Post #590976

The *very* end of the chapter gives us the obligatory "animal all along" reveal: The Empress wasn't a human asking D to stop another human from having the artificially-inseminated baby of her deceased human husband, she was a rare bird asking him to stop a zoo from hatching the artificially-inseminated egg of her deceased bird husband. Look, I'm fine with "the bird who needs D's help" having an exactly-parallel situation to "the human case Leon is dealing with." That level of coincidence is a twist PSOH runs on. But if D is out stealing the artificially-inseminated egg, don't show him sneaking away from the building where the artificially-inseminated human just got blown up! At that point it's not a satisfying well-done misdirect, it's just contrived. (Would've given it partial credit for "D was sneaking away from the zoo with the egg, and just happened to be walking past the bombing"...but he's not carrying anything, let alone anything egg-sized. I went back and checked.)