I think I just don't get how the narrative works here. With the Patriots recruitment, both the "Busted" and "Easy" branches appear. Can I follow both? Are both "canon" in regards to other events? How does that work?
I get that you can jump in terms of order and characters. My issue here was two branches that were mutually exclusive narratively, so I'm not sure how to interpret stuff that stems from them, considering the events from both couldn't have happened.