demersel wrote...
TheConstantOne wrote...
1) It seems that TIM has a particular distrust of Liara and really wants to dissuade Shepard from teaming up with her. Evidence of this: he flat out lies about what she's doing when Shepard asks about her in ME 2. TIM claims that she works for the Shadow Broker... for a guy with such an intricate web of information, I find it hard to believe that his spies messed up there. Cerberus passing Liara intel about the Shadow Broker through Shepard later in the game is further proof that his agents have known about her battle for some time.
As for the first - liara was an information broker. Yes she was trying to find shadow broker. But that doesn't mean that she wasn't unknowingly forking FOR him at the same time. In fact is very much likely. Remember - barla von says that half of the people who work for shadow broker has no idea they are in fact working for him, or for somebody at all for that matter.
So i think illusive man telling you that liara works for shadow broker was actually true.
I think Barla Von said that information brokers didn't know who the Broker was. They were aware that he employed them. And regardless, the Illusive Man knows that Liara is not on good terms with the Broker. Trying to dissuade Shepard from teaming up with her at all seems suspicious.
In fact, he probably only leaks the Shadow Broker's location to Shepard and Liara because it was an opportunity that the Illusive Man couldn't ignore. And what does the LotSB debriefing say? "Watch the asari's relationship with Shepard closely."
I honestly think that the Illusive Man views Liara as a very threatening figure who, teamed up with Shepard, would threaten many of his carefully laid plans. Such as the Citadel coup attempt. Which, by the way, was being planned long before the Reaper invasion. Commander Bailey's comic story implies that Executor Pallin knew Udina was a threat to the Council.
Again, this means that Cerberus likely had other reasons for attacking the Citadel besides destabilizing the Resistence