... Oh Shit

... oh shit

I’ve been thinking about how they ended Dave’s storyline this season and… well, I have some thoughts…

Dave is still joining the military, but he is joining a different branch. This likely means he won’t end up in the same place in Vietnam. (this is of course assuming that calling him a Marine was 100% intentional and not just an unintentional error, which is possible too, but let’s go with it being intentional) That means that Dave lives when he wasn’t supposed to, which has a couple side-effects. 

1. Paradox. If Dave isn’t in that same company in Vietnam, then he never meets Klaus. More importantly, Klaus never meets Dave. He never falls in love, never sees Dave die, and doesn’t know to seek Dave out, which means Dave never enlists early and does end up in the Army instead, so Klaus does try to save him, so Dave enlists early in the Marines, which means… well, paradox. 

2. Five and Diego both make the point in seasons 1 and 2 that every life, no matter how ordinary, can change history. (Diego comes right out and says it this season. Five just implies it when he plots to murder an innocent gardener in season 1) If that’s true, then Dave being alive is going to screw up the timeline. 

Unless he is removed from it… 

Now Dave could just be killed by The Commission this time around, except for the fact that The Commission is very low on assassins ever since Vanya wiped them all out. They need to rebuild and start recruiting again. And who better to recruit than a well trained marine who’s supposed to be dead anyway…

It will take a few years to get him trained up as a proper field agent, and then it’s time to set him loose to take care of a band of fugitives that keeps fucking with the timeline and instructions to take all 6 of them out before they screw up anything else. 

Anyway, time to go write some fanfic.