I wish there were another course of action. But so long as people continue to act, the only thing left to do is react unless you choose to act yourself like Law has.
A question for you. Do you believe there's a bigger picture to these murders? Or are they simply individuals acting on their own?
It's clear Law did not help do anything but bring about his own death. Right or wrong, we probably would have voted Douman today if he hadn't been murdered.
[So. There's that. Sigh. She pauses to consider his question]
Difficult to say. The two we've found both appeared to be acting entirely on their own. But perhaps that's only why it was easier to identify them. Of the group left alive, I can't really imagine who would decide to kill Kaz, or Luca, or Omi just to winnow the population.
You likely would have. [he can agree with that given the pattern that's occurred already.]
I know several of you don't think that the motive is important, but it's now more important than ever. People won't be killing just for fun going forward. The deaths will have more of a means to an end.
I haven't failed to listen to a word you've said, you know. You've been telling us to examine the motives since the first week.
[She's been telling everyone who will listen, because she doubts he keeps bringing it up just to hear himself talk. Greed likes to act stern even though he's the biggest hint giver. Hurry let's go check the circus!]
I understand that when you say so, you're attempting to elucidate something, and I wish I could say I knew what that was.
[Hmm.]
Let's try this. When you ask me the hypothetical of whether there is a bigger picture, it suggests to me that there is one. And it would fit with my thinking - that it isn't enough of an explanation, to say that some of us are just killing for fun and others want their wish badly enough to become ruthless with very little prompting. Not this many weeks in, with this many dead. So there is another reason, one that we have not discovered yet because we have not yet caught anyone who killed for that reason.
I know you haven't. You more than most people have taken me seriously.
Believe me when I say that it frustrates me more than it frustrates you. But all things considered...you're picking up on things and reading between the lines rather well.
[but they ponder this.] It's an interesting theory, isn't it? So far the killers you have caught have been doing this for their own reasons, but can it be said that the others would have agreed? What bigger picture could there possibly be?
[they pause then.] Have you been visiting those being jailed each week?
Even if your client is innocent, you will always benefit from speaking to them more often than not. [not that participants are clients.]
Even if they weren't involved, that doesn't mean they can't provide valuable information about other happenings that have occurred you may not be aware of.
Hmm. And what do you think I'll accomplish by doing this? That is to say - there is obviously more to what's happening here than just these murders and these trials. Finding another motivation - is this going to be helpful in us understanding that?
[you're the only one to understand my aa references now]
I believe so. By gathering information and comparing your notes with others, you're likely to see the bigger picture rather than a close-up of the problem.
[She wants to protest, because she really wasn't fishing for that, but she understands she's being told she isn't off track. And it's nice to hear.
She's. . . more than anything, she thinks he would continue to sit and talk through these things with her even if her behavior had lost her all of his respect. So it's a relief, if that isn't the case.]
I will likely continue to, but it won't impact my course of action.
[at least the response is more a nod of understanding than anything else, if only because greed often finds himself doubting things here despite continuing to keep trying to understand how things are happening.]
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I wish there were another course of action. But so long as people continue to act, the only thing left to do is react unless you choose to act yourself like Law has.
A question for you. Do you believe there's a bigger picture to these murders? Or are they simply individuals acting on their own?
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[So. There's that. Sigh. She pauses to consider his question]
Difficult to say. The two we've found both appeared to be acting entirely on their own. But perhaps that's only why it was easier to identify them. Of the group left alive, I can't really imagine who would decide to kill Kaz, or Luca, or Omi just to winnow the population.
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I know several of you don't think that the motive is important, but it's now more important than ever. People won't be killing just for fun going forward. The deaths will have more of a means to an end.
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[She's been telling everyone who will listen, because she doubts he keeps bringing it up just to hear himself talk. Greed likes to act stern even though he's the biggest hint giver. Hurry let's go check the circus!]
I understand that when you say so, you're attempting to elucidate something, and I wish I could say I knew what that was.
[Hmm.]
Let's try this. When you ask me the hypothetical of whether there is a bigger picture, it suggests to me that there is one. And it would fit with my thinking - that it isn't enough of an explanation, to say that some of us are just killing for fun and others want their wish badly enough to become ruthless with very little prompting. Not this many weeks in, with this many dead. So there is another reason, one that we have not discovered yet because we have not yet caught anyone who killed for that reason.
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Believe me when I say that it frustrates me more than it frustrates you. But all things considered...you're picking up on things and reading between the lines rather well.
[but they ponder this.] It's an interesting theory, isn't it? So far the killers you have caught have been doing this for their own reasons, but can it be said that the others would have agreed? What bigger picture could there possibly be?
[they pause then.] Have you been visiting those being jailed each week?
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[She visited Beau, and Law, but she hasn't been since because everybody else they voted for sucked to talk to.]
I suppose I assumed there was little value in it, considering none of them were actually guilty of the crime we voted for them over.
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Even if they weren't involved, that doesn't mean they can't provide valuable information about other happenings that have occurred you may not be aware of.
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[Hmm.]
From your pointed suggestion, I gather either Fukuda or HK-47 had such information.
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If anyone still among the living learned anything, I haven't heard of it.
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Hmm. And what do you think I'll accomplish by doing this? That is to say - there is obviously more to what's happening here than just these murders and these trials. Finding another motivation - is this going to be helpful in us understanding that?
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I believe so. By gathering information and comparing your notes with others, you're likely to see the bigger picture rather than a close-up of the problem.
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[. . .]
This is not a complaint disguised as a question. I'm curious.
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I suppose some of us think you would be better off finding the answers yourselves.
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[It was probably a challenge to her ego, but she feels like answering more honestly.]
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[which is hard for them to admit, too, since it's freely admitting something but perhaps that's what makes it important.]
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She's. . . more than anything, she thinks he would continue to sit and talk through these things with her even if her behavior had lost her all of his respect. So it's a relief, if that isn't the case.]
I will likely continue to, but it won't impact my course of action.
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That's really all I can ask for then.