She's grateful… until she finds he's got an evil motive.

Ford argued that 3294 required an evil motive, or an intent to injure the person harmed.

But the trope of a sinister tech company's evil motives feels dated and either the plot tangles its timelines or simply doesn't make sense.

You would not sit one of us adoptive parents down and discover evil motives or a calculated rejection of birth moms.

Rather than recognizing personal motivations and differences, we attribute evil motives to others.