Omi runs until he reaches the bay. He parks himself on the railing that lines the harbor, staring off into the vast sea. This has always been his favorite place to turn things over in his mind. It's remote. It's quiet. It's relaxing. He takes a deep breath of salty air.
Okay. Think. Bruce Wayne has been accused of a serious crime. Maybe he's even guilty; Kritiker's never been wrong before. And if he is guilty.... If he is guilty, his team is going to need every ounce of support and craftiness that he can lend them.
If he's guilty, Omi realizes, he's going to have to be In.
On the other hand, with that decided, Omi wants to be absolutely, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt sure Bruce Wayne is guilty. It's possible that he might be doing similar rotten work in his home country. But it's undeniable that he does a great deal of good in the world, too. Killing him is erasing all of that with him. It better be worth it.
Next question: how does he get to absolutely, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt sure? Money laundering was incredibly difficult to prove by its nature. What about the tech? If it could be definitively traced back to WayneTech, that would be damning. Any evidence of Wayne paying a recent visit to the building, too, would be suspicious. But not rock solid.
Maybe... Maybe he's going about this in exactly the wrong way. Maybe instead of looking for rock solid proof of guilt, he needs to be looking for rock solid proof of innocence. Proving guilt would inherently be next to impossible, especially on their tight timeline. What he needed was to exhaust all potential alibis.
The pictures of stockpiled weaponry were real. The dead bodies were real. The crime was real. For Bruce Wayne to be innocent, someone else had to be guilty. And, most likely, the best place to start looking was the source: the production building. And he'd need to snoop around in WayneTech for comparison.
That... might pose a challenge. Breaking into Batman's company, Omi could only imagine what kind of high-tech security they might be dealing with. And if he was caught... If he got caught, it might end up too late to change anything. Or worse.
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Okay. Think. Bruce Wayne has been accused of a serious crime. Maybe he's even guilty; Kritiker's never been wrong before. And if he is guilty.... If he is guilty, his team is going to need every ounce of support and craftiness that he can lend them.
If he's guilty, Omi realizes, he's going to have to be In.
On the other hand, with that decided, Omi wants to be absolutely, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt sure Bruce Wayne is guilty. It's possible that he might be doing similar rotten work in his home country. But it's undeniable that he does a great deal of good in the world, too. Killing him is erasing all of that with him. It better be worth it.
Next question: how does he get to absolutely, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt sure? Money laundering was incredibly difficult to prove by its nature. What about the tech? If it could be definitively traced back to WayneTech, that would be damning. Any evidence of Wayne paying a recent visit to the building, too, would be suspicious. But not rock solid.
Maybe... Maybe he's going about this in exactly the wrong way. Maybe instead of looking for rock solid proof of guilt, he needs to be looking for rock solid proof of innocence. Proving guilt would inherently be next to impossible, especially on their tight timeline. What he needed was to exhaust all potential alibis.
The pictures of stockpiled weaponry were real. The dead bodies were real. The crime was real. For Bruce Wayne to be innocent, someone else had to be guilty. And, most likely, the best place to start looking was the source: the production building. And he'd need to snoop around in WayneTech for comparison.
That... might pose a challenge. Breaking into Batman's company, Omi could only imagine what kind of high-tech security they might be dealing with. And if he was caught... If he got caught, it might end up too late to change anything. Or worse.
He grimaces tightly, realizing what he must do.