Despite his protestations, she knew that he wasn't genuinely upset that he was leaving. Many times over the years he liked to tell her that he enjoyed making his victims wait. It made the suffering that much worse. Half the fun for him was chucking a suspect in a cell down on Level Eleven and forgetting their existence for weeks at a time. He was in no rush to dispatch of the Plunketts. No doubt he wanted to prolong their fear, make them truly ready for the day he had them dragged to the side room.