One thing that mildly disappoints me about Rachel Young is how she was set up in a way where it would have been very easy and a little entertaining to have her have been a double agent the whole time.
She knew Cutter was shady from day one and dodged his attempts on her life just to get a meeting with him. She stayed cool despite having a gun in her face, she stroked his ego and reminded him enough of his younger self for him to think it worth it to offer her a job, and she had a clear talent for disguising her identity and using fake names to get information. She also had a clear sense of Cutter’s power and would realistically know taking him down or exposing him would mean making ethical concessions to get close to him. It’s not crazy to think she might have been working for an organization that was on to him or trying to take him down.
It would have been very easy and honestly very funny if in the end both she and Kepler lessened the strength of Cutter’s evil space laser or whatever that decima thing was and had a conversation like “huh. How odd. I only remember lowering it by 25%.” “Fascinating. Me too.” as they’re both holding guns to each other like “wait… you’re also a double agent? YOU? Really? Okay then.”
Don’t get me wrong, I get why they went the route they did with Rachel, but I think this would have been really funny. Especially because no one else would believe either of them if they tried to claim they’d been good guys the entire time, no matter how true it was.
