The thing is though they are all heads of the same serpent, and each head knows that if it bites off another head, the bitten off head will grow back quickly and the serpent itself continues on as if nothing happened.
The Mafia model works well. Or the MAD doctrine....to a point.
That’s a really good analogy. The only one worth protecting is zero since he holds all the power in name only. The entire sequence was set up almost flawlessly.