[Balin is silent for a few seconds; he's busy squeezing his lips together with a hand while in thought.]

So it's kinda like our captors ain't all on'a same team, then. Maybe.

... So what's there'a stop us from doin' somethin' now that Grady's dead? What about'a other guys in town in'at pamphlet Dist wrote? Like'a Postman an'a Milkman?

[Speaking of which ... Balin just connected the dots on something else.]

And ... I'm guessin' if'at "Samantha Achewood" lady was also Jane Smith, then that musta been Lucy Smith on'a news durin'a truth gas bullshit? Since she was talkin' about losin' her mom.