![]() ![]() He says that it will anonymous, and he won’t name Mia, but she insists that they will trace it back, and begs him to think about the effect this might have on her, and her family. He wants to send a letter to the wife of the man he ran down, just so she’ll know what happened. ![]() Rob, on the other hand, is nine months sober, and feels the need to make amends. ![]() Such a possible consequence is enough to ground a law against what Mia did as a complicit party to the disposing of the body, even if our moral sentiments may involve factors that go beyond this.Īt this point, Mia is a successful architect with a husband and son. Of course, there is another aspect to all of this, which is what leads Rob to feel immense guilt 15 years later the man’s wife never learned what happened to him. On the contrary, this is the stuff of Greek tragedy. Is it because we still see the image of the person in the corpse, or is some deeper notion at play? Does this depend on religion, or is there perhaps something here that gets to the essence of what leads human beings in the direction of religion in the first place? After all, there would seem to be no human culture that truly thinks the treatment of the dead to be unimportant. And yet, we do think it is immoral to desecrate a dead body, or dispose of one like garbage. Once again, Black Mirror hits on a moral sentiment that seems less than well-grounded on the basis of dispassionate reason. If there isn’t, well, then the corpse is just inert matter, isn’t it? Can a dead body be wronged? If there is an afterlife, then surely the soul of the person would already have passed on. It is true that we tend to care, as human beings, about what happens to the bodies of the dead. How great of a crime is this? Certainly there would be legal repercussions if it were discovered, but the moral dimension is slightly murkier. Was she coerced? Regardless, she helps him dispose of the body. Mia wanted to call the police, but he persuaded her not to do so. As we see in the first scene of the episode, it was Rob who was driving (drunk) and hit a man on a bicycle. Her culpability in that inaugural event may be up for some debate. This is what occurs in “Crocodile,” as Mia is led down the path of engaging in more and more heinous crimes in an attempt to cover up the first one. One might add to the famous quote from Scott that perhaps things go even further, once one has committed at least one murder. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto VI, XVII (1808) ![]()
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