However, the spotlight is also likely to fall on a younger generation of SDLP politicians, with Stormont finance and personnel minister and Hume confidante Mark Durkan regarded as its strongest candidate.
We meet a new character, the Deacon, a churchman who is Bunny Colvin's confidante and Cutty's helper.
Committing to each other entails identifying a friend and confidante whose attitudes and values you admire and whose life you want to share.
Psycho was itself the film that so emphatically answered that question in 1960 and the story of its creation – based on Stephen Rebello's enthralling 1990 account, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, and scripted by John McLaughlin – is at heart the story of a marriage, between a fat, ugly genius and the "tiny, birdlike woman" who was invigilator, confidante and touchstone to his talent.
Speaking after the sudden death of the former Liberal Democrat leader at his home in Fort William on Monday, Celia Munro, who became a close confidante of Kennedy after he entered parliament, told the Guardian how she tried to assist him with the help of her late husband, John Farquhar Munro, a former Lib Dem MSP.
I'll never play for anybody after Santos!" he told his confidante and advisor, Professor Julio Mazzei.
The likely targets are people who worked for Christie or who are or were part of his inner circle, such as Bridget Anne Kelly, the fired aide who suggested in an email to another Christie confidante that it was "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee".
She becomes his helper and confidante as Warsaw slides into chaos.
But it not only provides a handle on important characters who would otherwise have only walk-on parts, such as Anji Hunter, a close friend and confidante who ran Mr Blair's office both before and after he became prime minister.
She also confessed details of her affair to a confidante.
Yet within two years the economy had perked up, France had won football's World Cup, Mr Chirac's daughter Claude, his closest confidante, had done marvels for his image, and he was once again riding high in the opinion polls.
