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When he meets up with Lifeline at the beginning of today\u2019s episode, he\u2019s confused at her anger when he says that Duardo donated a large sum of money to Lifeline\u2019s Frontier Corps organization. \u201cIt\u2019s your dad, Silva. There\u2019s always strings. We need to try and figure out what he\u2019s tryin\u2019 to do,\u201d she explains. Octane is frustrated at Lifeline\u2019s lack of enthusiasm for the work he\u2019s done spying on Duardo, but tags along with his old friend nevertheless as she sets a plan into motion. \u201cHe\u2019s distracting you from the safe. What we need is in there,\u201d referencing a safe in Duardo\u2019s office that the pharmaceutical CEO had previously stopped Octane from investigating. That safe inevitably contains the death certificate that proves Duardo Silva isn\u2019t really Duardo Silva at all, but a fraud using his name in the hunt for power. \u201cSilva, you gotta see this. 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Apex Legends<\/em> has been building up its newest big bad, pharmaceutical CEO Duardo Silva, for many seasons now. But the latest plot twist revealed in today\u2019s episode of The Perfect Son seasonal quest might have turned everything we thought we knew about the man on its head.<\/p>

Lifeline, while rifling through a safe supposedly belonging to Duardo Silva, finds what the man stole from Olympus during the season\u2019s opening cinematic<\/a>: a death certificate. The death certificate for the real Duardo Silva, who it turns out has been dead for years.<\/p>

It\u2019s a shocking revelation when seeing how deep this false Duardo Silva\u2019s impact on Apex’s<\/em> narrative has been. In the season seven comic Family Portrait<\/a>, it was revealed that Duardo Silva had hired the terrorists behind the hostage crisis the legends had to contend with. In season nine, it was revealed through The Legacy Antigen<\/a> that he had grand plans to take over the Syndicate\u2014the Outlands\u2019 leading government force\u2014in a partnership with Lifeline\u2019s mother, Cherisse Che. More recently, he was behind Mad Maggie\u2019s transfer from a death by firing squad to an Apex Games competitor, all to use her as cover for his infiltration of Olympus.<\/p>

After Mad Maggie explained that she was set up to Octane and Lifeline, they teamed up with her this season to get to the bottom of Duardo Silva\u2019s plans. The reveal that this Duardo Silva is an imposter and has been for years is a tough emotional blow for Octane, who suddenly has to contend with the fact that his real father has been dead for years. Octane and Duardo\u2019s relationship has always been complicated and often involved abuse, but this reveal now puts into question how much of that abuse was from the real Duardo or this false antagonist.<\/p>

This isn\u2019t helped by the vulnerable state Octane is in when the episode begins, having been pretending to work with his fake father for the past few episodes to spy on him. With an expectation for Duardo Silva to be comically evil or aggressive throughout their time together, Octane\u2019s impressions of his distant father come into question when instead Duardo appears to be doing good and staying honest with Octane.<\/p>

When he meets up with Lifeline at the beginning of today\u2019s episode, he\u2019s confused at her anger when he says that Duardo donated a large sum of money to Lifeline\u2019s Frontier Corps organization. \u201cIt\u2019s your dad, Silva. There\u2019s always strings. We need to try and figure out what he\u2019s tryin\u2019 to do,\u201d she explains. Octane is frustrated at Lifeline\u2019s lack of enthusiasm for the work he\u2019s done spying on Duardo, but tags along with his old friend nevertheless as she sets a plan into motion. \u201cHe\u2019s distracting you from the safe. What we need is in there,\u201d referencing a safe in Duardo\u2019s office that the pharmaceutical CEO had previously stopped Octane from investigating.<\/p>

That safe inevitably contains the death certificate that proves Duardo Silva isn\u2019t really Duardo Silva at all, but a fraud using his name in the hunt for power. \u201cSilva, you gotta see this. Your father\u2026 he\u2019s NOT Eduardo Silva\u2026!!\u201d Lifeline calls out to Octane, but he\u2019s distracted by a video file he found on the false Duardo\u2019s computer nearby\u2014one that only makes his emotional dilemma surrounding his relationship with his father even worse.<\/p>

In the video file, the false father answers a question from the press about how he balances supporting a family with so much time spent on his work. While Octane has only ever been used to hearing his father\u2019s insults and anger and disappointment with him, here, this version of Eduardo Silva appears to be talking about how much he loves his family\u2014and how much he loves his son. \u201cFamily is extremely important to me as is my work, but the most important thing, I hope he could understand, is how much I love him,\u201d plays the audio. The combined discovery of his real father\u2019s fate with this undated old speech recording seems to be too much for Octane to handle.<\/p>

Lifeline shuts the computer down to snap Octane back to reality, telling him that they\u2019re going to use the death certificate to bring this fraudulent antagonist down before he can seize the Syndicate. But Octane says something he\u2019s never said to Lifeline before. \u201cNo,\u201d is his reply.<\/p>

What he wants to do with this new information is unknown, a mystery to be unfurled in next week\u2019s episode of the seasonal quest.<\/p>

There are very few clues to go on as to who exactly is impersonating Duardo Silva, but the ease with which they\u2019ve gotten away with it might suggest it is a biological relative, making use of a familial connection to claim Duardo\u2019s exorbitant wealth for himself. But with so little knowledge of Octane\u2019s extended family or characters who had connections to the real Duardo, we\u2019re in the dark as to who our big bad really is.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The reveal that this Duardo Silva is an imposter and has been for years is a tough emotional blow for Octane, who suddenly has to contend with the fact that his real father has been dead for years. Octane and Duardo\u2019s relationship has always been complicated and often involved abuse, but this reveal now puts into question how much of that abuse was from the real Duardo or this false antagonist. This isn\u2019t helped by the vulnerable state Octane is in when the episode begins, having been pretending to work with his fake father for the past few episodes to spy on him. With an expectation for Duardo Silva to be comically evil or aggressive throughout their time together, Octane\u2019s impressions of his distant father come into question when instead Duardo appears to be doing good and staying honest with Octane. When he meets up with Lifeline at the beginning of today\u2019s episode, he\u2019s confused at her anger when he says that Duardo donated a large sum of money to Lifeline\u2019s Frontier Corps organization. \u201cIt\u2019s your dad, Silva. There\u2019s always strings. We need to try and figure out what he\u2019s tryin\u2019 to do,\u201d she explains. Octane is frustrated at Lifeline\u2019s lack of enthusiasm for the work he\u2019s done spying on Duardo, but tags along with his old friend nevertheless as she sets a plan into motion. \u201cHe\u2019s distracting you from the safe. What we need is in there,\u201d referencing a safe in Duardo\u2019s office that the pharmaceutical CEO had previously stopped Octane from investigating. That safe inevitably contains the death certificate that proves Duardo Silva isn\u2019t really Duardo Silva at all, but a fraud using his name in the hunt for power. \u201cSilva, you gotta see this. Your father\u2026 he\u2019s NOT Eduardo Silva\u2026!!\u201d Lifeline calls out to Octane, but he\u2019s distracted by a video file he found on the false Duardo\u2019s computer nearby\u2014one that only makes his emotional dilemma surrounding his relationship with his father even worse. In the video file, the false father answers a question from the press about how he balances supporting a family with so much time spent on his work. While Octane has only ever been used to hearing his father\u2019s insults and anger and disappointment with him, here, this version of Eduardo Silva appears to be talking about how much he loves his family\u2014and how much he loves his son. \u201cFamily is extremely important to me as is my work, but the most important thing, I hope he could understand, is how much I love him,\u201d plays the audio. The combined discovery of his real father\u2019s fate with this undated old speech recording seems to be too much for Octane to handle. Lifeline shuts the computer down to snap Octane back to reality, telling him that they\u2019re going to use the death certificate to bring this fraudulent antagonist down before he can seize the Syndicate. But Octane says something he\u2019s never said to Lifeline before. \u201cNo,\u201d is his reply. What he wants to do with this new information is unknown, a mystery to be unfurled in next week\u2019s episode of the seasonal quest. There are very few clues to go on as to who exactly is impersonating Duardo Silva, but the ease with which they\u2019ve gotten away with it might suggest it is a biological relative, making use of a familial connection to claim Duardo\u2019s exorbitant wealth for himself. 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