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The second nurse scene reads like it is indeed in the Homegrown Timeline (909), but the control room scene directly after Cass's mid-air button-push really reads like it's NOT Homegrown.
In particular, look at the way Director Quinn refers to Zephyr: "I swear to god, if Zephyr..." Doesn't sound like a guy whose heroic daughter has just died. Sounds like a guy whose daughter is a bad girl who's always in trouble (like the one we meet in the Bizarro [919] Timeline later).
In which case, we can easily take what he says about Cass to be about Good Cass. Director Quinn - "Cass is in that area, right?" Flunkie - "Aye, sir." Director Quinn - "Get him." In other words, get him so that he, Good Cass, can investigate the breach.
So Evil Zephyr goes into Homegrown, kills Homegrown Zephyr, and slips Homegrown Cass the device at the funeral. Homegrown Cass activates the device above Paris, bounces over to Bizarro Timeline briefly (perhaps having also bounced forward six days into Bizarro Timeline's future, explaining the feasibility of a McShane outbreak), and the then bounces back to Homegrown in the nurse's room six days after he left. In Bizarro, Good Cass investigates the brief breach accidentally caused by Homegrown Cass and gets himself killed (don't know exactly how, perhaps by a WASTE ambush - in any case, Homegrown Cass caused his death indirectly). With Good Cass dead, Xeno slips Homegrown Cass into Bizarro while Cass is sleeping off the drugs. Apparently, Homegrown Cass's brief breach of Bizarro was enough to cause a ripple effect in Bizarro of cloned McShanes. The cloning didn't necessarily come about exactly the same way in Bizarro as it did in Homegrown, but, because of the breach, it HAD to come about. It had to "follow Homegrown Cass over." The McShane outbreak was, in the parlance of Xeno, a "correlative phenomenon." "Phew." So am I right or am I way off base on all of that?
Still don't quite understand how WASTE can pin Bizarro's McShane outbreak on Homegrown Cass when he only really caused an outbreak in HIS OWN timeline. But I guess they could stretch things to say that his brief initial breach above Paris was the ROOT CAUSE of Bizarro's McShane outbreak, even if the events leading up to the cloning unfolded in an entirely different way within Bizarro(obviously good Cass didn't give anyone a stolen tooth) as a result of the breach. He kind of carried it like the flu and spread it accidentally. His chickens came home to roost in at least one more timeline than he had anticipated.
You'd think, though, that Evil Zephyr's departure from Homegrown would get noticed, though, in the same way that her entry into Homegrown was noticed. Or is that covered in some way that I'm missing?
By the way, if anyone who doesn't have their copy on-hand wants to play along here's a link the the entire first issue on Newsarama:
http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Casanova/01full/CNV01_15.html |
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