Waiting for Tony to figure out how to say, without saying it, that "it's a bad thing about Napoleoni and makes me feel good" is boring. Moving on.
You guys know how we keep talking about Meredith's TOTAL LACK of defensive wounds as an indication that she was restrained? Here are hands of people who instinctively, reflexively, tried to block an incoming knife to save their own lives.
They are badly damaged, two dead, but representative.
SPOILED FOR A REASON.
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This is what happens when you grab an attacker's knife. Meredith didn't have these, or anything close. Her hands were described as follows (pp 370, 371):
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one on the palm of her right hand of a length of .6cm showing a tiny amount of blood; another on the ulnar surface of the first phalange of the second finger of the left hand, also of length .6cm; another on the fingertip of the first finger with a superficial wound
Briefly, her three hand injuries are 1/4" inch each, or smaller.
It goes on:
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Compared with these almost nonexistent defensive wounds, there is an injured area which is impressive by the number, distribution and diversity, specifically of the injuries (bruises and wounds) on the face and neck of Meredith.
Meaning that while the large number of injuries were being inflicted upon her, she didn't react. She
did have bruises on the insides of both of her elbows and hand bruises over her face. In fact, not only were her hands
not damaged by attempting to stop the knives, they weren't even bloodied from reaching up to the wounds -- this isn't something you just decide not to do, she was prevented from doing it, per the abundant restraint bruises to her elbows:
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and then striking first on the right (4cm wound) and then on the left (8cm deep wound). In the first case, a single blow was apparently halted by the jawbone (4cm deep wound), and instead in the second case, the knife was held inside the victim's neck, after the same knife having been used to run over the surface of the same part of the neck, just a few centimetres below the zone on which the more serious and deeper wound was inflicted.
While someone dragged a small knife across her neck and then buried it in her throat, achieving fairly clean paths, she didn't flinch, nor did she try to stop it or bring her hands up after the stabs were made. One person could hold her head with one hand and use the other to carefully taunt her with a knife, sure. But that would leave Meredith's hands free. If they held her hands, her head would be able to bend, curl or flinch. Instead we have a conscious, strong, healthy victim who was totally restrained by at least one person while another (or two) made the cuts to her neck.
If you ask me, the scream came when her mouth was uncovered and that's what occasioned the deepest stabs.