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disciplined, including Davis. He seemed like a nice guy, so she was puzzled that he was
subjected to the worst hazing. “He complained about being out scrubbing the Dumpster
with a toothbrush till late at night,” she recalled, “then he’d be up at six to do our
laundry.” Sometimes Davis would be paraded in front of the other Sea Org members as
his Ethics Ocer shouted, “This guy is not a big shot! He’s lying to you!” Only later did
Shannon learn that Davis was Anne Archer’s son. (As it happens, Archer was also at the
Clearwater base, taking advanced courses. A teenage Sea Org member—Daniel
Montalvo, the same one who guarded Cruise during his auditing sessions—was assigned
to keep her in the dark and make sure that she never encountered her son.)
Shannon and Davis worked together, maintaining the grounds. “I was supposedly
supervising him,” Shannon said. “I was told to make him work really hard.” That didn’t
seem to be a problem for Davis. At one point, Shannon said, he borrowed about a
hundred dollars from her because he didn’t have money for food.
One day, Shannon and Davis were taking the bus to a work project. Shannon asked
why he was in the EPF.
“I got busted,” Davis told her. “I fucked up on Tom Cruise’s lines”—meaning that he
had botched a project Cruise was involved in.
“So what are your plans now?” she asked.
“I just want to do my stuff and get back on post,” Davis replied.
Shannon said that suddenly “it was like a veil went over his eyes, and he goes, ‘I
already said too much.’ ”
Several months later, Davis paid her back the money. 4
Tommy Davis
When Davis nished the EPF, he replaced Rinder as chief spokesperson for the church,
because Rinder was conned to the Hole. One of his rst assignments was to deal with