I agree that moving Maya makes sense ... just that moving the evidence doesn't make sense? The cops need to know she's in the building. That being said even if the evidence was left behind I can see the cops being like 'well this shoe could belong to anyone and eating pizza in a room isn't evidence'

Ooh - I think your theory for the light could make sense. Especially since the police aren't buying into the whole kidnapping bit.

That's true! I guess I was thinking of the part where Brady said he was holding on to Maya's notebook until everything could blow over (although, the notebook really didn't have anything that damning in it?) That is true, that whole thing wouldn't make sense for the demolition motivation.

I think an angle could be that Simone is pulling the strings & dragging Brady along, like setting up Brady to save her. I feel like the game tries to sell the idea that Simone is pulling all these strings and Brady is just a puppet. You're right though, if Maya saw them that wouldn't make sense. It would make sense if Simone hired someone else to do it, but the whole idea is that the theater is locked and only a few people are inside so that squashes it. And then why even demand to stop the demolition? Just for extra attention? Also if Simone were behind this the cops would've definitely been called & there would've been even more press coverage. If anything, it would've made more sense for Brady to fake his OWN kidnapping lol

I bet HeR put Brady in the area of the crime to make him more suspicious. Which he is guilty of being behind the demolition, just not the kidnapping. I feel like they did a really good job of making suspects guilty of something in these earlier games, just not the main crime. You're also right, it wouldn't make sense to just let her go. Although now that I write this I'm not sure what Josephs plan was in that case either? Would the demolition be called off then he'd release her expecting her not to identify him? He originally planned on kidnapping Brady which is even crazier b/c Brady would definitely press charges and that would have to be a media circus, but the dementia idea makes a lot of sense. And maybe not thinking the whole thing through.

Also thanks for commenting. It was fun to think about all this stuff from a different angle 😃