And history tells us five points is a significant advantage to remorseless City at any stage of the season.

The writers prove this many times over by having the ramifications of past decisions sneak up from behind to shove an unsuspecting figure with a schoolyard bully’s remorseless force.

It isn’t until he is nearly assassinated by a remorseless sniper that he seems to understand why the aliens have it in for him, though he doesn’t tell Jin the reason.

He’s greedy, cruel, remorseless; he killed his own brother.

A federal prosecutor said Scarfo was a “remorseless and profoundly evil man” who became one of the most powerful criminals in the country.