Fifth Business

What is Brazen Head’s response to who killed Boy?

part 6 chapter 8

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When the Brazen Head illusion begins, a distraught David Staunton asks who killed Boy Staunton. The head's cryptic answer references women Boy did and did not know. The head then adds that Boy was also killed, “by the inevitable fifth, who was the keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone“ (266). He knows then that Paul killed Boy.