User blog comment:JAlbor/Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Q&A Opportunity/@comment-6517-20130809125408/@comment-6517-20130812095758

Agreed. The fact that Cross goes cuckoo whenever he's in the presence of a PoE was a nice twist to the story, but one that was never really explored.

I would much rather have preferred Cross become excessively violent when he confronted Desmond in the Animus laboratory, than run around like a monkey.