He can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think his line of thought was more like:
Echo saw a 1x modifier like Strongman or Ninja in their scumbuds role and assumed mafia had an extra kill, which she could've slipped when saying that they wouldn't waste it on her
Do you just assume that if Echo is scum her scumbuds wouldn't explain anything or talk to her at all? Because that's the only way I could see any of this stuff happening in a world where Echo is scum.
Also, the ****? Is Tristan *also* claiming cop?? He said no to how Ex presumed cop results would show, but SMS seemed to imply that they would show as either Stars/Umbrella aligned (correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I got from you calling Ex out on how he worded his alignment).