Community Admin@Sir_Named Data knives were used in TF2 to inject code and Wattsons father has a picture of him holding one, so she may well have one and now the necessary code to reprogram. They were used to hack Spectres. Could it be that Wattson and Loba are in cahoots (as mentioned before) to bring about the demise of Revenant, by injecting the new manipulated code into a modified Spectre, the new legend?
And a new female legend could be correct too. Ash fits the bill here.
But having a data knife to working on a simulacrum is a big stretch. Data knifes were just used to inject code, so he probably was using it in one of his invention. (Unhackable spectre, or maybe just a ring that’s controlled through hitting it with the data knife.)
Wattson’s father also probably didn’t build Ash.
They could be trying to reprogram the head, but I doubt it since they don’t really know who it is. It’s also likely a simulacrum, who probably has defenses against it. Also, using a data knife seems to be more of a rush job for pilots who don’t have time to actually hack into a spectre, someone like Crypto probably doesn’t need/want to use it.
