Pygmalion

Pygmalion is the codename of a person or persons theorized to be affecting the lives of people who had been to the Inn. He is believed to be connected to Ashlyn's secret admirer (if not one and the same) as well as an investor in Stephen Jefferies' J & S Motion Graphics. He may also have been responsible for tampering with Ginessa and Nicoleta's Visas.

He may have been associated with Vera Lane, who visited Jeremy Boyd (in the guise Dex Langan) looking for the real Jeremy to remind him about desertion laws. This caused Boyd to skip his return trip to the Inn and force Penelope Lincoln to live his life.

The Pygmalion case was being investigated by Dex Langan who coined the codename. Rather than thinking it was a deliberate attempt to replace operatives in the Government, Dex espoused the belief that "someone is screwing with us. Not all of us, just whoever he takes an interest in, or maybe the ones who can help him with the ones he's interested in." Dex expressed belief that this person had been at work for a long time, and was most certainly at least a one-time visitor of the Inn, possibly multiple, and potentially old enough that his mind was warped. Dex summarized by saying "He gets off on that - sticking people into difficult situations and seeing not just what they do, but what they become."