Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.52.61.188-20130415085048/@comment-1672596-20130711021420

Zelda4dinner wrote: I have a hard time believing that Big Boss is that big of an idiot that he couldn't realize that Cipher and Zero were one and the same. Sure he's a lousy liar, but I think most of that was meant for humorous purposes anyway (I mean, why would he even lie to all those people about being a soldier? Amanda and Chico, sure, because maybe they wouldn't take too kindly to being helped out by an American, but what about Huey?)

Big Boss is also strangely silent with regards to the death of the Boss. If he's no longer working the American government, has severed all ties with his former country, why would he still feel compelled to keep the truth behind her death a secret? It's like he doesn't want the world to know about Cipher, or he's guilty about his hand in forming the Patriots. Yeah, and at least with Cecile he had a stated excuse (He didn't want to scare her), though I still wish that he at least came up with better lies. Personally, I dislike lying, but if he's going to lie, he'd better make it sound legitimate, otherwise don't bother.

And I'm pretty sure his feeling guilty about causing The Boss' death would have been enough to be "silent" during the torture. The briefing file about CIPHER had Big Boss saying he wasn't sure about the connection with Zero regarding CIPHER (and this is DESPITE Paz basically flat out telling him the connection), and its pretty obvious from the way they were talking that this was before Kaz effectively admitted to Big Boss that he was briefly in cahoots with Zero, or at least knew who Paz and Galvez really were and what their plans were all along.