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 Since everyone at the Mainframe was supposed to be naked, it is possible that eyedrives were simply concealed by the holograms. But that would not do for The Doctor & Clara. Possibly at some point the Doctor was able to upgrade the Tardis psychic translation circuits to function like the eyedrive. But of course, he never mentions that. But since the Doctor seems to be well acquainted with the leader of the mainframe, it would not be surprising if any means they had for skipping the eyedrive would at some point have come into his possession.[[User:Phil Stone|Phil Stone]] [[User talk:Phil Stone|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:32, March 18, 2014 (UTC)
+They weren't "chasing" Clara. Every time Clara saw them they were blundering about declaring "Confess" but Clara wasn't running from them, they weren't chasing her. It just seemed to be their default state and whenever Clara looked at them they did that when she looked away she forgot about them as you do with "Silents". It's hard to see the Doctor could have been joking, if he was we've been misinformed about the role of The Silents on the Mainframe and are given no information to amend that misunderstanding. So we ultimately learning nothing about the original role of The Silence, it's not very helpful.
+You're understanding of confession is (arguably) correct according to the Church on Earth understood by human religious believers. But this is The Church Of The Papal Mainframe, apart from appropriating a few terms they have no obvious connection to any institutions of Earth history. They think differently and have different, unexplained practices and probably have their own ideas about what confession entails. It's possible that the Silents of the mainframe are attempting to extract a very specific sort of confession and not the broad scope of guilt the priests of Earth would. And the Doctor never said they were perfect without giving an explanation to qualify the term. Now that might be a lie but it's not a joke. The Doctor seemed to be suggesting that by forgetting what you had confessed you could also forget the incident and associated guilt and go away absolved unhindered by any restraints your guilt may be causing you. It still sounds odd and the Silents may well have another function which their roles as priests is meant to hide, in which case the Doctor is trying to maintain that protection, but whatever else he was doing he wasn't joking and we are meant to take some sort of true information from what he said to Clara. But essentially these sort of questions are part of the reason I am unsatisfied with the resolution of the arc the story is supposed to provide. They have no obvious motive to extract confession from Clara who has no business being there, they seem to do it because it is in their nature to do it, it's what they are engineered to do, and they don't know any better.  They appear to have no self-will and beings like this with no self-will cannot become the beings of series six who lead The Silence into trying to murder the Doctor.
+Oh and Clara doesn't have any sort of eye-drive. We know this because she continues to forget every Silent she sees. On that note it's also possible the Doctor doesn't go into deep and complex detail of the matter as he knows full well Clara will forget all about them as soon as they leave their presence.[[User:DCT|DCT]] [[User talk:DCT|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:03, March 25, 2014 (UTC)