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Theory	Citations	Notes
Claire isn't the first person Rebecca tried to recruit to the carnival.	None	+ As a pledgemaster, Rebecca knows a few things on recruiting.
Rebecca will try next to recruit Emma for the carnival.	None	+ As a pledgemaster, Rebecca knows a few things on recruiting. + Emma graduated from Arlington University, where Rebecca is attending. It wouldn't be hard for Rebecca to use some phoney meeting of former students to recruit her. + Samuel wants Peter in the family. His friendship with Emma might be the way through to him. + Since her failed attempt on Gretchen's life, Samuel might give her another assignment.
Rebecca is a sociopath.	None	+ She almost gleefully recounted the murder of Annie, and feels no guilt over destroying another's life in order to lure them into Samuel's camp. - Seeing how ordinary humans treat specials, maybe she is simply proud of doing her duty of protecting her own kind and in her own mind Claire. + If she felt pride over murdering a defenseless girl and then working to destroy another person's life, then she would be severely deranged. It is more likely that she simply feels no guilt or remorse for her actions - trademark characteristics of a sociopath.
Becky's sorority is a cover group for the Carnival.	None	+ Sororities and fraternities are infamous for their hazing tactics. It would be laughably easy to use them to help turn 'specials' away from humans and towards the Carnival. - Sandra was a member of Psi Alpha Chi. She has no known powers. • If Psi Alpha Chi only admitted evolved humans, they would have almost no members. Admitting normal people would allow the sorority to become popular enough for joining to desirable for potential recruits. + Rebecca Taylor is the leader of the sorority. It seems unlikely that Samuel (or anyone, for that matter) would throw together an entire sorority just to 'recruit' Claire. + If the core members of the sorority are evolved humans, then evolved human members could be slowly drawn into that 'special club', indoctrinating them in Samuel's views while simultaneously creating a certain distance between the new recruit and meddlesome humans. - The sorority was found in 1924, but Samuel is no more than 60 at most. For this theory to be true, the Carnival would have to have existed 20 years before Samuel and Joseph were born. + The carnival has Arnold, and could have tweaked history to their advantage in crucial moments. • Also, Samuel could have subverted a sorority which already existed. • Many evolved humans develop their abilities at or around college age. This is correspondingly the time in which they are most vulnerable to influence.
Becky is the evolved human that Claude is/was hiding from the Company.	None	+ It's possible that Claude was Noah's partner during the failed bagging and tagging of Mr. Taylor. + Becky used her ability to hide from Noah. However, as demonstrated by Peter, evolved humans with the ability of invisibility are unable to hide from others with that ability. + Claude may have felt sympathy for Becky due to the loss of her father and may have decided that she deserved not to be taken in by the Company. - Rebecca has a deep-seated distrust of anyone related to the Company in any way, shape, or form. She would never trust Claude as long as he was with the Company. + Claude's inclination not to harm evolved humans didn't just appear, he tried to let The Russian get away. Also, Noah was ordered to shoot Claude because the Company thought Claude was hiding someone. Claude went off the radar after the Company thought he was dead, so he could have returned to take care of Becky, him leaving the Company would be proof that he's not like them. - Rebecca Taylor is a sociopathic monster who has no problem with cold-blooded murder. If Claude had any sense (which he definitely does) he would stay as far from her as possible. + He could have chosen to take care of her precisely because of that, he would keep an eye on her, making sure that she is protected from others and that others are protected from her. She wouldn't be able to hide from him, he could see her while she was invisible. - If Claude got anywhere near the carnival, Samuel would immediately have begun 'recruiting' him. + Samuel only recently took over the Carnival, prior to that, Joseph was in charge, and from what it was seen in "The Painted Lady" he seemed far more understanding, he wouldn't force Claude to join, even he if wanted him to. - If Claude had got in contact with Rebecca, he would have realized what a bad influence Samuel was and required her to leave the Carnival in order to receive psychiatric help. + Samuel wasn't in charge until recently, Claude could have considered Joseph capable of keeping both Becky and Samuel's instincts at bay.
Becky calls Samuel "uncle" because she was adopted by Joseph Sullivan.	None	+ Joseph was very nice with Lydia when she came to the carnival. He could as well adopt Becky, since she seems to be the youngest carnival member (apart from Jennie, who has a family). + Not any other members of Samuel's family where we know of calls him uncle.