I missed the first five minutes of last nights episode so I'm not sure how the all the pieces fit together. In any case I thought it was very clever and well told. I reminded me of an old movie I saw years ago called "The Saragossa Manuscript." It's a Polish film made in the 60s and it's apparently notorious for a variety of reasons, primarily that much of the story is told in a series of flash backs, and flash backs within flashbacks. Coupled with the subtitles it was very hard to follow, but also very trippy (once you get into the plot).
Movie buffs should check it out. ericp