Postby Jd- » May 18th, 2014, 9:43 pm
As for Amuro, Akai, and "him": We don't really know the whole truth behind Date's death just yet. It's hard to imagine it being anyone else just because... How many other people in this series need to be connected to Amuro before it's revealed who he really is and all of his motivations? He's going to end up being someone's long-lost brother if this keeps up. We know that it's a "him", so I'm just hoping that it's Date so that we can tie up that part of the story and move on to the next thing.
As for Amuro and Sherry: We can't really take what happened on the train at face value. Gin and Vermouth had two different plans regarding the train, both of which would involve Sherry being killed with certainty, whereas Amuro's plan meant definitely taking her in alive. His use of the gun could have been simply a means of forcing her onto the helicopter, where she would be received by his Secret Police colleagues. From there, her death may have been faked by saying she jumped from the helicopter or something along those lines. Regardless as to the outcome, we can see a clear dichotomy in his methodology and that of the other Black Organization members. As I was saying even before he was revealed to be Secret Police: We still have not yet seen Amuro do anything conclusively bad. Everything he's ever done has been--at absolute best--middle of the road, but more likely, just a good guy doing some marginally "bad" things to give the appearance he's bad.
Keep in mind that Amuro had no idea who could come along or who could be listening while he was talking with Sherry. He couldn't just be like, "Listen, I'm Secret Police and I have a plan to get you out of here, you just have to trust me!". The most efficient and quickest route to getting Sherry in custody would be to force her onto the helicopter, but then Akai interfered with that. The thing to take away from this is that every "bad" thing Amuro has done, especially on the Mystery Train, have been the result of very Gosho "good-bad" red herrings and misdirection.
As for Amuro and the Secret Police: We don't quite know what's going on with Amuro just yet. We know he has police background and yet he has a connection with Elena. Unless Amuro has British connections and Elena has MI6 connections, there aren't really many other ways to sensibly connect all of this. Amuro is working in the open with the police, so he doesn't seem very concerned he will be found out. This leads one to believe that he is a spy for the Organization in the police, and yet he is still a good person through-and-through. However, Akai mentioned in 897 that he suspected Amuro was a cop from their early days in the Organization. As I posted before, I don't want Akai to be wrong about something so big when he's just come back.
The "twist" here won't be that Amuro's suddenly a bad guy but--if there is one--more likely that Amuro was sent to be a police officer by the Organization, and at some point in his life realized that the Organization was dangerous and that he was in a unique position to take them down. Unfortunately, this is at odds with some of the aforementioned factors, so I'm not so sure about it. I'm going to put the chips down on a British connection for now, I think.
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