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1. What Made Travelers TV Show Season 2 Stand Out?

Travelers TV Show Season 2 had its ups and downs. While Season 1 was great, Season 2 was good too. There was better treatment of female characters and excellent cinematography. The cast was still great, and new actors kept up the quality. The show’s production looked and sounded great, especially with its budget. The writing, however, needed more attention for the next season.

1.1. Intriguing New Aspects of the Mythology

We learned about new parts of the mythology, but we kept going in circles. Instead of revealing more about life in the future and how time travel works, we heard the same information. The showrunners said they won’t show the future because the travelers are stuck in the 21st century, but that’s not a good reason.

They can still show the environment and culture the characters come from. They can explain the Director and give clear reasons for their time travel and consciousness transfer theories. If they don’t, the show might change the story every time they come up with a new plot, which is bad for science fiction.

1.2. Uneven Pacing and Lazy Writing

The show’s pacing was off. Some episodes were full of plot and new information, as if the writers didn’t want us to understand. Other episodes didn’t do much and lacked a plot. The writing was often lazy, telling us what we needed to know instead of showing new information in interesting ways.

1.3. Character Obsessions and Deus Ex Machina

The characters were too focused on their personal lives and had too few missions. Even when they had missions, the Director often jumped in to save them, which made the struggle pointless. It felt like there was no point in watching an episode full of problems when the Director would save them every time.

The characters were also too attached to their host’s loved ones. It was strange and should be explored more next season. It’s better for them to form relationships with other travelers or new people who never knew the original host. Phillip and Jenny’s relationship was one of the best, but it was between two travelers.

1.4. Focus on the Series Story

When the season focused on the series’ story, it was great, especially with the plague and the final three episodes. New characters like Simon and Jenny were fantastic, and we got to know recurring characters like Derek, Boyd, and Grace better. 001, as both Vincent and Perrow, was a strong new character, a complex villain with mysterious motives. Enrico Colantoni and Amanda Tapping were both welcome additions to the cast.

2. How Did The Team Come Into Its Own?

The traveler team became better, and each character grew as they adjusted to the 21st century. MacLaren and Marcy were the writers’ favorites and got the main story often. Both had annoying personal relationships from their hosts. Many fans love those relationships, but it would be good to see them end and have those two end up with each other or less selfish partners.

2.1. Phillip’s Journey

Phillip seems to be over his addictions. Now he has trouble staying in the right timeline and needs drugs to focus. It’s not clear if we’re seeing his hallucinations of the wrong timeline, but too much of that would be a cop out.

He and Carly have become close, so maybe she’ll notice something’s wrong and help him. He and Trevor are also good friends, and Trevor is very perceptive.

Ray was taken by 001 as Phillip’s closest friend because he’s not close to anyone who isn’t a traveler. This means he’s not living any more of a lie than he has to as a historian.

001 didn’t want to take team members because he wanted to force them to expose themselves with the videos. So, he took Ray or members of Phillip’s support group. 001 probably chose his hostages based on potential host candidates for 004/Simon, thinking Ray was the best.

In Reilly Dolman’s hands, Phillip is always believable, whether he’s having an addiction relapse, saving a teammate, being professional, or in a tragic crisis. He’s the heart of the team, keeping an eye on everyone.

Phillip and the team on a boat

2.2. Carly’s Transformation

Carly has forgotten her involvement with MacLaren, which is probably good but confusing. Their relationship had more dramatic potential than Kat and Mac’s, so it’s surprising it was tossed aside. But she and Phillip are good together, and Mac isn’t good in relationships.

Now that she’s done with Mac, she’s become the confident warrior she was meant to be. She has friendships with Marcy and Phillip, keeps Jeff sr in line, and stands with Mac as his second in command. She, Phillip, and Trevor are the backbone of the team, avoiding personal crises, solving issues themselves, and being professional.

Nesta Cooper looks and feels like a warrior when she’s behind her rifle or giving tactical orders. She’s also believable as a dedicated mother and friend who’s good in a crisis and juggling a child, a fake relationship, and two jobs. Carly is the team’s superwoman.

Carly is the most no-nonsense member of the team, the most goal-oriented and determined. Her relationship with Jeff sr is interesting because he respects her toughness. He’s more complicated than an abuser. He loves his son and cares about Carly. He’s shown determination and a willingness to stick with the family.

But he also has bad attitudes and can’t stop drinking, which turns him into a monster. What will the revelation that he killed Carly in another timeline do to him? Carly’s told him that before, but he didn’t believe her. Jeff noticed the odd things happening when the travelers arrived and investigated them.

He’s the most likely to believe the time travel story. He knows Carly became able to beat him up. Carly and Jeff’s is the relationship to watch go through the time traveler revelation. Carly hasn’t been willing to give him a chance, but he’s been there for her many times. Will the truth bring out the best in them, or the worst in Jeff?

The show reminded us that Jeff knows Carly slept with Mac while they were broken up, and he’s still jealous. He’s possessive but has real feelings for her.

The two sides of Jeff are hard to reconcile. Abusers can become decent partners when they give up drinking and find a partner who demands respect. J Alex Brinson plays all sides of Jeff Conniker well, whether he’s handsome, violent, or a cop. He and Phillip/Reilly Dolman have the parts that require the most range.

2.3. Trevor’s Wisdom

Trevor has an agreement with his host’s parents to live in the garage with Phillip. His girlfriend Renee was away. Now that she’s back, he broke it off with her, so he’s not troubled by non-traveler attachments. His best friends seem to be Phillip and Grace.

Much was made of his old age and participation in the early consciousness transfer program. This will probably come up again as they need to find 001’s device or build one, and figure out what’s possible in the 21st. The youngsters on the team don’t want to think about the early days of consciousness transfer because it would remind them that the Director was created and isn’t a god.

Jared Abrahamson plays Trevor as an old soul with a new lease on life, with wisdom and joie de vivre. There’s a mystery to Trevor that’s hard to pull off in an athletic boy, but Jared manages it. Trevor is laid back, slow to anger, but he defends his people. He’s the dependable influence of the group, breaking up fights and sharing his experiences, the caretaker who’s always available.

They kept Trevor out of Simon’s arc, but those two should already know each other. His knowledge of the past will allow him to ask 0027 questions if she needs to prove it’s really her in Simon’s body. Hopefully, we’ll get more of Trevor’s background next season, instead of the same bits.

So far, we know he’s the longest-lived human consciousness, which may be why he’s in hiding. The public might have a problem with one person’s overuse of resources. He had two sons who died and he’s a brilliant engineer. He was very old the first time his consciousness was transferred, but it’s not clear if it was voluntary. He’s cheated death many times. 0027 and Blue are the only travelers who’ve shown any recognition of him outside of his own team. His team members forget how old he is. That means he’s not famous or notorious.

He’s lived quietly, switching bodies as needed. He’s talked with the Director a few times but isn’t one of its favorites. The Director hasn’t sent medical nanites to help him when he’s been injured, the way it did with MacLaren and Grace. So why has he been kept alive? Is he valuable to the programmers or engineers, like 0027 or Blue? Does he have skills they want to preserve? Was he instrumental in creating the consciousness transfer or time travel technology? Has he had his consciousness reset, and is he missing pieces of his memory?

0115 and 0027 are the key to something. If Simon isn’t in Grace Day’s body, then 001 said something to her that threw her off.

Jen Spence has been delightful as both Grace Day and 0027. Grace was calm, kind, and sensible, while 0027 is plucky, brash, and outspoken. Spence is hilarious when comic relief is called for and maintains 0027’s strength when scenes turn dramatic. One of my biggest wishes for the show is that she becomes a regular.

001 picked 0027 as Trevor’s loved one, instead of his father. So, 001 knows of the connection between them. 001/Perrow must have threatened Trevor for Grace to be so upset. If Perrow knows who Trevor really is and why he’s in hiding, she could be very dangerous to Trevor and Grace. Perrow/001 also clearly hates 0027 since she’s one of the programmers who were part of the program when he traveled back to the 21st.

Trevor and Grace

2.4. Marcy’s Depression

Marcy spent most of the season in a deep depression because of the events of season 1. Her depression made her feel numb and less than human, which she thought meant Grace had left out parts of her consciousness when Grace reset Marcy. That wasn’t true, but Marcy hasn’t acknowledged it. Marcy took out her anger on Grace, going so far as to testify against her and threatening to let Grace die when she had the plague.

She was also snappish with Phillip and Trevor. She became manipulative and used people in ways she wouldn’t have before. It was an ugly time for a caring doctor.

Marcy did become friends with Carly, but Carly spent more time with Phillip. The only person Marcy cared about was David because she felt she owed him a relationship. She was also pleasant to MacLaren.

Marcy eventually regained her memories and emotions by putting herself through hypothermia, keeping herself near death, and then dying. She injected herself with something before the procedure that could have been medical nanites. She got the idea from Mac, who told her about recovering his memories while he was near death.

After that, she’s spent most of her free time trying to win David back. When she made her video for 001, all she cared about was David and how she’d gotten him in trouble, which she decided made her a horrible person.

I wish Marcy would realize she’s too good for David and move on. Dr Barker at the hospital was cute, decent, and didn’t put expectations on her or act like he owned her.

Or maybe she can go without a boyfriend and work on developing a stable personality and self-esteem. That way, she won’t think she’s responsible for her boyfriend’s every emotion. And maybe she could consider solidarity with other women, starting with an apology to Grace, who did nothing except save her life.

Given that we’ve seen David be controlling with his ex-girlfriend Blair over her eating disorder, it’s safe to say this is a pattern for him and he isn’t going to change. He likes to pick needy women that he can take care of and feel superior to, while he makes sure they realize how much they owe him. He always comes out looking like a saint, and the women look crazy, desperate, or ungrateful.

Marcy won’t move on, though. She’ll spend season 3 trying to win back David’s love, now that she’s looked deep inside herself and rediscovered how much she truly loves him.

Seriously, Marcy- Dr Barker is a cute doctor who comes with no baggage and helped you out during a crisis, no questions asked, no compensation required, after one awkward date. That’s a keeper, not the guy that you instinctively know won’t support your important decisions about your own health and autonomy. RUN AWAY.

Patrick Gilmore does a great job playing David, who wasn’t this annoying in season 1. I’ve just known too many guys like him to enjoy the character, guys who think they’re nicer guys than all the others and deserve to be the center of your attention at all times.

MacKenzie Porter has played five versions of Marcy across the two seasons, hopping between them. The differences can be subtle and must be hard to keep track of, but they’re all distinguishable. She’s played original Marcy, brain-damaged Marcy, original traveler Marcy, original reset Marcy, and reset Marcy with all her memories. I’m not sure that’s true, because she’s still dependent and fixated on David, no matter how he treats her. He’s her compass for if she’s okay or not, which is very codependent.

MacKenzie Porter plays all of Marcy’s versions equally well, whether she’s stuttering and brain damaged, or a super competent doctor. She’s asked to show an incredible range as an actress, and she does it without breaking a sweat, in addition to being the character who seemingly goes through a different crisis every week.

2.5. MacLaren’s Bad Decisions

Mac wandered through the season largely untouched by his bad decisions. He ignored his team unless forced to interact with them, yelling protocol 5 the moment there was a pause in a mission, and racing out the door. While the rest of the team was bonding, he didn’t spend time with any of them. As a result, the team took care of themselves and each other, while he was a hypocrite who got angry with anyone who broke protocol, even as he was having a baby and breaking protocol 4 with his host’s wife.

Marcy is the only one he’ll give the time of day to outside of a mission or shows any personal interest in. She gets leeway the others don’t. I’m not sure if that’s because he finds her attractive or because he feels that as a doctor she’s his social equal, but it’s offensive.

Kat, who had almost died when she lost a previous pregnancy, barely escaped with her life again and lost the baby. She only survived because of the Director, who made sure she survived but let the baby die. Both parents were devastated.

Leah Cairns has been great as Kat has gone from a successful designer to a fragile shrew. Her pregnancy and its loss affected Kat’s mental health, but the show took it too far. It was as if her hormones took over her brain and made her the worst stereotype.

Did Mac and Kat’s baby survive the premature birth but get taken by Vincent or the Director for research purposes? There could have been medical nanites or a drug in the injection that Hall gave Kat, which prepared the baby for birth and made it appear stillborn, while a traveler whisked the baby away. Especially with Hall involved, who is all about shady operations. We never saw Kat and Mac holding the baby, we never saw a funeral for the baby.

Someone is raising that baby to find out the effect of time travel on travelers’ children. The future women are all so sick that they probably have a hard time carrying babies to term, so delivering early and using medical interventions to get the baby ready to survive are probably the norm. Derek is doctor D13, so there are other doctors who could have slipped into the hospital and helped with the delivery, then taken the baby.

It might take the show a few seasons to reveal that the baby is alive, or they might reveal it next season as a way to bring Mac and Kat back together. Having MacLaren drop his warrior girlfriend for the waif his host was married to is one of the most misogynist things this show has ever done, and I’ll never be okay with it, or like Kat, unless she gets a personality transplant. But I accept that they are a fan-favorite couple and will likely go back and forth for the duration of the series. Searching for the baby together and falling in love again would make sense for them.

Mac spent his time at the FBI running around like a cowboy, making rash decisions and making himself too obvious as a traveler. As a result, by the end of the season, he’d basically outed the travelers to the global intelligence community, even without 001’s intervention.

I’m not really sure what the narrative wants us to think of him, because he’s so clearly in the wrong so much of the time, but as the star and team leader he’s also supposed to be the handsome hero. I can’t hate Eric McCormack, but the character can get on my nerves. It goes without saying that he’s a talented actor with tons of chemistry with the rest of the cast.

3. Where Do We Go From Here?

The wild card at the end of episode 12 is that the traveler program has been made public, the team’s videos have been widely broadcast, and governments around the world are realizing that this information fills in a lot of gaps in their investigations. Will the show take this threat seriously, or will they wave it away? Either way, the secrecy that the travelers were depending on is gone because some people will be suspicious and watch them, no matter what the US government decides.

The videos are the easiest to dismiss, since they were made under coercion. The travelers are in control of Vincent’s body and can have him say he had a psychotic lapse to dismiss the material he and Perrow released. He was able to dupe Dr Perrow as well.

The travelers who work for security agencies and governments can clean up that situation, but maybe it’s time for parts of the present-day upper echelon to learn the truth and work with the travelers. Maybe that’s one of the Director’s reasons for allowing Vincent to go public.

Or, will there be riots, and trials, and medical examinations? Will we find out if the consciousness transfer process changes the brain or the body? Will there be a witch hunt for travelers? I doubt it will go to that extreme, unless the Director wants it to for some reason. Whether the consciousness within a brain has time traveled would be too hard to prove.

The whole mess was meant to distract the Director and the traveler community while Vincent and Simon switched into new bodies, and the angry loved ones are meant to keep the team distracted long enough for the two to settle into their new lives. Everyone thinks Vincent committed suicide by overwrite, so he just has to blend in as Perrow.

Simon has to recover from years of living as a schizophrenic and develop a normal persona again, which could be harder than it sounds. He’s been deeply traumatized for years. It’s going to take a while for him to get over his paranoia and figure out what’s real, plus there’s the guilt of taking a body someone else was using. Then he has to figure out the new life he’s jumped into.

Assuming he’s now in one of the hostages, which I think is a safe bet, Simon will give himself away to the team/Marcy long before he gets over his trauma and settles in. Those interviews seemed like they were for 001 to decide which body was right for Simon, not just for him to stir up trouble for the team. Otherwise, there’s no reason to interview them alone.

Simon’s situation answers the question about whether the host’s mental illness originates in the body or the consciousness, and whether the traveler will inherit it.

Marcy’s ice bath memory recovery method could come in handy. For example, they could use it on traveler 5692 to find out as much as possible about 001’s activities. It would be useful for any traveler to have their host’s memories as they’re settling into the host’s life.

Between Simon’s schizophrenia, Mac’s reclaimed host memories, and Marcy’s extensive reclaimed memories, it seems that much more survives in the host’s brain than anyone previously realized. Or, maybe not, since the Faction traitor said his team was doing research on that subject. Obviously he was lying, but someone might actually be doing that research.

Another big change from season 1 to season 2 is that consciousness storage is seemingly now routine. In the beginning of season 1, it seemed impossible, and misfired travelers were simply lost. Then Grace came to the 21st and did the unheard-of procedure of using a stored version of Marcy to reset her. By the end of S1 Ep12/ S2 Ep1, that process became so standard that the Faction was able to send thousands of travelers back to be stored in the quantum frame, which was meant to house the Director.

Consciousness storage is therefore most likely an adaptation of the Director’s technology. The Director is a hive mind which is at least partially in human bodies, but must also partially be in machines. It would make sense for the Director to have a presence in the actual time travel machine, since those calculations are so precise and intense, with the timelines always changing. The consciousness separation and transfer technology, which would involve quantum entanglement, must have been adapted to send the consciousness to fuse with a machine.

Team and the Quantum Frame

Vincent and Simon's Device

We ended last season with the quantum frame, built to house the director, which we eventually found out had been coopted by the Faction to house thousands of stored consciousnesses. The frame was able to send a mass wave through the air which could overwrite dozens of people at a time. I’m not sure who in the Faction was operating it or how. Someone in the present, or the future? Someone in the room, or outside with a remote? What about the TELLs? The quantum frame apparently became portable, traveling from hotel to hotel, and even to a rave, as tourists were lured into time-share presentations, not realizing that it was their brains that would be doing the time-sharing.

Vincent eventually gained access to the quantum frame. We don’t know at this point exactly what he took. Blueprints? Essential, hard-to-find or make parts? The storage unit with the Faction travelers? I’d take all of the above, if it were me.

We ended the season with a new device that has lighted spires with grids that look like the two spires from the quantum frame. But on this machine, the two spires point down and inward, toward where the subject lies, instead of straight up to send out a mass wave.

This machine is meant for one subject at a time. Where the quantum frame was only capable of receiving traveling consciousnesses from the future and storing them until they were ready to insert into bodies, then sending out a wave to insert them, this machine can do the actual separation of a consciousness from the body. That’s never been available in the 21st century before.

The Faction also has its own method of receiving messages from the future. We haven’t been told how the future is sending them. They were sending them while the Director was shut down, so they aren’t using the Director. Have they cracked the secrets of the Director’s technology?

Much of this season revolved around the upgrades in technology, we just didn’t know it until after the fact, just the way much of season 1 revolved around changes in the timeline, but we didn’t know it until the end. The Director was shut down for the entire first half of season 2 and the travelers were working for the Faction. They were chasing Vincent and the Faction and trying to cure the deadly plague.

Vincent subtly manipulated them into doing what he wanted more than once, ending with them playing right into his hands for the last three episodes. Those episodes were really about Vincent’s plan to switch bodies, as was his season-long arc. He was grooming Dr Perrow for the entire season so that he could take over her body.

Episode 7, 17 Minutes, existed because Vincent was after the meteorite so that he could build his consciousness transfer machine. Episode 8, 0027, introduced two-way verbal and visual communication between the Director in the future and Grace in the present. Episode 9, Update, showed Phillip using his historian modifications to receive an update to his knowledge of the future. It also showed him seeing multiple timelines at once, just like the Director, and Kat’s life being saved by future medicine.

These should all come into play next season, as they all contain huge revelations. For season 3 I’m hoping for more emphasis on the science fiction elements, with the interpersonal stories flowing from there. I want to be able to tell that I’m watching a science fiction show, not a show that could be Grey’s Anatomy.

4. Why Are Cell Phones Dangerous?

We saw it over and over again this season. Cell phones are the Director’s favorite weapon. They have cameras that it can use as eyes, microphones for voice pattern recognition, and GPS for TELLs and other location services. The Director also monitors social media, another use for phones. All the Director needs is one person with a phone in their hand, and it can take over a situation.

We saw the beginnings of this last season when Grace Day escaped from Trevor and dialed her phone. That was enough for 0027 to establish a TELL and use her as a host. The Director used phones to send texts when there were no children to transmit messages.

Season 2 starts out with Vincent claiming that the Director used cell phones twice to find him, leading to the deaths of his wife and partner. While I’m skeptical of the details of Vincent’s stories, his description of the Director’s methodology is accurate. Vincent refused to allow cell phones in his presence for the rest of the season, but he used the hostages’ cell phones to confirm who he’d taken.

Once the Director came back online midseason, it had Carrie the skydiver attempt to call MacLaren midair, as soon as she became a traveler. When that failed, she called Wakefield. When 0029 was sentenced, the entire team stood in a circle around him and held their cell phones up to allow the Director a good view, possibly because they were in a basement with a weak signal and it couldn’t establish the TELL. Possibly because it looked cool for an execution.

Cell Phones During Sentencing

When a cell phone isn’t available, the Director will use a camera or a computer as weapons, but it prefers phones for their portability and versatility, just like the rest of us.

5. Who Are The Missing Travelers?

We’ve still never met a traveler with a number between 1000 and 2000, or in the high 100s. Did they all die in Shelter 41 in the original timeline, and now they’re all Faction? Or did they all die of age and illness, with none of them being important enough to save by giving them new bodies, the way 0027 and 0115 have been kept alive? Were they the travelers during the era of the program when there were so many misfires and disasters that they’re rare now? Or are they all in Europe and Asia?

This has now gone on for two seasons, making it more likely that it will become relevant eventually.

6. Where’s Simon?

Simon/004, is, as always, a wild card. We didn’t see his body again after the machine was turned on with him in it, presumably to switch his consciousness to a new body, though he might have thought it was to repair the schizophrenia. He thinks that Marcy’s brain was fixed, but there’s no evidence that Vincent ever accomplished that with any of his research subjects. 001 knows that Marcy’s fix was to be overwritten by 3569, then overwritten again with another version of 3569.

The damage Vincent and Simon’s original machine did to original Marcy’s brain apparently permanently took away much of original Marcy’s consciousness, and didn’t leave enough functional brain tissue to host a traveler. Grace made the repackaged Marcy’s consciousness more streamlined and efficient, while leaving her personality and everything that made her “her” intact. Because it was a controlled process, this time it worked.

Since the schizophrenia is integrated with Simon’s brain, isn’t part his consciousness, and there’s no cure, apparently not even in the future, it’s doubtful that anything could be done to make Simon’s body a viable host. Properly treating his illness would help, but very few people with the diagnosis go on to recover full function in every aspect of their lives. Though leading a productive life with minimal symptoms is possible, schizophrenics also die younger than the general population and have much higher rates of homelessness. Since Simon was hospitalized and medicated when we met him, but continuing to hallucinate, chances are medications are of limited benefit to him.

Simon and Vincent's Device

So now Simon/004 is likely in someone else’s body, surprised to be there, and possibly feeling betrayed. He’s used to dealing with psychosis and having a hard time distinguishing delusion from reality, so it might take him a while to realize that he’s mentally healthy now, just traumatized. He’s generally a good, moral person who’s naive and easily manipulated. He’s used to feeling powerless, but will take control of a situation when he feels that he has expertise. He felt guilty over what they did to original Marcy, and wanted to make things right, even years later.

Simon and Vincent both said over and over that they were going to “fix” Simon, but they probably meant different things by that word. We haven’t seen anything so far that would lead me to believe that Simon would be able to or even want to pull off pretending to be someone else, especially someone’s lover. The most likely candidates for Simon’s new hosts are the hostages, with 001/Perrow’s interviews helping her determine which host to use. Katherine, Ray, and Jeff were all reacting as expected at the end of episode 12, leaving Grace and David as the likely replacement hosts for 004.

Grace and David both have jobs that don’t require any special technical knowledge or physical abilities, so it wouldn’t take Simon long to learn either. They don’t have any particular enemies, like Ray, or a spouse who would notice the switch, like Katherine and Jeff. Marcy and Trevor are both nice, understanding people who are just close enough to Grace and David to help them through a tough time, especially Marcy. She has the added benefit of knowing Simon already, so 004 is comfortable with her, which is one of the reasons why I think David is the most likely host.

Both David and Grace started acting strangely after their interviews with Perrow. David was beaten, when none of the others were, not even Jeff, who was angry and prone to violence. We’re meant to think that David was beaten because he refused to read the message on the video, but that seems unlikely. It’s more likely that he refused to get into the scary-looking machine, or the beating was meant to help hide that he’s acting strangely.

Original David’s personality is also closest to 004’s personality, so he’d find it easiest to blend in as David. David’s plea to Marcy at the end of the video that he wanted to go home sounded more like Simon than David. David has no problem expressing his emotions, but he has his pride. I put the odds at 75% that David and Simon/004 have body swapped.

Grace seemed dazed and confused when Perrow brought her back from their interview, which is completely unlike the normally unflappable 0027. She was still in a weird state at the end, when Trevor asked her how she was, saying she didn’t know. Either 004 didn’t expect to be in a new body, especially a woman, or Perrow said something terrible, probably threatening, to 0027. I think the odds are even on which one it was.

Like Trevor, Grace prefers to be called by her host’s name and doesn’t give her traveler number unless there’s no other option, meaning she’s probably in semihiding too. Finding out that 001 is alive and has some supersecret blackmail knowledge against her, Trevor, and/or the Director might be enough to ruin her composure for a while, as she thought through the implications.

If Grace and Simon are switched, it’s partly to fix Simon, partly for 001 to get revenge on 0027 by putting her in a schizophrenic mind. They’ve made a big deal over how picky 0027 was about which body she went into, so it makes sense to then put her into a compromised host. Torturing 0027, the Director’s favorite programmer, by making her schizophrenic, would be something that would appeal to Vincent as the closest he might get to revenge on the Director in the near future, plus it preserves both her programming abilities and 004’s, in case 001 needs them.

One way or the other, we’ll have a Prelude to a Kiss situation going on next year, as either 0027 or David in Simon’s body has to convince the team of who they really are, then they have to get whoever back in the correct body, but still help 004. The body swap will make them aware of the consciousness switching device. 004’s guilt over using a body that wasn’t a host candidate might even cause him to be the one who comes forward. Using someone who’s currently hosting a Faction traveler could be a solution to finding 004 a healthy body, or having the Director give them permission to use the next available host candidate.

There is, of course, the off chance that 004 is still in his own body, is in the body of a stranger, or that his new host has been overwritten rather than put into a new body or storage, but where’s the fun in that?

(I know my odds don’t add up to 100%. There’s time travel involved, they don’t have to.)

7. Who Is Traveler 001/Vincent Ingram/Katrina Perrow?

Vincent is the most unreliable of unreliable narrators. He’s paranoid, psychotic, a psychopath, and lies as easily as he tells the truth. It’s hard to tell which parts of his history are delusions, but chances are that the Director hasn’t been hunting him since the first few years. Once the traveler program was fully operational, and there were thousands of travelers in the 21st, why would the Director care more about Vincent than any of its other orphans, like 004? It would be a massive waste of resources to hunt down every lost traveler and kill them.

001

The reality is that a billionaire can’t actually hide. His name is all over official documents, and he’ll show up on satellite