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Reply Subj: Deconstructing Part 2... Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 at 08:55:49 am EDT (Viewed 427 times) | |||||||
Quote: That ending surprised me - I expected Yuki to crash into Hodgekiss' office before CSFB! got around to it. But I guess she *is* kind of busy...Quote: And this is where I have to start one of those grey area discussions. CSFB! threatens a war with Hodgekiss, but the General already knows he's not all that serious since he's still alive. He probably knows CSFB! is a hero to the core, and won't kill him. He also knows the Lair Legion is about the same, so he'll probably go on torturing them until he's dead. In other words, Hodgekiss knows if his torturings gets one of the Lair Legion killed (and it almost did already) they'll do nothing about it and he'll still have his job. It's a win-win situation for him. So the big risk of CSFB! threatening him with war is...he'll take it seriously, and start killing Legionnaires - because to a General, that's what a war is.Quote: If someone dies, though, that motivates one associate of theirs who lives in that grey area to take action. Lara Night may be tempted to kill him both in revenge and to stop him from continuing the war (if someone else doesn't get there first). Then again, maybe she won't, depending on the circumstances - while she's not set against killing (this is the "grey area") she also wouldn't want to make things worse for the Legion - killing the General is risky in that it may force the President to activate final neutralization protocol and hunt down and finish off the LL.Quote: Remember when I was talking about the Paradopolis PD and jurisdiction? Well hiring assassins to kill Hatman is pretty much all the motivation Commissioner Graham needs to give Vicky Cameron and Jack Burns the thumbs-up to investigate Velma Klein and haul her away in handcuffs. That's going to be really bad for her re-election chances.Quote: Meanwhile, though, Hat's going to need some serious bodyguarding. I would take a guess that's what Jupiter is for. Chiaki may know something is wrong by now, but she knows how hard-headed Jay can be, and that he wouldn't want her following him around everywhere. Plus after returning from her adventure even she knows she's not in her peak condition at the moment. So her kind of more immediate solution might be to use some clever connections to keep an eye on him and make sure nobody kills him.Quote: I'd say Garrick is the one taking the fall for Drury's "failure" since he was packing up his office. He may have been on the edge of removal since Anna escaped, though. He's also my second candidate for "grey area" - he may be the one who kills Hodgekiss before Lara manages it. | |||||||
