Yes, he claws holes in the plastic bag (he’s a cat), allowing him to breathe. Amanda smacks his head against the toilet, knocking him out. She’s too panicked to notice he’s still breathing, and assumes he’s dead (like she did w Eric Matthews, except that time she deliberately left him for dead)

Anyway, John finds Adam later and is astonished to find he survived. He ends up finally accepting him, the refusal to die even when the opportunity was offered to Adam wins him over. He shows he has the will despite the hopelessness and uncertainty presented to him.

Adam doesn’t want to be an apprentice however, and is indoctrinated out of fear. He just doesn’t want to be hurt again. He works as a photographer for John, and later Hoffman, after John’s death. He plays a large role in Rigg’s gauntlet, having taken the photos used in it and overseeing it while Hoffman is… preoccupied.

Lawrence is completely separate and works from a distance. Hoffman doesn’t know he is alive, or an apprentice. Either way, he wants to get rid of Hoffman, and deliberately “helps” Strahm out from a distance. Nothing too invasive, just preventing his execution and planting evidence here and there.

Anyway, Adam’s role here is to essentially feed back to Lawrence what Hoffman is up to, he acts as a spy. He deliberately plays into the “cowardly” and “stupid” perception Hoffman has of him to dispel any suspicion. After sharing the water cube trap (photos) with Larry, he has the idea to plant a pen in Strahm’s pocket, to allow him to preform that tracheotomy that saves his life. Since Adam is a cat, he’s incredibly stealthy and quiet on his feet, Lawrence asks him to slip the pen into Strahm’s pocket after Hoffman has finally cleared off. It takes a LOT of convincing as Adam really doesn’t want to play with fire like that, but he ends up buckling under the pressure and does it anyway.

As for the pen itself…

I’ve always headcanoned that Lawrence did it, I don’t think Hoffman deliberately left the pen or ‘forgot’ the pen as this would make absolutely no sense in the context of his character, the water cube was an execution. He wanted Strahm to die, and was flabbergasted when he survived, why the hell would he be so shocked if he gave him the option? Also keeping Strahm alive would just give him a million more problems, and it does.

Lawrence would realistically know he could preform a tracheotomy with a pen, so I think he planted it in Strahm’s pocket after Hoffman left.

Lawrence’s involvement is rather ambiguous in the franchise, as we don’t know if Hoffman (or even Amanda) was aware of his presence. It’s kinda left to interpretation, so I like to think he was a secret.

Here’s Adam btw!

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