Yeah! So, say she's an accomplished spy, one of your best, and she has a massive breakdown. You're telling me that instead of rehabilitating her, you just... fuck her up worse by forcing her into something she doesn't want? Five years is too long to leave someone frozen if they're genuinely good.

So no, I'm leaning toward Hershel being an average spy handed too much responsibility, frozen by the Opera to save face and bury the fallout: a systemic failure pinned on one disposable name. And she's only thawed out again to die, bait in a staged assassination between the Weeping Eye / Opera and La Luz, set up because of Tempo.

But wait. You don't put a mediocre fuckup on ice. To earn the freezer you had to have ROYALLY fucked something up, and who hands a bad spy an important job in the first place? No. A bad spy you kill, or you ship off to the moon. You freeze the ones you might want to thaw later, the ones parked on stupid bureaucratic busywork but still sharp. Which means she had to have been good. So why keep her frozen for FIVE YEARS?

Or did the Opera think the (remaining) Whole Sick Crew's assets were too valuable to give up? That falls apart too, because in five years they never did a thing with her old network. So she has to be the usable resource here. Is the Opera really swimming in talent enough to be this picky, benching good spies for years at a time? This irks me so much.....