[Are you sure about that? If she had made up her mind, why bother coming here at all?]
I do. That isn't irrelevant here. I can defend my own life adequately. I am not particularly fearful I will be killed in the night. [Well, yes she is, that's something else entirely.] Unless someone does something decisive, vultures and scavengers will continue to do what they do.
[the worst is that they have a similar way of doing things and it means that edgeworth is out here really just thinking things that may or may not apply. but her answer intrigues him enough and he tilts his head in thought.]
The longer this goes without catching a culprit, the larger the culprit list grows. Tell me then. What decisive actions are you considering?
[She is a girl who learned she had to do difficult things from an early age; couldn't ask for help, couldn't rely on anyone else. This feels like one of those moments - do the ugly, necessary thing. She has never required much hand-holding or reassurances about her decisions.]
Kill one of them, and give any others pause.
[Except that doesn't really make sense, does it. Not if no one knows why he was killed.]
And by doing so, the list grows. [repeating that point once more.] I spoke with Enomoto yesterday, and he wasn't quite able to grasp this but perhaps you can. You've yet to find a motive for any of these cases, correct? Even if there are others, without understanding why, how will you stop this from continuing?
Killing a culprit yourself will be a temporary reprieve. But only until someone else begins the same pattern.
[She frowns at him, distracted by, frankly, the appeal to being smarter than Enomoto, which she absolutely cannot refuse to demonstrate.]
. . . There is a motive. We must share in the rewards, and some don't wish to.
What I wonder is whether you refer to individualized personal motives we haven't found yet outside that - such as HK-47's desire to murder as many people as possible for little to know reason, or finding Vlad Masters a bit of a tool - or whether you mean there is a broader motive other than the one I suggested.
Knowing an individualized motive may help you narrow down your suspects in future cases and may prove why, precisely, those who have died were targeted at all. Even if the motive is as simple-minded as HK-47's it provides a context so you are not left floundering for the rest of your time here.
You say so, but we've killed all of the obvious scoundrels already. Without more, we're left guessing - perhaps Vlad was a pompous, irritating man who was tired of being voted for and wanted company for curfew. Or perhaps he was a more dangerous man, who saw which way the wind was blowing with respect to the votes, and decided to frame someone else.
It is all speculation. It was speculation when I decided Beauregard did not seem like a skilled liar who would deceive even her friends, and it was speculation when I decided Fukuda's interjections had become a pattern. One was correct, and one wasn't.
But it is, as you say, all speculation. [they don't entirely believe that given how things have gone, but they don't really think elaboration will help either.] At least until you decide on an action to take to obtain an answer.
I understand what you say. But I am sick of putting all of our hopes on finding out what happened afterwards. By the time the trials begin, we are already far behind where we ought to be. And then we fail, and are even further behind.
[So - it's fine, to think on the evidence better or whatever, but she just doesn't have the patience to hear it right now.]
Nothing you're saying to me is solving this problem!
Then do better to create a solution prior to the problem.
[that's all they seem to say though and they put down their tea. i hate to do this because my siz threads but also gestures at greed being who he is as a person.]
[No, don't worry, it's very good. She probably won't even try to talk to him again for a while but it is also absolutely the correct way to handle this.
She's - very angry with him, for cutting her off so abruptly, as though he no longer finds anything she's saying worth responding to. But also very angry with herself. Angry and sad and feeling extremely lacking right now for reasons that are hard to understand but have everything to do with her regretting having reacted so emotionally and disappointing him.]
That will be all, yes.
[She will get up very coldly, but she storms out.]
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I do. That isn't irrelevant here. I can defend my own life adequately. I am not particularly fearful I will be killed in the night. [Well, yes she is, that's something else entirely.] Unless someone does something decisive, vultures and scavengers will continue to do what they do.
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The longer this goes without catching a culprit, the larger the culprit list grows. Tell me then. What decisive actions are you considering?
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Kill one of them, and give any others pause.
[Except that doesn't really make sense, does it. Not if no one knows why he was killed.]
Even if there are others, it's one fewer.
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And by doing so, the list grows. [repeating that point once more.] I spoke with Enomoto yesterday, and he wasn't quite able to grasp this but perhaps you can. You've yet to find a motive for any of these cases, correct? Even if there are others, without understanding why, how will you stop this from continuing?
Killing a culprit yourself will be a temporary reprieve. But only until someone else begins the same pattern.
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. . . There is a motive. We must share in the rewards, and some don't wish to.
What I wonder is whether you refer to individualized personal motives we haven't found yet outside that - such as HK-47's desire to murder as many people as possible for little to know reason, or finding Vlad Masters a bit of a tool - or whether you mean there is a broader motive other than the one I suggested.
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Knowing an individualized motive may help you narrow down your suspects in future cases and may prove why, precisely, those who have died were targeted at all. Even if the motive is as simple-minded as HK-47's it provides a context so you are not left floundering for the rest of your time here.
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It is all speculation. It was speculation when I decided Beauregard did not seem like a skilled liar who would deceive even her friends, and it was speculation when I decided Fukuda's interjections had become a pattern. One was correct, and one wasn't.
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But it is, as you say, all speculation. [they don't entirely believe that given how things have gone, but they don't really think elaboration will help either.] At least until you decide on an action to take to obtain an answer.
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[So - it's fine, to think on the evidence better or whatever, but she just doesn't have the patience to hear it right now.]
Nothing you're saying to me is solving this problem!
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[that's all they seem to say though and they put down their tea. i hate to do this because my siz threads but also gestures at greed being who he is as a person.]
Will that be all, Miss Nonagesimus?
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She's - very angry with him, for cutting her off so abruptly, as though he no longer finds anything she's saying worth responding to. But also very angry with herself. Angry and sad and feeling extremely lacking right now for reasons that are hard to understand but have everything to do with her regretting having reacted so emotionally and disappointing him.]
That will be all, yes.
[She will get up very coldly, but she storms out.]