Don't thank me. If you're wrong about Ivan - the Judge - all of this - there's nothing any of us can do. You'll have played right into her hands.

[But then again, those letters.... they shouldn't exist. There's no logical reason for any of things to have been written, and it's far too detailed to be a trick. Maybe they're right. Maybe their faith isn't for nothing. Maybe he should have faith in them. He'd admitted to Karen he couldn't do this alone when things were even less complicated and awful than this. All he's been doing is helping get the wrong people executed. It was sick, all of it. What can he do? What can they do? Is this the only way he can protect them?]

[His voice softens.]

Stay safe, both of you. Consider this my promise to you.

[If this was all an act he just got horribly played, but, well, he's ready. Come at him, shoe-thiefing doge bros.]

[(He'll go down fighting)]