Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20150719122753/@comment-6747658-20151016121928

I'm less inclined to believe that she was forced to watch Solid being tortured, considering the torture room's layout as well as where the prison is, she had to be in the torture room to watch it, because she certainly was not in the prison cell. Also Solid would have noticed that because the only way to the prison is the torture room. Neither Solid nor Meryl comment about her being forced to watch which, in my opinion, they would have commented upon had that been the case considering that Meryl had to have been in the room or guided through the room. More so because Solid clearly did not know where Meryl was.

Furthermore, if she indeed was watching Solid being tortured, then Solid would have been aware, again due to the facility's layout, so there would be no need to comment "and worse things too." if Solid was already aware of that. Also Meryl's closeness to Solid is substantial at best, I don't think it would suffice for her to see him being tortured as worse. While I agree with Bluerock's statement that phychoological torture can be as bad as physical, I really do not think that is the case here.

It's been a while since I played TTS, but considering it has somewhat of a facial animation, I gotta ask, was there any significant hint there played out in the cutscene? Facial appearance can be a large hint after all.