"Hello, Is Charlie There?" and "L'Affair Contre John Lakeman."

Wherein we see the collapse of a man. And folks get the blues. An unbearable weight in two soundly sad episodes.

Neither of these episodes were written or directed by Steven Conrad but his fingerprints are all over both, as they should be when a creator has set the template — and “template” barely works as a word in his world — so keenly.

There are some series creators who can’t resist putting their names on an episode — and I’m not blaming them at all — because i…