Headscratchers / The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

• How come Benjamin is punished along with Marina Del Ray? He's not the one who tried to kill Sebastian and Ariel. He gets punished just for being an associate?
  • Presumably because he helped her to an extent, and never told anyone what she was doing or tried to stop her despite knowing what lengths she was willing to go to.
  • Wait, Benjamin was being punished? He wasn't in a prison uniform like Marina was, so it looked like he was just visiting her. Given what he was talking about, it kinda looked like he was supposed to be rehabilitating her, even.