Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-5081746-20120519204937/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120519214836

^There are a lot of if's involved in having Asami as a spy. What IF she didn't get in good with Mako? What IF she had been discovered earlier? What IF Hiroshi failed to neutralize Korra and the others?

So many holes in such a scheme makes it rather untenable for a chess master like Amon. Thus far, all his machinations have had dual possibilities that would work out in his favor regardless of what his opponents tried to do, but having Asami be a plant has so many possibilities for going wrong. He would be banking pretty heavily on circumstances that had no guarantee to occur, and that has not been Amon's MO up to this point. Its too convoluted and too prone to failure for it to be a plan Amon would use.

Amon getting the benders to make the offensive moves does make sense, and that has been what he has been doing up to now, and he hasn't needed a spy to orchestrate that. Also, Asami being a spy hanging out with Mako has not likely given her much info since neither Bolin nor Mako have been all that involved in most of the goings on thus far, so her intel if she were a spy would be pretty lousy. If she were a spy, she would likely be trying to be much more chummy with Korra, but until this episode she really hasn't had anything to do with Korra, she's just been hanging out with Mako.

Again, I just can't see Asami as a spy paying off for Amon in a way that would justify the risks of putting such a spy in place. And if he somehow knew well in advance that Asami being Mako's girlfriend would eventually put her in an ideal position, team Avatar is screwed since Amon would apparently have Jedi level precognitive powers. That or he has the all powerful ability to read the script.