Super late comment here…
For all the killing Muldrow does for his precious swan suits (blind-siding the old man at the swan lake shack, plucking the swans while also simultaneously nibbling on them, slaying the samurai and spouse inside their house then cracking open the samurai's arm bones for threading needles when,…

Definitely. Good insight. I'd add to that list of analogies/similarities the pacing of both and the building speed and doom as each story hurls toward its end (I guess Hudson would be the truck, heh. Hurling toward wreckage.)