"You can try and take the blame all you like, Jack, but there were only two people there that night." It was spoken matter-of-factly, because this was how it was: Kennedy turned his back on a known dangerous person. He was stupid, and then he was cowardly, begging for his life. Frustrated, he seized the button wired to his IV and hit it hard, releasing drugs ahead of his pain. He couldn't think about this.