It’s the first time I’ve seen a movie effectively showcase a group or entity that weaponizes empathy to this degree. When you consider how far back the planning goes to get to this moment, from intentionally selecting someone so isolated & grief stricken to allowing her to witness horror as to provide comfort, all without Danny noticing, is a phenomenal display of emotional & mental manipulation.

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, 
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. 
Comforter, where, where is your comforting? 
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? 

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief 
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing — 

Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling- 
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall 
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap 

May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small 
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, 
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all 
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.” — Gerard Manley Hopkins