“What did you just do?” Rachel returned to him and confronted him; the woman's eyes reddened, her outburst of anger enough to make Archer realize that he was about to be blamed or slapped again. “Are you out of your mind? Don't you know who Mr Blake is?”
Archer knew, he knew Blake very well and what crazy things out of the law he did. However, he still refrained from skinning the man because he was interested in him. Archer allowed Blake's involvement in what happened to Edith to slide, but this was not the time for him to destroy the man; he would still use Blake for all his strategies later.
Then when he emphasized the threat to Smith, they didn't hear it either. They didn't understand the point of the conversation and how things were going between them. All they could think was that w
