making things going as fate wanted
Interesting way to describe it as fate when it was clearly shaped and enforced by lance's organization.
This story feels like a take on Hot Fuzz but they forgot that "the Greater good" guys were the bad guys.
With the revelation that gloria is a Brainwasher, the eagerness with which the ex-wife dies starts to make sense.
On a bigger tangent maybe even her cheating was the result of Gloria's timely intervention.