A legitimately clever idea in the game Inversion

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Grizzled McManpain* was a pretty good cop. His partner, Softspoken Cynic*, had a juvenile record, and he credits Grizzled with turning his life around. Then Nutjob Invaders attacked, Grizzled’s wife died, and his daughter MacGuffin McManpain went missing. Grizzled has devoted everything he’s got left to tracking down MacGuffin and saving her. Cynic . . . Well, he’s just along to try to keep Grizzled alive.

The twist isn’t just that MacGuffin died in the initial attack. The twist is that Cynic saw the body and didn’t tell Grizzled, because he knows the search for MacGuffin is the only thing keeping Grizzled from killing himself.

*Not their actual names.