"She's smuggled out convicts"- Ah, I must've forgotten Cathy admitting this to Allie. That's pretty damning. It does kind of dash my old theory that the government is monitoring and studying SPAR sessions as a psychological social experiment if Cathy and likely other Chavaliers have a habit of smuggling out their victims to torture them some more. Brian Bentley should've been an exemption to this since the judicial system was bribed to get rid of him. Although if they do monitor sessions they knew Allie had a perfect track record of not breaking the rules and taking a convict home. In which case a  "Should we interfer sir?" "No, no. I want to see how far they get" plot could form. Powerful people aware of what's going on, or a system too powerful wielded by the corrupt and incompetent. I lean more and more towards the system is a powerful tool and no one competent is in charge of it. I am curious to see if Cathy learns of Brian's innocense or is convinced of it when he's regrown or still shrunken and if they meet again to see how they interact.