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Sounds like Roger plod. Sonorie making a very public rebuttal of all her doubters, of whom we saw explicitly go beyond Bell's group in the populace, by burning Roger in front of them so they never question her dedication. Since he's dead and gone now, why not make one last "sacrifice" of him for the Cause? That's just green thinking. Using the entire Copper.

Even some captured Aldish officer doesn't make much sense, big or small. They'd just be some schmuck to most of the public, for whom an execution would be beyond question any way. What would burning such a person prove of Sonorie? That she can kill one Ald? The public wants more than that, so if she's gonna wrangle them into her scheme, she needs something that'll really impress them. The idea that she was "just using" Roger all along, that it was her "fucking" over him, and not the other way around, would help both solve the above issue of the doubt in her commitment to opposing Alderode and show she's got something exceptional planned so they should, as Cope says, "let her cook."

"I've been using this red fucker for a generation, trust me, I have a plan."