>they think the Head doesn't keep spare clones of promising Finger personnel
>''but anon he wasn't even a Sottocapo!
No, he was an agent of the Pinky infiltrated into the Thumb. Do you really think his purpose there was just foreshadowing that the Pinky has sleeper agents in all the other fingers for some plot twist 5 cantos later that one of them became the Elder Brother equivalent in the Index?