also the way andy keeps going on about if he does xyz we'll 'leave him alone' really betrays that he thinks this is all a game he can win. a system he can game, in fact, if he just 'ticks boxes' in a wholly superficial, sloppy, insincere way. he doesn't seem to comprehend that this isn't a performance, he has to actually change his behaviour. as evidenced by the immediate manipulation and control he tried to exercise over his new 'friends'. he misjudged this time - he chose people too mature, too experienced, too stable and too closely knit to dazzle and and scam. the fact he isn't able to more discriminately assess the potential of his targets again highlights his essential contempt for others.