He's taking it well because, given the current location and brief future of one Hannibal Lector, it didn't sound like she had or would have the chance to do anything that she might come to regret. The whole imminent demise thing… neither Bart nor Hayley can do anything about that. The downside of an autocracy. Maybe it's the upside. There weren't going to be any appeals on technicalities here. Once the only person that matters makes up their mind about it -
Oh my god, what was he even thinking? Just because this execution was a 'freebie' death - Bart believed that Hannibal would emerge unscathed, in a new body here or his old one back home - didn't make it less gross. "When in Rome" is fine, until Rome starts killing people off because they're inconvenient. There is a jail right under the palace. There were other options. It's revolting. Worse than revolting, because he almost condoned dying on one man's say so.
And now he's done a 170 (a 180 would involve breaking him out of prison to ensure the government did the right thing), because he finally took a moment to appraise the situation without clinging to 'but he killed Hayley'. Something had made him remember his mother unbidden and what men with power can do. He can't let himself rationalize this.
Working through his opinions on this, as muddled as they still are, has cost him some of the conversation. He tunes back in on the word sociopath. There's no uncertainty about who she's talking about. The complete lack of remorse, refusal to call his victims by name - the statement was all about him. "You still didn't do it. He's a sociopath - you think he'd care if it would make a difference in you if the tables were turned? You're a better person than him."
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Oh my god, what was he even thinking? Just because this execution was a 'freebie' death - Bart believed that Hannibal would emerge unscathed, in a new body here or his old one back home - didn't make it less gross. "When in Rome" is fine, until Rome starts killing people off because they're inconvenient. There is a jail right under the palace. There were other options. It's revolting. Worse than revolting, because he almost condoned dying on one man's say so.
And now he's done a 170 (a 180 would involve breaking him out of prison to ensure the government did the right thing), because he finally took a moment to appraise the situation without clinging to 'but he killed Hayley'. Something had made him remember his mother unbidden and what men with power can do. He can't let himself rationalize this.
Working through his opinions on this, as muddled as they still are, has cost him some of the conversation. He tunes back in on the word sociopath. There's no uncertainty about who she's talking about. The complete lack of remorse, refusal to call his victims by name - the statement was all about him. "You still didn't do it. He's a sociopath - you think he'd care if it would make a difference in you if the tables were turned? You're a better person than him."