So Michael's confession of his sexuality caused Chase to leave? There had to be more behind it than this, but no contact after years of friendship means everything changed in that instant.
Danny is sending all the signals he didn't have anything to do with Sam's death, but if not him, who did and what did Danny think he saw?
All of them are headed this way? I find it unlikely. They all have GA tags when they have vehicle descriptions. In contrast, I have never once heard an alert from MS.
I've never been able to figure out how they decide where to distribute Amber Alerts. Most of the ones I get are out of Georgia and I'm a long way from Georgia.
I can pretty much detail how Caleb got into his situation. Intelligence agencies do it all the time. They approached him with a seemingly harmless but lucrative deal and built up evidence he was doing more than he was. From there they used blackmail and extortion. It's simple and ruthlessly effective.
The only way out is to not fall for the first con and it's much harder than it sounds.
Also keep in mind Caleb is more than likely heaping more blame and guilt on himself than he deserves.