![]() ![]() This curiosity seems to have developed through his connection with Schwarzwald. But now, Roger Smith is so curious about his past that he is willing to break his own rules and begin searching for the truth. At the beginning of the series, his policy was to never go digging into the past lest he cause more trouble than need be. ![]() Then neither do I.’ The conversation is over between the two at this point, and Roger sulks off elsewhere the ponder the question of why he is such an effective pilot of Big O despite not even being born before The Event of 40 years ago, and thereby bracketed from all knowledge before it, including information regarding the piloting of such machines. Norman responds likewise to Roger’s first question: ‘Right. ![]() He asks the old man, ‘Have you ever thought about the fact that you can keep the Megadeus in perfect condition like this?’ Instead of answering directly, Norman asks Roger if he wonders why he is able to pilot the machine so effectively, only to receive an answer in the negative. In this episode’s constantly shifting spatial logic, Roger next visits Norman in the underground where he is working on repairing Big O. She had previously contacted Roger to help her out of some predicament, but was killed before he could meet her and settle the details. Dastun calls in Roger for questioning (which may suggest that Dastun knows about, or highly suspects, Roger’s identity as the pilot of the Megadeus) and finds that he knew only one of the victims: the dancer at Nightingale called Ellen Weight. The killer, known as R.D., takes down a Taxi Driver next and has been linked to one more previous murder through her Megadeus-tied M.O. However, the girl was barely 20 years old at the time, and thereby the recovery of such memories seems impossible. He learns that the woman who was murdered claimed to have regained memories of the past, pre-Event information from more than 40 years ago. Roger Smith learns of the incident from Dan Dastun and tracks down more information on the event through his informant The Big Ear at the city’s Speak Easy club. The figure kills one of the girls working at the club and writes a message in lipstick on the mirror in the girl’s dressing room, a message that seemingly only Dorothy would know the meaning of: ‘Cast In The Name Of God, Ye Not Guilty!’ The question and response written out by a Megadeus within its cockpit to only its true Megadeus (a negative answer, and the subsequent expulsion of the false Dominus would be prompted by ‘Ye Guilty.’). Dorothy Wayneright, though dressed in a red cape and hood. A figure lurks in the shadows, appearing visually identical to R. ![]()
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