Saint James Infirmary 262: Work Order.

It's a fair assumption that Julian represents the group that ran Dani over. (We all know that Kupplers runneth over, but perhaps he really is dead and this group is seeking to continue his work. J Pichler and J Kuppler are not a million miles apart though.) Only that group and the SJI bunch know that the watch is broken. And it seems that even that group is relying on Dani to fix it. I think it's a fair assumption that that's a woman's hand in that panel in 227. So who else can it be but Dani? As I say, it looks to me like it's drawn from a first-person perspective. That suggests to me that it represents what Dani is thinking - or dreaming. And the only prompting for that thought would have been the knowledge that the watch is broken - no one had suggested up to that point that Dani might fix the watch.

There's a fair amount of assumption and interpretation in that. I'm not saying that it proves anything. But 227 must represent something - or things. I wouldn't have used the word compulsion - ultimately I was just saying she may not be averse to doing it. But I think she may actually want to do it. That's what I figured 227 is telling us. But as Haight suggested, it may be her nightmare instead.

Regardless, Julian knows she can fix it. And Adrian doesn't say: "You think I'd just give it back to you?"; he says: "You think I'm going to just give it back to you?" So I guess Julian knows she's going to fix it.