[Spoiler Alert] So the seventh episode of Paradise Season 2 confirms that Link, one of the most mysterious characters of the show so far, was in reality Sinatra’s son, Dylan. Yes, I hear you. In the original timeline, Dylan died when he was a child. We all heard the doctors telling Sinatra and her husband, Tim, that they couldn’t do anything to save the young boy. And after Dylan’s death, Sinatra consulted a therapist, Dr. Gabriela Torabi, and told her that people say time helps, but in her case, it was actually making it worse by taking her further away from when she had her son. The reason I am bringing up Sinatra’s battle with time is because it was time that took Dylan away, and now it was time that brought him back. In episode 7 of season 2, Paradise shed more light on the mystery centered around Alex, who probably isn’t a person but a quantum supercomputer that can access multiple realities, and it was likely Alex that conspired to bring Dylan to the original timeline. How? Well, that’s a tricky question to answer.
Episode 3 of season 2 revealed that Henry Miller, who supposedly created this quantum machine, had a wife named Alex, who was suffering from Huntington’s disease. The show hasn’t yet disclosed what illness Dylan was diagnosed with, but it could be theorized that it was Huntington’s disease, and likely while trying to find a cure for his wife, Miller stumbled upon Link (aka Dylan) from an alternate reality (in which he didn’t die when he was a child). Miller always knew that Link was from a different reality, which was why he requested Billy (the man who killed him) not to harm the boy when he would encounter him on his way out of the house. Basically, Link was an anomaly in the original timeline, which was why he and everyone he came in contact with suffered a nosebleed, implying that he didn’t belong to this world.
Well, there’s something about Alex that I need to talk about. The thing is, the quantum machines that enable people to travel between different realities can’t generally take someone back or forth in time. They’re not time machines. The parallel realities move in a straight line, and if a quantum machine opens a vortex between two worlds, both timelines usually exist in the same time period. So when Miller encountered Link, the original Dylan should have been the same age as Link if he hadn’t died in childhood. But because Dylan had already died in the original timeline, Link didn’t disrupt the timeline, even though he suffered frequent nosebleeds every time he came across an event where every possible outcome created a new reality. Take Billy, for example; he could have either killed Link to cover up his tracks or spared his life. His decision led to the creation of two worlds: one where Link lived, and one where Link was killed. And a similar thing happened when Link was with Annie. He could have either chosen to stay with her at Elvis’ mansion or left her behind to find the bunker. In Season 2, Episode 7, when Sinatra asked Link about his birthday, suspecting him to be her son, Dylan, Link could have either lied to her (held back that information) or told her the truth. In both cases, the outcome would have been different, which explained why Link and Sinatra both had nosebleeds at this very moment. So, what I am suggesting here is that every nosebleed indicates the branching of the original timeline which will have its own repercussions in the near future. However, in Paradise, Alex probably isn’t just a multiversal machine, it can travel through time as well. Well, this is where the show makes things complicated. In Season 2, Episode 6, we saw that Alex had sent a message back in time, to 29th May 1997, to a hardware engineer, Don, informing him about Jane, a killer who was going to be born in a week’s time. If we assume that Miller might not have created Alex in 1997, then there’s only one possible way Alex could have been able to send this message, that is, by being able to travel in time. And to be clear, I am not saying Alex could make people travel in time, because that would not only make its owner invincible, but also break the universe. Also, if Alex could do that, instead of sending a message back in time, it would have sent people instead to eliminate Jane, who was going to become a threat in the future.
However, I think there’s one more thing that most of us have in mind right now: what Sinatra’s end goal is. Because, to be honest, bringing Dylan back into her life shouldn’t be the end of her journey, especially when Dr. Louge had already warned her about the Venus syndrome. According to him, the planet in the original timeline would cease to exist, as nature wouldn’t be able to heal itself, which meant Sinatra couldn’t guarantee the safety of her children or their children in the future. We know she’s obsessed with protecting people, or at least her own loved ones, so I think the endgame is to use Alex to find a world where the surface hasn’t been destroyed by the supervolcanic eruption and wouldn’t face nature’s wrath anytime soon. I guess finding Dylan was just the first part of an intricate plan, and now that she’s certain that Alex really works, Sinatra will kickstart the next part, which is to take her entire people and a handful of people she trusts to an entirely different universe. Well, these are just my theories, but I would love to hear your thoughts on this. So drop a comment below.
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