Conspirators' "Supplies" - Did They are Didn't They?!

[MaddieM]

The whole thing seemed a bit of a chaotic mess to me. To execute something so drastic, it makes no sense not to plan ahead down to the last meticulous detail....unless of course, it was a last minute decision, which it seems to have been. Was JWB so magnetic and dominant a character that he totally held the others in his thrall? Or were there promises, albeit empty ones, and false assurances that he had no possible hope of honouring, that escape for all of them would be assured? The more i read about this, the more I'm inclined to believe that a higher authority was really running the show...fuelled by JWB's ego and a certain amount of naivete of the whole group in general.