John Wayne is a covert Québécois operative (allegiance near-text; which cell, live)
Derivation mechanical from R-1 + R-3: one …
Where readers stand
consensus
consensus on Québécois alignment (matches the archive's broad-agreement list); live-split on which cell (~4 different-cell / 2 AFR-proper / 2 unresolvable in the dedicated thread).
In plain terms: the tennis star John Wayne is secretly a Quebecois operative; his allegiance is strongly coded though never stated outright, and which separatist cell he serves is still open.
Where the text lands: the covert-operative reading is the best-supported one (though no single sentence states it); which cell is genuinely unresolved. Among readers: near-universal that he is Quebecois-aligned; split on the cell.
The case runs off the A.F.R. roster naming "the Canadian instructor and student already inside" (p. 725) reaching Wayne, plus his masked grave-watch and the narrator's aside that Wayne would have won a tournament he never reached -- a marker that something removed him. The archive's tested reading favors the allegiance and notes the A.F.R.-proper cell is the least-strained option. See Wayne, the AFR & Avril.
The question
This reading answers the crux Wayne's Québécois allegiance (and which cell).
The ruling
Weighed in the adversarial ledger Wayne, Avril, and the A.F.R..
The evidence
the Bernard Wayne train-jump disgrace footnote; Wayne masked at the dig in both attestations ["both attestations" = two sources citing the one canonical pp. 16–17 sentence; there is one passage]; "would have won this year's WhataBurger" as post-facto elimination marker