#THE S1/S3 PARALLELS/INVERSIONS... (explodes)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ohh wait sorry but this reminds me of another convo from much later in part 26:

because for one thing, john accepts the blame for eddie's death fairly readily ("i killed him because he attacked us!" without any real objecting to the premise).

but for another thing, this time arthur accuses him of secretly wanting to kill someone when we know for a fact that faust was arthur's decision. which is that moment in that early episode almost perfectly in reverse.

(for bonus points he actually kind of does it twice in rapid succession, considering the widow was also almost definitely 100% his decision:)

Arthur's questioning that killing Eddie was his decision vs John's insisting that it was is kinda interesting to me

Like, John might be telling the truth here, given Arthur does kill people sometimes, and there obvious is some overlap in their minds especially/at least early on. But John also has every motivation to be lying and deflecting blame onto Arthur, just like with Parker's death, so it's really suspicious for him to be going "oh yea it was you're choice. your idea. you were so on board with it. I mind-readed that from you actually. I can totally do that. yeah no really, for reals."