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Why did Scorpio say that the kids would have a nice plane ride?


Wouldn't he let them go if he had gotten his ransom?

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No, he wanted to take the kids on the plane to wherever he was going first, as security. Then he probably would have killed them.

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That's what I thought. But did he have enough bullets?

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He probably would have beaten them to death or did what he did to the 14 year old girl down the hole. He didn't have any qualms about yanking her tooth out with a pair of pliars. Lack of bullets wouldn't have stopped Scorpio from killing them.

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I agree on that. When he betrayed his promise about letting the girl go, it proves that he would betray his promise once again. He could not be trusted.

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And yet the mayor trusted him for the second time guarantying him absolute safety as well as a pay off..

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The mayor was corrupt. By the way I think that Scorpio would kill again even if he got the money. He could not be trusted. Do you think that he would kill again?

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I'd say the mayor was not so much corrupt as gutless....

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You got a point there.

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Touche'! You answered more or less using a quote from the Mayor himself...

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I know. By the way may I ask you this? Why did Scorpio decide to let the girl suffocate to death anyway? I mean he had the money. In what way would it benefit him to let the girl suffocate anyway?

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No doubt (and I don't mean Gwen Stefani) it's because Scorpio was written to be a total psychopath-like the Joker, but with long hair.

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I know that. But why did he let the girl die anyway? I mean the girl that he let her suffocate to death.

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because he likes killing too damn much.

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