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"It’s not a dead end. Seth went somewhere after the bar ...someone knows something."

Not anyone who can or will talk! Alright, I've been avoiding this, but let's go full conjecture. Conspiracy mode turn on: First, I believe that Seth knew he was a marked man. He was expecting a visit from the kind of people you don't want a visit from. I think he may have been expecting it on previous days, but on that night he probably felt he was at higher risk. Listen, if you just outed and betrayed one of the most powerfully connected political figures in the U.S. and you realize they are on to you and want payback, and you've got a lot of time for this to worry you, you do a lot of thinking. Paranoia set in. You wonder what is around every corner. Why did he feel he was at higher risk that night? That's when bad things happen to people. Weekend, late in the evening. It's the most believable time that you would run into random violence, including home invasion armed robbery, or car jacking outside your house, etc. Some things I have read about his phone calls have lent credibility to the idea that he felt he was at risk, including phone calls he made to people close to him. Now, paranoia is something that can be exploited. From what I've read about things like this, people are intentional put on edge in order to push them over the edge and get them to do things that put them at higher risk. Dropped calls. Unusual objects appearing in your private spaces. Strange sounds to wake you up at night. Agitating looks and postures by strangers. When you do this to your target, they either get heavily reclusive and easier to watch, or they fly off the handle and start to do things that make it look like they incited their own problems. From his activities at night, I get the feeling Seth Rich was a rather cool customer. He wasn't going to be agitated and hide away. In fact, I get the feeling he thought he was most at risk if he stayed home. He must have felt that whoever was coming for him would not be inside or even directly in communication with anyone in the intelligence community, or he wouldn't have carried any devices with him. He must also have known that not carrying a phone is exactly the kind of high risk decision that the paranoia would incite. So he thought he could stay out in public in sight of crowds and people as long as possible, so long as he wasn't home... alone. Now, here is where my conjecture really get imaginative. I picture him walking the streets away from the bar in off directions, to see if anyone is following him. I imagine him doubling back on his track, and going around a block to cross an intersection where he had been previously to see if any parked cars had moved, or anyone or any vehicle looked familiar. I imagine him moving around his home, circling it from blocks away, carefully watching to see if anyone was waiting down his street, thinking he could trip them up by coming from a direction they don't expect him, hoping that he could see them before they see him. I imagine he tried to stick to better lit areas and in places not so vacant of people. This took hours. Almost 4:30 am? It's gotta be safe now. No one is going to assume late night violence at this hour. Sunrise in just over an hour. He is tired. It's getting chilly on a June morning. Afterall... it's probably just paranoia. Head for those door steps. Oops! Who are these guys?