That is hilarious, because I immediately cast the bloody British intelligence operative as a time-displaced Mycroft Holmes.

Yes, I followed that link and went 'huh!' I will admit to having known she was unreliable from page 1, because of the title, and because people who have been tortured are. But I did not understand that I was not looking at utter, self-destroyed devastation. Well. Not just that. Oh, Julia.