Donnie, Paul, and Delphine have been tasked with keeping tabs on the clone club.  Kris and Stephanie talk about the monitors’ ambiguity, their possible motivations, and why Donnie is a much better employee than either Paul or Delphine.

The Monitors

• The show seems to be big on ambiguity for the monitors.  They all but tell us that Donnie is a monitor half-way through the season but don’t confirm it until the finale.  Paul’s and Delphine’s loyalties are questionable throughout the season.
• They seem to be assigned to “match” the clones to which they are assigned.

Donnie

• He’s been a monitor for the longest, but we’ve seen the least of him as a monitor
• The “best” monitor of the three.  Alison immediately suspected him, but ended up apologizing for it.
• We don’t know why Donnie is a monitor.  We’re curious how he got involved, because Alison said she’s known him since high school and it seems unlikely that he would have been a teenage monitor.

Paul

• Was with Beth for two years, but almost immediately falls for Sarah.
• He has a somewhat abrupt transition from “terminator Paul” to “smooshy mooshy Paul”.  In one episode he’s ready to kill Sarah, and in the next, he’s nuzzling her like a house cat.
• We only have pieces of Paul’s backstory.  We know that he has military training and is being blackmailed into service as a monitor because of an incident involving friendly fire.

Delphine

• We’re allowed to see the most of her story arc and perspective and is therefore (to us) the most sympathetic monitor.
• What’s the story with her and Leekie?  Clearly, they have a relationship of some kind, but we think she looks uncomfortable in their interactions.
• Why is she a monitor?  Is/was she just in it for the science?  As a monitor, she is either terrible or very very good.

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