Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-14909251-20170713055750

On Nicholas Schnee's health, he is rich in a country that is building androids so that does change the calculations a bit. However, it does sound as if he is dead whenever they talk about him. Doesn't mean he succumbed to illness.

As far as Willow is concerned, there is no reason to assume she didn't want to run the company. Some people here want to make Jacques a much better person than we've seen so it is more convenient for them to think he simply proved his worth and took on the task because no family member wanted the job. We don't know if their relationship was always this tense or when Willow began taking to the bottle.

Were he messing with her before he took over SDC, then maybe she was already losing it a bit and he used that against her. Perhaps Ole Nick wanted to keep it with blood family, but then Jacques in a very polite and concerned tone suggested that perhaps his wife that he loves so much might have issues that keep her from being the best person to run the company.