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If your long-lost colleague asks you to fill in massive blanks, how much do you tell him?
If youre torturing intel out of another operative, how do you verify the information they share?
What lies would you tell to escape being tortured?
In one way or another, everyone is grappling with these questions in Infinite Shadows.
Right now, the only two candidates are Bernard and Nadia.
I gassed you and your family in a fucking car!
In both the past and the present, Mason asks Nadia if he can trust her.
In the past, in the context of pillow talk, Nadias answer was Always.
In the present, its Thats not the first time youve asked me that.
Thats a response, but its not an answer to Masons question.
Its also not a lie.
I continue to think Nadia is walking a very fine and tricky line with him.
When she inquires about the status of the package, the other person responds that its waiting for you.
Why do I get the feeling that said package is a child?
The contrast between Nadia and Masons current dynamic and their rapport pre-backstop is equally significant.
If anything, she rescued him and prevented the release of a worse-than-Ebola virus.
Two weeks after that meet-cute, theyre falling into bed together in Paris, no less!
Its good to be reminded that subtlety is not really a spy thrillers forte.
Word on the bad-guy grapevine is that she was working for Manticore before the train derailment.
But wouldnt both of those things be tactically and temporarily advantageous to her if she were?
Oh sure, end the conversation with rambling nonsense; hell definitely never ask about it again.
Thats not to sayCitadelhas left its snappy banter aside.
From Bernards rejection of her note of welcome (Its horrifically fucking terrible to see you, Dahlia!)
Masons entire life since being backstopped is based on trust with Abby.
If she really is Brielle, what effect will that have on Mr.
I Need to Know I Can Trust People?
As for Brielle, does sheknowshe is Brielle?
Is she a Citadel contractor wife-for-hire for Mason, who reports periodically to Bernard?
Or has she too been backstopped and now genuinely believes shes Abby Conroy?
But we wont be getting answers this week!
I would absolutely watch a three-episode arc about that chapter of their lives.
Nadias mother was a Citadel agent too.
Is he playing Anders in some way?
Quite possibly, and alls fair in spy vs. spy.
A twisted choice that would also find a happy home on a compilation titledSongs to Dissociate To.
