It really does sound to me like Frost has done a number on Danton, who for whatever reason, is extremely impressionable. My first reaction to the original story was that he had a fight with a gay lover and that lover was going to go to the Blues and spill the beans on their relationship, which in Danton's mind, would end his career. So he then asked his friend if she knew a hitman, which for some odd reason, she did, and that happened to turn out to be an undecover agent. And it looks like I was semi-correct, but I'm not convinced that, with the edition now of Frost being the target, that they had a homosexual relationship going. It sounds like more of a mentally abusive relationship, where Frost has made Danton believe he is completely dependent on him. And just like in so many abusive relationships before, the victim often defends the abuser to the death, even after taking actions against them, like calling the police or, in this case, trying to have them killed.
In some cases, the victim defends the abuser because to admit that there was an abusive relationship occuring, would also force them to admit their weaknesses and inabilities to protect themselves from the abuse. It can almost be more painful for the person to admit their "faults" then to take the abuse. And I'm not saying that a person who is being abused is at fault, just that it is a common mentality to blame themselves in those instances.
And that is the analysis that about $600 worth of Social Psych classes will buy ya
