How do I know you're not playing a double game? One stone, multiple birds, trying to make me speak carelessly in order to entrap me.
That would be illegal. Plus I really need to catch this man.
More than you want to catch me?
At the moment, yeah. I'm running out of time.
Because if I thought you were about to lose interest in me, I'd be inconsolable.
I just need a way in, to know what it's like to be him, to not feel anything.
I feel things.
Not mercy.
Not sentiment. I can't empathise for this man's state of being any more than you can, because, disregarding a single, ah, alleged act, carried out for different, alleged, reasons, he and I might just as well be from different species.
[sigh] See, I disagree. Murder's murder.
But it isn't, is it? Not even to you. This man Burgess, he's just a naughty child showing off. You already know his flaw — his compulsion to dominate, to be in control — and you already know how to exploit that.
How?
Oh, come on. Change the state of play.
Yeah, well, I tried that with you and it failed.
Only just.
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