Whoever wanted a shot at him tried to take out his back-ups too. When the rich get paranoid, they'll do anything to clean up the mess, make sure they're invincible.

[ he's already seen the kind of extents they go to in order to secure that. that kind of power, the dominance over life, quell had warn them all about hundreds of years ago and she was right. bancroft was just one of many. ]

Kind of like what Cheri did. Took out everyone who got in the way of her immortality, of her power. Wanted to make sure she was foolproof.