What the frak was up with Romo's cat?

Hey all,

So after two weeks we FINALLY got another episode of BG, and while it was ripe with lots of interesting dramatic bits and reveals (totally saw that "Lee as President" thing coming), there was one scene that just confused the frac outta me!

When Romo Lampkin ultimately decides that Lee is the best choice for the Presidency, he's talking to his cat, and then walks out of the room. In the very next scene, he meets with Lee in the hallway to tell him the news, then threatens to kill him, and explains to Lee he's lost faith in mankind, as evidenced by the fact that someone "killed his cat."

Now, we just saw the cat alive in the previous scene, but Romo shows Lee a bag which contains a dead cat, where Lee says "it looks like it's been dead for weeks." There's the slim possibility that this exchange could be taking place weeks after the previous exchange, but since Lee is wearing the same shirt he was when talking to his father just a few minutes earlier in the episode, this seems unlikely.

So what does this all mean? Well, my best guess is that Romo went a bit nuts, and we were seeing the ghost of his cat (which would explain Lee's comment about the empty food bowl part way through the episode). I'm not sure though, as if that was the case, the whole thing seemed to be presented in a fairly subtle way, and came off a bit strange. Anyway, as per usual, you can find my deeper comments about the episode posted in my Overcast commentary, the preview link of which you'll find below:


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