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I think this might be Erin's doing.  She said she had a girlfriend candidate in mind, and now it looks like Miriam has been pulled into the doctor's hands.  This could just be Miriam screwing up.

Very curious to see how deep all this will go.

And just like that, turnabout is fair play.

Lends more credence to this being a long game by Jakob… though it also seems like he’d have to be Nostradamus at this point to have planned this out.

It also begs the question: how do you undo the soul-suck if Miriam loses the capability to do it?

Script: Daphne • Line Art: Plutonian Knight • Colors and Lettering: Octavia Moon

I shouldn't let this page pass without saying how much I like it. Ostensibly the same thing happens in this scene as in the previous one with the doctor. (Erin keeps dreaming scenes that end with her having a cock in her mouth. Indeed, the same thing happens in the latest round of Aiken's dream.) But last time she was a woman who was accepting of her duties, accepting of the idea that many of her memories were delusions, and who was engaging in an affair with her doctor, in which her behaviour was almost that of a seductress. This time around (as if we didn't know already) we've seen (and she has seen) that she has been hypnotized by the doctor into being his sex-slave. And here, though she doesn't appear to be unhappy about it, she undresses upon command and then goes straight to the position expected of her. She is more clearly subservient to him now.

I can't help thinking that her smile in the second panel is simply triggered by the sight of her huge breasts, which are an asset to her in her role as a sexual object. But her apparent happiness is one thing that makes me question whether the doctor is supposed to be Jakob. Jakob is cruel, and his women are not supposed to be happy. I'm still thinking that since Aiken is dreaming specifically about Erin, it would make sense for his new role to be either that of the doctor or the husband. And his position in relation to Erin in his dream is closer to that of the doctor.

Not sure how to interpret the font used at the end, but Miriam looks more like a victim of Pink Clouds here than someone falling asleep. If she's aware of what's happening in Erin's dream, perhaps she's somehow experiencing Jacqui's dream and being affected by the perfume therein. But I think it's more likely that some pre-programming is taking effect.

If there is a Pink Clouds element then that does suggest Yves/Sawyer/Q. But if there isn't actually any physical source of this smell, then it could be anyone who has triggered one of Miriam's memories of being subjected to Pink Clouds, say.

Whether anyone is aware of Miriam's special nature (other than Jakob, who appears to have been involved with her since before she was born) is another matter. But we did see Sawyer and Hans exiting the antiquarian bookshop in 121 with big packages under their arms. So Sawyer (or Hans) might possibly have an interest in some kind of arcane knowledge.

Another possibility? Well, there are lots, obviously (Aiken farts sleeping gas?). But maybe all of the women who've inhaled the new perfume are going to start falling into a catatonic state.

It would be nice if Miriam were to enter the dreams of the other women. Perhaps this is part of the arrangements that have been made by Erin's doctor regarding the other woman.

I was always a fan of 661.

Whoever sent a nubile young woman after the bearer of this ring was new at this.

Now this is the kind of twist that makes me wish I could immediately fast-forward to Tuesday!

Hmm. First indication that something is happening outside of Miriam’s control here.

I know a lot of people have been on the Yves train with this, thinking he’s the main cause behind it all, but I think it’s more likely that this is one of two parties. I think either that this is our heroes, taking precaution as they attempt to capture Miriam… or this is Jakob, here to collect what is his.

Points for both: how would our people have some sort of gas to pacify Miriam? How would Jakob know what’s been going on in just a day or so since the airport incident?

But regardless, it doesn’t really make sense for this to be Yves, or even another party. How could Yves have engineered this entire evening, supposing he did, and only wait until now after the arrival of AMA and Aiken to start moving in for acquisitions? How would he even know that Miriam has the soul suck ability?