It turns out the mysterious Alex is actually a quantum computer housed in a second bunker in Colorado. It was named after the wife of Henry Miller, the professor who worked on the computer with Dylan/Link (Thomas Doherty) and was killed by a hit man hired by Samantha Redmond (Julianne Nicholson) after he refused to sell his company.
While the identity of Alex was finally revealed in Episode 8, several questions remain unanswered: Is Dylan a.k.a. Link actually Samantha's son? Is Jane really dead? Why is Xavier having visions of Link? And what is up with those bloody noses?
If you were to ask Paradise writer and executive producer John Hoberg what might have been the most surprising part of the finale for fans, he'd say, “I think it depends. Are you sniffing around in quantum stuff before this episode?"
"To me, that I think is going to be really surprising," he added. "And the fact that the bunker actually goes down."
While Hoberg asserted that everything will be answered by the end of Season 3, he spoke exclusively with Parade about some of Season 2's biggest questions, as well as why they went the direction they did with Alex...
Nicole Brydon Bloom's character Jane was stabbed in Season 2, Episode 7.Disney/Ser Baffo
Do you think losing the bunker makes it more dangerous now for these characters who have been hunkered down there for all these years? Some of them, like the people that arrived with Teri and Xavier have been out in the world,. But yeah, a lot of these people who've been in the bunker are going to be faced with a brand new reality. And so I think there's dangers, there's opportunities for these "cancer cowboys" [who] want to build a new world. It's kind of a big, wide open place for everybody.
I think fans are going to be so happy to learn who Alex finally is in the finale. What led you guys to take the story in that direction, leaning into AI/the computer?We have this saying in the writers' room and we call it "Martini's Law," just randomly, but it's sort of this thought that we want this to, like Season 2, to end where you have a way to explain what happened as Sinatra might just be so desperate to connect with her child again, that she's believing something that can't possibly be true, or you can believe she's right, and this is true, and there is a computer, an AI, trying to use quantum physics to manipulate time. That's kind of important to us. You could watch that two ways and say, "Okay, I'm a believer," or "I also am skeptical." So that's one of the things.It really came out of talking about Sinatra, and if you have unlimited resources, and you are trying to figure out how to save the planet. She's trying to figure out how to save humanity from the beginning, but deep down inside, she's also desperately mourning that her child is gone. And so it just kind of naturally started to come out that it's like, well, if she had this conversation with that Dr. Louge, who said the one thing you billionaires can't buy is time, what she initially, in my mind did is, I need to find the fastest computer because I don't have enough time, so I need the fastest computer in the world to solve this issue, so that the volcano, we can somehow help with climate change and then stop this volcano from erupting. And then this unexpected thing happened, when she hired people and gave them unlimited money, and they added this AI, and suddenly it started thinking different.And so it started thinking differently than a human would, and it approached it in a way of, like, wait a minute, this might try to solve it by using quantum theories to deal with time and where the professor is like, this is too dangerous, I'm betting Sinatra was like, "Oh my God," like if there was even a hint of maybe things could be changed, and what if you heard like a child that you lost, you might be able to see them again in some way. It would be too tempting for her not to just throw all the resources into it. And so that's where we started talking about it. And then I went out with my co-writer in 208 Seena, and we spent hours at the quantum lab at Caltech [California Institute of Technology], talking to the head of quantum physics there about this theory and what we were doing. He's a consultant on the show, and we worked out what the actual quantum theory is right now about how time works.
I was thinking that as I was watching the episode. I know it started off with Samantha wanting to solve the climate crisis, but at a certain point, I was like, "Could this have something to do with her son? Because, if I recall, in Episode 7, Samantha even tells her husband, "It worked," or something to that effect.Yeah.
Link has the same name and birthday as Sinatra's sonDisney/Ser Baffo
Will we find out next season?I will say this, we, from the beginning, made a pact, Dan [Fogelman] and I, that this show would not become frustrating because we didn't answer the big questions. And for two seasons, we've done that. We posed a big question and then answered, and so we will not leave people hanging.
You brought up the bloody noses. Will we get an explanation as to why Xavier, Samantha and Link had those bloody noses?We'll get answers. Having just broken out the eighth episode, I feel like it will be a very satisfying third season.
I feel like somehow she's connected to Alex. Because before her birth, there was that message that was sent from Alex to that man, which said, "She can be stopped when it matters." So when does it matter? We have a whole third season to go.Unless it mattered because Gabby needed to be alive. I don't know. Or maybe that's not why. Maybe that's what mattered. Or maybe it's something else that mattered, or maybe that was what mattered. I'm very bad at this because I'm terrified of speaking about anything. [Laughs.]
We've seen Xavier, throughout the season, is having these memories of Link. So obviously, there's a connection between the two of them. Is Alex at the root of all this?You have to track the coincidences and what people were talking about. Even the professor right before Billy shot him, said, "Do you believe things happen for a reason, or is it a coincidence?" And in a lot of ways, that's a theme that we're trying to ask people is, "Do you believe in coincidences, or do things just randomly happen?" And a lot of the things that were coincidental all seem to be circling around the professor [who] was working on Alex, seem to be circling around Alex.
I almost wondered at a certain point, could Alex have been behind the climate crisis? Was she the one that started it all?Maybe. I don't know. It's a cool idea, though.
Julianne Nicholson's character died in the Season 2 finaleDisney/Ser Baffo
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Were there any writing challenges this season? Yeah. One of the great things as a writer working with Dan, is he's true to character always. To try to make something happen, he'll never make a character do something they wouldn't, and so in some ways, that makes writing it clear. Not necessarily easy, but clear, because you know you need to be true to what a particular character would do in a situation, and sometimes they don't want to do what you need them to do. So that's where it gets tricky, where it's like, okay, well, we clearly haven't found the right series of events to cause someone to do what we're hoping they'll get to do. And sometimes you're just like, "Nope, it can't be done."
Sterling K. Brown and Enuka Okuma with Benjamin MackeyDisney/Gilles Mingasson
John, congratulations to all of you. This season was amazing. I feel like everyone I talk to, they're obsessed with Paradise.It's funny. Season 1, I was blown away by how many [people reached out]. I was getting emails from high school friends I hadn't talked to. And I feel like this season, it's even stepped up more. It feels like we keep kind of landing on the way people are feeling about things. I don't mean politically at all, I just mean the feeling like things are out of control in the world. We keep kind of landing on stuff that I think it's really resonating with people because of that.And none of that is like, "Ooh, what do we think in a year is really going to relate to what people are going through?" It's more just where everybody else is playing around with, "Okay, what's the worst case scenario of some of the world's situations, and let's just keep rolling with it. What's the worst-case scenario if a giant volcano erupted? Let's go with that." Because I think a lot of people are trying to deal with anxiety in the world. And another reason I think people are responding to it is when you do that, and you have an ending to it, it almost is comforting, even though it's anxiety-provoking. Bbecause at least in a show, you get some sense of closure and some sense of it all happened for a reason.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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