Even at the beginning of this, when Alex had still had doubts about the nature of the things that the show was uncovering, she'd never thought that Simon was a deranged murderer. When Nic had showed her the video of Simon being interviewed by the psychologist, she'd had far more empathy for the eleven year old who claimed to murder his parents than she'd had for the man who was being paid to try and help him. Despite the way that Simon had been an asshole to her when she'd interviewed him after he'd gotten himself drawn to the attention of Alex and her show, she'd not thought that he was a deranged killer. While she didn't know quite what to believe with what had happened with him and Trent (even if she did know that the things that Strand had tried to use to explain what had happened was bullshit) she didn't think that he was evil or something.
As the murders had piled up, as she'd fallen deeper and deeper under the spell of the spiderweb of a story around her, Alex Reagan still hadn't thought that Simon was nothing more than a deranged murderer. He was doing it to protect kids like him (like them really, which isn't a thought that sits comfortably in Alex's stomach and she doesn't think it ever will) and to stop the manipulations to end the world. Someone needed to do it, and Alex is aware of it, even if she's not a violent person herself. Of course there's the uncomfortable way that she knows that Simon has been using her show as at least some of the way to find more parts of the conspiracy (like Maddie Franks) but she's not going to examine that too hard right now.
If the Strand here was the one who had been from the same place in the timeline as Alex was (or Simon himself of course) she's pretty sure that it would be easier to convince the skeptic that Simon wasn't deranged. Of course she may not have been able to convince him completely, but there might have at least have been a better chance for it. Alex Reagan, at least has never met a challenge that she's said no too, so she's not about to let this notion of Strand's go uninterrogated. "I will do everything that I can to make him see you as more than that, Simon. I promise." And then because Alex is Alex, she also adds a bad joke. "Even if I need to sit in on your sessions with a spray bottle and spray him every time he's an asshole."
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As the murders had piled up, as she'd fallen deeper and deeper under the spell of the spiderweb of a story around her, Alex Reagan still hadn't thought that Simon was nothing more than a deranged murderer. He was doing it to protect kids like him (like them really, which isn't a thought that sits comfortably in Alex's stomach and she doesn't think it ever will) and to stop the manipulations to end the world. Someone needed to do it, and Alex is aware of it, even if she's not a violent person herself. Of course there's the uncomfortable way that she knows that Simon has been using her show as at least some of the way to find more parts of the conspiracy (like Maddie Franks) but she's not going to examine that too hard right now.
If the Strand here was the one who had been from the same place in the timeline as Alex was (or Simon himself of course) she's pretty sure that it would be easier to convince the skeptic that Simon wasn't deranged. Of course she may not have been able to convince him completely, but there might have at least have been a better chance for it. Alex Reagan, at least has never met a challenge that she's said no too, so she's not about to let this notion of Strand's go uninterrogated. "I will do everything that I can to make him see you as more than that, Simon. I promise." And then because Alex is Alex, she also adds a bad joke. "Even if I need to sit in on your sessions with a spray bottle and spray him every time he's an asshole."