Interesting. [He does enjoy the leading along, Jacob. It's been since Caesar disappeared a long time since anyone's given him reason to feel irritated in this way.]

There's two options -- the death penalties are, or are not, a construct of the Malnosso. The fact that John is creating antidotes seems to lean towards the affirmative. But the anomaly negates those effects.

I suppose the question is, what is the point of the death penalties?