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« on: January 07, 2012, 04:21:34 AM »
Yeah, but he took forever to work his way up to it, actually discussing it with her (which just-plain-murderers don't do, they just act), as if begging her to explain some way he could have avoided doing it, and still not have total disaster come down on him. He was like some cornered animal with the survival instinct taking over, and few smarts to work out why it would even mean disaster for him too. He's half-animal in a lot of ways. I think he's a kind of person who's just not equipped to live in society, and he was extremely fortunate that Liz gave him this safe niche to live in quietly and harmlessly, for all those years. It's really a very sad story, Matthew's, and I'm closer to having Liz's attitude than Vicki's. It's strange how Thayer could (for me anyway) make the character both scarier and more sympathetic than the previous actor did.