'Task' Recap: Confession Is for Humans

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Major spoilers for Task

For Robbie, it was never about revenge. It wasn’t even about settling scores, though that isn’t entirely clear until well after Robbie has died. For him, it was about bettering, if not his own life, then Maeve’s and his children’s. And what better way to do that than to take from the people who took from him and from Maeve?

Jayson killed his brother, so stealing from Jayson and the Dark Hearts made karmic sense. He couldn’t make Maeve whole, but he could compensate her, and in doing so, he could also endanger Jayson’s life, thereby protecting Eryn, who’d also had Billy Prendergrast taken from her. Robbie never meant to kill anyone, Jayson included, because the Dark Hearts would’ve handled that

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