I hate it when your character is dumber than you are.
That is to say, you can see plain as day what's going on in a given circumstance and yet there is no dialogue option that allows you to indicate your character understands as well.
In the case of Bigby, after his interaction with three separate strippers/prostitutes with ribbons around their necks who use the phrase 'These lips are sealed' whenever asked about their work, he nevertheless has no option to say '...its those ribbons around your neck, isn't it? What are they? How do they work? Is there a way to safely remove them? Can you tell me that at least?'
Instead the dialogue options are all variations of disappointment or frustration at the stripper's uncooperativeness. Dude, Bigby, its pretty obvious she wants to tell you stuff. She can't. Ask about the ribbon, or ask if you can remove it without harming her, or do something other than not comprehending a fact thats been bludgeoning you in the face since the opening of Episode 1.
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Maybe not that exactly but I do admit the only option that you understand even after Nerissa leads you into it is a weird
".....Okay"
Like seriously she basically had to spell it out to him that he had to go through the procedure
It's not helping that Bigby is basically Fabletown's official detective. You'd think he'd be pretty fast on the uptake.
The ribbons might just be Georgie's trademark. Why would you instantly assume that they are preventing the girls from talking? If the dialogue isn't there, then clearly they aren't that relevant.
The only people who ever use the 'These lips are sealed' line (aside from the mirror, who uses it when searching to someone connected with a ribbon) are people wearing the ribbons. There are a pair of lips on the ribbon. After Faith uses the 'These lips are sealed' line under Bigby's questioning, she desperately tries to draw Bigby's attention to her ribbon ("Do you like my ribbon?") only to inevitably look downcast when he misses the implications in some way.
It's not 100% certain. But its certain enough that Bigby not even asking questions about it suggests Bigby is failing at his job a bit.
I can see where you are coming from, but doesn't the Mirror saying it kind of shoot your theory in the foot? Why would he be bound by the ribbons magic?
I guess we will just have to wait and see.
He's incapable of revealing Faith's location because she is presumably still bound by the ribbon's magic, even post-mortem. He mentions it isn't his choice of wording, after all.
The mirror issue does present a complication, of course; Faith isn't wearing the ribbon around her neck anymore, what with the whole decapitation thing, and the mirror won't reveal the location of her body which is separate from the ribbon. This means that, if the ribbon is indeed the source of the magic preventing the girls from talking or from being found by the mirror, it must maintain it strength for at least a time after being removed.
Regardless of whether that's the case, the evidence of a strong link between the ribbons and the wording 'These lips are sealed', along with the inability of the prostitutes to speak about their 'work' and what it entails, is still so strong and so obvious that Bigby missing it makes him look really dumb. Pointed questions need to be asked about the nature of those ribbons and he apparently hasn't even fully picked up on the idea they might be important.
Georgie Peorgie also uses that phrase and while seemingly not under the same spell/compulsion/whatever the girls seem to be under, he seems to acknowledge it's presence and power at least in passing. It may be his doing, or someone above him, but I believe the magic is placed directly on them if that's the case. The ribbons are just pretty. If the ribbons were the source, it wouldn't be so easy to remove them and mess around with them(i.e. shoving one in Faith's mouth).
Lily didn't even have one.
I think it is because lily's death is a different murder case,though not entirely irrelevant
I know man,I wish there is at least a dialogue option like "I think you're trying to tell me something" or "very well,I hope I can start looking for a lead from there"