So why did Pierre...


absolutely demolish that guy Le Tenia was with? Okay, the obvious answer is that he too thought it was Le Tenia and he broke Marcus' arm and tried to sodomize him. However otherwise Pierre seemed non-violent, rational and peaceful. But why did he go as far as destroying the guy like that without knowing for sure?

No, I'm in Touch with humanity!
-Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

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I think it was the irreversible effect of his friend being raped...he was protecting his friend and trying to find the rapist, but I think, in that moment, he was overwhelmed with rage for what happened to his friend and saw another friend in danger and rage took over.

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^^^^^ What she said. And now he gets to spend the rest of his life (however long that may be) in prison for a brutal murder. By the end of it, he'll have just as horrible an outcome as Alex.

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