Is Dylan Sinatra’s son? ‘Paradise’ Season 2 drops huge plot twist for Link'
'Paradise' Season 2 has done a fabulous job of building anticipation while leading up to the finale, which is set to drop on March 30 on Hulu. The post-apocalyptic thriller has kept a tight lid on the show's central mystery surrounding Alex and has set the stage for an explosive reveal next week. The penultimate episode, titled 'The Final Countdown,' hinted at a mind-bending scenario involving quantum mechanics and multiverses. Additionally, Episode 7 all but confirmed that Link, aka Dylan, is Sinatra's dead son from another universe. But how the mechanics to bring him back actually work in practice is something we'll only find out next week.
A 'Star Wars' reference held the key to this season's biggest revelation. In Episode 7 of 'Paradise' Season 2, Link finally meets Sinatra inside Air Force One and reveals what he truly needs from the bunker. But before that, he looks around the aircraft and marvels at its interiors by saying, "This is like Star Wars, huh? All these people and troops and pomp and circumstance. But, I mean, you know, it all comes down to Luke and Vader in the end." Link compares the billionaire Sinatra to Darth Vader and likens his mission to Luke Skywalker's fight for freedom and justice, thus positioning their negotiation as a fight between good and evil. But another thing connects the two men as Luke is Vader's son. The show hides the central twist that Link is Sinatra's child in plain sight, but Sinatra and the audience make the connection later.
Link demands access to Alex, which is confirmed to be a facility inside the bunker that Link and Collins see in their visions. Sinatra is unwilling to hand over the reins of her top-secret project at any cost, and the talks end in an impasse. Before Link leaves, his fellow crew member Geiger calls out to him using his real name - Dylan. Hearing her deceased son's name unlocks something in Sinatra, and she asks the young man for his birth date, which is the same as Dylan's - May 16. Just based on the name and date, Sinatra seems convinced that Link is her son Dylan, who died at a young age.
Dylan's death from a terminal illness was revealed in a flashback scene in Season 1. His death had a profound effect on Sinatra and fueled her desire to protect her family from any potential apocalypse in the future. With that intention in mind, she approached the quantum mechanics professor Henry Miller for his technology related to time travel or the multiverse, which is likely nicknamed Alex after his dead wife, as per Episode 3. Sinatra has been developing the technology in secret at an underground facility named Alex and has perhaps tried to bring Dylan, or a version of him, back from another universe.
Both Link and Sinatra get nosebleeds after their meeting, strongly suggesting that this signals some kind of manipulation of timelines from different universes. Moreover, Sinatra seems uncharacteristically happy after meeting Link/Dylan, cryptically telling her husband Tim that "it worked." Well, it's clear that the negotiations didn't work out, but maybe she meant that Link's appearance confirmed that the technology Alex worked in reality. When her husband asks whether she's okay, she replies that she is and quickly adds, "I can't explain it, but I think Dylan is too." Viewers will get all the answers to their questions next Monday at 12 a.m. ET only on Hulu and Disney+.
