Blanca hid nothing from Carl and quickly laid out her plan.
She had come up with this plan after learning about Chester Bennett and, on an inexplicable impulse, choosing to conceal the information.
President Rosalind Myers's current situation could absolutely be described as precarious.
The political turmoil caused by her being mistaken for dead after the Dogtown crash, the internal criticism provoked by cooperating with Arakawa, the international controversy caused by using Arakawa's tacit approval to skirt the Alvin Accord and attack Dogtown, and so on.
Any one of those matters would have been enough to give her a pounding headache, let alone all these crises erupting one after another.
At first, Rosalind Myers had merely prepared herself for the criticism that negotiations with Arakawa would bring, and the people she targeted were those opposing her on that front.
However, the accident in Hansen's territory after the crash completely disrupted her plans. In order to salvage the situation, she hastily resumed negotiations with Arakawa Sesen, intensifying internal conflicts too early.
Then, over Songbird, and in order to preserve her position as president, she had no choice but to take a gamble and agree to Arakawa's terms. After receiving their tacit approval, she skirted the treaty and attacked Dogtown.
After Carl's interference in killing Hansen ahead of time, she compromised to a certain extent and withdrew from Dogtown. Things had originally been moving in a better direction, but then Reid, the Intelligence Bureau ace agent she had considered her most loyal subordinate, ran off with Songbird.
This series of upheavals caused what had once been a controllable situation to spiral completely out of control under pressure from every side.
Crisis upon crisis piled up, causing Rosalind's core forces to collapse. Her confidants either defected or were lost, and after the Dogtown