Was talking about this elsewhere, but Victoria really was the worst possible thing to happen to Chris plans for Breakthrough
He was banking on Breakthrough being easily manipulated, not prying about any of his excuses, too busy about getting a team running to really have to deal with any genuine oversight
Jessica would be out of the picture, Tristan and Ashley out of their depth, he’d have free reign to explore and do what he wanted
Victoria appearing was a curveball to his plans.
She’s methodical, she’s keen, she’s *questioning* and she *cares*
Absolutely horrendous combination for someone who has secrets to hide and who did not want that to happen. Still, he tried to make it work, maybe hoping she’d not look too hard at things that don’t make sense.
But he doesn’t know Jessica poisoned the well, telling Vic that someone was acting with ill intentions.
And Victoria naturally cares about children. And then she hears from others that Chris is scaring workers and kids.
So of course she investigates and he flips out. This is the closest someone has come to his genuine secrets and he panics
You can literally see him throw everything at the wall to try and keep Victoria off balance. The Amy comment works, but he accidentally lets slip something about his power that Victoria notices: changer powers *don’t act that way*
Had he not tossed out the Amy comments, Victoria may have put the pieces together sooner
