The problem with them ending Tuesday on a weird 'well he does SORTA know but also he doesn't' is that it's not a big enough of a lie to have any sort of dramatic reveal, but it is a big enough of a lie to matter if they never address it?

This isn't how you tell stories #Ballum
Like, the only way for it to come out is if Callum admits the true story of how it actually happened, because anything DIDH says to Ben can be brushed under the carpet as 'well he was secretly working against you the whole time'.
Add to that that we literally don't actually know what Ben knows? He knows that Callum was asked to spy, but then apparently Callum went to Jack, but they didn't mention if he actually did spy to keep up the pretence, so does Ben know about the bug? THE WIRE AT LEXI'S DANCE?
So if DIDH tells Ben about the bug, or mentions listening in to Lexi's dance over the wire, would that go against what he knows?

And if not because Callum HAS told Ben all of this, we needed to see it because the wire at the dance thing is MASSIVE.
If they bury this and bring it back up later, the general audience is going to be SO confused because I know casual viewers who didn't even realise that Callum hadn't told Ben the whole truth in that living room scene, because the whole thing was so convoluted they lost track!
So they either address it right now, somehow, even though I can't think of a logical way besides Callum telling Ben, but there doesn't seem to be any time for that sort of reveal with everything else going on, or they address in a few weeks/months in which point it's lost power.
Either way, they've killed the story. Killed it dead. The sole point of the story was Callum working against Phil in order to protect Ben, in secret, and we don't even get a big reveal where Ben finds out and Ballum have a confrontation and they sort out their shit?
And if this isn't the end, any reveal that we now have won't have any power because they've already half revealed like 80% of the story.

Again, I reiterate - there are rules to storytelling because it works. Every decision they made since December doesn't work.

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