The intriguing subplot is that West Ham and Everton are locked in a race to qualify for Europe via the Fair Play League.
This was a cause he was happy to be swept into: climate change made a perfect subplot for his grand narrative about the world of evil capitalism ruining nature.
Quote of the week: an indignant Omar on his blissfully ignorant grandma: "That woman think I work in a cafeteria – at the airport!" Murders: still on 50, but Prez does accidently kills another policeman – a distractingly overdramatic subplot for this point in the series?
Could this mean that Oliver Stone has adapted Don Winslow's book to add a subplot about the end of Nasa's manned space programme?
Nevertheless, each subplot this year feels fleshed out and infinitely more satisfying than the scattershot kitchen sinkery of Asylum and Coven, what with their zombies, aliens, demons, mutants and Stevie Nicks-es.
There will be less scope for head scratching about another subplot: the proper balance between cuts and tax rises.
The whole point of the goofball before Green Wing was that he was asexual, he was the subplot, the light relief, the man from whom the portent and gravity and stress associated with testosterone had been removed.
There's also the environmental subplot: The gently weighted throughball that the Timbers might play on the artificial at home often curls up and dies in the abundant grasses and space of LA.
You play an immigration officer in a fictional east European country, juggling rules and responsibilities with a sharp revolutionary subplot.
There was, though, one intriguing subplot.
IllinoisFor the past few weeks, my favourite hour-format TV show, "Friday Night Lights", has been airing an abortion subplot.
