Wait, is he thinking about-- ah, no, he's looking at Jing Yi. That's a sensible thing to worry about, but he's hoping Terrence might reflect on other stuff.

"...Jing Yi, I am trying to be nice about this, but you suddenly out of nowhere getting engaged to and agreeing to kill a man for someone who can mind-control people is really concerning."

"Especially since the only reason to think she hasn't is that she said so."

Inaaya is right! Jing Yi is definitely not going to take Oscar's advice but it's good he's getting this somewhere.

"I haven't been acting out of character." Because he, you know, regularly impulsively fathers a child, and gets engaged, and plans a murder after an investigation falls through, and...

He's not thinking about it. Because what would be even do if he was mind controlled? It's too late to change anything.

"If you suddenly and out of nowhere getting engaged to someone and agreeing to do a murder for her is in-character that's more concerning."

"I'm a very impulsive person."

No matter what's true, there's a kid, and he can't just abandon them...

"When did you meet her?"

"...Jing Yi, I hate to be the one to say this, but Chris Parker is really dangerous too. If you fail... I don't know what he's going to do."

"At the Servant's Ball." She was beautiful, so beautiful, and she was paying attention to him... "And we know what he's going to do if I don't try."

"...you're engaged to someone you met less than six weeks ago. I don't believe you that you're always that impulsive."

"You weren't at the Servant's Ball."

He'd know. He keeps track of this stuff to avoid him. After that one party. (They were both quite drunk.)

He doesn't want to say as much, but he really should. He pinches the bridge of his nose.

"Oscar, please think through why you wouldn't recognise someone at the Servant's Ball."

"...Well, either way, it's, um."

It's only been six weeks? ...it has only been six weeks.

"Because they're in costume? Uh, sure, but I wasn't hiding behind my Pierrot makeup." Whatever.

"Oscar, I hate to say this, but I think you need glasses."

"Not something I can afford especially of late."

"Whether he was at the Servant's Ball or not isn't the important part," and she'd rather not continue on this train of thought or someone might remember the woman dressed as Artemis to her Athena and flirting with all the girls, but that's also not the point. "I really think the important part is that you are engaged to, and planning a murder on behalf of, someone you have known for less than six weeks, who we know can mind control people."

That's fair. Inaaya is sensible.

You see, with the Servant's Ball, he has something to say about that.

"Parker does need to die," he says quietly.

(There was that flash, and he wanted to kill him so badly and-- he has no way to tell if that came from his mind or not.)

"Parker is awful," Oscar says sympathetically. "But..."

"He's a public menace," Terrence agrees. "It's just - I wouldn't want you to make a decision you can't take back while not in your right mind. You'd be put in terrible danger. Don't you see why that's concerning?"

"Lots of people do things at least as bad as Parker does, and if you were plotting to track down and assassinate every dictator in the world I-- well I would still be worried but I wouldn't specifically be worried your fiancée was mind controlling you."

"Parker would destroy her. --and that's not mind control, that's just--"

"What else would you have me do."

He is a trained actor and he should have control of his voice, and--

Unlike what some might argue Terrence is still capable of being compassionate and reasonable. It's really good to see.