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Why did the INSPECTOR...


... kill both the fly and the spider?

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As an act of mercy to prevent a horrible death and because the screaming was getting to him

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Well, killing just the spider (or even just flicking it away)would also have spared him a horrible death.

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It was to set up the conversation about whether he as just as guilty of murder as Hélène Delambre.

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