AEG clones...send them in

Dave Tallman · 18 Dec 2008, 12:24 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:24:17 -0700
Subject: (urth) AEG clones...send them in
Message-ID: <494A40F1.5000109 at gmail.com>

James Wynn wrote:
> So if Bill Reis is one of the evil men in the world who are the other 
> two that John referred to?
> Wally Rosenquist and Wade Rusterman? So are we talking about three 
> separate men here?
>   
I'm still unsure, but the idea is growing on me a little. There's the 
odd change of names at the end:
"Oh Bill, my poor Bill. Why did you have to die?"..."Please, oh please 
Wally! Come back to me!" This makes sense if Cassie has figured out that 
they are two different people.

Another way to get doubles other than cloning is by time-travel. If a 
person hopped to Woldercon, there' s a possibility that they could 
return before they left. Early on, Reis shows uncanny speed in reacting 
to Cassie's recruitment by Chase. He gets a play book written, a 
bracelet made, and a director in place before she has even performed 
once at star level. Time-travel might explain this.

On the other hand, if Bill Reis had clones or temporal doubles who were 
working with him, then we would expect them to help him when he needed 
to be in two places at once. We have a case where it would have been 
convenient for this to have happened and it didn't: the date with Cassie 
at Rusterman's. Reis wanted to go out with her and also search her 
apartment. If he had a co-operative double, why not do both and give 
himself an alibi for the search?

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