Quote Originally Posted by ChowGuy View Post
One other detail to remember. Barry came back and left young Agatha and her locket under the eye not of Klaus, but another old friend and mentor Dr. Beetle. Klaus read his notes, and says he "knows why" Beetle was helping hide her, but that he "doesn't understand" some of what he wrote.
The Clays almost certainly thought that Klaus was actually The Other, not Lucrezia (And they told Beetle that). They might have gotten the info from Lucrezia herself. Setting up Klaus as the Other was a perfect bit of misdirection on her part. Klaus was off in Skiflander and she didn't think he could come back. A perfect patsy.

As for Klaus being a "Benelolent Tryant", he is. And he HATES the job. The reason he grasps so much to power is he doesn't trust anyone else with it, not because he likes it. Many sparks are meglomaniacs who go and start wars, turn superweapons on armies or create monsters (even by accident). They are people NOT to be trusted to hold a seat on an empty bus, much less with any real power.