| There's actually four hours left.
And I'm not sure David wouldn't have been killed if he confessed his princess-nailing to the king. Sure, David was on the king's good side at the time, but the king was also assuming David could do no wrong.
As far as the soap-opera introduction of the camera-arc: Yes, it was rather clumsily introduced. But at the same time, I'm not seeing a good way you could juggle the various storylines to get any padding between now and the blackout. Judging from episode summaries, David now gets sent on a should-be-suicide mission, so there was no way to pad the number of episodes between the camera's introduction and payoff. | 