Take the 2-minute tour ×  In Repo the Genetic Opera at the very
end of the film on stage, Rotti, Shilo, and Nathan are all
finally confronting each other, and Rotti tells Shilo that
Nathan is the one that has been making her sick with his
medicine.  Rotti then tries to get Shilo to kill Nathan so that
he may leave her Gene Co. before he dies. She turns against him
explaining that she is not a murderer.  She then goes on to say,
"You used my mother's death to use my father, You used my
father's debt to use me too."  My problem with those lyrics, is
that Rotti had never once told Shilo the truth about what really
happened. She (like Nathan) knows what Rotti has had them both
believe, that Nathan killed Marni. The lie is the whole reason
Nathan owes a debt to Rotti in the first place. He became a Repo
Man in exchange for keeping Shilo from ever knowing the truth,
and to keep himself out of jail for the death of his wife, which
of course Rotti is responsible for anyway.  But, even if Rotti's
story were the truth,