- I work so hard.
By the time I notice I'm killing myself, it's too late.
Charles is an executive of an investment firm who is about to receive a special award, but he is anxious about his identity as a Filipino American about to marry into a rich white family. When he refuses to wear his family's traditional medallion for the ceremony, his insecurities will lead him to his doom.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- An Aesop: Do not be ashamed about your family's background and culture.
- Aesop Amnesia: After Darna calms his doppelganger, he approaches Charles and returns the medallion. Charles is supposed to learn a lesson that he must not reject his identity, but he rejects it once again by breaking the medallion to pieces, before murdering the doppelganger, therefore implicating him in a murder.
- The Blank: After Charles stabs his doppelganger to death, his face has turned blank the next time he sees it.
- Cultural Cringe: Charles has a low opinion on Filipino culture because he thinks it is interfering with his new life in the predominantly-white world of business investors.
- Downer Ending: Not only does his doppelganger completely botch the award ceremony by embarrassing him, Charles loses trust from everyone when they see him on the scene of a murder.
- Evil Doppelgänger: When Charles throws away the Dimakulangan's medallion, it releases his doppelganger's spirit, which ruins his award ceremony and eventually leads him to be implicated in murder.
- Racist Grandpa: Arthur Spencer is incredibly sensitive about Asians, although he does not demean Charles directly until his doppelganger embarrasses him in front of the other executives.
- Recycled In Space: It’s Edgar Allen Poe’s William Wilson, in the modern day, with an Asian protagonist.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Darna has Alzheimer's, and frequently mistakes Charles for someone else. While it is mostly attributed to her condition, it doesn't help that he rarely comes home for her.
