I was wrong.

I was wrong about just about everything.

When Peter plugged the Observer tech into his head a few weeks ago, I predicted that he was the first Observer. When we realized that little bald boy empath from Season 1 was Michael, part of Walter’s plan to save the world, I predicted he was the first Observer. And if not, then that he was the evil Windmark.

How wrong can one person be?

Totally, apparently.

Haven’t seen Friday’s episode yet? Don’t read any further.

Anomaly XB-6783746, the episode’s title, referred to Michael, in his future present.

Nina spells it all out for us. In their evolution to Observer, humans reverted to more animalistic traits. The tilting of the head, almost lizard-like. The inability to feel emotion. And as an empath, Michael can not only feel emotion, but also *other* people’s emotions.

Did they have this in mind when we met Michael in Season 1? I don’t know, but I don’t really care anymore. Even if the story was retrofitted to encompass him, that’s fine. But given that Observers have been visible in every episode since Day 1, one has to think that even if the full storyline wasn’t fleshed out by the time Michael showed up, the showrunners had something in mind along these lines.

Joel Wyman & Co. are going all in on this ending. Killing of Nina yesterday – though we never really got her back story other than as tangential to William Bell and Walter, she’s been as integral a part of the series as any of the “regulars” and someone we grew to love for her intelligence, guile and compassion. I gasped as I realized Nina was going to take her own life – sacrifices must be made to win the war. She’s said it over and over. She was just the latest sacrifice.

So what do we know now?

Michael is an anomaly who was supposed to be killed in his past, our future. He’s the key to Walter’s plan to destroy the Observers. Donald is September – does that make him the first Observer? And if he is the first Observer, does his becoming an Observer create the future that he becomes an Observer to help destroy? (Try to follow THAT question down the rabbit hole.)

Before it’s all over, Olivia’s going to die. Now that we know that Donald is September, recall when he said he had seen every possible future and Olivia died in all of them? And we haven’t seen the man who is Olivia’s killer since he made an appearance in the LSD-cartoon finale to Season 3.

We’ve seen how the showrunners have tied so many ends together. That is far too loose an end to ignore.

I hope I’m wrong again.