I see your point about the contract. I'm very surprised they didn't have a competent lawyer look over it. Bah, plot hole.

Part of the reason, aside from the brutal child murders, that I stopped watching a while ago was that Alison was forever not learning from her experiences, and that the other characters kept questioning her even after she kept proving that she DID know what she saw (and the visions were often too spot on). It was almost like watching Daniel Jackson on SG1 all over again...and again...and again.

I'm hoping that they make Alison "smarter"...but I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's simply a part of her character. It is a problem with her insistence that she's doing good and right and damned be everything else--I was so HAPPY when at one point, Joe sat her down and demanded that she hold off on any action until it was daytime, and to stop putting their family through shit all over again, just after they'd gotten "over" some other recent shit.

So it does seem as if something is happening on that level.

I haven't seen every episode this season, so maybe her character flaws haven't bugged me so much for that reason.