Well, it probably started with the way he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. He really should have known from that alone that today was going to be something else.
The fact that he had to go to work early in the morning, despite having filed for vacation, was the first sign of his crisis.
Ideally, he would say that seeing Eden's face first thing in the morning was the main issue, but that was actually part of the original agenda and something that he at least had days to mentally prepare for.
Curtis even managed to survive when she said, "You know this is going to cost you, right?"
With the type of unsanctioned sleuthing he asked her to perform, he just swallowed his losses and accepted the penalty of surrendering a prize he hadn't even won yet.
What kind of indebtedness was that, really?
But since it could compromise her work, Curtis reluctantly agreed. Only to lose his marbles because the missing leaders started turning up from who knows where.
