What if Kenny kills Arvo after the gunfight?
Does it really change anything that happens going forward? I think the biggest question is does Luke live in that scenario.
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Does it really change anything that happens going forward? I think the biggest question is does Luke live in that scenario.
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Not especially?
The thing is that Kenny primarily relented on the grounds that Arvo offered them food and shelter at a time where they were all tired, the temperature had been dropping, and a snow storm was brewing not too many days away.
Sure, they could always just turn down his offer or at least go around the damn frozen lake(which was ultimately an environmental hazard waiting to happen without their luck being a few notches higher anyway), but there's still the fact that they were already heading down that very same road anyway with the spot they stopped to rest at seemingly still being it, with the city still being nowhere nearby.
And while I'm not 100% on this, the church itself was apparently supposed to be on that very road at one point, so who knows how that would've affected things, if at all.
Had Kenny killed Arvo right after the gunfight, I'd imagine that the group would have been split apart very early since the idea of killing a disabled and unarmed teenager wouldn't sit right with most of the group. The subject of whether Arvo should be held 100% accountable for the bandit attack would make matters worse, especially if Jane confesses that the bandits attacked first because of her.
They also wouldn't even know where else to go to for food and supplies (besides the church location that was never brought up again), since Arvo wouldn't be alive to take the group to cross the frozen lake and reach his shelter. Not only that, there likely wouldn't be a working vehicle to reach Wellington either.
Chances are the whole group would have starved to death in the cold.
Oh yeah.
Um, and what he said.
You really think the group attacked because of Jane? I think they were going to attack anyway. They weren't nice people.
Considering they specifically came because Jane robbed Arvo and Arvo himself didn't seem to have seen the rest of the group, I somewhat doubt that.
Come to think of it, what's the relevance?
Then the group would've continued on, going to the church town, and maybe No Going Back wouldn't have been so shit. Maybe. Provided they all didn't forget about it for no reason, like in the actual episode.
I'm pretty sure their dialogue translations and the timing of the ambush heavily hints that the Russians had planned to get back at the people who tried to rob them first. Eye for an eye, and all that.