My question: In the pilot episode, Abe is having dinner with Hewlett, who confides (in great detail) that the British were planning to attack a certain rebel stronghold. Immediately after, Abe snoops in Hewlett’s study and decodes a dispatch to reveal… exactly the same information Hewlett had just told him.
What is the point of the snooping scene? No new information was introduced except that Cardan grilles were a thing. Did I miss something?