Una wrote: <I can't resist chipping in in support of Cally, and that scene. I've blathered on many, many times about how that scene utterly grabbed me as a kid. I think Cally is brilliant in that scene - hits them with the truth and it *bites*. It's effective as well, isn't it? They *do* stop mistreating Shrinker (well, until Avon murders him).>

True, but it's also notable that Cally can only influence the small, shabby cruelty on the side of the whole affair (BTW, there are several examples in S3 of this mean-spirited gloating over a 'weaker' person, a small but definite taint - anyone think that was also deliberate?) whereas she is unable to have any influence over the larger crime. And now that I think of it, that might be a pattern throughout, *not* just in S3 - Cally sometimes queried the morality of the others (Breakdown and Star One come to mind) but I don't recall many examples of her being able *to* influence the final decision for good or bad (yes, yes, I know, trying to deflect My Heroes is sometimes like trying to stop a lava flow with a toy spade).

Cally *may* be conflicted, but she possibly also realises that she isn't strong enough to make the difference on her own.

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