2. Fate Control. The ability to affect another’s outcomes regardless of what he or she does is fate control. In the second matrix of Figure 16.3, Jane has fate control over Dick. She can exercise this power with tender, loving care or jerk him around unmercifully. Either way, he can’t do a thing about it as long as they’re together. His only recourse is the one available in most low-power situations-break off the relationship. Massive environmental fate control has removed even that option for Smith and Hickock. They’ve got to deal with each other, and each one by confessing can condemn the other to a lifetime in prison-or worse. That’s mutual fate control