User blog comment:Rej Maddog/Does Gil need a Smoke Knight?/@comment-799579-20090711081244

He was his father's spy, acting undercover in Paris and not being well known. (And distracting the Search Engine and helping to control Othar.) He (like Agatha) has only recently become a player.

He does have Ardsley Wooster, but they've been separated since things started to get interesting. (Ardsley is listed as a Wulfenbach minion, but that's a simplification.)