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[Anton P. Nym]

[SPEC] Kemal trapped in a "honey pot"?

[Captain Ferrell]

Nice SPEC! It seems not only plausible, but probable.

[krystyn]

I still wonder about those parasites, though! Or was that all just a way for her to ditch him?

[johnny5]

[aliendial]

Fits very nicely. Oooh. Now I want to know what comes next. As long as it doesn't involve 20 axons in the DC area. Let me rephrase that - as long as it doesn't involve ANY MORE axons in the DC area.

[bcriswell]

Except that Aiden set up Kamal to be shaken down by that cop. I think Aiden wanted revenge but was more imaginative than the tack hammer.

*Edit* Scratch that. Memory failed me. Theory looks quite plausible.

[inio]

[sherpa]

[inio]

[MNPundit]

Definitely valid spec (and I'm taking logic classes now so I know validity!) but I disagree with it pretty fiercely, not on any substantive grounds, but more on grounds that its so.... over the top. I think I'd groan and hoped it was something better if what you said turns out to have been the case.

Now maybe, MAYBE, the premise was real and Aiden just decided to turn it to his advantage but wouldn't one think that the moms would contact the datees and ask how the date went eventually? It certainly seems like SOME time has passed and if they can set up dates from 42 ly away, you'd think they care to check on how it went, especially if Kamal is as clueless with women as it appears, and if Sophia seemed to be permanently single because she was hiding Aiden. If Sophia wasn't the original Sophia mightn't Kamal's mom find out? After all, we know he doesn't have the guts to blow off his mom if she wants to talk...

Personally I'm going with the simplest theory now and thats the story the wavs tell right out.

[sherpa]

[CoffeeJedi]

[Anton P. Nym]

[Avery1415]

How long is Aden's grasp? Could he find out mom had set up this date. delay the message long enough to charm his way into a relationship with the girl. I'm guessing system to system messaging is not as simple as the chatter net.

[ThunderRazor]

I think that it is possible that Sophia was a test to see how well Kamal could hack. She forgave Aiden very quickly, but do you remember how upset she was on the voice mail? That just seems like a ploy to test Kamal to me.

Also, Aiden said that he just wanted to see how well Kamal could work under pressure, hence he got the Cop to show up.

But I am not sure if Aiden would blackmail Kamal. See, in the business of smuggling and also trying to find a very good hacker, you can't just go around posting flyers. You also can't meet hackers and just ask them if they are good. First, you have to keep yourself somewhat secret, and second, you have to really test them. So Aiden methods might have been the only way to find a good hacker. However, something that contradicts what I am saying is that Sophia tells Kamal straight up that Aiden smuggles people to Earth. It wouldn't makes sense for her to give that information away so fast.