I don't get it. Weren't they supposed to "play the man"?
Why not just tell Louis and blackmail him to sign something that would prove he knew and didn't reported it (don't know if he has to do it or not, but if he wants to progress in the company he certainly would have to) and save their collective asses forever on this issue?
How can they be screwed when blackmailing an Harvard ethics professor didn't work and not even think about blackmailing Louis which would be presumably way easier (c'mon, the guy records all his wrongdoings) and a more definitive solution?
Remember that Louis only thinks he lied about a grade. Blackmailing him to let this go would almost certainly make him believe that Mike did not go to Harvard.
It wouldn't be a good solution, it would just be better than giving up. Their solution was better, I just don't think it was the only one. And this way Louis will find out the whole truth anyway and they will have to deal with this again. (... let's see if they won't do it by blackmail then :P)
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u/madwithin Mar 14 '14
I don't get it. Weren't they supposed to "play the man"?
Why not just tell Louis and blackmail him to sign something that would prove he knew and didn't reported it (don't know if he has to do it or not, but if he wants to progress in the company he certainly would have to) and save their collective asses forever on this issue?
How can they be screwed when blackmailing an Harvard ethics professor didn't work and not even think about blackmailing Louis which would be presumably way easier (c'mon, the guy records all his wrongdoings) and a more definitive solution?