She couldn't have been certain that meat was scum, maybe the whole gambit was to bait Scum into not NK herKopite
Monkey likely ran interference on the meatwad train D1 to help out scum (as in voting VA when meat got votes and bullshit argument with Mao at the end)
Probably chose Mao because he was townie. So she would avoid nk.
Anyway, we have 9 players, most likely 2 scum. The handprint's almost certainly a scum ability so delayed kills might come into the picture