Joe Barton discusses Sam's moral dilemma in the Netflix series Black Doves, explaining why he can't bring himself to kill Hector despite his initial intentions.
Black Doves creator Joe Barton details why Sam can't bring himself to kill grown-up Hector.
Although the six-episode Netflix series gains a lot of its narrative momentum from the secret identity of spy Helen Webb (Keira Knightley) and the global crisis that looms after her lover is one of four people who are found dead, there is a parallel storyline with Ben Whishaw's Sam Young as he comes to terms with the fact that the boy he couldn't bring himself to kill years earlier has now returned as a dangerous young man. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Barton was asked about the fact that Sam can't bring himself to kill Hector Newman (Luther Ford) even though that's what he initially plans to do. The series creator gives a lengthy response, juxtaposing Sam's decision to kill his father with his inability to pull the trigger when it comes to Sam. Barton explains that Sam is unable to go back on the one good thing he's done, even if he might be lying to himself in the long run: It’s the challenge of presenting someone that kills people for a living. What I thought was interesting about him is that I think the codes are completely bullshit, really. I think he knows he’s lying to himself as well. But this one time, where he did something that is objectively good, the objective right choice, where he didn’t murder this child even. That destroyed and that blew his whole life up, and it caused all this trouble for him and Helen. But he was like, ‘No, I did that. And that is the one good thing I’ve ever done.’ So later on, when he meets Hector as an older man, he still can’t kill him, even though he’s supposed to, even though it would help him. With his dad, he’s confronted with the fact that he’s supposed to kill his father. And really, for me, that was the moment where he either went for it or didn’t, and he wanted to be a hitman. In my head, he wanted to be a hitman because his dad was a hitman
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