Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24.130.28.230-20150701151419/@comment-4091815-20150705230634

24.130.28.230 wrote: So Stiles is using the signature as proof that Theo's dad is an imposter....for real? That's the best the writers can come up with? I mean within 8 years someone's signature can change little by little or they could just change their signature so this "evidence" is really weak to support a suspicion that Theo's dad is not his dad...just saying That's why they went into detail about accepted hand-writing analysis techniques and evidence.

From the Parasomnia recap -


 * He says the “garlands don’t match. The undulations of the sinuous stroke are totally off.” Elsewhere in the signature he finds a “Perfect example of the Criminal Tremor.”


 * EDITOR’S NOTE: As you might expect, all of the terms Stiles throws around in this scene are used in Handwriting Analysis. Garlands are the cup like structures that connect letters in cursive handwriting. A “Sinuous Stroke” indicates the writer is hiding something or attempting to deceive while the “Criminal Tremor” is common in forgery because the person grips the pen too tightly in concentration while writing.

These two signatures could look exactly alike to the untrained eye but with the signs Stiles has enumerated here, any court in the land would admit it as evidence that they were not signed by the same person.