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Alien DNA and my theories (SPOILERS)


So in episode 14 (S2:E6) French scientist Catherine suggests that the aliens didn’t travel to earth, they time travelled from the future. This means they are humans. I have a theory about who they are. Read on only if you like Spoilers.

- These people are the future descendants of Emily. This is why she has the same DNA anomalies as them. Sasha may be the paternal father to all of them.
- They have the same tattoo as Emily because she was their leader. Like a clan symbol.
- The ‘aliens’ are slightly telepathic because Emily (and Sasha) are.
- The aliens all speak with British accents because that’s where the Emily clan live.
- The aliens don’t mind killing everyone else because they know they don’t survive anyway. Or perhaps in the future there are rival clans and they want only Emily’s to survive. The killer dogs scan the DNA and only kill non-clan humans.

Why would the ‘aliens’ want to kill billions of people? I don’t think the initial attack was done by the same group. Maybe it was some natural disaster, radiation from a distant star. If they evolved from the survivors maybe they knew the exact time to return to, but no way of stopping that other event. There hasn’t been any suggestion the people-like ‘aliens’ are anywhere on earth apart from France and Britain. They have their mission based around Emily.

The fact that Emily already has the virus inside her is a problem to all this but maybe the Emily-clan think they can clean her of it or maybe the virus mutates later and is only a problem for them 100s years on, so they still need to stop Bill releasing it to the whole world.

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"They have the same tattoo as Emily because she was their leader. Like a clan symbol."

No one asked Emily how/when/why she got her "clan" tattoo. I doubt she was born with it.

"The aliens all speak with British accents because that’s where the Emily clan live."

No, they all speak with British accents because most of the actors were from the UK.

"Why would the ‘aliens’ want to kill billions of people?"

Good question...I can't come up with a good reason.

ND2

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Maybe if they kill Bill he won't deploy the virus and the timeline will be restored with the present as it was before the aliens arrived minus Bill and season 3 won't happen.

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Remarkably close, @JustinUK!

With regard to "No one asked Emily how/when/why she got her "clan" tattoo. I doubt she was born with it."

Actually this was addressed in S01E01, she told her mother that a friend chose it for her. And we saw her getting it pretty much in the opening scene of the first episode.

All through the series I was wondering "so was this friend actually an alien from an advance party, or what?"

But now it seems the answer is so much simpler: the aliens copied it from Emily.

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This whole story is a work of fiction. Therefore your theories sound very silly

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In fact, the above theories have actually proved to be remarkably accurate in the context of the series.

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