entry 64 still fucks me up in a lot of ways but what fucks me up specifically in this particular moment is the phone call can we break this down
alex knows where tim and jay are in that exact moment. he knows exactly when to make the call before they reach the end of the tunnel.
which means he’s probably watching them in real time.
tactically speaking, he has the full advantage. we know that he’s still armed (totheark takes the gun off him in entry 67, which chronologically occurs after 64 while tim is masked out) and that he’s capable of powering through the operator’s bullshit when he’s really truly determined (as we witness in entry 43)
we know from entry 52 that he was, at this point, capable and willing to shoot and kill someone else
meaning he could have taken advantage of this set up at basically this exact point in time
he could have gone up against jay and tim, gun in hand, sandwiching them between himself and the operator, and probably ended things right then and there
this was in the early days of tim and jay’s team-up while they were still untrusting and scared and inefficient and he could have exploited that to his own utterly destructive benefit
he could have
he didn’t
he called them instead
he called jay to tell him to leave
he called jay to warn him
he sacrificed a complete strategic advantage to call jay to warn him and tell him to leave. now.
while we don’t know the timeline of exactly when and to what extent all the pieces of alex kralie started dying out one by one, i don’t know how else to interpret that one specific moment
and i wonder if that phone call in entry 64, that choice to warn jay and tim away instead of taking full advantage of a very easily exploitable situation was the last conscious choice alex kralie made as himself
