Graham
I am a good man.I was a good child. I never gave my parents any cause to worry. I was a good teen. I was an excellent student. I was a good boyfriend. Courtney, even when we broke up, still attested to that.
I was a fantastic teacher. I could ask questions that would make students think for themselves. I taught them how to read history. History was written by the victors. I would teach them how to read the facts without including the victor's bias of events. The dean really liked me and my teaching methods.
Then, my relationship with Brielle changed everything when it came out.
Oh, I don't blame Brielle. She'd, out of fear of discovery, trapped herself into a lie. When everything came to light, I backed off. We began a true relationship after she became an adult.
No, the problem wasn't Brielle.
Ultimately, Alexander Goth is the reason I'm locked in a prison cell. He twisted past events into the eyes of the dean enough to get me fired. Then, he sabotaged any chance I had of finding any job in which a history degree would be beneficial. When the post with SIMS came up, what else could I do?
Always the good student, I became good at what I did: gathering intelligence. I was assigned to be Geoffrey Landgraab's "accountant" to spy on him for the government. I got to know the man and everything he stood for. I could understand the government's suspicions of him, but they were truly unfounded. He was a good man, too. He wanted to make the world a better place by eliminating disease.
His researchers had figured out how to isolate a virus' DNA. The plan was to figure out how to alter it so that it would attack itself. SIMS had already figured that out, but they themselves stopped at that. Their experiments yielded frightening results with the lab rat's DNA also mutating into whatever form the virus gave it. Then, the entire rat's body would attack itself, resulting in a very painful death. SIMS stopped their experiments. But I couldn't help but wonder if they'd just figured out how to have the virus isolate just the virus, it would be an astounding success and change the world of medicine forever.
I am indeed guilty of the crimes I've been put away for. I gave government secrets to an "untrusted" entity. I almost indirectly caused an evil man to take over the country and then the world.
If I had never worked for SIMS, I never would've worked for Landgraab Industries, better known as MorcuCorp. I never would've passed classified information. None of that would've happened had I just kept my career as a history professor at SCU. And why am I not a retired history professor from SCU? Because of Alexander Goth.
At night, I dream about having my hands around the man's throat. He has taken a good person and twisted me into someone capable of violent action. He tried numerous times in numerous ways to steal my wife, and he did take my precious daughter from me.
If for some reason I ever get out of here, I vow I will kill him.
There's a hole in your logic, Graham, Alex may have gotten you fired, but the decision to take the job as an "accountant" was all yours.
ReplyDeleteI assume he's going to poison Emily's mind with all this when she visits him. Makes sense.
Graham and that logic you describe are no longer friends. He blames Alex for everything and hates that he "let" Emily marry him. Being locked up has given him time to put things into perspective, and that's the perspective he landed on, obviously. He sees everything at the turning point of his life when he got fired and Alex was sabotaging his prospects. Yes, he chose to work for SIMS. But don't try and throw that logic at him. He's blaming everything on Alex.
DeleteNot saying I agree. I don't exactly disagree either. But that's what I like about it. :)
More on Emily later..