Talk:Warehouse 9/@comment-5782071-20170331130558/@comment-5782071-20170420043740

Upon rewatching Cangku Shisi, that doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately. Valda left Claire to trap or kill Pete, Claudia, and Myka while he went to strike the cornerstone with the Setting Maul himself. He planned on using Claire as a puppet Caretaker, but once she broke free of his control, he said "Fine, I'll be Caretaker myself." And Artie says that upon the formation of WH14, the Warehouse would "recognize a Caretaker", meaning in this case Claire.

TBH, it feels like the show has a bunch of plotholes that we can't explain, and this one will be super hard, I imagine, to solve. There's nothing that I remember that implies there'd be any different things Valda could do that would make him Caretaker over Claire, or Claudia for that matter, who is also just as "close" to the cornerstone as Claire was and had a stronger connection to the Warehouse than either her sister or Valda did. It's so confusing.