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[Daniel Avery]

I am quite interested in this Hudson guy. He was introduced as a really dangerous man that daughter Phoebe has to be protected from, but only Ethan was aware of it. Now Hudson knows Phoebe is his daughter because of Josslyn telling him too much. But also adding that Hudson works for Jax/JJE creates a connection with Josslyn.

First of all, we only have speculated he is the father of Phoebe, when in fact he might just have been tasked with finding the baby by someone else (presumably the real daddy). Unless something was said in the past two episodes, since I'm a few episodes behind. I've also been thinking a bit more about this whole plot point with Ethan and Hudson. It feels like the stuff with Ethan (beating him up, bugging the room, etc.) was totally separate from this version of Hudson who's been dealing with Josslyn. It feels to me as if that stuff with FauxEthan and Hudson in Oslo was filmed out of sequence and then dropped into episodes that had already been filmed. it's hard to explain, but maybe it had to do with Nathan Dean's abrupt departure which necessitated some quick rewrites and scenes edited into those episodes, because the actor playing Hudson seemed to be playing two very different versions of the character.

If I had to guess, Hudson is part of a group of baddies who are trying to take over JJE. Perhaps Jax is not just out on a sailboat but is being held captive while they try their own hostile takeover, and their plan got a bit more complicated when Hudson arrived to discover that Josslyn is not some vapid little Nepo Baby they could easily trick into handing over the reins. Maybe Jax is Phoebe's real father and the baddies somehow believe that they have to get rid of all of Jax's heirs in order to clear a path for a takeover.