"Could be both, for all we know." A conspiracy theory might not be the height of important information for someone who just arrived, but Five is getting tired of being jerked around from one crisis to another. Now that they've been slowly eliminating the biggest threats to this world, aside from them, it's fairly transparent that they're being guided in a certain direction.

“Unless coming here has something to do with altering the timeline.” He’s still stuck on that thread that he never bothered connecting before. “You’re not the first. You didn’t arrive from a beacon last time, so there’s something else we must all have in common.”