At 13:41 11/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
<Warning: Plot hole nit-pick. People who not like nit-picking should look away now.>
You're right in pointing out the fact that Varon was easily able to find that the children had been seen by Dr. Havant prior to the alleged offences occurring.
This has never made any sense to me whatsoever.
Surely if the Federation are implanting false memories of abuse, the children should have been admitted to the clinic for memory implantation some time *after* the offense was supposed to have taken place?
The sequence seems to be - Blake is arrested at the meeting, the descision is made to fake the crimes, the memoiries are implanted, the trial happens.
The memory implantation in the children definitely seem to have happened *after* Blake was arrested:
MORAG: What we need is something to discredit him. If he could be deported to Cygnus Alpha .... Doctor, am I right in thinking you can create experiences, implant them into a subject, who will then believe that they really happened? HAVANT: Of course. In fact, creating an illusion of reality is quite simple. MORAG: Good. Then I think we can totally destroy Blake's credibility and get him sentenced. [to Glynd] But I'd like to do a feasibility check. [Gynd nods] Doctor, would you come with me please. HAVANT: As you wish.
The evidence Varon finds is that:
VARON: [To Maja] Well that's interesting. He was absent from school on the afternoon before the assault.
and:
VARON: Look at that: outpatient admission, identity unrecorded. And there's another. And a third. MAJA: Three unidentified admissions on the date the victims weren't at school.
All this seems to very strongly imply that the 'assaults' are officially recorded as having taken place *while Blake is in prison*.
This is obviously nuts. Being in prison is a fairly good alibi re: being out and about molesting children. Even the dimmest Justice Department rep is going to notice this some time before they have to start poking about in Central Records.
The alternative is that the Administration carefully faked a whole stack of easily discoverable evidence which would allow Varon to discover that Blake was innocent...and then, when he found it, carefully killed him before he could tell anybody.
This is also nuts.
The only other explantion I could come up with is that the records are faked to make it look as if Blake's arrest happened quite some time after it did (and therefore after the alleged assaults). This would make things tie up, but you'd still think Blake might have mentioned it.
Does anyone have another explanation?
Murray
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