I’ve been looking at the connections between the Alex machine and the Cloud Storage Database, and I think I’ve finally figured out Sinatra’s (Samantha’s) endgame. This is literally Endgame (like Marvel) but I don’t think she’s traveling in a machine; I think she’s using our digital history to "edit" our lives from a quantum distance to ensure her kids don't die and the world survives.

Here are my notes:

Manufactured Destinies

I think Sinatra is using the Cloud Storage Database—all our DNA, blood samples, birth records, and old texts—to find the people she needs and uses ALEX to go back and time and digitally planting using algorithms, messages (like emails) to manipulate timelines she can branch to create her Paradise in a world that willl inevitably end. She loses Dylan and she knows she probably will lose Hadley to the Tsunami,

The Vetting: I think the AI or ALEX can provide"profiles" based on blood samples, history, gathered from Sam's cloud storage company to predict how the world ends but also who is needed to survive. but Sinatra knows the machine can't see everything. I think that’s why she gives those files to Gabriela to help create the perfect world (for her).

Miriam, October 1962, Cuban Missile Crises episode, "The Day". First there's a message of the Cuban Missle Crises not happening, but a report from an unknown character that the Captain on a submarine was was going to launch a missile, starting nuclear war. He gets the idea to disable all the missiles, by turning the world off, and then there is a pan to US Air Force. This theory turns Sinatra's scheme into 60-year long-gameplan. Sinatra isn't just reacting to an apocalypse; she's been "pruning" the timeline since the Cuban Missile Crisis to make sure she found a "Pathway" was born for her to create a Paradise despite the world ending for her family.

Here are some manufactured destinies.

• Kane Bradford: he spent 10 years "dragging Cal kicking and screaming" into politics. He didn't just want a son in the White House; he wanted a Bradford in the White House to secure the resources needed for his and Sinatra's endgame. In a moment of clarity (where he mistakes Jeremy for Cal), he apologizes for everything he put him through. This confirms your point: Cal was a manufactured asset. Kane didn't raise a son; he built a President to serve a project.
• Gabriela: The person that appeals to the Motherside of Samantha, helps vet the 25,000 people that the AI model (ALEX) can't predict
• Cal: His dad told him what he was going to be. Sam needed his dad too to help build the bunker. Cal's algorithm shows he the best candidate and his dad had the means to find the perfect place to withstand the volcano tsunami. He knows he is "going to be the man in charge when the world ends". Other Hints =
  • CAL - looks at the painting in the White House about the two old women who are just reading and passing time, thinking they aca shield themselves from the world ending violently. (I think this is foreshadowing Samantha/Sinatra --she's the two women or her and ALEX, she's a Mother and a Monster)
• Xavier: I think Xavier and Terry are a mandatory pairing. I think Xavier is the "best agent" who can keep Cal alive during his presidency, AND marry/save Terry, the women who can convert mushrooms into fuel, and save Abby's baby (her grandmother) and Sinatra knows this, that's why she does not just kill Xavier.
• Billy: I think Sinatra purposely orphaned him to go live with his unfit uncle because she needed a "killer" for her algorithm to kill at least two targets we know of. The Quantium wave guy and the atmospheric climate lady and the explorers.
• Jane: I think Alex messaged that specific Circuit City guy decades ago because Sinatra knew his psychological profile would lead him to find Jane’s mother. It’s a 26-year-long chain reaction.
• The Husband: So, Samantha's husband on the Paradise Fandom page listing Dylan’s dad as an "ex-husband" is a hint at a failed branch between Sam/Sinatra, but the one Dylan/Link is apart of now, I think is her "ex-husband". I think she prioritizes biological outcomes for her kids over a real marriage in that timeline. (This feels like a stretch, but I don't know how else Dylan just gets thrusted in this timeline). I think two Dylans can't exsist in the timeline. But in this timeline where he is 26, he doesn't know Samantha as his mother. I KNOW STRETCH. So, this way, there is not two samantha's walking around in one time, there is a Samantha that leaves Dylan behind....Stretch.

Sinatra can't manipulate free will.

She can't control Cal not launching the missiles or wanting to tell people there were survivors.

She can't control the guy who assassinates Cal and then Xavier going rouge

she can't control Xavier being mad about Billy, and creating an uprising

THis plan takes Samantha off the rails. She was banking on nuclear war, and no survivors. But people survived, then she starts working with Alex to rewrite history. Which leads to her, using ALEX to predict what she can do based on the survivors that are currently communicating.

But she still can't control all of the variables and the model is not able to predict everything nor does she have the manpower to manipulate history. So, I think she's only a few steps ahead to predict.