Diamon said:

>They were using dummy plugs one of which you can see Kaworu written on (as
>mentioned in the commentary track).  So presumably they contained clones of
>Kaworu and the earlier ones were clones of Rei as Kaworu and Rei were the
>only beings to synch with an Eva that they did not have a direct link to
>(but link to the pilots for Eva 3 & 4 was not given in the series).

Which raises the question [that no one seems willing to tackle] of whether the
MP Evas had souls, and if so, whose. I maintain an Eva has to have a human
soul, otherwise there's nothing for the plug [dummy or human-controlled] to
synch with. Since Kaoru seems to have no trouble synching with any Eva, I doubt
it matters whose soul is in the MP Evas, but they're probably just poor fools
who worked for NERV's other branches.

--R.--