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Rather than just being shocked by Caine leaving the stage, I found it truly incredible how the show finally laid bare all the anxiety and rage he’d been hiding inside. What I found really fascinating was how he started treating the circus members so recklessly once he entered that 'I don’t give a damn' mode.

Maybe deep down, he’d always held onto this faint hope that 'someday, someone will love me and the world I’ve built.' Even in that state toward the end, I felt like he was still reaching out to humans for some kind of salvation. Poor Caine.

He tries to intimidate others and make them dependent on him by weaponizing his power and pain, but at his core, maybe he was just crying out, 'Don’t leave me' or 'I need you to lean on me'