Kelly- actively guilty for setting him up, in a position of power and with responsibility to use it properly. Guilt level: 10
The rapist - another directly guilty person, actively harmed Wayne in a horrible way and caused pretty much everything together with Kelly. Still, enjoyable to watch (unlike Kelly). Gets .5 less then Kelly because he has problems and was never entrusted with a responsibility that makes the betray of it worse. Guilt level: 9.5
Christian (the guy who committed the crime) - responsible for the situation, but with no malicious intent, could have tried to stop the innocent person from being falsely accused. Guilt level: 8
The insurance guy - It's a nasty work, but I can see how he can feel innocent. He could have tried to beat the system and approve people like Wayne out of humanity. That is what the dad was saying, you start looking at people as numbers and doing your job, but it's wrong. When it was his family, he understood it. He knew that just doing his job means not allowing someone to live, criminal or not. Even if Wayne was a robber that was bs. Guilt level: 7.5
Chinese woman - since we heard nothing about her pov, it's hard to judge. She gave a wrong identification, the question is how urged she was by Kelly etc. Still, you shouldn't rush to identify when you're not sure, it's better to let a robber go then to accuse an innocent person. Guilt level: 6.5
The priest - the vow is understandable and he shouldn't betray Christian, but... Can;t imagine there was no way to still try to get the innocent guy out of prison though- he should have done everything he could apart from giving Christian's name. Tell the media, police, try to help Wayne somehow. His job is to be involved and try to do good, failure to care is *beep* Guilt level : 6
Leon (The black guy) - sure he is a criminal, but barely and totally indirectly involved. I guess he could be judged in a sense that everyone who does this type of crime enables these situations. Guilt level: 4
Sully - like Leon, very indirectly guilty, but it could be argued that people like that cause many bad things to happen (don't get me wrong, I love the guy). Guilt level: 4
The cop - innocent. He didn't do anything wrong, however it is understandable that the murderer didn't know that. Perhaps, he should have been more careful around the evidence, but it was difficult for him to assume what would have happened. Guilt level: 1.5
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yusef-ghanima
11 years ago
i don't understand how sully and the cop are not directly responsible, when a mop guy has reputation of killing people who don't pay their dept, and cop share evidence with girl friend!
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VivienCastro
11 years ago
Sully isn't responsible for Christian's lack of responsibility. The situation was fair, Christian got himself in debt and chose to deal with it by committing a robbery - he wasn't forced to do either. After the robbery he made a moral choice to allow an innocent man to be convicted for his crime. Like I said, the fact that people like Sully help create an environment where others do bad things does bring his guilt level to a 4, but he had *beep* to do with the specific situation that was a direct result of three choices Christian made, plus Kelly being content to go after the wrong person, and finally pedophile raping him and the insurance guy letting him die. Tracing consequences all the way back to Sully who didn't have a single intention towards Wayne means almost there is no personal responsibility at all anyone should take.
As for the cop, he was negligent, but there was no intent, even no idea that Kelly would do what she did. Her status and responsibilities combined with the fact he knew her personally (obviously not that she was capable of doing this) made it so he never even thought of not trusting her. Although looking at it now, I would raise his guilt level to a 3 because he had a responsibility he failed at, while still not really morally convicting him.
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