Well, I finally got around to watching the entirety of “The Sell-Out,” and OMG but One-Twelve is creepy as fuck.
What’s more, he knows he’s creepy, he likes being creepy, and he digs the fact that people are creeped out by him. Steed certainly seems to find him repellent, but can’t do much about having to work with him. One-Twelve knows that Steed despises him, and he actually takes pleasure in that. He wants Steed to hate him.
I also suspect that, unlike Steed, One-Twelve hasn’t been loyal to the Ministry out of any kind of conviction or moral imperative, or even out of habit. I think he’s loyal because it serves his purposes to be so. If loyalty stopped providing him with the opportunities and pleasures it currently affords, I think he’d ditch without a qualm.
One-Twelve digs working for the Ministry because it gives him the kind of power a creep like him craves. When he was an agent, he got to do all kinds of things that are normally classed as illegal or immoral, and I bet he did them not so much in service to any greater purpose but because he could, with impunity. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that he tortured people in Ministry custody and enjoyed every minute of it. And now that he’s in a supervisorial role, he gets to play puppetmaster and mind games with the agents in his charge, and with their family members.
One-Twelve is the kind of person who should never be given any responsibilities that involve working with or supervising other human beings, like, ever.
