Duncan's Unspoken Crush on Brady (Spoilers)

No one has mentioned the devious sub-plot of Duncan McKay's (Chris Solari's) making a big, though unspoken, effort to land Brady Turner (Mark McLachlan) as more than just a friend. Consider the evidence:

1. Duncan knows that Brady is going out with Claire (Caitlin Martin) and knows that Sunny (Sommer Knight) has the hots for Brady. Yet Duncan is the one who invited Sunny along for the trip. Duncan makes no moves on Sunny. The motive must be the hope that Sunny would cause Brady and Claire to break up.

2. In the football game played in shallow water, Duncan jokingly pulls down Brady's shorts, exposing Brady's rear briefly.

3. When Duncan's plot to split up Brady and Claire works, Brady does not go to Duncan. Instead Duncan makes a half-hearted pitch for Claire. Claire knew both Brady and Duncan from high school. So when she remarks that Duncan wants Brady and not her and when Duncan makes no response to such a potentially inflamatory statement, they both believe it.

4. Duncan confesses at the end that he arranged for Brady to be expelled from high school. This would mean that higher-performing Brady would have to go to the same lesser college that took Duncan. Duncan said that having Brady go to a different college would have made Duncan feel "alone".

5. When Brady has his confrontation with Flat Dog, Duncan goes all out and then some to provide a distraction and rescue. It was more intense than a general buddy-teamwork effort.

6. One might reinterpret Duncan's early speech as he drove Brady to Lake Sobek. Duncan compared pizza to sex. A great pizza (think Claire) is great, like sex; a bad pizza (think Duncan) is still pretty good (sex).

I expect Brady to stick with Claire and eventually to find Duncan's plots too destabilizing.