Can any of you guys think of a case

你们听说过
where a dominant unsub committed suicide

主犯为了保护从犯
- to protect a submissive partner? - No.

-而自杀的吗 -没有
So the partner must be an equal in some way,

那么同伙至少和死者平起平坐
or at least not a competitor,

或至少不是对手关系
not somebody that he needed to feel dominance over.

他也不需要支配对方
Maybe it was someone he cared about?

会是他关心的人吗
It would be hard for a sadistic psychopath to care about anybody.

一个虐待成性的精神变态者很难关心别人
Which would make the partner all that much more important to him.

这样会使同伙变得过于重要
What about the tattoo artist?

会不会是纹身艺术家
He couldn't have done those by himself.

他不可能是自己纹的
Maybe that's the role for the partner.

也许那就是同伙扮演的角色