Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171110205409/@comment-4010415-20171113212450

92.112.1.250 wrote: Hmm... Maybe you are right, at least I can accept the idea. Though those teenagers who are 'brainwashed by a cult' usualy don't hesitate when it comes to kill somebody with there own hands. Ilia, on the other hand, is fine about talking about murderings and sacrifices till it comes to wash her hands (directly or not) with the blood of innocent. Looks like hypocrisy for me. Like Ben said, it's not so much that it's "the blood of the innocent", as it is that it's the family of her best friend. She has shown that she still cares about her former ally Blake, even going so far as to beg her ("Please...") to leave Menagerie "before it's too late" and hesitating to actively fight her. Not only that, like I mentioned in an earlier post, Ilia knows what it's like to lose one's parents, so she may be feeling hesitation about putting her old best friend through the same pain that she herself went through.

I think that if the Albains had asked her to help in murdering a complete stranger's parents, she wouldn't be showing this hesitation. It's merely the fact that it's Blake's parents.