...have his own assassin eliminated? It certainly seems to me that he made WAAYY more of a mess than either Leo or Dean (the 2 guys who put the code into the puzzle book in the first place) AND he kept bringing negative attention to the issue. Was he THAT important a sidekick? Thanx for any & all replies, comments, thoughts & opinions!!!
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Either the assassin was: A) of the same 'pay grade' as Kudrow, and he understood just as well as Kudrow did the gravity of the situation, or he was: B) on a strictly need-to-know basis, and he didn't even know why he was killing the people whom he was killing.
With the first option, is would be strange that he is running around doing the high-risk work of pulling triggers if he were as privileged as Kudrow was, and with the second option, it would be strange that he is okay with running around in middle America, slaughtering entire families of citizens when he didn't even know why he was doing it. If he were okay with it because he is a psychopath, then being a psychopath would probably tend to make him too unreliable to carry out the exact task given to him, since psychopaths are effing crazy after all. It's like they say in all those cliched crime stories; psychos are terrible to work with, because you never know what a psycho going to do.
Of course, the real reason is that the character is just another example of the 'cool assassin' movie trope, and he doesn't make sense if you think about him too much. A character like him is essentially a kind of a movie monster, although made scarier through the idea that he is 'real'.
psychos are terrible to work with, because you never know what a psycho going to do.Anton in No Country For Old Men proved that to be true!
It's because this storyline was meant to be stupid as hell.
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