What Is Your Controlling Idea?

The players in this story are all seeing the world as i it, right? So detectives are looking at each other as things to manipulate so that they can get promoted. And then the homeless people are tools that you can manipulate to use to get what,. You know, to further other people's agendas. Everybody's playing these iit s, and they're all playing their little chess games. What your controlling idea is is transforming the players into functional human beings with agency.