Turns out this General Tsao isn’t the fool we all thought he was. With relative ease, he was able to track down our safehouse and steal the computer Bentley used to formulate all of his plans.
This job may have suddenly gotten more complicated, but our goal remains the same. We have a wedding to crash.
Like Penelope, it is easy to argue that the inclusion of the Panda King in the Cooper Gang is redundant because Bentley already knows his way around explosives. And similarly to her, that surface-level reading would ignore what he brings to the group dynamic.
In particular, his history as a direct antagonistic force for Sly back in the first game, and as one of the Fiendish Five who worked together to murder his father. Their shared history is one of bitter resentment, but both of them recognize that it’s been a long time since then, and have opened themselves up to work with each other despite that. Not to say that it’s easy, but that they’re both putting in the effort.
Their past informs their relationship but does not define it. And because of that, they’re able to, albeit reluctantly, transcend it.
It’s a surprise tool that’ll help us later.
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