Talk:Charlie Senarak/@comment-26080476-20170824033627

Was he doomed either way?

He killed Theo Katranis, the unsub Mitchell Crossford's brother, prompting the latter to blackmail him and frame him for the sarin attack. Though the former was exonerated for the sarin attack, he likely would be imprisoned for his killing of Theo because it was not really self-defense (he had kicked in the hotel room door, followed by Theo reaching for his revolver). Not to mention if it was self-defense, Charlie would have called the police, not buried the body.

If he did NOT kill Theo Katranis, he would have maintained his normal routine, been on time to the bus station, been on time for the bus that day. The same bus that was hit by the sarin attack. He would have died obviously from that sarin attack.

Rossi's quote towards the end of the episode was very appropriate: "The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." - Paul Auster