My one little thought. I’m not proud, but perhaps I pulled something out of it.
I think I might have been one of the first to say (sober edit: it came to me, but somebody said it two thousand years ago for the thousandth time) “the best way to win a fight is to avoid it/to not be there.” I think here of the Seven Samurai. The samurai who avoids the debacle never even enters the door. He says “some kind of bullshit is going on here, and I want no part of it.”
Agent 97, or whatever her name was in French, sees a step or two ahead. What if she saw three steps? Four? Five? Twenty? 100? She would never be in danger. She could live a calm, peaceful life that never involved guns, shooting anyone, or violence. The far off winds would tell her, always, when to move, and when to change.
I think all of us get whiffs of when to be ready to adapt, and I think most of us ignore them.