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Originally Posted by LockonStratos

I'm actually going to be the voice of dissent in defense of what little integrity Kiriya has.

I think he was telling the truth, I just think the truth is more complicated. I'm willing to bet that BOTH Graphite and Dan are Genm, just not at the same time.

I'd bet you dimes to donuts that when Genm has the Bugvisor it's Graphite in the suit, while without it's Dan. It's more a hunch than a truly thought out theory, but I have found my hunches to be dead-on more often than not.

It's a nice theory (one I wish was true if only so my belief that Graphite was GENM was even slightly correct), but nah, he was just lying. We can say that for sure because in Virtual Operations Dan speaks to him in his unaltered voice and he is not surprised to hear it.

It's also the only thing that makes sense taking his actions in the episode into account. There's no reason for him to get all up close with GENM to sneak in the information that he knows who he is when he already told everyone else. And when he's telling them, you see he has to think about what he's going to say before he says it.

There's also the fact that Parad addresses Dan as Kamen Rider GENM and nothing else. It doesn't exactly make sense for him to do that if there's more than one of them and the other one is standing right next to him.