# Mafia Reunion - Day Two

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**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425 "2017-01-17T22:20:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425/868 "2017-01-22T03:24:44Z")

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This post was quoted a couple of times and I didn’t think about it hard enough the first time.

> [@paulwhoisaghost](#):
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> Bolding mine.
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> I’m leaning toward a theory where Crys is telling the truth and Brewha is a lying scum who doesn’t actually have the switch she claims and was hoping for a town counterclaim. That way they take out the townie… and maybe Brewha is in hot water, but if they aren’t actually holding that switch, scum would have gained sole control of the Batswitch.

Wait. Why would Town counterclaim? There are two switches. If scum is holding one of them, only one Townie has a switch and would have no reason to counterclaim someone else claiming to have a switch. The only thing that makes sense for a counterclaim is if two people currently have Batman switches other than brewha, but if that were true, what would brewha be gaining by claiming and how would the other people know there was more than one of them? They’d only know that if they were on the same scum team, which wouldn’t be brewha’s team, because it wouldn’t make sense for brewha to claim in order to out the other switch holder if both were on his scum team.

I don’t think your theory makes sense.

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