The whole Willow/Tracy interlude is a fairly silly timewaster, but it's ignited controversy on other forums so I'll just say I think the somewhat crooked elegance of the mess is that everyone is acting in their own self-interest or from their skewed POV. Again, that's just soap to me.
Tracy pulls a silly, foolish con on Willow just to prove a point she'd already made.
Willow takes the obvious bait without being invited to the house, clearly eager to see more of Chase. (We know this to be her character motivation after watching her flash back several days ago when she was last at the mansion, going from remembering BLQ warning her off of her husband to Willow doubling down to spend more time with him instead.) She may not want to seduce him yet but she clearly enjoys his attentions and spending time with him, whether she fully admits it to herself or not.
The women tussle, a fall happens for one reason or another, and then they play out he said/she said so Willow can flex her influence and power.
Chase unquestionably buys Willow's side of Rashomon and tries to charge Tracy up the wazoo.
BLQ retreats to her corner, still scheming against Willow (just like Michael is), her tension with Chase heightened that much more.
Whoever the audience sympathizes with or believes in, the situation continues to get thornier from here. Do I think that whole mini-drama was the best way to level up the ongoing intrigue? Not really, I thought it was silly and a bit too clumsy of Tracy and beneath her. This creative team often goes the very obvious route with this sort of stuff. (And I also don't think the show was offering the canonical final word on Tracy and her sons from Willow's mouth; I think that was Willow simply going for the throat and was not meant to be taken as gospel.) But I also thought it worked well enough to keep heightening the situation. The only problem is this story should've started steaming stronger months ago.
Ya lost me. Were they paired before?
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