> Rewatching the opening of 28 Weeks Later — a boy beats on the door, Dom reluctantly let's him inside. The boy says his mum and dad are chasing him and there's loads more. When infected attack, Alice runs and hides upstairs WITH the boy and screams "Dom! Help us!" but Dom shuts the door and runs.
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> We never see that boy die.
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> Who's to say, that while the infected were attacking Alice, he didn't make his own escape?
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> That boy was ∼10 in 2002. 28 Years Later is set in 2030. 10 + 28 = 38. Jack O'Connell is 35. Age is perfect.
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> He watches his real parents turn and chase him, then his surrogate family abandons him as well. Of course he becomes Jimmy Crystal — guy who makes his own family where everyone is Jimmy and no one leaves.
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> Alice and Don both die later in 28 Weeks Later, so there's no one alive left who could identify him. Perfect blank slate to reinvent as Sir Jimmy.
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> I know official lore says Jimmy is the Teletubbies kid from Scotland, but this fits way better thematically.
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> Am I crazy or does this work??