Code Name Verity Spoiler Friendly Zone discussion

Any ideas on who switched their papers? Or was it just a pure accident?

Potential culprits:

1. Julie. She knows that Maddie is going to be trapped in France, and wants to give her friend the best possible chance of surviving, risking herself. A counter argument is that Julie would know that the mission's success is of higher import, and she shouldn't risk its success over a friendship.

2. The Bloody Machiavellian Intelligence Officer Playing God. I can't imagine the motive, but it would a poor list if all I could think of was 1 suspect.

3. Julie's admirer, the police-sergeant-cook. Why? I don't know! But 3 is a nice number.

(view spoiler)[I don't think that anyone intentionally switched the papers, since no one knew that Maddie would be stranded in France (recall that it was an accident that she even went, much less that the plane was hit and she had to crash land), and since Julie was being inserted as an enemy agent into hostile territory, her best chance of success lay in having her cover story completely straight, all her papers in order, etc. Recall that France was occupied territory -- she would need identity papers -- with a photo -- even to move around, or especially if she was stopped by the authorities. Deliberately sabotaging her papers would effectively be treason or something, I think, and not something that anyone in the Special Operations Executive would have done lightly, or even for some convoluted plan. (hide spoiler)]

Miriam wrote: "[spoilers removed]"

I really think it was an accident, but if it wasn't of course it would have to be the Bloody Machiavellian Intelligence Officer Playing God..