Interesting! Seems Corbin had no choice but to respond to Mike the way he did, so that puts that affair to rest for 6 months and then, as Corbs says, what will be will be.
It's amazing how his friendship with Pete gives him inspiration for the damndest (not sure that's a word) plots as it seems Pete somehow sparked his imagination for this plan to go beyond the now, and has led him to apparently tow the line (though this is all entirely a manipulation of the highest order). Corbs is such an incredibly intelligent politician in his manipulation of people and events. A master in the art! Maybe that's the attraction Pete holds - Corbs never seems quite to be in control there nor able to manipulate Pete and Pete leaves him in this terrible place of inconclusiveness and uncertainty, which is like a drug, luring him in.
I feel a little sorry (only a little mind you) for Lee. He's on his way to become another Corbin it seems.