Talk:Zootopia/@comment-27926499-20160330111647/@comment-27997791-20160331120230

Yeah, I agree that the smart thing to do would be to not stand around the dead bunny and savage fox with her henchmen and the gun when the cops arrived, it would seem kinda suspicious, at least if they ask what the dartgun was or why she was there in the first place, but on the other hand, the cops wouldn't really have had a reason to suspect that anything strange was going on either. They may have just arrived on the scene, found that the feral fox had killed the bunny and thought nothing more of it, they probably wouldn't even have found the crashed cart (besides, if there was anything qualifying as evidence left in the cart, it'd require a serious forensic effort to find), because at that point they seemed to believe that the savage behaviour was something that spontaneously triggered in predators, so they might not even have cared to note if there was anything weird about the sheeps or the case Bellwether was carrying, or to investigate the crime scene further. And let's remember, this is a dramatic plot device, so we can afford being a little forgiving. Since when was it unusual for criminals in movies to be at least somewhat overly confident?

And what do you mean she wanted to "frame Judy"? It appears she just wanted to silence the both of them, and the best way to commit a crime is to make it look like it wasn't a crime, instead of going through the hazzle of murdering them directly and hiding the boddies, a much easier solution (that also furhter her agenda) is to make it look like just another instance of a predator spontaneously going savage.

She wanted prey animals to rule society free from predators, but given the amount of prey animals that where endangered in her plan as she tried to make them fear predators, it's safe to say she's not an awfull lot more compasionate towards prey than predators, besides, Judy knew too much, so she had to be killed, and her friend would be made to do it while losing his ability to tell anyone in the process. Seems elegant to me. If she hadn't considered darting Nick to be the most elegant solution, she probably would've just had her henchmen beat them to death, it'd've been either that or having her plans ruined and getting locked up.

As for her sabotaging Lionhearts efforts to contain the savage animals, we have no reason to think she knew who was stopping the animals from ramaging, besides, there was high security at the asylum where Dr. Madge worked (though we don't know wether or not Madge worked at the asylum round the clock looking for a cure or if she ever left, at which point she COULD've been targeted, but that again would assume Bellwether knew who was containing the savage animals).

She never felt any need to dart Nick at any given time other than the climax, any more than any other predators. Why would she target him specifically? Especially at the point where he was helping to find the predators she had poisoned, that was only helping her, it wasn't until they realized someone was poisoning the animals with night howler that either Nick or Judy became a threat to her.

Also, you assume she could or would just pull a loaded dart gun out of her pocket at any time. Doug seemed to be the one handling the poisoning and his efforts seemed to be all that she had reason to believe was needed. Her plan was patient and subtle, involving few co-conspirtors and relatively little resources. She could generally afford a careful and clandestine selection of victims, slowly targeting people who would not be noticed getting darted and watch the result. There is no need to make a concerted effort to dart specific animals, unless she has reason to believe they're on to her, the effect will be the same in the end.