Talk:And the Winner Is.../@comment-71.218.244.233-20120515021932/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120515212030

The thing is, the city council played right into Amon's hands, which sort of makes looking down on them for their inital stance kind of silly in retrospect. Then again, Amon probably had things planned out so that he could take advantage no matter what the city council decided to do. If the city council caved in to his demands, it would just show that Amon was having an effect and more people would see Amon as strong and the council as weak, and thus Amon wins. If the council does not give in, well, rewatch episode 6 to see how that worked out for them.

Simply put, Amon holds all the cards right now. Pretty much every aspect of his plan thus far has possible contingencies for both of the major decisions that the characters can make, thus until the protagonists start trying to think of Plan C's, Amon is just going to trounce them again and again.