I really can’t stress enough how absolutely silly it is for Damien to out Aiden Pearce as The Vigilante at the beginning of the episode. There are two big reasons for this:
1.) Aiden Pearce’s identity as The Vigilante is public knowledge.
As we’ve seen repeatedly over the course of this Let’s Play, countless news reports have referred to Aiden Pearce by name when speaking of The Vigilante. I would guess that one draft of the script had it where nobody except for his closest allies knew who we was. However, this is no longer the case. Even discounting the incidental, background radio and news reports as not part of the story, T-Bone knows who Aiden Pearce because of the news reports, which is why he didn’t trust Pearce at first. When Damien tells the world who The Vigilante is, the world should shrug with indifference, because they already had a face and a name.
2.) Damien has no reason to oust Aiden Pearce.
As Aiden Pearce correctly deduced, Damien’s deal with Blume means that he’s reliant of Pearce to give him the data. Otherwise, he’s royally screwed out of the CTOS hacks, and could possibly get a hit taken out on him. If Aiden got arrested because of what Damien did, Damien would be in arguably a worse position than Aiden Pearce. Aiden Pearce will eventually break out of jail, and Damien will have several people coming after him from all sides.
Even if Damien doesn’t like Aiden Pearce (and to be fair, who would?), he’d still need him out and about in order to stay afloat.
Next time, I get to complain about Defalt.
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