FYI...My one month BK subscription is up. I don't think I'll renew it until the May & June texts are posted there. Maybe other current subscribers will post more about April texts?
For me, April's texts cleared up when she left Mesa, when and how he first learned of the fake spy Michelle, and why he was angry with her about the drawing she left, etc.
I think the texts also make it perfectly clear that she began setting him up literally from the first day she left Mesa. Whether she was premeditating murder or "just" laying the groundwork to destroy his reputation is less clear, but it was one or the other.
One general impression of the texts overall is the sense I had of Travis feeling lost. He's spending less time on work, is hating the politics, even bows out of one of his weekly PPL calls abruptly, 5 minutes in.
He's stressed and says so, and that was unusual for him. He snaps even at Deanna, the only time I've seen that. He texts with women almost non-stop, but it doesn't mean anything to them or to him, really.
He circles around Mimi, and wow, his texts sound like they're written by a teenager with a crush. He asks multiple friends for advice about what to say to her, how to act, whether or not to give her flowers, where to take her on a date. When Mimi responds to him about anything he immediately texts multiple friends to tell them that news and to ask- what now??
He is so obviously and completely uncomfortable being with and around Mimi its ridiculous, and he's aware that he is, but he pushes on. Clock's ticking. He's acutely aware he's running out of time to get the marriage piece in place.
Meanwhile he's really beginning to feel genuine and deep regret about losing Lisa. Mimi would be the "perfect" Mormon wife he's supposed to marry, a small handful of other women he flirts with online make him feel alpha and hot and so are fun, the killer is who he falls back on when he's truly bored and lonely, and Lisa? Lisa he seems to put in a whole different category. I think it surprised him he couldn't move on from her, but there it was. He loved her.
The only truly new and surprising info (to me) was that the killer not only responded to his threat to call her out as a psycho, but that she actually told him about stalking him- sleeping on his couch and leaving before he got up, etc.
Wow again. Manipulation by her of whatever kind for whatever reason, but WTH he wasn't so seriously creeped out by it that he didn't cut off all contact with her at that point.
Maybe May's texts will clear up......something?