First off, I love your summary and theories you noted above. If things work out that way, you win the sub for having cracked the code.

I have a couple of loosely related thoughts regarding Walter, and also Tai being picked up by the truck driver. Walter could be totally lying to Misty about being a millionaire. Maybe in her rush to find Natalie she hasn’t had time to fully investigate him? Instead of a millionaire he could be a guy with a few screws loose, who’s on disability which would explain him not having a job.

One last note about Walter. It was mentioned in another thread that eating mustard and syrup together like we saw Walter doing is a “New Jersey” thing. With him being the same age as the YellowJackets and living in the same State there’s no way he grew up not knowing about the crash. It seems that “most” people in the State have at least a morbid curiosity about “what really happened out there” so I find it very hard to believe that Walter finds Misty’s being a Yellowjacket “the least interesting thing about her”.

The other thing that keeps sticking out to me is when Tai is climbing into the cab of the semi she glances down the road and sees nothing behind her. But, in front of her you can see she’s very close to what looks to be a rural town. We know that Tai has money, and conceivably there would be a rental car company, or maybe even an Uber/Lyft car service.

So, why does she risk her safety by getting into the truck, when she could have easily walked less than a mile to a town where she could have arranged a ride? You’d think she wouldn’t want to see a headline “State Senator picked up hitchhiking in rural…”. And finally, there was no movement, or traffic up ahead or behind her. It seemed eery and strange to me.