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Dr. Corley Walker

posted 19 years ago by dem1126
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Does anyone else think this was entirely strange? What was Diana doing with this?

First - Dr Walker slags Christine Walsh off to an amazing degree - something you think he would be afraid of doing given the climate of fear the Visitors were creating - and basically calls her a traitor.

Then - less than a week or so later - he is basically sucking up to her.

If this was you, wouldn't you start to suspect something was going on?

So - why did Diana do this? Why not simply have Dr Walker "vanish"?

I can think of one or two reasons. First - Diana is so sure of The Visitors control that she is happy to flaunt the power they have, or secondly Diana is not capable of realising how dangerous what she is doing is - she is unbalanced in someway.

[–] HyperPup 19 years ago

I think Diana needed a guniea pig for her "conversion process" and he was a handy subject. If Dr. Walker mysteriously vanished that might invite unwelcome snooping from authorities or other nosey types. Not that his conversion didn't startle Christine, but I think his sudden disappearance might have startled her more.

[–] Darkchia_of_the_Dead 16 years ago

I think Diana needed a guniea pig for her "conversion process" and he was a handy subject

The conversion process was being used from the start. That's why many scientists actually believed they were part of a global conspiracy. When Julie was converted, she started using her left hand. Tony noticed that scientist becoming left handed over night back in the original miniseries.

Operation:PHOENIZ - ASHES to ASHES

[–] cubdukat 19 years ago

Standard megalomaniacial space-bitch operating procedure.

Besides, Kristine didn't want to believe Donovan, so they needed some way to plant the seed of suspicion.

"I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!"
--Barbara Stone (Bette Midler), "Ruthless People"

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[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

You mean, why not kill him? Well, probably because he was very well known so he couldn't have just "disappeared" without anyone getting suspicious. Why he would say those things to Christine is more of a plot device to show the Conversion Process that Julie would be going through later on. Did Christine act suspicious when she saw Walker again acting differently? She might've thought something but I think was in denial. It wasn't until after she saw Sean in the cargo hold and what the resistance did to John that she realized she couldn't deny it any longer.