Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130805035011/@comment-16502426-20131108201337

ImposterParrotGrass wrote: I think he still plans to betray her, but in a getting the hell out of there with all the loot he can carry way, not by actually taking her out. If there's anything he's good at, I think it would be getaways. Of course, he'll go to do it, and she'll already know and have disable whatever getaway he has. Cue her condescendingly strolling toward him berating him for actually thinking he could pull that off so easily. Then our heroes decide to show up.

Alternatively, if Crimson is a demon/posessed in some way, they posess/enslave him.