Cheetah: "Wait, what, I iz confuzed . . . Meredith? Where iz Meredith?!"

She should know, after all she can see Russia from her window . . . that was too obvious wasn't it . . . I apologize *hangs head, leaves party*

I think the parents are at least partly to blame. They engaged in physically abusive behavior, regardless of whether or not they were following instructions of someone they believed to be an expert. And, Thorp is a shithead, that is all.