Why would Digicorp go through all the troubles of brainwashing an agent when its goal can easily be achieved by corrupting the spouse of a top Sunways agent. Isn't that what they did after Brooks got into Sunways? Why so much trouble then?
sharemy point is that the idea of brainwashing your agent into a total stranger, albeit interesting, is totally absurd. You will just be creating a stranger, and that's all. It will do you no good.
shareMight as well question why they'd spend (most probably) billions on this stuff.
Both corporations.
Maybe, but this would be riskier. Here "Thursby's" false spouse is on Digicorp payroll, probably trained by them. There is no risk she might have regrets or she becomes a double agent too after having notified Sunway about Digicorp's attempt to corrupt her, if she were her real wife.
shareBecause they actually didn't corrupt any spouse at all?
Jack Thursby's "wife" was a Digicorp agent from the beginning. But the only way this could happen is because it was Digicorp who created Thursby in the first place. They didn't do it after he got into Sunways, but way before (you can see that even in his first nightmare, Sullivan had been receiving her name and image as part of the brainwashing.
Watch the movie again-- no existing spouses were corrupted/brainwashed.
If you care enough to go around telling people you don't care... you obviously care.