[...] suppose you had done that, suppose it were true -- [...] would you kill a man, an innocent man--' 'Mundt's a killer himself.' 'Suppose he wasn't. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?' 'It depends ... it depends on the need ...' 'Ah,' said Fiedler contentedly, 'it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.' 'Why?' '[...] We're all the same, you know, that's the joke.