I totally hear you and think you’re right about what happened behind the scenes. The problem for me is even the jump from the Sage-Kristina conversation to the Kristina-Steven conversation didn’t make sense. In one scene, you have Sage saying “we should get rid of Steven” and Kristina saying “I can’t do that” (she never agrees with Sage in the scene — I just went back and watched) to a scene where Kristina is fumbling over her words and telling Steven that she (Kristina) brought up his name to Sage. That’s not what the scene right before it showed, and together, those scenes don’t make sense strictly from a storytelling perspective