As someone who used to have a TS clearance, I can easily see why Todd would screw up. We literally had to take training every six months just to keep the thing and security was perpetually drilled into us informally almost daily. Todd just got a paper briefing and nothing else. These agents are rather incompetent in this regard.
Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear this one you’ll save
Better lock it, in your pocket
Taking this one to the grave
If I show you then I know you
Won’t tell what I said
‘Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead?
Agent Smith ain’t gonna be happy, but given how close their own daughter is with Selkie, that might genuinely be a good (albeit accidental) first step in getting that secret out in the open.
I mean, it seems as though all the kids already sort of ‘know’ that Selkie isn’t human. They know about the gills, and the webbing and stuff, and I don’t think any of them believe the BS about it being a ‘condition’.
I’m just imagining those two asking their daughter, and her going “Yeah? She’s an alien or a mermaid or something, whatever.”
Hence why it’d be a good first step – if her parents started freaking out about Selkie being a non-human, Heather would just go “Uh, how does that change who she IS?”
And since her parents seem to be pretty reasonable folks, that would likely qualify as an Armor Piercing Question for them.
Oh, no… it is most DEFINITELY “A” weapon… just not the weapon most people are thinking it is… most people think it’s probably a US Navy Laser platform being tested in Lake Superior… what they DON’T know is that it was really “the old farmer” Scar, doing a really good impression of Kirk when Khan left him in the laboratory on the dead planet Regulus I… if Kirk had the ability to blast energy beams from his eyeballs, don’t you think that he would have been doing so as he was yelling Khan’s name in frustration?!?
as for them “leaving it alone”… um, probably not… they’ll probably ask Heather, and then after they disbelieve her and try for more answers from Lillian, then they’ll probably get dragged down the Rabbit Hole once Avery finds out about it…
Since an entire orphanage knows Selkie’s not a human, Avery just has to be able to prove that he didn’t cause the leak.
He’s not responsible for the “secret getting out”– he’s responsible for not LETTING the secret out.
That’s why Avery was very careful to let Pohl tell Todd the juicy details and not be responsible for it himself. He’s got a fishwife and a fishkid to feed. I don’t think they are really gonna have Pohl under a clearance, it’s debatable whether or not he’s a US Citizen, depending on how they have applied tribal versus immigration law to Sarnoth. Even so, that would be like classifying the fact that someone is Chinese.
Now, if Todd tells Amanda and/or Andi about “Sarnoth” then Todd is culpable for letting THAT secret out and he could be put in the testicle twisters for that.
We know from Agent Then that at least some of the Sarnothi are not happy with how the whole situation is being handled. It’s not necessarily whether or not the Sarnothi think they’re ready, it’s the US gummit that is deciding that.
If the beam was intentional, it might be the Sarnothi forcing the issue. If it wasn’t intentional, maybe it was a missed shot on a building or an eel or something.
And it is in no way a coincidence that the beam happened right after Selkie’s visit to the Sarnothi and the possible activation of her powers. I sure hope the Sarnothi refugee city is OK . . .
I’m not feeling Barbie here. Parents say things like “this totally random thing reminded me I have to talk to person about unrelated subject”. It could even be that *serious* news on TV about something reminds him that he had been postponing a *serious* conversation, infected by the sense of urgency that news about a doomy thing brings.
It’s like “that reminds me we’re out of eggs”. The human mind jumps around a lot by though association.
DUN DUN DUN DUN!
Saved me the typing
Whoops?
We always termed it, “Slip-sies.”
As someone who used to have a TS clearance, I can easily see why Todd would screw up. We literally had to take training every six months just to keep the thing and security was perpetually drilled into us informally almost daily. Todd just got a paper briefing and nothing else. These agents are rather incompetent in this regard.
Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear this one you’ll save
Better lock it, in your pocket
Taking this one to the grave
If I show you then I know you
Won’t tell what I said
‘Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead?
That song is on my Pandora playlist!
great, now that’s going to be stuck in my head for the next 48 hours.
This is true. Todd left the Classified envelope out on the counter, fer crissakes.
Agent Smith ain’t gonna be happy, but given how close their own daughter is with Selkie, that might genuinely be a good (albeit accidental) first step in getting that secret out in the open.
I mean, it seems as though all the kids already sort of ‘know’ that Selkie isn’t human. They know about the gills, and the webbing and stuff, and I don’t think any of them believe the BS about it being a ‘condition’.
I’m just imagining those two asking their daughter, and her going “Yeah? She’s an alien or a mermaid or something, whatever.”
Hence why it’d be a good first step – if her parents started freaking out about Selkie being a non-human, Heather would just go “Uh, how does that change who she IS?”
And since her parents seem to be pretty reasonable folks, that would likely qualify as an Armor Piercing Question for them.
Imo, they wouldn’t freak out as much that Selkie is an “alien”, but should freak out to the fact that aliens exist.
Seems about right on Transcript XD
And paranoia about something that’s probably not a weapon. DX I really hope these two leave it alone.
It’s highly unlikely they will but I can dream.
Oh, no… it is most DEFINITELY “A” weapon… just not the weapon most people are thinking it is… most people think it’s probably a US Navy Laser platform being tested in Lake Superior… what they DON’T know is that it was really “the old farmer” Scar, doing a really good impression of Kirk when Khan left him in the laboratory on the dead planet Regulus I… if Kirk had the ability to blast energy beams from his eyeballs, don’t you think that he would have been doing so as he was yelling Khan’s name in frustration?!?
as for them “leaving it alone”… um, probably not… they’ll probably ask Heather, and then after they disbelieve her and try for more answers from Lillian, then they’ll probably get dragged down the Rabbit Hole once Avery finds out about it…
I highly doubt it’s a weapon. I mean that’d be pretty cliche and expected storyline wise. So it feels highly unlikely.
It’d be better if they did. DX Less anxiety inducing if they did.
We’ve already seen it’s a weapon. https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie406/
That might not be the same thing. So far there’s been no damage and all it’s done is be a light source.
Since an entire orphanage knows Selkie’s not a human, Avery just has to be able to prove that he didn’t cause the leak.
He’s not responsible for the “secret getting out”– he’s responsible for not LETTING the secret out.
That’s why Avery was very careful to let Pohl tell Todd the juicy details and not be responsible for it himself. He’s got a fishwife and a fishkid to feed. I don’t think they are really gonna have Pohl under a clearance, it’s debatable whether or not he’s a US Citizen, depending on how they have applied tribal versus immigration law to Sarnoth. Even so, that would be like classifying the fact that someone is Chinese.
Now, if Todd tells Amanda and/or Andi about “Sarnoth” then Todd is culpable for letting THAT secret out and he could be put in the testicle twisters for that.
Seems like an odd conclusion to jump to. All Todd did was say he had to talk to her about Selkie.
Oops. This thing is going public, whether the Sarnothi think they’re ready or not.
One posibility is that this was the whole point of firing the beam.
We know from Agent Then that at least some of the Sarnothi are not happy with how the whole situation is being handled. It’s not necessarily whether or not the Sarnothi think they’re ready, it’s the US gummit that is deciding that.
If the beam was intentional, it might be the Sarnothi forcing the issue. If it wasn’t intentional, maybe it was a missed shot on a building or an eel or something.
Yyyyep, the masquerade’s definitely crumbling. Downside of living in the information age.
And it is in no way a coincidence that the beam happened right after Selkie’s visit to the Sarnothi and the possible activation of her powers. I sure hope the Sarnothi refugee city is OK . . .
I’m not feeling Barbie here. Parents say things like “this totally random thing reminded me I have to talk to person about unrelated subject”. It could even be that *serious* news on TV about something reminds him that he had been postponing a *serious* conversation, infected by the sense of urgency that news about a doomy thing brings.
It’s like “that reminds me we’re out of eggs”. The human mind jumps around a lot by though association.