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The Book

  • Does Kirsten ever realize that she watched both Arthur Leander and his son, The Prophet die in front of her? Since Clark knew the identity of the latter, did he ever tell her? Did she figure it out on her own? Or did she remain blissfully ignorant of this fact?
    • Clark mentions his intention to show Kirsten the museum, where his picture (as a kid) is prominently displayed on his passport. One would assume the subject would come up.
  • How could a community with electricity be so close to the airport that they can see it with a telescope BUT they don't already know about them or who they are through trade with the surrounding, nearby communities?

The Series

  • Does Miranda die? She's last seen feverish on the beach but it's left open-ended as to whether she actually succumbed to the Georgia Flu
    • Considering the severity of the Flu and her condition gradually worsening, it's most likely that she did succumb to the Flu.
    • It also seems like nobody got sick and then survived. I always assumed the last scene was her last thoughts before she died.
    • The last shot we see of her is actually her and Jim on the floor of the hotel room, so the scene on the beach might be either her last thoughts or a dying hallucination.
  • The Museum of Civilization has someone living there who can diagnose Sarah's heart attack, put her on oxygen and plug her into an IV drip... yet they needed to call Dr. Jeevan from a day's journey away to give Clark some burn ointment?
  • Didn't the Prophet send *children* as suicide bombers to assassinate Gil? Why does he never get called out on that? And why did he do that in the first place?
    • During his conversation with Kirsten when he meets her again after she is separated from the Symphony in episode 6, the Prophet warns her that he will "lose control of the story" if he dies (which is how he starts to convince her not to kill him immediately). He says that "it happened already", saying that, while he was recovering, one of his followers (Haley) told a different story of "the Prophecy" to the younger children, saying that the mines "erased the past" and that was what led to the disaster at Pingtree. This explains both why it happened and why he wasn't held to account for it

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