Alex

"The subtle nuances of mind manipulation," Alex laughed hysterically. "I just hope it worked. If she believes it happened she will sever herself from the other even though nothing actually happened!." He laughed again.

Jeff turned to him, "What if her anger gets the better of her and she comes after us?"

Alex turned to his naive minion, "Let me worry about that little one. She wouldn't want us leaking the video you forged of that event she thinks happened, would she? That will keep her in place. Tomorrow I'll remind her she has to destroy her father's career and it does have a time limit."

"Right you made her promise to destroy it tomorrow, but you did that yesterday," Jeff smirked. "If she doesn't she won't be a threat to us anyways."

"Either way I win," Alex shrugged. "Any luck figuring out where Jared disappeared to Mathis?"

Mathis shook his head, "Brindee and I have been searching everywhere, it's like his base is invisible and he drives a car that defies physics."

Alex scratched his head, "His car does defy physics, at least physics as we know them now. Fine, what about Marty and Daila?"

"They seem to have found Jared or simply disappeared as well, no sign of them anywhere." Jeff chimed in. "Local traffic is dead, nothing about his car."

"Then we must build our own group to combat his," Alex reasoned. "Mathis and Brindee stop searching for Jared and start looking for more people. Jeff you go work on creating that video if we need to blackmail Jessica and I'll go do what I do best." He grinned evilly, looking toward and past the camera, as the screen fades to black.

(So yes Alex can manipulate the mind of someone who is weak-minded or has had their mind dulled. Hence the need for the drug. He didn't use it for the normal purpose, but he is still really evil because he made her think he did.)