We are at the most dramatic part of the parasha, bridging from last week to this week. At the end of last week, going into this week, the parashot, rabotai (gentlemen), always sound like a cliffhanger.
At the end of last week's parasha, Yosef engineers a booby trap to entrap his brothers by putting the cup in Binyamin's sack. He lets them go out of the city limits, and then he calls them back. “How could you take the cup that my master uses to divine?” And they said, “Of course not; we would never do that.” And we're so confident: the one who has the cup, kill him, and the rest of us will be slaves. The funny part of it is that the master of the parasha—the man—goes, “Exactly as you said: the one who has the cup will be a slave, and you can go home.” It's not exactly what he said. It's the exact opposite. Sure enough, sure enough.