Issue 28, Page 13
Transcript
1: Jackson stands by the door which is partially open, wordlessly speaking to someone out of view.
2: Okpara perks up.
3: Njeri has entered the room and is approaching the now vacant chair across from Okpara.
Njeri: Hello, Zira, or… whoever you may be.
Okpara: Sarki…
4: Njeri speaking with some sadness.
Njeri: I need to know what happened to the real Zira. I’ve… We’ve been friends for many, many years.
5: Profile view of Njeri as he listens in stressed disbelief.
Okpara: I am the “real” Zira Okpara.
This was an identity given to me at a very young age, inserted into the relevant databases with all the papers required to be real.
6: Okpara averts her gaze, looking even sadder.
Njeri: So… this whole time, all the years I’ve known you, you’ve been… this?
Dr Njeri can never seem to catch a break, can he? Poor guy, I’ll bet if he had a bunch of oranges, he’d almost choke to death on a seed.
Exactly.
As some Australians say about extreme, bad luck:
“If it was raining palaces, he’d get hit by a bathroom door”. 😀
OK, to be precise about it, the Australians actually say, “If it was raining palaces, he would/that person would get hit by a dunny door.”.
“A dunny” is an Australian, slang term, for- “a bathroom”. 😀
Yeah, I kinda figured this was a thing going on. They may have uncovered more of their people now and had to create identities for them quickly, thus ‘doppelgangers’… But I bet many of them have already been living in modern society for a long time.
I also think that there’s more than one group. The group that stalked/attacked/doppelganged Kas is almost certainly a different group to the one that has operatives placed highly within the government. Not only are their methods vastly different, but their goals appear to be as well, what with the Kas doppelganger saying, “This is my sacrifice to the one who crawls,” immediately before activating the portal, and turning all ‘black idol’-y before exploding.
Assuming that they’re even the same species at all. It might be that the ones that replaced Kas and suicide bombed aren’t even dinosaurs. Maybe the dinosaurs are just hiding their newly revived brethren, and there are no doppelgangers from them.. Just people in hiding.
Actually, I have a feeling they might be hiding from the ones who DID doppelgang Kas. A common enemy might help them open up with the right people, such as Agent Jackson (assuming Agent Jackson and/or Njeri here aren’t actually doppelgangers that are waiting for the right moment to strike).
Very likely NOT the same species: Issue 15, Page 24
Issue 26 page 12 for her disguised look.
Holy crap, it’s genuinely kind of amazing how much she still looks like that.
And, y’know, her debut issue 23 p. 6
I guess, once caught by, I guess, [the govt. you were spying on?], the choices aren’t great for Ms. Zira Okpara, or for any other, sleeper agent. 🙁
I like how her feather-like things jump up, when she’s surprised! 🙂
So I’m guessing the dinosaurs are the real native inhabitants of earth before the black idol invaded and then divided itself up into countless mimics of the non-sapient mammals but with the traits of tool using and intelligence of the dinos.