[Jack doesn't necessarily want to be validated, but there's something relieving when Venom seems to agree with his actions--then a degree of guilt that he would even think such a thing.]
They got fed a pretty tidy story.
[With a suspect and a motive and everything. It all lined up very nicely, which is exactly what the real culprits wanted. Pump it into the media. Discourage questioning. Close the book on Overwatch. He doubts his own agents bought it fully, but what could they have done? As loathsome as it all was, it did a good job of keeping them all out of it. Now that they know he's alive, however, everything's going to change.]
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They got fed a pretty tidy story.
[With a suspect and a motive and everything. It all lined up very nicely, which is exactly what the real culprits wanted. Pump it into the media. Discourage questioning. Close the book on Overwatch. He doubts his own agents bought it fully, but what could they have done? As loathsome as it all was, it did a good job of keeping them all out of it. Now that they know he's alive, however, everything's going to change.]
It went deeper than any of them knew.