Miranda: !! Mom?! Is that HIM?
Jessica: He’s your daddy, baby girl. Stay with me and meet him.
Miranda: If he wanted to be my daddy, he had his chance! I’m not talking to him!
(DASH)
Offscreen voice: She’s through here, sir.
Jessica: . . .
Miranda’s father: . . . Jess?
Jessica: Hello, stranger.
Miranda’s father: You look awful.
Jessica: I have cancer. What’s your excuse?
(SNIFF)
Patrick: Aroo?
Miranda: Hello, doggy. Where did you . . . ?
Patrick: Your father brought me here. I’m a Being, and he’s my Master. You can call me Patrick. May I sit with you?
Oh, that’s totally Cohen.
…of course, he was also my pick for Sparrow’s sperm donor, so now I’m not too sure how likely it is that both of those things are true…
Plot twist: Cohen is everybody’s father.
He’s secretly Timothy’s long-lost father. And Bianca’s real father. And Jany’s real father. And the real father of the pregnancy Bennett’s ex-wife lost. He and Walker have a kid somewhere, being held in reserve for a Dramatic Reveal.
And he’s been dead this whole time!
Correction: UNdead.
I’m loving the touches of gold tying the Lake women together.
Oh god. I had suspected this.
What I’m reading into this: Beings don’t have much agency without their Master, as we’ve learned. Miranda’s Dad used Patrick as a means of manipulating her, to try to earn her love and trust via a proxy. He isn’t in his cute puppy mode and sitting with her at random – that’s how you worm your way into the heart of a sad little girl. And years later, Miranda still has this misplaced notion that it was all Patrick’s idea and Patrick’s choices.
I’m going to curl up in a ball with my feels now.
(btw, seconding Cohen speculation if only because that’s been my vote since the beginning, but for it to be otherwise would certainly be interesting and a pleasant surprise)
But that’s doesn’t have to be sinister, is it? If he does love his daughter but sucks at emotions and tenderness and stuff, maybe sending his cute, cuddly Being to emote at her was the best way he could think of to comfort her?
That also doesn’t necessarily mean that Patrick feels nothing for Mandy, either. I get the feeling that Beings can sort of conduct the emotions of their Masters even if they can’t always generate their own, like a metal spoon left in a boiling pot. So Patrick really does love her, because her father loves her, and he’s picking up that emotion and transferring it.
I agree with you that there are a lot of feels to be had if Miranda has indeed misinterpreted her father’s attempts at love as being all Patrick, though. :(
Just so I’m clear, this isn’t clearing her of responsibility for half of the crap she’s pulled, right?
She’s really not that bad at all. In my opinion, she’s one of the most interesting, sympathetic, and well-rounded characters in the comic. I really don’t see what you have against her…
Remember, this is my opinion.
She’s a cold, manipulative bitch. She can get all the justification in this comic that Erin can provide. I’ll still see her as a poor little rich girl that can’t accept that she’s had bad things happen. That first impression she mad is always going to stick with me.
I’d just like to point out that an understanding of a person’s past will never absolve a person of blame for what he HAS done. But what that understanding DOES is enable us to appreciate that person as a human being, instead of merely dismissing him as something demonic and non-human.
…Or, in this case, “her.”
I really hope that Cohen ISN’T Mandy’s father, if only because I like him and Mandy’s father has been portrayed as an abusive jackass. :/
I don’t think Cohen would have been *abusive* as Mandy’s father… just maybe kind of a fail at how2human in a way that’s not exactly helpful to a young child who’s just gone through a devastating loss.
Yes, but remember–Mandy’s father abused Patrick to the point that he broke his contract and ran away. We still don’t know WHAT Mandy’s father DID to Patrick, but it was apparently really bad. So he may very well be only a mediocre father, but he was a terrible Master and if that was Cohen I will have a sad. :C
Something now tells me that Patrick’s broken contract wasn’t so much Patrick’s initiative… Wild guess: the Master broke the contract?