Posted by docmed03 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Conflict-tp1510316p1510341.html

--- In [hidden email], zerg harry <zergharry@...> wrote:
>
> If we look outside "Conflict", Henderson states in Confetti
Check "I'll be holding the purse-strings" and in "Kill Straker" he
entertains the idea that "Straker has become mentally-obsessed with
his command and has to be removed" and in "Destruction" warns
Straker that he is "getting too suspicious...it's almost a complex"
and in Conflict he assumes Straker's disobedience is due to "a
mental abberration, the strain of command". I'd say that Henderson
is always watchful for any hint that Straker is not reliable or
mentally stable and if his new role is to "hold the purse-strings",
he is simply forcing Straker to provide proof and justification that
more money is needed.
But to me, the conflict ends when Straker says "If only you hadn't
been so positive that you were right" and Henderson replies "Like
you?" There is a subtle, almost imperceptable nod from Straker, I
think, and then he says "I'll walk you to your car". This final line
means "conflict over" to me, it's Straker's admission that Henderson
was just doing his job too, and I think it's Straker offering the
olive branch to him. Two men both trying to do what's right. That's
how I always see it.
>    
> Z.

It would seem that, as you say, conflict is over, because in
Timelash, Henderson describes Straker as SHADO's most valuable
commodity. I can't remember the exact term he used, so am trusting
to memory for the gist of it.