Skald apparently watched GAME OF THRONES and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES too close together.
They’re vulnerable to being blackmailed again and again over this so if Rob’s job involves access to security clearance info that others would want enough to be unethical for it then it is an issue that should be reported. Also, they need to tell their kid because he’s going to find out sooner or later (like when he notices he only has one set of grandparents and that his parents look a lot alike and have the same birthday and birthplace and birthtime and parents on their birth certificates), though telling the kid isn’t Gee’s problem obviously.
But it’s not necessarily just their business if security is an issue. Plus it’s really really high on the EWWWW chart.
I was conflating Mortal Stakes, Flowers in the Attic, and Hotel New Hampshire references, actually. I’ve never seen Thrones and I lost patience with DH in the first season.
I think the OP says they’ve dummied up a false identity for Jodie; that implies a fake birth certificate for Jodie, if not necessarily fake family pictures. Probably they told the kids her parents died in a fire that took all her childhood memories, or what not.
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I think the OP says they’ve dummied up a false identity for Jodie; that implies a fake birth certificate for Jodie, if not necessarily fake family pictures. Probably they told the kids her parents died in a fire that took all her childhood memories, or what not.
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A fake birth certificate is a crime so I’d out them for that. This isn’t a victimless crime.
FYI: Game of Thrones has children born of a secret twincestuous relationship as a major plot theme.
Though I’d be ooked out my ownself, I don’t see that creating an entirely new identity as victimizing anyone. Who is the victim there?
ETA: Anyway, I doubt the kids would ever have seen a birth certificate for their parents, legitimate or not. And, as I think on it, I don’t know that they’d have had to make one; Jodie may just be living off the radar. That does make her vulnerable, though.
If you say so. The twins in the OP were named after Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, and the former’s character in Hotel New Hampshire.
Either way, this is an easy one. Gee insists they leave DataTech, and lets them go about their business. They should probably get Jodie a little plastic surgery, too.
Well, someone else could have found the leak. Gee could have determined Berry did not have access to crucial leaked information at the time. Berry could have convinced Gee that if he were the leak, he would have had to pay the blackmailer cash. The blackmailer could have convinced Gee s/he was the leak; s/he could have 'chance to see them at DataTech where s/he works …
OR there was no industrial espionage. Two groups of engineers at the companies had ongoing bets to see who could develop the best technology first; the companies really were developing the same technology independently.
Don’t make me throw this pie at you. I make very good lemon-meringue pies and do not wish to waste one on slapstick but if you force me I will.
The OP is ridiculously long so you might have missed it, but it does say that Gee discovers the leak and it’s not the Berries. That’s why their issue is incidental.
Regardless of your personal feelings on the matter, possession of a fake birth certificate with intent to deceive is a felony in most states. This makes her, by definition, a felon and, along with her incest, very vulnerable to blackmail (as evidenced by the fact it’s already happened).
What happens when they run out of money to pay a blackmailer? They could kill him (illegal) or steal (illegal) or come-out (not likely).
You made tto much effort trying to find excuses for their behaviour ('they didn’t originally know they were siblings, etc…).
Even if they engaged in this relationship with full knowledge it was an incest (they were raised together, etc…), how is it any of my business what they do in their bedroom? I don’t care if they’re siblings, and it doesn’t make them bad people in my book. If the law is in disagreement, I’m not going to help law enforcement mess up with what consenting adults do and wreck up a long-term loving relationship.
The only issue would be my obligations to my employer. And I wouldn’t tell him either, because it would have bad consequences for the couple. I would only tell him that yes, Rob Gerry is a security risk and susceptible to be blackmailed. But not why and would desist for any further participation in the enquiry about them.
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The only issue would be my obligations to my employer. And I wouldn’t tell him either, because it would have bad consequences for the couple. I would only tell him that yes, Rob Gerry is a security risk and susceptible to be blackmailed. But not why and would desist for any further participation in the enquiry about them.
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What if you then found out you were their triplet?
If this were the scenario I would add that Gee could strongly hint at them that if they were to find themselves employed elsewhere very soon, then they would be no longer a security risk to DataTech and he could merely file his report as “Berry, who as of this final report date is no longer associated with this company, was determined to not have been involved in any malfeasance against DataTech while employed here”.
Of course, they’ll have to live with the knowledge that their cover remains compromised, even if by someone who’s not out to harm them.
But dang, that’s gonna be some serious therapy payments down the road for everybody, eventually…:eek:
And you made no effort at all at reading comprehension.
The OP contains no suggestion that the twins were ever ignorant of their relationship to one another. It specifically says that their parents were made uneasy by their connection when they were adolescents and separated them to prevent consummation.
Nor did I make attempt to find excuses for their behavior. At most I explinaed why they waited to have sex until after both parents were dead. Iif they DID wait, which is not certain. They may have found a way.
I say “Eh”, too, does that make me sound Canadian? My whole lingo is a hodge-podge of everywhere I’ve been, as a matter of fact.