[attagirl]

perhaps the he's trying to promote the idea that he is simply greedy and not in fear that she would speak out some day that he tried to strangle her that fateful night

[attagirl]

Okay, now I'll try to respond to you in English (pardon my typos and run-on sentence):

Lots of folks brought up the Clinton era, and this will be where I draw my rationale. By Michael verbalizing his wishes for Terri's death so as to get rich, he was covering up his true motive: fear of her recovering well enough to talk and tell about the abuse he gave her then and now.

Use a bad thing to cover up a worse thing. It worked then and is working now.