maxthruster
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I don't personally see any way Quinn getting arrested doesn't end with a bunch of pissed off fans.
We know that Quinn is not cooperating with police; her snapping the SIM card is proof that she doesn't want to be associated with the bust. So she can't expect any leniency from that quarter. Even if she admits she's the one who dropped the dime, all they'll see is one drug dealer ratting out the competition, not someone who got in over her head or wanted to get dangerous people off the street.
We know that Quinn's foster family hates it when she even acknowledges her past. If they learn she's been arrested for sneaking into the site of a drug bust, especially when it involves her father's old crew, there's no way they're helping her. That's probably going to just be the end of her relationship with that family, straight up. At that point, she's made her choice clearly.
Burke bailing her out is possible given his influence, but would he want to? It'd be putting himself at a lot of risk, since his public connection to her is tenuous at best. Sure, she's a friend of his daughter's, but getting her out of prison after an incident like this would be a stretch. Quinn might be able to blackmail him into doing it by threatening to reveal their real association with each other, but unless she can prove it then it'll be her word against his, and we all know how that will go. Even if it works, it would be classic Quinn - solving one problem by creating six more.
Who's even left to help her at that point? Tremolo doesn't have anywhere close to the resources or influence to get her out, even if he's on her route, and if he's not then forget it. Riona wants nothing to do with her, and I suspect most of the HOTs won't either when they learn the truth about all her shady dealings and what happened to Rio. Sage maybe, but I'm really not sure what she can do except bring the issue to her father, who again is unlikely to help unless he feels pressured to.
If Quinn doesn't have anyone to bail her out, then she's stuck. It's unlikely she'd be out of jail anytime soon - especially because Buddy and his goons will absolutely peg her as the reason for the raid and give her up on a silver platter. Without a miracle she'd be out of the story for pretty much the rest of the game, which would obviously piss off lots of people.
The only way I can see her getting out of jail without forcing the issue with Stephen is some BS deus ex machina type shit, like Tremolo going to visit her in her cell, the police chief being revealed as Lyanna's long lost sibling who feels bad about cutting off their sister when she married a commoner and wants to honor her memory by helping out their nephew, then freeing Quinn to make amends or some shit. Which would be incredibly stupid, and again piss off lots of people.
So most likely if she gets caught - which, let's be real, she absolutely would be because she's an overconfident idiot - she's only getting free by blackmailing Burke. I'm not certain exactly how she'd go about that, because she'd need hard evidence of his involvement in whatever it might be he's actually involved with - the restaurant, most likely. But he seems pretty good at covering his tracks so I don't imagine that's going to come to fruition quickly enough for her to rejoin the story.
	
		
			
		
		
	
								We know that Quinn is not cooperating with police; her snapping the SIM card is proof that she doesn't want to be associated with the bust. So she can't expect any leniency from that quarter. Even if she admits she's the one who dropped the dime, all they'll see is one drug dealer ratting out the competition, not someone who got in over her head or wanted to get dangerous people off the street.
We know that Quinn's foster family hates it when she even acknowledges her past. If they learn she's been arrested for sneaking into the site of a drug bust, especially when it involves her father's old crew, there's no way they're helping her. That's probably going to just be the end of her relationship with that family, straight up. At that point, she's made her choice clearly.
Burke bailing her out is possible given his influence, but would he want to? It'd be putting himself at a lot of risk, since his public connection to her is tenuous at best. Sure, she's a friend of his daughter's, but getting her out of prison after an incident like this would be a stretch. Quinn might be able to blackmail him into doing it by threatening to reveal their real association with each other, but unless she can prove it then it'll be her word against his, and we all know how that will go. Even if it works, it would be classic Quinn - solving one problem by creating six more.
Who's even left to help her at that point? Tremolo doesn't have anywhere close to the resources or influence to get her out, even if he's on her route, and if he's not then forget it. Riona wants nothing to do with her, and I suspect most of the HOTs won't either when they learn the truth about all her shady dealings and what happened to Rio. Sage maybe, but I'm really not sure what she can do except bring the issue to her father, who again is unlikely to help unless he feels pressured to.
If Quinn doesn't have anyone to bail her out, then she's stuck. It's unlikely she'd be out of jail anytime soon - especially because Buddy and his goons will absolutely peg her as the reason for the raid and give her up on a silver platter. Without a miracle she'd be out of the story for pretty much the rest of the game, which would obviously piss off lots of people.
The only way I can see her getting out of jail without forcing the issue with Stephen is some BS deus ex machina type shit, like Tremolo going to visit her in her cell, the police chief being revealed as Lyanna's long lost sibling who feels bad about cutting off their sister when she married a commoner and wants to honor her memory by helping out their nephew, then freeing Quinn to make amends or some shit. Which would be incredibly stupid, and again piss off lots of people.
So most likely if she gets caught - which, let's be real, she absolutely would be because she's an overconfident idiot - she's only getting free by blackmailing Burke. I'm not certain exactly how she'd go about that, because she'd need hard evidence of his involvement in whatever it might be he's actually involved with - the restaurant, most likely. But he seems pretty good at covering his tracks so I don't imagine that's going to come to fruition quickly enough for her to rejoin the story.