I think we can take it for granted that Laura Dickens wasn't really a
lesbian -- that was just a crass remark made about her by guys at the
Field School. Therefore: was she really *afraid* of sex, as Neil
suggested? Or was she just not turned on by *him*? How would her relationship
with Neil have developed if she had lived? If they got involved, they
would either have had to keep it quiet, have one of them leave, or doom
the idea of women in the Special Section with the powers that be. What would
they have done? And what would it have done to his relationship with
Wellingham, who wanted Neil to remarry Brenda?
Wasn't Ross matchmaking Neil with Karen Milner a little naive? Surely one
or both of them would have had to leave their jobs.
Laura Dickens had three different citizenships when she went over the wall,
each of which was supposed to be stripped to a lower one under torture.
Wouldn't that make an interrogator MORE suspicious, rather than just sticking
to one story?
And of course, the eternal: Was Willy dead?