Airport Guy
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markb63 — 15 years ago(July 03, 2010 11:18 PM)
There seems to be agreement on this board that the guy at the airport who recognized Tony Wilson was a company employee who was testing Wilson. I disagree. I think the real Wilson was the man they killed as Hamilton's "cadaver match," and Hamilton took Wilson's identity (probably moving him to a new place).
Remember when the Asian guy with the funny mustache gave the new Wilson the press clippings and diploma? When Wilson said, "you can't fake these," he told him the diplomas were indeed real. Perhaps they belonged to the real Wilson, as did the paintings.
As far as whether the company wanted the reborns to fail the first time around so they could come back and recruit new clients, that is definitely a possibility. Perhaps they set them up to fail. But I really don't think so. I think they try to help people succeed, knowing full well some will fail on their own and have to come back, where they will either recruit new clients, or be used as cadavers. -
Altho73 — 15 years ago(July 24, 2010 05:19 AM)
If the fellow at the airport believed that the Rock Hudson character was the 'real' Tony Wilson he wouldn't have just acknowledged him and then disappeared. Even if he had a plane to catch why didn't he make arrangements to meet him on another occassion, exchange phone numbers, find out Wilson's address etc, etc, etc????.
I don't think that there ever was a 'real Tony Wilson', he was a non existant person created by the secret society. Suppose that the 'real' Tony Wilson had been arrested for a traffic offense he would have been filed, fingerprinted and photographed. Now should the fake Tony Wilson be involved in another traffic incident and the two records were compared then their scheme would be well and truly blown open. -
EllisFowler — 15 years ago(September 23, 2010 08:19 PM)
I have to agree. An entirely new identity was fabricated for a pre-existing body and the guy at the airport was definitely a plant. It would also seem pretty obvious to Will Geer's character that things weren't, for the most part, working out for most of their clients (the whole point of the storyyou can't change who you are).
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SuCue — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 08:29 PM)
That scene made me wonder if Arthur wasn't the first reborn to " try out" Tony Wilson's life. After all it would have been expensive to come up with the house, the paintings, the paperwork etc. so why not reuse them to save money? There's no telling how many other "Tony Wilsons" there actually were.
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ncdwbmk6 — 11 years ago(March 19, 2015 10:39 PM)
In the book, it was made clear that Airport Guy was another "reborn," who had been told by the Company to help Tony Wilson feel "at home" in his new life. It backfired, though, and made him paranoid.
You got your mind right, Luke?