Hot Drop is GameSpot's weekly Apex Legends column, in which Jordan Ramée takes a closer look at Respawn's battle royale to provide additional insight into the game's evolution, as well as dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.

It's been an eventful couple of weeks for Apex Legends. As we near the end of Season 12's Quest, The Perfect Son, Lifeline and Octane stumbled upon a startling realization: Octane's dad, Eduardo "Duardo" Silva, isn't actually his dad. The real Eduardo Silva has been dead for a while, meaning the big bad of Apex Legends has been an imposter. So the big question is, of course, who the hell is Duardo?