Question for everyone: if you don't think silver targeted Swan in the night and died as a result, which other option (from the ones I just posted) are you suggesting is the true explanation, and what other decisions are you making based on that belief?
I really wish I had thought of this before posting what I just have... but how about you Space? If you remove me being skum and SS WVing me at night from the equation, what do you thing is the most plausible next option of the options you provided?
Let me state first that I think silver will have at least attempted to make good on the targeting and WV thing he was schooling us all on in D2.
If we have to have the constraint that you're town, then it's possible silver tried to visit you and was swapped onto scum. Maybe there's a soul-swapping mechanic on the scum team side, and a particular scum can swap with another player, such that actions targeting that townie would instead target the scum and vice versa. That would sort of be an effective "godfather" tactic. It might explain Morgrim's weird cop results if one of his targets had been swapped with a scum. It would also make my earlier question of "why would a scum redirect actions on a townie to themself?" make a little more sense.
I guess I think there's a reasonably small chance of an actual SK, but it's there.. maybe 10% or something like that. It's also possible that scum could just have been given an extra way of killing, like a one-off vig shot for scum, depending on how LL and faust felt about the game balance beforehand. Again, I think this is a low-likelihood option. Of course, if it came with a consequence, like having their vote removed for the next day, it might feel a little more nuanced :-P