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THE CASE FOR CATHERINE BEING ALICE.

Marshall is shot with Alice's own gun while Alice is sedated, and Catherine is gone before a single agent lays eyes on her
No one at the Bureau has ever seen Catherine. Every sighting of her routes through Alice
The flash drive Danny finds contains a video labeled "Alice"
Episode 3 makes memory distortion an explicit theme, and Alice is the character who explains it to us
The show states outright that Alice has trauma responses she cannot consciously trace to their source
Mira cannot retrieve the killer's face, so the only person who has ever described her is Alice
The two women are written as one wound: same age of rupture, same numbness, both needing intensity to feel anything
Alice's actual professional skill is becoming another woman while telling true stories about her own trauma
Capability fits an agent, not a runaway: putting down grown men, a service weapon, training, file and crime scene access
The killer keeps staying a step ahead of an investigation Alice is inside of
Ed's sabotage conveniently keeps the Bureau out of the room at the exact moment the two of them are alone
A pregnancy is confirmed on screen and then nobody, ever, asks what happened to the baby
The second girl in the photograph has no name, no face, and the picture has never been dated
A possible slip into third person about her own body in episode 5, if that recap transcription is accurate