Man, I still get chills thinking about that scene. The way the narrative built up to that moment was brutal but oddly poetic? Like, it wasn't just shock value—there was this heavy emphasis on how his worldview got twisted by past trauma. The show hinted at it earlier with those flashbacks to his childhood, where 'sacrifice' was drilled into him as some tragic necessity. It's messed up, but the writers made sure his breakdown felt earned, not cheap.
What really got me was the woman's agency in it—she wasn't just a prop. Her last dialogue about 'choosing the lesser evil' added layers. Maybe the real tragedy was that both believed there was no other way. I binge-discussed this for hours in fan forums; some argued it was lazy writing, but I think it haunts you because it's uncomfortably human.