Claes, Raballo and Milgram

Rabello/Claes fratello was an unusual partnership.
Rabello was a much older agent who agreed to work with us for a short time. He was assigned to Claes and treated her as if she were his granddaughter. Between training sessions he took her fishing, taught her to work in his garden and gave her the key to his apartment so she could borrow books for her enjoyment. Partly because of his short time with us and partly because of his unexpected attachment to Claes, he decided to become a whistle blower and sought to expose the program. He made an appointment with a journalist but on the way to speak to a journalist but on the way to their interview, Raballo was killed in a freak accident.

Claes was then left without a partner and protector. Our Director said she was worthless without a handler and because their bond had been so strong, efforts to pair her with another were futile. The next step for her was termination but someone further up the chain of command decided the cyborg engineers could use her as a test subject. And this is where I found myself thinking of Milgram's Experiment #18.

The doctors and engineers set up stress tests to monitor the strength of her implants increasing the pressure ounce by ounce until her limbs gave out often tearing her flesh and snapping her bones as they looked for her breaking point. The lab assistants who turned the knob seemed very detached as they ripped her flesh hurting they were only doing what they were told.




So who is responsible for torturing Claes? Let’s go up the chain of command and see. The lab assistant turns the dial and applies the pressure because Dr. Giallani tells her to. He got orders from Dr. Bianchi who got his orders from Lorenzo, Chief of Special Ops. Lorenzo got his orders from Monica Petris, Minister of Defense for Italy, and I can only presume she got her orders from the Prime Minister. So it seems that if you work for the government you’re never responsible for your actions and can claim that you are only following orders,,,unless, of course, you are the prime Minister. Do you see how easy it is to deny responsibility?