>>They don't have a lot of defectors - they lost Geoff
>>Depew due to a miscalculation in their psych profile, for example.
>>
>And just pure dumb luck. If they hadn't tried to send you after Kei
>(Or was it Yuri) while you were still rattled by your encounter with
>the waitress...

Um, did you argue with the author about the motivations of his own, self-identified character?

But let's leave that aside. You're arguing that that UF-Geoff would have happily taken out a lovely Angel if he hadn't suddenly felt guilty about killing an innocent bystander.

You miss the point - he felt guilty about killing an innocent bystander. In the Big Fire training, your concern about non-Big Fire (or lower level Big Fire) people is supposed to be 'nil. They want to create psychopaths who don't care about anyone. They thought they'd done that with UF-Geoff, but they were wrong. He was capable of feeling remorse, and that's exactly what Big Fire indoctrination tries to crush.

So not a fluke - but a long, unaddressed trauma that needed a catalyst. If it was dumb luck UF-Geoff would have gone back to killing the innocent without a qualm after he found a way to resolve his brief, uncharacteristic, bout of conscience.

my two cents,
t.

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