Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140806180925/@comment-25154376-20140824080901

We cannot assume she is an Android at all. Many back round characters only seem unique because we aren't far enough in the volume to see them reused. Plus, it would make sense for both women to look similar as they are both from Atlas and work in its military-industrial complex, where they are probably made to wear the same uniform and cut their hair the same. There are a host of reasons why the same character model could have been reused. Perhaps the scene where Weiss calls Atlas wasn't in the original script so it wasn't put in until later and production, and they decided to throw the in "standard_atlesian_woman" model because they were short on time.

Plus, I don't buy that they would put life-like Androids whose AI is advanced enough to ask questions in a mundane position as hers when it's supposed to be a big reveal when Penny is not human; if Androids were this common, no one would have been surprised by Penny being one and she wouldn't have made it such a big deal. And if this woman on stage and on the phone call was an Android, why wasn't Ironwood showing her off along with the other robots, especially when he wants people to buy into his PR of them not being threatening? The Android agruement doesn't hold up to scrutiny.