Question C

[Jonetta]

If Millie hadn’t pleaded for her son’s safety, do you think Argent would have killed her?

[Anita]

That's tough to answer. He was intrigued by her, but I don't think it was enough for him to not complete his contract.

[Jonetta]

Yeah, I agree. I wasn’t sure but was leaning more towards him fulfilling the contract.

[Anita]

There was no way he was going to kill a woman who would do anything to keep her son safe. Way to much like his mother. He just couldn't do it.

[Jonetta]

It was the one thing that could stop him in his tracks.

[Sandra]

I think so, but I'm not sure. There was an electric connection between them even early on. He certainly didn't understand it as he had nothing to compare it to, but he felt it - even hesitated because of it. And, of course, once she pleaded for her son's life, he was back in that cell hearing his mother's dying pleas. There was no way he would take a mother away from her son - it stirred too many of his own miserable childhood memories. And I use the word "childhood" loosely as he never truly had one.

[Robin]

I think the fact that her son came in the room and she pleaded for his safety was the turning point. He may have gone through with it if that hadn't happened.

[Karen ♐]

It definitely changed things once she pleaded for her son. I still don't think he would have gone through with it. There was already a connection between them.

[Lauren]

Like many, I am not sure if he would have carried out the contract if she hadn't. He was already intrigued by her and did not kill her the first time, so I'm inclined to think he wouldn't have killed her regardless.

The said, her words probably cemented the choice he had already made.

[Jonetta]

I love that we’re conflicted about this. Great scene!

[Charlene]

What's not to be conflicted about here!!

But the recall of his distant situation when his mother was killed would play into his childish guilt that he caused his mother's death and he would not have wanted that boy to suffer. I remember, at the beginning, where he said he did not rape women or kill children.

[Jonetta]

Great points, Charlene!