Seeing the device on his wrist proved to Thea's still messed up mind this was not Malcolm,"Since I can see you're not him you deserve the truth. Malcolm Merlyn, the man you are a dead ringer for, is my so called father and someone I don't want to see around. Just trust me, its not pretty." leaving out decent sized chunks like him using her past as an addict to brainwash her into killing an emotional older sister. "He's someone nobody should trust." having cut the ties at least in her soul since the island was her being able to start over in a sense.