Question of the week #57

[treonb]

What does Martha really think about Philip?  How far would she be willing to go to protect herself, from both Philip and the FBI?

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Comments

[theplatonicnonyeah]

This is a tough one.

I mean, obviously, she was willing to accept his "toupee" earlier. So a certain degree of deceit didn't seem to bother her. But this...this is so much more profound. She has done things - she has been made to do things, even! - far beyond her normal ideological boundaries. She has unwittingly become an accomplice and there is no turning back now.

I think she has two ways to go:
1. accept that she is now "a bad guy" and just go for it, accepting Clark/Philip for whoever he chooses to present himself as after the de-wigging.
2. play a double game and turn him in somehow, while perhaps sacrificing her own life.

[sistermagpie]

I don't think she considered the toupee a deceit at all, probably. It would never occur to her that he was hiding darker hair under there. She probably thought the toupee was actually character-revealing.

[theplatonicnonyeah]

I think you misunderstood, or I am bad at words... ;-)
I meant that a toupee in itself is a form of deceit, because it covers something up. Not because Martha thought it was deceitful.

[sistermagpie]

I think I did misunderstand!