As they left the interrogation room, the young officer taking notes sighed. "I didn't expect this one to go so smoothly. I thought it was going to drag on for a while, like before."
Sean Hughes shook her head, explaining in high spirits, "Not exactly. That Gary Dawson, he's got a bit of an old-school gangster mentality. Once he's made up his mind about something, he doesn't change it easily.
If his wife hadn't decided to abandon him—and been the first to suspect him—it would've completely broken his spirit. Getting anything out of him wouldn't have been nearly so easy."
To put it bluntly, she had won by exploiting an information gap.
She made each of them believe the other had been the first to betray them and talk.
Only by shattering the trust between them could she pick them off one by one. That made things much easier.
But there was no need to explain all that.
