"Chief, we've locked onto John's whereabouts. He has never left the Tijuana airport and currently has no record of booking any tickets. You were right about everything, chief. You're amazing,"
For a prisoner, everyone in the special task force can now treat Andy as the chief without any mental reservations.
This is a lunatic, and his madness is becoming increasingly obvious and severe.
When Andy's own chief is in constant danger of being killed, calling him chief ensures safety. Anyone without an excessively strong pride would make the right choice.
Crucially, Andy does possess a kind of magic. What normally requires evidence and clues for investigation and tracking is, in his case, accomplished purely by imaginative deduction to arrive at the correct conclusion.
Pure reasoning, not mystical or exaggerated, yet the accuracy is frighteningly high—which demands respect.
