Should have ended with Paige in custody on the platform
That would have been a lot more dramatic.
shareThat does sound cool but then my hope for a spinoff would be shattered.
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Think of how much pain we all would have been spared in later seasons if Paige had been kidnapped in Season 1 by that potential abductor.
shareYeah but had they arrested her, they wouldn't have been allowing the train to leave until the other two were found. I more wonder what her story was when she got back. I think she probably threw her parents under the bus and said that they told her it was a weekend vacation, and they told her the truth right before the border, which was why she left them. Not sure how she plans to help Henry, since she'd be either hiding or in custody. And even without her cover blown, Stan is still better-suited as a guardian.
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The plot was to have the run to the Canadian border be successful so that they could later be seen at home in Russia. If authorities were on the platform, and caught Paige, they'd have caught Philip and Elizabeth, too.
Abandoning a finale to a cheap arrest chase would not have worked with the show's whole theme.
The power of Paige's end was in having Paige "escape" from the safety of her parents' well-planned bug-out plan, as a result of Paige's per usual over-confidence in her own righteousness, to return to Granny's flat where she was just being groomed as the next generation and never knew that's all it was.
Paige finally did herself in. Well done. She's alone. No place to go but the streets to try to live anonymously?
I suspect Paige was knocking on Stan Beeman's door in a day or two. Come what may, though good luck to Stan. Best friends with a sleeper family for years.
Oh dear oh dear. Bye bye pension.
It could have ended with Paige getting the police to chase her so her parents could have gotten away. They would have to live with being responsible for screwing up their daughter's life.
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