The judge was already no spring chicken

[conuly]

When Sweeney Todd was transported to Australia. Really, the simplest solution was for Joanna to poison him, make it look like a natural death of old age. Or the result of senility, perhaps - he’s plausibly senile as it is! She seemed to think it’d be easy enough to poison herself, after all. A little ingenuity and she would have been set for life.

Comments

[hudebnik]

But poor Sweeney, after years anticipating his revenge, would have nobody to take revenge on. And given his mental stability, he might invent somebody else to fill the position.

[conuly]

Even if it were her job to care about that I think it's clear that she can't stop it anyway.

[pensnest]

Yep! Get that lye, pop it in a solicitously offered glass of something, and smile. Probably best to do it on their wedding day...

[conuly]

Honestly, he's such an asshole people must be lining up in the street for a chance to off him. Maybe we're overthinking this. She doesn't need poison, she just needs to leave the door unlocked.

[pensnest]

True, dat. Though she might have to arrange to have the Beadle lured elsewhere to be murdered so as to have his sturdy form unable to provide a defensive wall.

[conuly]

Good idea.