[Arthur's used to this by now. He knows they're venturing into territory Perry doesn't want to discuss, that he's going to deflect by acting like this is just the way the world is; that it doesn't bother him, what he's done.]

He would've tried. I doubt the great Perry Dawsey would've been taken out by a little kid. [He looks at Perry.] You ever wonder what could've happened if you'd let Dew take them alive? You really think a surgeon couldn't have taken out the Triangles, given them a second chance?

You didn't help them; you butchered them. And you didn't have to.