How can you determine if someone is "one of your own"?
This is a complex yet simple question. It's complex because humans are inherently filled with contradictions and deceit. People will express false attitudes that go against their true intentions, and they use various disguises to cover up their most authentic selves.
In such a deceptive environment, no one can truly ascertain if someone is "one of their own."
Yet, it is also a simple question, so simple that a method to prove it was found early in the development of civilization—to prove your loyalty to a group.
How do you prove it?
If you want to join a group of bad people and prove you are also bad, then you just need to do a bad deed, like killing an innocent person.
If you want to join a group of good people to prove you're not bad, the simplest way is to take down a bad person, destroy a bad person's team.
Mikhail had the police director suddenly stand up and apologize to discover Lynch's position.
