Did anybody else notice the little kid? The imposter kid, where they found the body beneath the chickens in those people's house?
That woman kept on saying that they were giving the kid a "good christian upbringing" and things like that. Also, that kid was not afraid. I'm thinking that kid was actually possessed by a traveler hero for the evil side. Like the demon mythology, or Sith or whatever. The "other" side.
He wasn't an impostor. There was another little boy before him, who must've done something to make his psychotic abductors decide he was too stained with sin to be saved. Just as little Alexander would have (and apparently three more after him).
He was used by the Director to send an abort message to MacLaren. I don't think they can use prepubescent children as hosts though. We've seen them inhabit teenagers but never, say, a nine year old.
This mission was bogus. Philip knew that the couple abducted, held and eventually killed children and tried to stop it under a false pretext. He saw the ginger kid who was playing outside his white board/door and it gave him an idea to invent a mission to save the abducted child he knew would be killed by the psychopathic couple. The ginger kid outside the door was a red herring to make us believe that it was he who gave Philip the message for the mission. Since they arrived Philip was the only one who had to face, personally and intimately, the reality of protocol 3 (Don’t take a life; don’t save a life, unless otherwise directed) and found it harder and harder to follow. The mother of the "friend" he let die from overdose who confronted him in the cemetery, the cop, in previous episode, he had to watch die of a heart attack in the alley while he begged him to call for help, the detailed knowledge of all the people who will die even if not used as host candidates. It was not an abstract idea anymore. This is why he started calling the police with tips on coming events where a lot of people will die and in this case went a step further and invented a mission.
I hear what you're saying, but disagree.
Alexander made a mistake by letting the team intervene in that family's house. That's because the director knew that interfering would provide aid to what is/was going on there.
Here's what I think happened:
- That couple had a child. The remains of this kid is buried underneath their house.
- Another kid (the one everyone thought was abducted) was/is actually possessed by something malevolent (like a demon or evil hero), ran away from home and looked for a place to hide out for a while.
- The demon convinced the parents to murder their own child (or just murdered the kid himself), thereby imposing himself into that (host) family.
Here's why: The demon is trying to bide time, building strength and hiding. I'm imagining that life is pretty hard for a demon, arriving somewhere in the present without support and needing to use guile for cover while strength can be built to actually accomplish a (bad/evil) mission. Or maybe, like the engineers, he's just here to have his version of a good time.
Here's the screw-up that Alexander caused. By going to that house, by "saving" the demon, they actually legitimised it, thereby giving it a huge boost. Now it doesn't have to hide anymore, because people are literally falling over themselves to "save" the poor kid who was abducted by the evil family. In fact, it's the kid himself that's the source of the evil.
Here's my "evidence":
- Remember that it was a surprise when everyone thought that there was no kid, then they insisted to see the kid and then a kid actually showed up?
- Remember that the "dad" was gleeful when he finally realized that he would have to go and fetch the kid. I'm imagining his instructions were to hide the kid, but by being forced to go fetch him, he knew something big was about to happen. He even warned them by saying something like "we'll, remember you asked for it"
- The wife clearly knew that the kid was evil, based on the way she spoke about the kid ("good /Christian/ upbringing"). There's also a little bit of Stockholm syndrome going on there.
I'm guessing that is part of a bigger story-arc that we'll find out more about in the next season(s). Or at least I hope so :)
Alexander was the kid. There are no demons in this show. The couple were insane child murderers.
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