Now that was an opus! Not from FR of course but working with the British underclass. Godspeed Theo wherever you may be.
Evil is so often tawdry. We want it to be like Hanibal Lecteur, a demon bigger than life to haunt our nightmares, but more often it's more like the loser down the street who beats up his wife to make up for his own feelings of worthlessness. And this is how it snags us. In the little compromises we make. In choosing to do this instead of that...then later, after a whole series of decisions, we turn back and see what's happened, and we are amazed.
Lord have mercy on us all.