‘Paradise’ predictions: All the clues from a second bunker to time travel

**Spoiler alert! Read on only if you’ve watched the first three episodes of “Paradise” ***
Now that the first three episodes for “Paradise” have dropped, and we have SO many questions about inside the bunker, outside the bunker, BEFORE the bunker, the list goes on.
A lot happened in these first three episodes including new character introductions and visits to past folks who were bumped off in season one.
But what does it all mean? Here’s some of our predictions for the rest of the season.
Annie’s Baby Matters (Somehow)
We spent the whole first episode of season 2 getting to know Annie (Shailene Woodley), a former tour guide at Graceland who made the place her home after the world fell apart. She was alone for the better part of three years until Link (Thomas Doherty) and his crew arrived and turned out to be some of the few good people in the apocalypse (more on him later).
By the end of the episode, Annie is pregnant by Link, who promises to come back for her after he leaves with his crew to continue their missions of shutting down nuclear reactors around the country. But the months go by and Annie is almost ready to give birth when she sees a plane crash, thinking it’s Link, only to find our man Xavier, injured and delirious.
That was a lot of episode to devote to a new character, one who will likely catch Xavier up on what’s been happening on the surface while he was in the relative safety and comfort of the bunker. It also seems significant that she became pregnant by Link, who seems to matter in other ways
Missing Link?
Link at first blush was just your average good-looking apocalypse survivor who gets a girl pregnant and goes missing. But there is apparently much, much more going on with him.
In the first episode, he mentions being a student at Caltech and we also see him suffer from intense headaches and nosebleeds. We also see Xavier suffer from the same problems while flying his plane out of the bunker towards Atlanta. Xavier is also seeing flashes of a man who, by the end of the third episode is revealed to be Link. WHAT?! Obviously these two are connected, and it likely has something to do with Link’s life before the volcano erupted.
In the before times, we learn that Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson) hired Billy Pace (Jon Beavers, returning in flashback after his character was killed in season 1) to threaten and eventually kill a tech guy named Henry Miller who has something she wants. Billy does the hit and is discovered by a much younger and beardless Link, who Henry had begged Billy not to kill because “the fate of the world may depend on it.” He spares Link but also suffers a brief nosebleed like so many others. Did Link finish Henry’s mysterious work, and is Sinatra after him? Does she even know he exists? How does Xavier know him?
Sinatra Side Hustle
As Sinatra said in the trailer, “It was never just about the bunker.” And we know she’s got something going on the side of the bunker that’s been in the works just as long, based on a flashback where she talks to President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) about needing Henry Miller’s work, as well as arguments in the present day that she is siphoning power from the bunker for something else. First instinct is that there is a second, better bunker somewhere, but with Sinatra, it’s probably something more elaborate.
Later in the third episode, Sinatra speaks with her housekeeper about “Alex,” who is likely not a person but some kind of code name. But they do refer to Alex as “she” and say “She is getting closer.” Alex also happens to be the name of Henry Miller’s wife, who he euthanized in front of Billy because she was suffering from Huntington’s disease.
Time on Your Side
There have been a few hints that time is a factor this season, specifically a lack of time. Sinatra speaks with Dr. Louge in flashback, who tells her the volcano that will end civilization as we know it isn’t the worst part, what follows will make the survivors wish they had died. Determined to save the world (in her way) she wants to know how to fix it, and Logue’s answer is with time, something she can’t buy or change. Or can she?
Henry Miller’s company remains a mystery to us, but before he’s taken out, we learn that he is also a professor teaching a course on “Advanced Wave Functions, Superposition, and Quantum Entanglement.” “Quantum Entanglement” sure seems time related, or, if you’re a Marvel fan, maybe part of a multiverse?
Secret Service Agent of Chaos
Secret Service Agent Jane Driscoll may look like a sweet, naïve, newbie agent, but girl is a stone-cold killer. Last season, she took out her boyfriend Billy, threatened Xavier’s kids in secret, shot Sinatra in the gut (but let Xavier take the fall because he is unaware of what a psycho she is), and this season already took out the sitting president and framed ANOTHER secret service agent for it.
Although Jane seems loyal to Sinatra, she kills with such ease that she could turn on her master at any moment. Something tells us whatever Sinatra’s up to, Jane will likely end up going rogue.