Victor Freud wrote:"... wait. I still don't get the nightclub bit. If he was sent away to be out of sight out of mind... why's he at a nightclub?"
"We do not know exactly. We speculate that certain parties wanted him gone, but certain other parties at where he was sent to saw a usage in him. It is possible in whatever restructuring they did to his mind, they fixed his issues with his powers. Most who spoke with Basil about his issues thought they were triggered by psychological issues, not 'physical ones'.
The current theory is that it is possible that not unlike Chase when he was programmed, Basil believes he is operating under some sort of mission, personal or orders, by the statement he made to the student witness.
Basil told the witness he 'did not need any half-baked heroics' and that 'we have everything under control."
'We' implies he was viewing himself as operating with a group and he was not the only one of that group present."
Will Stanton wrote:"If it's 'something worse', than barging in with uniform and authority is liable to make them trigger it.
And if it's a tracking device, taking him out without shutting the building down is a temporary solution, at best."
"This is the riddle we find ourselves in.
Basil definitely knew the student witness casually, but they were not close. I had seen the witness and Basil have an extended interaction just once, so this could explain why he did not remember them. He might recognize someone he knew better, one of us... but they might recognize us in return depending on how heavily they went through his mind, and shut down whatever is going on at Miscreant to hide him else where. "