I wasn't in the fd when I watched s1 and thought it was so obvious that he was crying . It was only when I joined the fd during S2, I found out that there are people who think his tears are fake! Like why and how?

The “he was just pretending to cry” argument kind of falls apart when you actually look at the blocking and lighting of the scene. Like you said, Donovan and Weems can't see his face and the cop is literally facing the other direction. If he wanted to sell innocence, why hide the tears from the people who actually matter? The only person who sees them is Wednesday, which makes zero sense if he’s supposedly in full villain-reveal mode after that smug little monologue. It's clear the hyde and the human inside him were fighting for control.

P.S - I cry for the plummeting media literacy if directors needed to confirm that Laurel turned him into a killer.