repoman
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I just watched it again today and the final scene with the future woman on the plane with the virus spreader has me thinking.
I think that James Cole is in a time loop and will always die at the airport.
I also think that the virus will always have killed 5 billion people. The loop can only end after the latest date that James Cole worked for the future people (roughly 2025). Maybe at that point the woman on the plane can use the original virus as cure/vaccine for everyone still alive - or whoever she chooses.
Basically she is also part of the loop temporarily, but nested outside of Cole's loop. Like Cole always getting shot she always is on the plane. However, in her the future timeline, there is a forward flow of time. After she handles her task and comes back she need not be in the time loop anymore.
If the virus guy is stopped the time loop goes poof.
This would mean that Cole would be a sacrificial pawn without knowing it. Also, maybe the woman knows all of this.
What say ye?
I think that James Cole is in a time loop and will always die at the airport.
I also think that the virus will always have killed 5 billion people. The loop can only end after the latest date that James Cole worked for the future people (roughly 2025). Maybe at that point the woman on the plane can use the original virus as cure/vaccine for everyone still alive - or whoever she chooses.
Basically she is also part of the loop temporarily, but nested outside of Cole's loop. Like Cole always getting shot she always is on the plane. However, in her the future timeline, there is a forward flow of time. After she handles her task and comes back she need not be in the time loop anymore.
If the virus guy is stopped the time loop goes poof.
This would mean that Cole would be a sacrificial pawn without knowing it. Also, maybe the woman knows all of this.
What say ye?
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