"But it seems very clear that Lynn Echolls herself was motivated primarily by self-preservation. On both counts. She made her escape, leaving her son. And prior than that it's possible he acted as an abusive surrogate if you will; allowing her husband to beat their child means that he didn't beat her. She did not want to disrupt that hierarchy."
Brennan is very good at compartmentalizing, and does not need to like or feel sympathetic toward a victim in order to solve a murder. In cases like this, that detachment is invaluable.
"That creates motive, certainly for Logan. And possibly for Trina as well. Right?"
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"But it seems very clear that Lynn Echolls herself was motivated primarily by self-preservation. On both counts. She made her escape, leaving her son. And prior than that it's possible he acted as an abusive surrogate if you will; allowing her husband to beat their child means that he didn't beat her. She did not want to disrupt that hierarchy."
Brennan is very good at compartmentalizing, and does not need to like or feel sympathetic toward a victim in order to solve a murder. In cases like this, that detachment is invaluable.
"That creates motive, certainly for Logan. And possibly for Trina as well. Right?"