Accomplice?
Nay, I say.
With all respect, and I don't think I'm being difficult, Barry's schemes over the years to eliminate Suzanne never would have included accomplices.
Never. BM ego and infallibility. QED.
Further:
Any accomplice here would have had to have been picked-up on-the-fly. This is so because Barry's hithertofore "perfect" solution - whatever it
had been - just disintegrated amidst his rage and bloodlust.
So now, he's going to set about finding someone help him
- conceal his crime:
- in ways he cannot foresee;
- hasn't planned;
- making it worth this person's while,
- with a promise of "something you really could use",
- which I'll have for you "really soon"... ? ? ?
Methinks not. {Witness BM's flummoxing about trying to put his
wallibi workforce together. He was a virtual rutabaga
}. Nor would calling-in-a-favor or perhaps extorting a SalinaBarryBud be of avail. Couldn't work imo. Even a root vegetable ought to sense how mutually fatal merely asking for help could prove.
Money?
Nay again.
Not ready in the available window. Plus it's fungible, read: untraceable in our circumstances.
But...
But what about that really BIG JEWEL?
Oyez!
Readily available;
not fungible...
nor a "dead horse", thank you very much .
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Sensing that a woeful inability to express myself has made my overarching argument murky, I shall again try
to fill the breech..
."Half a league, half a league, half a league onward..."
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This vulgar stone ... its location, its recovery...ALL extraneous IMO.
It need never be found.
OK, nice to have to close a OCD loop perhaps, but
NOT quintessential.
WE JUST NEED TO FIND SOMEONE ...
ANYONE - AN INDIANA GOSSIPMONGER would do nicely for starters - someone who'd enjoy jabbering a bit. Eighth/ninth degree, rank hearsay could prove a godsend and case-breaker. To sum up - for the last time, I pray -
Either Barry still controls it, or it has moved.
Credible evidence of a single instance of the jewel's relocation
- separation from Barry's control if you will -
would be damning.
Not to put too fine a point on things, the good guys do not need the bleedin' stone I'm sorry.