On the other, I cannot—will not—allow myself to be hurt again. Never will I look at a glass of wine and see it as the blood pouring from my wrists as I did on New Year’s Eve. No, I must be detached.
Nothing is more important than Cosima. I must be her doctor and that means I cannot be her lover. I must remain detached, for if I am not, I will live and die with every cough, every seizure, every test, every treatment. It will eat away at my heart and soul and I will be unable to care for her.
In addition, I made a promise to Cosima that wonderful, amazing night when we declared our love for each other: If I love her, I must love all her sisters. And so I must love them all the more by not loving her. It is the only way either one of us will survive.
Transcript of call from Marion Bowles to Delphine Cormier, 1-2-2015/1207
DELPHINE CORMIER: Allo?
MARION BOWLES: Is this Dr. Cormier?
CORMIER: This is she.
BOWLES: Dr. Cormier, I’m Marion Bowles. Happy New Year.
CORMIER: Ah, thank you. To you, as well. Er, what may I do for you, Ms. Bowles?
BOWLES: Please, call me Marion.
CORMIER: And I am Delphine.
BOWLES: Delphine, I know you’re only just getting settled in Frankfurt, but I’m going to need you to fly back to North America and take charge of Dyad.
CORMIER: Excuse me?
BOWLES: Things have—well, changed in Dyad. Significantly.
CORMIER: Is Cosima—
BOWLES: Cosima is fine. She’s responding to treatment, at least so far, but she’s the least of our problems. I’m afraid that Rachel can no longer be trusted in a position of authority at Dyad. She has been reckless and dangerous, and we no longer believe she has the company’s best interests at heart. But the one thing I believe Rachel did right was offering you Aldous’s position after his passing. In fact, I think you are absolutely the right person to take over the project entirely. You know the science and you know the people. Your relationship, not only with Cosima, but with her self-aware sisters, makes you the ideal candidate to supervise Project Leda going forward.
CORMIER: I am honored, but before I can even consider accepting—
BOWLES: Before you can even consider accepting, Delphine, let me tell you what else is going on. [takes deep breath] Do you know anything about Project Castor?
CORMIER: Not a thing. If I was forced to guess, I would say it would be related to Project Leda in some way, given the mythological background of both names. However—
BOWLES: No, you’re exactly right. Project Castor is also creating genetic identicals. One of them has targeted a naïve Leda clone. This needs to be dealt with and quickly.
CORMIER: Marion, I—
BOWLES: Don’t give me an answer right now. This is too big a decision to enter into after one phone call. My assistant is e-mailing you all the relevant information we have on Castor, as well as a formal job offer. Look it all over, sleep on it. Call me in the morning. Okay?
CORMIER: D’accord. Merci, Marion, I—I have much to think about.
BOWLES: We all do. We’ll talk tomorrow.
DYAD INSTITUTE
Hendrix, Alison
PLGI #327b24
PERSONNEL FILE
DOB: 04-04-1984
HEIGHT: 5’4”
WEIGHT: 108 lbs.
OCCUPATION: Housewife.
SEE ALSO: ReferenceHendrixD, HendrixO, HendrixG, HendrixC, HendrixF.
Alison Hendrix grew up in Toronto, Ontario, raised by an outspoken, passive-aggressive mother and a browbeaten father; the couple divorced when Alison was in middle school.
Having been raised with strict expectations regarding behavior, appearance, and ambition, the subject found her early attempts at independence met with punishment—primarily withdrawal of her mother’s affection. After the subject developed a tic beneath her right eye at the age of eleven, her pediatrician (Dyad employee EudalyC) diagnosed a general anxiety disorder. Subject was treated with sertraline until 1996. Cognitive behavioral therapy was recommended but refused by the mother.
A cheerleader and class valedictorian, the subject became highly organized at a young age (PLGI trait) and has since showed the same kind of ruthlessness exhibited by a number of this series. Alison met her future husband and monitor, Donnie Chubbs*, in her senior year.
*HendrixD (“Donnie”), Alison’s husband, took Alison’s maiden name as his own when Connie Hendrix (her mother, unknowing participant in Canadian donor program) insisted. Believing that Alison was a subject in a harmless, long-term psychology experiment (social metrics), Donnie unwittingly worked as Alison’s monitor from when they first began dating in college (2003) to 2015. His reports were poorly organized, but gave Dyad access to standard medical data and temperament changes.
Eager to have children, subject underwent testing in 2008 (hysterosalpingography, hysterosonography, luteinizing hormone level checks) and was found to be infertile for nonspecific genetic reasons. A five-month period of depression and alcohol abuse was documented after the tests. Subject then began researching adoption and had siblings Oscar and Gemma placed with her in 2010.
Subject lives in the suburbs with her family. A soccer mom and book-club participant, she also acts in her local community theater and enjoys target practice in her spare time (Alison was given a handgun and trained in its use by Elizabeth Childs in late 2013, after which she became an avid collector). Hobbies include baking, aerobics, scrapbooking, sewing, reading, tatting lace, and soap making.
Became self-aware following contact with Elizabeth Childs in late 2013. Before Rachel Duncan’s decision to “open” Dyad to the PLGIs, Alison briefly suspected that her husband was working as a Dyad monitor, her suspicion then moving to Aynsley Norris, a neighbor and friend. Norris died in a freak household incident shortly thereafter. Subject was already using prescription pills and alcohol to deal with the stresses of motherhood; after learning that she was a clone, one of several who were being stalked, with some already murdered, her drug use increased substantially. Subject spent a brief period in rehab in 2013, at which time she confessed witnessing Norris’s death to fellow rehab patient (and former boyfriend to Sarah Manning) Victor Schmidt. After her husband’s job loss, subject briefly took over an illegal prescription business from her drug and weapons dealer, OzerovR, to help fund her run against her children’s school district trustee incumbent, Marci Coates.
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DYAD INSTITUTE
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MONITOR ASSESSMENT REPORT (AR-21)
PTN LV 42
DATE:
TIME: Monday afternoon and at around 9 and then at around 10 p.m.
AGENT: HendrixD
SUBJECT DESIGNATION: 327b24
NAME: Alison Hendrix
LOCATION(S): Home
OBSERVED WITH: Oscar, Gemma, me
INTERACTIONS/EVENTS OF NOTE:
Oscar asked if we could have breakfast for dinner—he loves bacon—and Ali went off about how she had already thawed a chicken and that we had bacon for breakfast already. Then she said that too much bacon will make you fat and she shot me a look, even though I haven’t gained any weight lately, I’ve even lost a couple of pounds, I’m pretty sure. Gemma caught on and said, “Like Daddy, right?” And Alison didn’t say no, she just said that we’re all doing our best to eat healthy and that “Daddy is starting a new exercise program because he wants to be healthier,” even though we haven’t talked about anything like that.
PUPIL GAUGE (mm)
B = BRISK
S = SLUGGISH
N = NO REACTION
C = EYES CLOSED
EXTREMITIES: Record RIGHT (“R”) and LEFT (“L”) if there is a difference between the two sides.
HEALTH/APPEARANCE CHANGES:
I think she has PMS.
MONITOR-SUBJECT INTERACTION:
After we tucked the kids in, she printed out an article on obesity and heart disease and put it on the fridge. I took it do
wn, and she didn’t say anything then, but she was pissed off, I could tell.
EMOTIONAL STATE(S) OF NOTE:
Before bed I said I was thinking about taking up swimming and she calmed down and told me about all the health benefits of low-impact cardio and said it would be better for my joints than jogging. So she’s not mad at me anymore.
LIST ANY ATTITUDES, ACTIONS, OR BEHAVIORS THAT ARE ATYPICAL FOR THE SUBJECT:
Nothing except maybe PMS, which is normal.
CONTACT SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY IF YOU OBSERVE OR SUSPECT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: SIGNS OF ILLNESS, SUICIDAL OR SELF-INJURIOUS IDEATION, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, PRIVATE MEETINGS OUTSIDE OF DOCUMENTED FAMILY/ACQUAINTANCES, AND ANY POSSIBILITY THAT THE SUBJECT HAS BECOME AWARE OF BEING MONITORED.
DYAD INSTITUTE
MONITOR ASSESSMENT REPORT (AR-21)
PTN LV 42
DATE:
TIME: Wednesday morning at 4am
AGENT: HendrixD
SUBJECT DESIGNATION: 327b24
NAME: Alison Hendrix
LOCATION(S): home
OBSERVED WITH:
Just me — why would anyone else be up at that hour?
INTERACTIONS/EVENTS OF NOTE:
So I woke up at 4am and Ali was up, and she was talking to herself. Now she said she was running lines from that “Blood Ties” play she’s in. I can’t believe they’re even still doing the play, since Aynsley was the lead and you can’t do a play without a lead, right? Anyhow, I don’t think she was really running lines, I think she was talking to someone she was hiding behind the door. One of the voices I heard her talking to was not her. Besides, I thought I heard one of them interrupt the other. Of course, it was 4am, maybe I was just really tired. Either way, it’s weird that she’d be up that late. Or that early. Whatever.
PUPIL GAUGE (mm)
B = BRISK
S = SLUGGISH
N = NO REACTION
C = EYES CLOSED
EXTREMITIES: Record RIGHT (“R”) and LEFT (“L”) if there is a difference between the two sides.
HEALTH/APPEARANCE CHANGES:
Ever since Aynsley died, she’s just been weird. I don’t think she’s drinking again, but I can’t rule it out either.
MONITOR-SUBJECT INTERACTION:
I asked her what she was doing up so late, and she gave me some nonsense about the muse and how she doesn’t care what time it is or something like that. I don’t remember exactly, I was half asleep, but the muse? Honestly? She’s just a supporting character in a dumb play about a murder at a wedding, what kind of muse does that need? I don’t get her.
EMOTIONAL STATE(S) OF NOTE:
Snappish. Annoying. Insomniac. Talking to herself or to someone else. She might be drinking again.
LIST ANY ATTITUDES, ACTIONS, OR BEHAVIORS THAT ARE ATYPICAL FOR THE SUBJECT:
Just—off. Maybe it’s Aynsley. Maybe it’s drinking. Maybe it’s an actor’s temperament, I don’t know.
CONTACT SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY IF YOU OBSERVE OR SUSPECT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: SIGNS OF ILLNESS, SUICIDAL OR SELF-INJURIOUS IDEATION, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, PRIVATE MEETINGS OUTSIDE OF DOCUMENTED FAMILY/ACQUAINTANCES, AND ANY POSSIBILITY THAT THE SUBJECT HAS BECOME AWARE OF BEING MONITORED.
-Victor Schmidt (Sarah Manning’s ex-boyfriend) made contact with subject in rehab.
-May be informant for police.
A Guide for Impersonating Sisters - By Alison Hendrix
Sarah
• Loosen shoulders.
• Stand with one foot in front of the other exposing your side so you can move away at a moment’s notice.
• Shove out chin in defiance of authority.
• Put hands in pockets.
• Talk with a British accent.
• Don’t sound educated, but don’t sound stupid, either.
• Attitude. Lots of attitude.
Cosima
• Tilt your head when you talk.
• Gesture a lot when you talk.
• Try to sound like you’re twenty instead of thirty, but legitimately, not because you’re trying to sound cool. It’s just the way you talk.
• Talk about science a lot. Make sure you’re enthusiastic when you do.
• Don’t keep scratching your nose where the ring is or fiddling with your hair.
Helena
• Talk with an Eastern European accent.
• Move like a dancer, but with a heavier tread.
• Keep head bowed a lot.
• Say funny things that aren’t meant to be funny.
Rachel
• Wear an eye patch on your left eye.
• Try not to use your left arm at all.
• Try to stay seated as much as possible. If you must walk, do it haltingly.
• Talk haltingly and struggle with words.
• Despite all this, speak in as controlled a manner as possible.
• Talk with a British accent.
Alison
• Well, act like me, obviously!
Bailey Downs Soccer Mom Blog, A Blog for the Concerned Mothers Of The Bailey Downs Community
Greetings, fellow moms!
The community is just a-twitter—and a-facebook, hehe—with anticipation over the school trustee election, and I just want to put in my two cents. If you don’t vote for Marci Coates, you have to be on drugs.
I almost mean that literally. I mean, Alison Hendrix used to be a pillar of this community, but lately? She gets into fights on the street, she falls off the stage while “performing” in a play, and best of all, she goes into rehab! And we’re supposed to reward this appalling behavior by giving her the ability to make decisions about our children? How about we make a decision about her children and maybe take them out of that awful house and give them parents who aren’t drugged-out psychopaths or ineffectual buffoons who get fired from their jobs?
So vote smart. Vote for Marci Coates.
I want to add that, while Marci is one of my oldest friends and was maid of honor at my wedding, that has NOTHING TO DO with this blog post. I truly think that she’s the best woman for the job.
Post by Eleanor Fitzgerald, January 20, 2015, 16:34:21
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COMMENTS
Marci Coates, January 20, 2015, 16:55:01
Thank you for your support, Ellie! Mwah!
Charity Simms, January 20, 2015, 17:05:55
I think Ellie’s being a little harsh, but I will agree that we should just stay the course and stick with Marci.
Sarah Stubbs, January 20, 2015, 17:11:59
Alison is the bravest, most wonderfulest person I know! Yes, she’s been through rehab, but that just means she’s STRONG and POWERFUL! Aynsley’s awful passing hit all of us REALLY hard, but I think it hit Ali more harder than it did ANYONE. I think it’s AWFUL of people to be so mean to someone who’s such an inspiration! She’s coming back from a horrible tragedy, and I say go girl!
Meera Kumar, January 20, 2015, 17:15:22
Alison has completely lost it, and I thought that before she fell off the stage. I’d sooner vote for our dog for school trustee.
Vera Keating, January 20, 2015, 17:42:42
I think Sarah’s right, Aynsley’s accident really messed Ali up, but she’s come back swinging and I admire that. And I think Ellie’s “on drugs” crack is totally off-base. Shame on you, Ellie, for saying such horrible things about people who simply disagree with you. Not likely to trust your judgment now, are we?
Aynsley Norris, January 20, 2015, 18:01:33
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Eleanor Fitzgerald, January 20, 2015, 18:05:45
Oh God, someone hacked Aynsley’s account again! Can’t someone get that to stop?
Charity Simms, January 20, 2015, 18:06:11
I’ve e-
mailed the host site AGAIN. Let’s hope.
Kelsey Johnston, January 20, 2015, 18:35:29
I will say in Alison’s defence, she was a mess during the rehearsals for BLOOD TIES, so I’m not surprised at her falling apart. But I think it’s awesome that she’s doing this. Mind you, I’m totally voting for Marci, but I also totally admire what Alison is doing. Brava!
Alison Hendrix, January 22, 2015, 21:15:14
I only signed back on here for the first time in months because I was told my name was being taken in vain. Eleanor, I appreciate you voicing your opinion, though I agree with Vera that it’s mean-spirited to characterize those who don’t share your views as drug addicts. I was hoping to run a clean campaign, but obviously Marci does not agree, since she endorsed your vitriol in the very first comment.
Then again, this is a blog that can’t even keep dead people off it. I’m reminded why I haven’t been posting or reading here. And won’t be again, because I’ll be far too busy as your next school trustee.
<3, Alison H.
ADELE HAMNER
Atorney-at-Law
Lieutenant Gavin Hardcastle
Toronto Police Department
Dear Lt. Hardcastle,
I would like to protest in the loudest possible terms the treatment of my client Donald Stubbs Hendrix. Mr. Hendrix is a pillar of the community, the husband of the school trustee, and a devoted father of two. The detectives under your command chose to arrest him on flimsy charges on a Friday night while his children were holding a sleepover. And by the way, the civil suite that the parents of Bailey Downs are going to ram up your butts for traumatizing their children is on the way, and it’ll be a doozy.
Mr. Hendrix is, as I said, a pillar of the community. To leave him stuck in jail over an entire weekend before being arranged constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, something I plan to bring up with the judge at the arrangement.
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