When we last left our heroes...

[jmundt29]

What?  What the...?   Okay, running back in #73, she remembers how to use The Watch, but what flipped her from Derek's power back to Adrian's with the memory as opposed to what happened when Adrian tried to wake her up?

Another question--why does Marliese keep getting credit for finishing Jacqui's programming when, as far as I can tell from #72, Mallory is holding the Watch and saying the programming and Erin is immobilizing her.  Marli is busy lower down...or possibly not involved at all.

[Werdna]

what flipped her from Derek's power back to Adrian's

Presumably, she identified something about Adrian, both in #71 and #73, as well as in #19-22, that enabled her to recognize Adrian as her master over Derek.  My take:  in #19, Derek 'activates' Dani, at which point she remembers the watch and everything else, and for some reason - whether that's Adrian's winning over Derek, or Dani's recognizing that there's no way a loser like Derek could be her true master, or some other reason - Dani recognizes Adrian as her master.  She even talks to Jacqui later about how she had been negligent in her duties.

Then, Adrian tells her to wake up.  She forgets all about the watch, about the incident with Derek, about seducing Adrian, about enslaving all her roommates and Marliese, and is given the update while she was 'out'.  She agrees, reluctantly, to go to Derek's place to be 'reactivated', and the plan is to take her away from Derek quickly, so that she can then return and use the watch to free the others and, in Jacqui's case, to allow her to wear clothes again.  Things do not go quite according to plan, but ultimately they succeed, with all four of the rescued women now identifying Adrian as their master.

why does Marliese keep getting credit for finishing Jacqui's programming

Issue #72.  Marliese picks up the watch and activates it, somehow.  Then Mallory and Erin complete Jacqui's slavery.

[mns_95125]

My interpretation is that Zenon's trigger makes the subject very open to suggestion from any source.  Derek may not have known that.  So when Adrian was the only guy around all he had to do was act dominant and the triggered women would submit to him.  That's why the hypno-cock thing worked.

[jmundt29]

But unlike with the second cohort, Marliese isn't the one holding the activated Watch.  Mallory does that.  Mallory and Erin finish Jacqui's programming.  I ventured the idea much earlier of Dani simply faking Derek out, but her physical reaction to his demands looks too extreme for that to be "plausible."

[Werdna]

To me, the holder of the watch is far less important here than the fact that they got the watch to work.  Marliese got the thing to work, so she gets the credit.

[Daphne]

I'll offer this. None of the SJI Eight have lied to Adrian at any point. They may have been somewhat evasive, but they have never flat-out said something to him that they knew not to be true.

In 122, When Jacqui exclaimed, she was reporting something that actually happened.

In 126, Dani was relating her feelings honestly. Especially when she pitched the snowball.

[jmundt29]

None of them have lied to Adrian except Mallory in panel 2 of Episode 74.  She used the Watch, but not to scrub out Derek's influence, to put in new programming.  It seemed that Adrian had already eradicated Derek's influence himself (by accident).

[Daphne]

None of them have lied to Adrian except Mallory in panel 2 of Episode 74.

Mallory didn't lie. She abbreviated.

[GodWilling]

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[mns_95125]

I just thought I'd drop a brief note here trying to list the various 'mysterious figures' in the comic, since there are a growing number of them and it's getting difficult for me to keep track of them all in my head.

• Whoever broke in to Vik's lab and photographed the Pink Clouds notes.
• Whoever drove the car that hit Danielle.
• Whoever found the Watch casing by the side of the road.
• Whoever parked the BMW outside the Infirmary.  (Probably the same as the driver of the car that hit Danielle, but could theoretically be someone else.)
• Whoever is now getting a lap dance from Caitlyn.

[GodWilling]

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[jmundt29]

I'd go with Yves as the burglar because he seems to be the day-to-day boss at Princess Pink.  I think he'd be interested to compare Vik's version to the previous one to see if he could make modifications to it so he could get away with distributing it.

I think the hit-and-run driver is the same person who collected the watch housing and is currently parked outside SJI.

I don't know who it is Caitlyn's dancing for, but he has to be connected to the person who gave Alex her marching orders at the store.  If he's just some Random Patron, then he and the Philandering Dance Major should

1. Buy some lottery tickets and

2. Hit the Vegas casinos.  Together.  Without PDM's wife or any members of the Mantis Squad.

[GodWilling]

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[laguna85]

If he's just some Random Patron...

I suspect you're right. But it could be that many of the patrons at Sawyer's are aware of that particular cubicle being worth a speculative look.

the noise that may cam out the room Himm?

[GodWilling]

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