And how's he going to get that consent, with the real detective still laying low? He may not have made a good choice, but he made one and gave it his all to back it up. If the tip about Legion turned out to be false, he would be the one to get the heat for it, something he had no reason to risk as a regular guest himself.

Levi still went for it. I don't agree with what he did, for the record. He wanted things to move, but his idea of doing that was to push for a lynch.

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I guess he got what he wanted, in the end. But that still gives you no right to mock his death, no matter how ready he was to accept it.