as the name of the play, which he avoided. It's not bad luck to say MacBeth if you're talking about the character, specifically.
There's a rumor about it, it says that when this play was written, the writer put some spells on it, and the times that this play is played, bad things happen
@@byrongomez8461 I've never heard anything about the writer (William Shakespeare) casting a spell on the play. Even if it wasn't the most famous playwright in the world, casting a curse on their _own_ production is stupid - who would even do that, and why? I've heard the rumored source that _a coven of witches_ cursed the play for using "real" witch incantations in it. More modern interpretation of the superstition was because there's so many bad things that happen _in_ the play MacBeth that mentioning the play's name invites bad things to happen _to_ your play.
According to the Reynolds Pamphlet that Hamilton wrote and had published, his affair with Maria lasted ~a year. So there were plenty of opportunities to say no to this, but he continued to give in.
Here’s how say no to this should’ve gone: A: “She turned red, she lead me to her bed, let her legs spread, and said:” M: “Stay.” A: “Welp, I have a wife and kids... Sooooo. I’m saying no to this. See ya Mariah.” But I can see Mariah being like all sexy with the “Heeey.” And Alex doing uncomfortable hand guns 😂😂
Every time I see this scene I can’t help but chuckle a bit because LMM wife said that any time she was at a performance she would boo whenever he kissed Eliza or Mariah. I can just imagine his reaction the first time she did that. 😂
You didn't take Hamilton for the unfaithful type? Literally on his own wedding day he encouraged Burr to continue his adulterous pursuit of a married woman, and he's been micro-cheating with flirtatious letters to Angelica.
FUN FACT: "Say no to this" Could have been way sadder. In the original cut version, Angelica and Eliza both started singing "helpless" and "satisfied" in the middle of the song
Back right before Hamilton met Eliza, Burr had a line that said about Hamilton that "Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him" and Hamilton chimed in with "That's true". So now, after resisting spending the summer with the two ladies he loves most in the world, and under a lot of stress, he is tempted into an affair with Maria Reynolds. It's implied that Maria was being used as bait for blackmailing the Treasury Secretary, since you're right in saying she really didn't have any reason to go to him for help, but there's no proof either way in history. Her husband had been known to beat her and then leave her and their child for long periods of time with no support, and Hamilton wasn't the first public figure approached for help by desperate people. I honestly believe Lin Manuel Miranda left her part in this situation ambiguous because he wanted the audience to decide for themselves. But Hamilton was definitely guilty of cheating on his wife. I believe that James Reynolds just stumbled into the opportunity to blackmail Hamilton, and he was exactly the type of guy to take advantage of it. And I believe that Hamilton was stupid for not stopping when he was caught and so blinded by his obsession to get his financial plan passed and secure his legacy that maybe he thought he needed her as a relief from the stress he was under. However, even though I can understand why it happened, I still think it was a stupid mistake made by a very smart man.
Every time I watch these reaction videos, I notice something different. The acting in this song speaks to the dynamic between these three so well. Alexander is writing a letter to Angelica and while he's writing, Eliza comes over to tell him to take a break. When she gets close, he covers up what he's writing. He doesn't want her to see it. Such brilliant acting, choreography, music and storytelling in this musical! 😍❤
It is fun that Alexander marries Eliza, longs for Angelica and then ends up having "Peggy" as his side chick. Also, in theater it is very bad luck to name the play "Macbeth" (LMM does a great job of not naming the play but names the character in "Take a Break") but just like saying the name of "the Scottish play" brings doom onto the production it is also dramatically changes the course of Alexander's life.
Actually... you HAVE seen that woman before-- but, as a different character. Remember "And Peggy"? And- well, it was established a few songs ago that prior to his marriage, Alexander had something of a reputation as a player, so-- although his intentions were honorable, this was not coming _entirely_ out of left field.
The use of the word Helpless in this song is such a slap to the face. It’s literally taking the song about Eliza fell for Hamilton and twisting it. Good writing but geez. Hamilton in Take a Break: No. Hamilton ten seconds later: Suddenly incapable of saying ‘no.’
Lol I always think it’s funny when people are like “why would she come to him asking for help?!” Hamilton was an elected official and in charge of the money and women at that time had no means to make money especially if they had an abusive husband. Also there wasn’t the same type of standard government resources we have now so the only way to get help was to ask the people elected into power. So it makes sense that Maria would go to Hamilton but what makes it funny to me is that nowadays people wouldn’t even think of asking their elected officials for a dime, even though that’s why we elected them-to help, so there’s always this confusion like “why would someone go to the person they elected to help them?!” Lol American politics are in the trash haha
@@ginao6810 no, it does. However, the original post in this thread says that Hamilton was an elected official. He wasn't. I was simply correctong that error.
Lin has commented about how bad he felt writing 'Say No to This', especially being Catholic, lol! What's even worse, in real life, Eliza and the kids hadn't even left for her father's yet the first time he went to her house. Hamilton was a sucker for 'damsels in distress'. He practically gushed over Benedict Arnold's wife, who was just as guilty as her husband, but faked being shocked and hysterical after everyone found out what he did, so they wouldn't realize her part in the plot. So he was a fool over Maria, even without her advances, it just made things worse.
LMM tells the story in an interview that there was so much in Hamilton's life that they could not fit into the play...including when George Washington and Alexander Hamilton went to arrest Benedict Arnold and his wife answered the door naked to distract the men while Benedict got away.
HAMILTON WHY?? indeed I love that the company is screaming at him haha 11:45 helpless call back but now it hurts Also in case you didn't realize, Mariah is played by Peggy!
I’ve heard that the teenaged audiences at the Broadway shows (the ones who got free tickets provided by the producers to NYC public school kids) would shout to Alexander during this song, telling him to toss her sorry skank ass out the door. The cast loved how into it the kids got.
That is a good last question as to where this is going, which usually is why you want to try and either get We Know, Hurricane, the Reynolds Pamplet and Burn all together (I don't think We Know or TRP are very long).
everyone when they react to Say no to this has the same face 🤣 in We Know they have the same question about the money the next songs can be together, The room where it happen and Schuyler defeated. Great videos!
your reaction to this is so priceless! lol well worth the wait and the next reactions will also be amazing, I can tell, especially with your last question of "where did the money come from?" haha ❤️
Where's the money coming from? The reason he married Eliza is cause her family was rich af. Plus, he's a war hero, lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury. He's not poor bastard orphan anymore. He even had special, fancy ass uniforms made for his troops (nouveau riche gauche) during the war.
Ham spent the rest of his St Criox money on those Uniforms to impress Washington and others trying to get noticed so he could rise up ;) By the time Hamilton was Treasury secretary (which gave him a decent salary), he had been a federal tax collector, a New York state assemblyman and a member of the Articles of confederation Congress. And he was a very successful lawyer on top of related jobs like helping create & write the Laws for the Bank of New York. + the Federalist (in book form) was a decent seller as well even if most congressmen tried to get free copies. On top of having rich in-laws.
That line right at the end 'nobody needs to know' is a reference to another musical called 'The Last Five Years' (amazing musical btw, there's a good film version with Anna Kendrick that I recommend). There's a so g called nobody needs to know with that exact melody in it which is why here it seems so out of place because it's musically from something else. One of the many neat references in Hamilton.
And I always thought this out of place sound is only coming from the fact that Hamilton feels bad. That's genius, it adds yet a second layer. Sometimes I wonder if any part of this play is only one-layered xD
@@nebelparder9 There are a lot of different musical theatre Easter eggs scattered throughout the show. Check out Howard Ho's series on How Hamilton works, he goes through all of them
The full line from Shakespeare is, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Very applicable.
Continuing the Macbeth reference through “Take a Break,” when Angelica says “Screw your courage to the sticking place” is a direct quote from Lady Macbeth to Macbeth as he’s debating to kill Duncan. Also, the actor who plays James Reynolds is the same one who played the Schuyler sisters father in act 1. And the ensemble acts as a Greek Chorus essentially, which means that they’re observers who try to tell the players what to do, and often comment on the proceedings of the story. So when Hamilton says “I don’t know where to go,” they are literally telling him “Just GO!! Leave this.”
5:57 He didn't even have a lot going on... the "work" he supposedly had to do that caused him to stay back was actually just him having a month long affair... so he honestly had no good reason not to go with his wife and her sister upstate.
She went to him because she had become known to Eliza. Eliza had befriended her and she brought her home to him to help her. All because Eliza felt sorry for her and she saw Mariah as being in the same boat as his mom was, alone with kids. This is the same chick that played Peggy. They had an affair for a year and Eliza was pregnant at the time. It was his own money. Read Ron Chernow's book
There's also a whole ironic side to this: he is engaging in an emotional affair with Angelica, and going away to take a break with them would probably endanger his fidelity - So in a way he uses work as an excuse to avoid the time in the country with both Angelica & Eliza, yet he ends up cheating on Eliza by staying away from his existing affair.
By looking at Ham's face when Angelica sings the final line, I saw him tempted to be with her insted of Eliza so he doesn't go to resist that feel but fails with a woman he almost doesn't know...
Now I can tell you some things w/o spoilers: first at the end of Take a break they grab his arms as they did at the end of Non stop. Read again Angelica's bars about being in the corner, and come back to We know when Alexander narrates details about how he got into that "issue"
At 5:17 there’s a small gap in the lyrics. This is throwback to the Schuyler Sisters and the missing word is ‘Peggy’ because she had died. Really lovely but understated way of acknowledging it.
Great realization!
However she couldn’t have died since she died the same year as Philip
@@Potato-so6zr yeah, I’m not saying that she died then and there. I’m saying that’s where LMM was acknowledging that she was dead. If that makes sense lol.
@@Potato-so6zr yeah, the gap is there because LMM is paying tribute to her, not that she died at that time.
This is also why Eliza is wearing black in Stay Alive (Reprise)
A super interesting lyrical tidbit: Hamilton sings that "my god she looked so _helpless_ " , a sentiment that Mariah echoes multiple times in the song. This, put together with "Helpless" by Eliza gives the impression that Hamilton has a bit of a type for impressionablle or vulnerable women, who he can feel like he is "rescuing" or "elevating"
Which makes sense considering his mother
Woo! I love these analyses.
Armchair psychologists unite 👊
100% and I wouldn’t be shocked if because she was in a bad marriage, he didn’t really see it as cheating because in his head he was helping Maria, not cheating on his wife
Makes sense why he and Angelica didn't become a thing because she was already an empowered woman he admired her for that.
The Macbeth reference is really smart because there is superstition that if you say Macbeth you will have bad luck, and when hamilton says this, his downfall begins
It's only bad luck to say MacBeth as the name of the play, which he avoided. It's not bad luck to say MacBeth if you're talking about the character, specifically.
@@ILoveJesusMySavior exactly. it cracks me up when people get this wrong 😑
There's a rumor about it, it says that when this play was written, the writer put some spells on it, and the times that this play is played, bad things happen
@@ILoveJesusMySavior Chris Rock used the character’s name in referring to Denzel’s film. He got slapped moments later.
@@byrongomez8461 I've never heard anything about the writer (William Shakespeare) casting a spell on the play. Even if it wasn't the most famous playwright in the world, casting a curse on their _own_ production is stupid - who would even do that, and why?
I've heard the rumored source that _a coven of witches_ cursed the play for using "real" witch incantations in it.
More modern interpretation of the superstition was because there's so many bad things that happen _in_ the play MacBeth that mentioning the play's name invites bad things to happen _to_ your play.
According to the Reynolds Pamphlet that Hamilton wrote and had published, his affair with Maria lasted ~a year. So there were plenty of opportunities to say no to this, but he continued to give in.
Here’s how say no to this should’ve gone:
A: “She turned red, she lead me to her bed, let her legs spread, and said:”
M: “Stay.”
A: “Welp, I have a wife and kids... Sooooo. I’m saying no to this. See ya Mariah.”
But I can see Mariah being like all sexy with the “Heeey.” And Alex doing uncomfortable hand guns 😂😂
@@tigeyavengerpotter8276why does that last part sound like what I would do in this situation?
@@awildnoviceappears Same, I’m just uncomfortable in any situation. 🤣😭
Every time I see this scene I can’t help but chuckle a bit because LMM wife said that any time she was at a performance she would boo whenever he kissed Eliza or Mariah. I can just imagine his reaction the first time she did that. 😂
You didn't take Hamilton for the unfaithful type? Literally on his own wedding day he encouraged Burr to continue his adulterous pursuit of a married woman, and he's been micro-cheating with flirtatious letters to Angelica.
also, martha washington named her feral tomcat after him (thats true!)
and flirtatious letters to John Laurens before John's untimely death
Exactly. It basically went. "Shes married" "ok?..." "to a British officer" "oh... yeah that's bad". He never cared about the married bit
Also he kind of micro-cheated by singing to Maria Reynolds and carrying her in his lap
@@GoingToAFuneral he didnt “mirco cheat” he full on cheated bc he slept with her for like a whole month 😭
FUN FACT: "Say no to this"
Could have been way sadder. In the original cut version, Angelica and Eliza both started singing "helpless" and "satisfied" in the middle of the song
Is this version on TH-cam?
@@Failure-management pretty sure it is
Back right before Hamilton met Eliza, Burr had a line that said about Hamilton that "Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him" and Hamilton chimed in with "That's true". So now, after resisting spending the summer with the two ladies he loves most in the world, and under a lot of stress, he is tempted into an affair with Maria Reynolds.
It's implied that Maria was being used as bait for blackmailing the Treasury Secretary, since you're right in saying she really didn't have any reason to go to him for help, but there's no proof either way in history. Her husband had been known to beat her and then leave her and their child for long periods of time with no support, and Hamilton wasn't the first public figure approached for help by desperate people. I honestly believe Lin Manuel Miranda left her part in this situation ambiguous because he wanted the audience to decide for themselves. But Hamilton was definitely guilty of cheating on his wife.
I believe that James Reynolds just stumbled into the opportunity to blackmail Hamilton, and he was exactly the type of guy to take advantage of it. And I believe that Hamilton was stupid for not stopping when he was caught and so blinded by his obsession to get his financial plan passed and secure his legacy that maybe he thought he needed her as a relief from the stress he was under. However, even though I can understand why it happened, I still think it was a stupid mistake made by a very smart man.
This was one of the first sex scandals in American political history
Funfact : Eliza beatboxing at "Take a break" wasnt scripted thats why Hamilton looked at her funny and Philip chuckled in some of the lines
Lol
Source: Nothing
Every time I watch these reaction videos, I notice something different. The acting in this song speaks to the dynamic between these three so well. Alexander is writing a letter to Angelica and while he's writing, Eliza comes over to tell him to take a break. When she gets close, he covers up what he's writing. He doesn't want her to see it. Such brilliant acting, choreography, music and storytelling in this musical! 😍❤
It is fun that Alexander marries Eliza, longs for Angelica and then ends up having "Peggy" as his side chick. Also, in theater it is very bad luck to name the play "Macbeth" (LMM does a great job of not naming the play but names the character in "Take a Break") but just like saying the name of "the Scottish play" brings doom onto the production it is also dramatically changes the course of Alexander's life.
Hamilton literally says "they think me Macbeth".
@@Sophie-ge7ti he says "they think of me Macbeth" as in the character, when you say "Macbeth" as the play that's when it brings bad luck
Actually... you HAVE seen that woman before-- but, as a different character. Remember "And Peggy"?
And- well, it was established a few songs ago that prior to his marriage, Alexander had something of a reputation as a player, so-- although his intentions were honorable, this was not coming _entirely_ out of left field.
The use of the word Helpless in this song is such a slap to the face. It’s literally taking the song about Eliza fell for Hamilton and twisting it. Good writing but geez.
Hamilton in Take a Break: No.
Hamilton ten seconds later: Suddenly incapable of saying ‘no.’
Lol
Not to mention that after Eliza begging him to “take a break”, the second line of the is:
“You’ve never seen a bastard orphan in need of a break”
Eliza never sings/says "helpless" after this song
Lol I always think it’s funny when people are like “why would she come to him asking for help?!” Hamilton was an elected official and in charge of the money and women at that time had no means to make money especially if they had an abusive husband. Also there wasn’t the same type of standard government resources we have now so the only way to get help was to ask the people elected into power. So it makes sense that Maria would go to Hamilton but what makes it funny to me is that nowadays people wouldn’t even think of asking their elected officials for a dime, even though that’s why we elected them-to help, so there’s always this confusion like “why would someone go to the person they elected to help them?!” Lol American politics are in the trash haha
That would make sense, if Hamilton were an elected official, but he's Secretary of the Treasury, which is an appointed position. :)
@@TheAlmawardin many western countries we call that a “public service position” but i don’t think that translates in American 🤷♀️
@@ginao6810 no, it does. However, the original post in this thread says that Hamilton was an elected official. He wasn't. I was simply correctong that error.
Lin has commented about how bad he felt writing 'Say No to This', especially being Catholic, lol! What's even worse, in real life, Eliza and the kids hadn't even left for her father's yet the first time he went to her house. Hamilton was a sucker for 'damsels in distress'. He practically gushed over Benedict Arnold's wife, who was just as guilty as her husband, but faked being shocked and hysterical after everyone found out what he did, so they wouldn't realize her part in the plot. So he was a fool over Maria, even without her advances, it just made things worse.
LMM tells the story in an interview that there was so much in Hamilton's life that they could not fit into the play...including when George Washington and Alexander Hamilton went to arrest Benedict Arnold and his wife answered the door naked to distract the men while Benedict got away.
@@davidnunya8331 im sure that def. distracted A.Ham
@@davidnunya8331 a naked woman answering the door in the musical would have been quite the show stopper. 😂
lin is a catholic?
Is there a video about this story?
HAMILTON WHY?? indeed
I love that the company is screaming at him haha
11:45 helpless call back but now it hurts
Also in case you didn't realize, Mariah is played by Peggy!
I’ve heard that the teenaged audiences at the Broadway shows (the ones who got free tickets provided by the producers to NYC public school kids) would shout to Alexander during this song, telling him to toss her sorry skank ass out the door. The cast loved how into it the kids got.
This play is just absolute genius all the way through… EVERYTHING is so intentional
That is a good last question as to where this is going, which usually is why you want to try and either get We Know, Hurricane, the Reynolds Pamplet and Burn all together (I don't think We Know or TRP are very long).
my favorite bit is the "you see that was my wife you decided to-" alexander: "fuuuuuuuu" LMAO
everyone when they react to Say no to this has the same face 🤣 in We Know they have the same question about the money
the next songs can be together, The room where it happen and Schuyler defeated. Great videos!
Your reaction to “Say No To This” is priceless!!! You nailed it! Great job! Thoroughly enjoyed your take on it!
your reaction to this is so priceless! lol well worth the wait and the next reactions will also be amazing, I can tell, especially with your last question of "where did the money come from?" haha ❤️
Where's the money coming from? The reason he married Eliza is cause her family was rich af. Plus, he's a war hero, lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury. He's not poor bastard orphan anymore. He even had special, fancy ass uniforms made for his troops (nouveau riche gauche) during the war.
Ham spent the rest of his St Criox money on those Uniforms to impress Washington and others trying to get noticed so he could rise up ;) By the time Hamilton was Treasury secretary (which gave him a decent salary), he had been a federal tax collector, a New York state assemblyman and a member of the Articles of confederation Congress. And he was a very successful lawyer on top of related jobs like helping create & write the Laws for the Bank of New York. + the Federalist (in book form) was a decent seller as well even if most congressmen tried to get free copies. On top of having rich in-laws.
8:39 that’s the same girl who was Peggy in the earlier scenes of the show
It was his own personal money. He never stole any money.
He should have definitely taken that break😂😂.
That line right at the end 'nobody needs to know' is a reference to another musical called 'The Last Five Years' (amazing musical btw, there's a good film version with Anna Kendrick that I recommend). There's a so g called nobody needs to know with that exact melody in it which is why here it seems so out of place because it's musically from something else. One of the many neat references in Hamilton.
And I always thought this out of place sound is only coming from the fact that Hamilton feels bad. That's genius, it adds yet a second layer. Sometimes I wonder if any part of this play is only one-layered xD
@@nebelparder9 There are a lot of different musical theatre Easter eggs scattered throughout the show. Check out Howard Ho's series on How Hamilton works, he goes through all of them
MY NAME IS POET! I AM A PHILLIP!!‼️‼️‼️❕️❕️❕️
I WROTE THIS SHOW IT JUST TO POEM‼️‼️‼️❕️❕️❕️
Hamilton was a sucker for helpless women🙄
Maria is also Peggy in the "Schuyler sisters"
The full line from Shakespeare is,
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Very applicable.
Back for my favorite song from my favorite channel
Continuing the Macbeth reference through “Take a Break,” when Angelica says “Screw your courage to the sticking place” is a direct quote from Lady Macbeth to Macbeth as he’s debating to kill Duncan.
Also, the actor who plays James Reynolds is the same one who played the Schuyler sisters father in act 1. And the ensemble acts as a Greek Chorus essentially, which means that they’re observers who try to tell the players what to do, and often comment on the proceedings of the story. So when Hamilton says “I don’t know where to go,” they are literally telling him “Just GO!! Leave this.”
Say no to this is my fav song in the musical by far I love the musical
you asked a good question at the end
5:57 He didn't even have a lot going on... the "work" he supposedly had to do that caused him to stay back was actually just him having a month long affair... so he honestly had no good reason not to go with his wife and her sister upstate.
His face at 9:23 I can't lol
His mother was also "helpless." It's a vulnerability for him.
She went to him because she had become known to Eliza. Eliza had befriended her and she brought her home to him to help her. All because Eliza felt sorry for her and she saw Mariah as being in the same boat as his mom was, alone with kids. This is the same chick that played Peggy. They had an affair for a year and Eliza was pregnant at the time. It was his own money. Read Ron Chernow's book
Eliza, I’m obsessed with your voice
In the song say no to this I was like AYO hamliton you’re married and you are cheating I bet Eliza is not gonna be happy with that
Bro's face LLMAO
And if u didn’t know…..the girl is the also PEGGY!!!!!!
Anthony and Philipa, he like: Wow, rude
12:31 this part caught me so off guard bc I’ve never seen the performance for say no to this💀
There's also a whole ironic side to this: he is engaging in an emotional affair with Angelica, and going away to take a break with them would probably endanger his fidelity - So in a way he uses work as an excuse to avoid the time in the country with both Angelica & Eliza, yet he ends up cheating on Eliza by staying away from his existing affair.
Wait a minute I have one question is it Maria as Peggy from act one?
Yes. Irl Peggy died young.
Why, because he doesn't know how to say no to this
Alex wife Eliza mad what he did
BTW. Mighty fine beard.
Answer why Maria is telling all her problems to Hammy because he is…
A Hamiltherapist!
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
im very early. give me the butter.
🤣🤣🤣🍿
🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈
still no julie and the phantoms mmm
You know, I hate when people do this. It just screams, "Yeah, whatever, I don't care about what you're doing, why aren't you doing what I want???"
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By looking at Ham's face when Angelica sings the final line, I saw him tempted to be with her insted of Eliza so he doesn't go to resist that feel but fails with a woman he almost doesn't know...
Now I can tell you some things w/o spoilers: first at the end of Take a break they grab his arms as they did at the end of Non stop. Read again Angelica's bars about being in the corner, and come back to We know when Alexander narrates details about how he got into that "issue"
Oh, "when she had me in the corner"
@@nebelparder9 ajaaa...