This scene means a lot.

Finnick’s sight line only falls after Judy interjects. He opens the door assuming there’s someone taller and much meaner waiting. There are no lights or sirens and no one ambling up to the driver’s side door, so it’s not an officer hassling him for vagrancy (again). Not even a suspicious cop “checking for registration” on a windowless van! Finnick expected someone vicious enough he needed a baseball bat for defense.

His eyes fall and widen. The pole lowers, but the grip remains. The girl Nick’s been torn over for weeks suddenly knocks on his van door asking where Nick is? That look isn’t annoyance or anger. It’s just shock. This is “the conversation that got away” whether Nick admits it or not. And here it is, wrapped in pink plaid.

I wonder if Finnick warned Nick that Judy was coming. The greeting from his armchair, so poised? Nick doesn’t even startle when Judy starts yelling after him. The Wayfarers are on, blocking make eye contact. He turns into a tunnel which just happens to be four paces away to keep it that way. The drink, two kicked-up legs, that drawl in “Isn’t that something?”

Somehow, Nick knew. Is he grateful to Finnick for pointing Judy his way despite his misgivings? Furious he wasn’t the only choreographer in this little dance?