important thing I just realized about The Mime:
Yes, Gabriel calls off plans with Adrien again. We’re all sad. But note the timeline: Hawk Moth creates The Mime. Then Gabriel calls Nathalie. Then The Mime hits their car.
Given the common assumption that Gabriel is Hawk Moth, there are two important things to be understood from this episode: first, that Hawk Moth let The Mime fire at his own car with his own son inside of it, and subsequently destroy said car.
Second, Gabriel had to call Nathalie while in full Hawk Moth garb from inside the observatory.









