An in-character interview. Dr. Safia Mendoza is fictional — a character in the ReelSaga short drama "My Twins Have Two Daddies." ReelSaga's editorial team wrote these answers in her voice, set at the story's midpoint. No real person is quoted.
It is not yet six in the morning and Dr. Safia Mendoza has not been home. My Twins Have Two Daddies is a family-scandal short drama on ReelSaga about a woman carrying twins fathered by identical brothers, and about the best friend who has to tell her no test will ever say which is which. Safia is Julia Miller's OB-GYN, her closest friend, and — since about two o'clock this morning — the only other person alive who knows the results are impossible.
The show sells the premise as an evil twin story. Safia would like it on the record that "evil twin" is not a diagnosis.
What is My Twins Have Two Daddies about?
Julia Miller has been seeing Benjamin Valentine for three weeks when she turns up at his apartment in a storm. The man who opens the door has Benjamin's face and Benjamin's exact genetic code. He is not Benjamin. He is Asher, the twin the Valentine family erased years ago, and he knows who she is the moment he sees her, and he says nothing. Julia did not choose that night. She was never given the chance to.
Six weeks later she is pregnant. Eight weeks after that, it is twins — and because the brothers share one genome, this is an identical twin paternity case that no laboratory can close. If you have been searching for shows like Echoes, My Twins Have Two Daddies is the evil twin short drama that asks the same question with two heartbeats on the monitor and a family empire waiting for an heir.
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How do you run a paternity test on an evil twin?
InterviewerFour times.
SafiaFour times. Superfecundation is rare — two eggs, two separate fathers — but it is real and I know what it looks like on a screen. That part I can prove. What I cannot prove is which brother goes with which baby, because Benjamin and Asher Valentine have the same genome. There is no laboratory on this planet that can tell them apart.
InterviewerSo the test everyone wants doesn't exist.
SafiaThe test exists. It answers a different question than the one Julia is asking. I've been at this desk since two in the morning trying to make it answer hers, and I am now extremely well informed about epigenetic markers and no closer to an answer.
Why did Safia hide Julia's paternity test?
She has been waiting for this one.
SafiaI ran it off the database. No requisition, no chart number, nothing that goes anywhere near the hospital system. Say it however you want to say it.
InterviewerMost people would say that's your licence.
SafiaMost people don't work in a building with the Valentine name on the letterhead. My chief of OB-GYN has been asking after Julia's file since the week she registered, and in nine years he has never once asked after a patient of mine. Not a name, not a date, not a single follow-up. Now he wants this one. The second that result goes into the official chart it stops being Julia's information and starts being theirs, and they have lawyers and I have a frightened pregnant woman who trusts me. So it didn't go in the chart. \[long pause\] I'll answer for that. Not this morning.
What the chart doesn't say
InterviewerPeople are going to call Asher the evil twin.
SafiaPeople can call him whatever helps them sleep. Evil twin is a genre. It's a word you use when the story is fun. What happened to my friend in that doorway was not a story and it was not fun, and there is no box on any form in this building for a man who let her think he was somebody else. It was done to her. She didn't choose it. I'm not going to sit here and let it be repackaged as a twist.
InterviewerYou believed her straight away.
SafiaShe's my patient and she's been my best friend since college and she is the single most careful person I have ever met. Yes. Straight away.
InterviewerWhat's in the fourth cup?
Safia\[holds it up\] Third-floor vending machine. It is not legally coffee. It's the only thing in this building I haven't run a test on.
What happens when Julia walks in?
InterviewerShe'll be here in a few hours. What do you tell her?
SafiaShe hears it from me before she hears it from anyone, and that includes you. She's my patient. I'm not doing this part with a stranger in the room. What I will tell you is that she is going to ask me which brother, and I am going to have to say the sentence I have been rehearsing since two in the morning, which is that I don't know and I will never know and neither will she. There isn't a kind way to arrange those words. I've tried about forty.
InterviewerShe came to you last night with a folded piece of paper. Do you know what's on it — or are you just not saying?
SafiaNo. Genuinely, no. She didn't read it out and I didn't ask, because at two in the morning I was the doctor and not the friend and I had exactly one useful thing to offer her, which was a person who wasn't going to demand anything. Ask her. When she's ready to be asked, ask her. And whoever's listening to this — when she finally tells you, believe her the first time. That's the entire job. Everything else is paperwork.
The door opens at seven. She doesn't get to decide much longer.
How to watch My Twins Have Two Daddies
My Twins Have Two Daddies is streaming now on ReelSaga. The evil twin drama runs in episodes of one to three minutes — roughly the length of the silence after a phone pings. Download ReelSaga (store link — ReelSaga to supply) and start at the clinic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the My Twins Have Two Daddies interview with Dr. Safia Mendoza real?
No. Dr. Safia Mendoza is a fictional character in My Twins Have Two Daddies, and the answers above were written by the ReelSaga editorial team in her voice. No real person was interviewed and no cast or crew member is quoted.
How many episodes does My Twins Have Two Daddies have?
Ten. My Twins Have Two Daddies runs as a complete ten-episode season, from the clinic in Episode 1 to the doorway in Episode 10 — so there is no waiting for a second half.
Is My Twins Have Two Daddies animated or live-action?
Animated. My Twins Have Two Daddies is one of ReelSaga's animated short dramas, with all ten episodes produced in that format.
What else is in the file
- — another ReelSaga drama about a woman nobody believed
- Inside the Valentine family: a ReelSaga writers' note
- The Last Dragon War: Rise of the Ash Queen: Kaelia on the fire she walked into
Open before publish: content-sensitivity decision inherited from ART-009 (the inciting incident is sex obtained by identity deception); tracker row 13 column E holds the wrong story_doc; series code MTHBD vs MTHTD unsettled. All links on this page are placeholders — ReelSaga to supply.