[Oh no, no no. Will is more comfortable with secrets in return, though he doesn't expect them. Tell me about your mother gets turned back onto his psychiatrist (though not officially, which would never work in his favor on the stand). How do you feel? gets turned around just the same, and was one thing Whale said to him that made him want to suddenly feign nausea, diarrhea, anything that made it seem like yeah, Whale should have gone. Whale takes his time replying, and so does Will. He has to calm down. He has to think this through. He has to make sure that the gravity of the situation is not only understood, but that Whale finally, finally knows what sort of situation he might have gotten himself into.]
Good is subjective. I've done a lot of bad things in my line of work, but with the idea of the greater good behind it. Provoke the killers we're tracking in the hopes they out themselves. You know how they do that? They kill again. We get more evidence to work with, we find them. So while it's good in the way we catch them, it's bad because more people suffer. That's part of the job, and I honestly hate it. They don't tell you that, though. Conspiracy theorists sometimes venture into that territory, but they take it to the extreme. Good? Means to an ends. The ends is that the perpetrator is caught. The means is that more people die, families lose loved ones, people suffer. The idea is that after a few more times, less people will suffer. That's not good, but it's not bad. Or so they'd tell you. I don't know what it is anymore, but I sure as hell don't like that part of the job. I've become desensitized to it. I don't like that either.
[That comes out easily, just an explanation. A view behind the curtain that not many see, or what to see. A bit of context on what "good" is to Will, which isn't much. Good that killers are caught? Great. Good that people have to die to get them? That's not good at all.]
I don't know if you really want to talk more about this, Doctor Whale. There's things back home that aren't savory, and that's not just the murders. When I go back home, if I ever do, the first place I'm going to is a hospital for the criminally insane. For killing that doctor. That young woman I found under my bed. Two other young women, and the person I mentioned we'd lost before we came here. It's been blamed on me. Not just murders, but that I cannibalized some of them when I was finished seeing to the end of their life.
[This is all said calmly. It's a fact. Will's come to accept it. He knows who did it, of course. That man is in his head. And yes, maybe this isn't fair, but in a way, it could be. Whale now has the information he needs to either say "fuck this just keep to your medications" and be done with it, or he can make a different call. As for him really telling anyone this? Well, it hasn't happened in the past over two months since he's been here.]
That's not usually a topic people welcome being talked about, or usually associate with someone they consider a good guy.
[He hopes for an answer, whatever it will be. But if Whale just hangs up and never talks to him again? He won't be mad. Whale will have cut him out of his life. Then, if Lecter ever shows up, he won't have ties to him anymore.
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Good is subjective. I've done a lot of bad things in my line of work, but with the idea of the greater good behind it. Provoke the killers we're tracking in the hopes they out themselves. You know how they do that? They kill again. We get more evidence to work with, we find them. So while it's good in the way we catch them, it's bad because more people suffer. That's part of the job, and I honestly hate it. They don't tell you that, though. Conspiracy theorists sometimes venture into that territory, but they take it to the extreme. Good? Means to an ends. The ends is that the perpetrator is caught. The means is that more people die, families lose loved ones, people suffer. The idea is that after a few more times, less people will suffer. That's not good, but it's not bad. Or so they'd tell you. I don't know what it is anymore, but I sure as hell don't like that part of the job. I've become desensitized to it. I don't like that either.
[That comes out easily, just an explanation. A view behind the curtain that not many see, or what to see. A bit of context on what "good" is to Will, which isn't much. Good that killers are caught? Great. Good that people have to die to get them? That's not good at all.]
I don't know if you really want to talk more about this, Doctor Whale. There's things back home that aren't savory, and that's not just the murders. When I go back home, if I ever do, the first place I'm going to is a hospital for the criminally insane. For killing that doctor. That young woman I found under my bed. Two other young women, and the person I mentioned we'd lost before we came here. It's been blamed on me. Not just murders, but that I cannibalized some of them when I was finished seeing to the end of their life.
[This is all said calmly. It's a fact. Will's come to accept it. He knows who did it, of course. That man is in his head. And yes, maybe this isn't fair, but in a way, it could be. Whale now has the information he needs to either say "fuck this just keep to your medications" and be done with it, or he can make a different call. As for him really telling anyone this? Well, it hasn't happened in the past over two months since he's been here.]
That's not usually a topic people welcome being talked about, or usually associate with someone they consider a good guy.
[He hopes for an answer, whatever it will be. But if Whale just hangs up and never talks to him again? He won't be mad. Whale will have cut him out of his life. Then, if Lecter ever shows up, he won't have ties to him anymore.
The things he does to save lives, honestly.]