Easier to go ahead and off someone and be done with it. Faking a death is complicated and leaves too many loose ends. Besides, Fuddy was worth more dead. She wasn’t of any standing that she needed to be kept alive. What’s the advantage to the cause in keeping her stashed somewhere?
Bgill,
OK, more speculation here:
A faction (in the u.s. govt, or even another govt) wants to eject 0 from office
Said faction needs info/testimony from Fuddy
They somehow fake her death & get her a new identity (change name , change hair color, get glasses instead of contacts or vice versa, etc.)
Problem with this speculative scenario is
1) when did the faking occur &
2) how did the rescuers get fooled into thinking she was dead
More speculation:
Re 1) above, between her drifting away from yamamoto & her being taken to the priests location (was that the first stop?)
Re 2) above, knockout drops? One rescuer in on the plot?
OK the other
—possibility—,
The other faction in the govt wanted her ‘done in’.
Someone stuck her with a deadly substance & she went unresponsive while in the water with yamamoto..
who stuck her depends on how long it takes for the substance to take effect.
Coulda been:
1) Someone at the airport before flight,
2) Someone next to her on the plane
3) Yamamoto next to her in the water
Again, the above is speculation and possibility.
And the third
—possibility—:
She got smacked on the head during the water landing and got a subdural hematoma (bleeding in the brain).
It took from the initial event to when the rescuer came to her to ‘do her in’.
Autopsy said “arrhythmia” then “drowning”; maybe head injury wasn’t found or hasn’t been reported yet.