I just can’t shake the sense that we don’t yet have the true story on that incinerator. It feels like it’s there on some parallel purpose and the crimes are just juxtaposed with it rather than flowing both from and to it. That matters a great deal in understanding things. Obviously its presence impacts everything, including what the boys are willing to try criminally and how they react to circumstances. But to this day I think what the Crown actually proved in the TB case was second degree murder. To me, there was so much evidence that it was meant to be a robbery and not a murder. Multiple people knew about the intended robbery in advance, they created three witnesses to describe their appearance and actions, knew enough to use a burner phone but carted their own around with them too, evidence that MS did not at all expect to be gone all night, the backing off on Igor - who exactly is too intimidating to shoot to death by surprise? - and finally the unholy mess they made of the truck, not to mention blasting a gun in such a confined space, was obviously not the plan, or it could have been the plan with Igor.
Similarly with Laura, there is little evidence beyond an overlap in time that definitively suggests its purchase or even its pending presence was part of a specific murder plot. There is too much going in on parallel over months with guns and missions and next level stuff and ultimately DMs purported need for 100,000 a month. I mean what for? How was he going to do that? How did the 15,000 incinerator investment fit into that?
People have dismissed the idea that people died and the incinerator just happened to be there with a fair degree of virtual eye rolling, but that really may be exactly what happened.
Here the scope is more limited. Kidnaping and sexual assault qualify for example, but not robbery.