@rumplegoldfan wrote:
But the way he talked to the person on the phone did NOT sound at ALL the way he has EVER talked to Henry before nor did it sound the way he spoke to Henry AFTER the phone call. He always speaks very cryptically to Henry but you can always tell he is speaking to a child. It sounded as if the person he was speaking to on the phone was an adult who understood his personal reasons for needing to move things along faster; someone who was very familiar with August. And when he spoke to Henry outside of Gold’s pawnshop Henry didn’t understand why they were doing what they were doing which seems inconsistent with the person he had spoken to on the phone. And August acted like he was surprised by Henry’s response – as if they were still getting to know each other because they had only recently met.
Since Jane Espenson wrote this episode, and she tweeted that August called Henry, I’m going to accept that as fact and chalk the whole phone conversation up to bad acting on the part of Eion Bailey (the actor who plays August.) That’s the most reasonable answer I think.
Hey, this is still a TV show, by human actors. Not EVERYTHING has to be perfect and have some hidden clue behind it.