Patton Oswalt and Tobias Menzies as Baker and Stanton respectively are a brilliant duo. They really make this show hum.
The question posed in "The Secret Line", is whether Stanton ordered the assassination of Jefferson Davis as a way to perhaps cut short the long and wasteful war. The conversation Lincoln and Stanton have in one of the flashback scenes certainly alludes to that being the case.
You can feel the walls closing in for Confederates in this episode. Not just Booth, who appears to be headed for the Commonwealth of Virginia, but the Wall Street traders who are Confederate sympathisers and may have had something to do with Booth as well.
The question posed in "The Secret Line", is whether Stanton ordered the assassination of Jefferson Davis as a way to perhaps cut short the long and wasteful war. The conversation Lincoln and Stanton have in one of the flashback scenes certainly alludes to that being the case.
You can feel the walls closing in for Confederates in this episode. Not just Booth, who appears to be headed for the Commonwealth of Virginia, but the Wall Street traders who are Confederate sympathisers and may have had something to do with Booth as well.