Who is Mr. Lyle?
Mr. Lyle was a highly-placed member of The Centre, powerful enough to make Mr. Raines refer to him as ‘the boogeyman’; he took over for Mr. Parker during his absence. His methods were, if possible, worse than those used by Mr. Raines; he sold the services of the Centre to the Yakusa to kidnap a Federal witness, using a plan established by one of Jarod’s simulations (Past Sim). Mr. Lyle lost a thumb to the Yakusa (following a set-up courtesy of Mr. Raines and Mr. Parker, with Jarod’s completely seperate assistance), and was thought to have been dead. However, he turned up again trailing Jarod, possibly hoping to use his capture as a way to regain his place in The Centre. At the same time, he went on a shooting spree in a Centre field office, stealing a data chip which contained a sequence of genetic codes (possibly those which denote a Pretender). Sent by her father to get rid of the problem, Miss Parker shot Lyle in self-defense and he fell into the water; a body missing a thumb — and
