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Why did Karen Crowder have Arthur killed?


Yes, I know she was aware Arthur had flipped and was building a case against her company, but she's just the (relatively) lowly legal counsel. She's not the CEO, not a major shareholder etc. What's in it for her? Why risk it? Just because she wanted to advance her career?

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She’s not just a lowly legal counsel, she’s lead counsel for a colossus of a company who is knowingly poisoning and killing an entire community of people, the buck stops with her as it relates to the pending litigation against U-North.
It’s tremendous responsibility, she’s either going to see her company through the storm unscathed or potentially bankrupt them through a class-action nightmare scenario.
The film alludes to her obsessive nature and hyper focused mentality to see the course through a singular outcome, cover-up the scandal by any means necessary, to include hiring hitmen to murder Arthur.

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