It takes Agent Washington some time to realize who Carolina is. To realize that she's a Church, that she's the Director's daughter.
He doesn't actually realize it until after she's dead. When the Director finally comes for him, after he's dug himself out of the wreckage of the medical ward and bumps into two soldiers who look like they're ready to empty a full clip into his torso. What the hell happened?
And the Director finally comes to him, as he's being held against the wall with his hands above his head by his own goddamn men, and takes off his glasses. His eyes are wet.
And bright, bright green.
It shakes loose a memory. A vague memory, at best, of a little girl with those same green eyes. A sweet little girl that grows up to be anything but.
Even then, Washington doesn't fully grasp what the memory means. He will later, when he has more time to think about it.
He will have a lot of time to think about it.
But he has to make the connection himself. It's not blatant, burned into his mind by his crazy AI. Because his crazy AI didn't have the Director's memories.
He had Alpha's.
And Alpha remembered Allison. Remembered her from the Director, because she was important. She was his life force, his obsession. She was so strong, her memory alone created Agent Texas. Tex. Washington remembers that part, because Epsilon remembered.
But Alpha didn't shed every memory. Just the painful ones. Just the ones that were driving him mad with grief. Alpha held on to an image of Tex, but it was a different one than the one he gave Epsilon. He reprocessed her death as a breakup. He remolded her personality to one that couldn't really be a mother, just as he forgot that he – that the Director – was ever a father. He was selective in the memories he retained, building a new personality for himself, one that was different from the Director. Directly ejecting the painful memories into Epsilon, and simply…forgetting others.
Carolina wasn't a painful memory.
She just happened to not fit into the very narrow set of memories the Alpha chose to retain. She exists in Epsilon, but not directly. She's a background character. One that Washington only sees when the memory revolves around Allison. Washington doesn't even know her real name. It's not important to Epsilon because it wasn't important to Alpha.
Because Alpha was a reflection of the Director. And when Dr. Leonard Church carried such a strong attachment to his lost wife that a copy of his mind created a new version of her, there wasn't room for much else.
But now, right now, as Agent Washington stares at the Director, stares at green eyes that look so very familiar, he can only think how it feels as though he's staring into a mirror. If there's something else, some other iota of recognition, he does not process it.
With Allison in his mind, there's simply no room for Carolina.