*** [[ItGotWorse It gets worse.]] [[spoiler: Colter appears to be absolutely fine residing in Sean's body without letting anybody else know. The woman who had already fallen for Sean (having waited, for months, for him to ask her to have coffee) has no idea that he's been [[BodySnatcher body-snatched]] by a soldier from a parallel universe; his parents will never know what happened to their son; his friends will never know why he [[NotHimself suddenly dropped all contact with them]], and his students, at least some of whom he's probably formed close, mentoring relationships with, will have no idea that this is a different man. Sure, he might be "close enough" to Sean psychologically to be a good fit, but just imagine any of that happening to your loved one, your child, your friend, or one of your favorite teachers. Or to you. And when he sees his reflection at the end of the movie, reminding himself of all of this? He's smiling because he's next to the woman who will never know she's with a different man. Brrr.]]

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* [[spoiler: In every alternate Universe (including the one depicted as the ostensibly happy ending) Sean Fentress dies and Colter steals his girlfriend. Not only this, but she doesn't even realise that Sean has been replaced with an impostor. And Colter seems completely fine with this. ]]
** Think that's bad? [[spoiler:Think about this: EVERY timeline that Colter failed except the last two, the Dirty Bomb was detonated and MILLIONS died throughout Chicago.]]
*** [[spoiler: Not quite. the dirty bomb has been detonated in any universe because in every universe that Colter goes back into he travels to before the bomb is detonated.]]
**** [[spoiler: I think the point is that every universe continues after the end of the simulation, since that's what happened with the last one. In which case, there were several dirty bombs detonated after the end of every simulation. We're basically sacrificing alternate universes that we create to save our own. ]]
***** [[spoiler: Though it may be that alternate universes can only come into existance with a mind to create them so they only "real" alternate was the last one because the others never had a perminant reality and [[AustinPowers oh no, I've gone cross-eyed]]..]]
**** [[spoiler: Actually, the real number of dirty bombs detonated is aproximately ZERO. In all the timelines that Colter(The SEAN of that timeline) failed to prevent the train bomb, the source code program was used (It is explicitly shown that the only reason for not using it was that the train was saved), and we can assume that the Colter of those timelines succeded in identifying the bomber and stoping the dirty bombs, the passengers of the train did die in all those timelines, tough ]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Colter has no idea who Sean even is. He knows his name, possible occupation, and picture from an ID card, but Sean could easily be married (it's implied that Sean and Colleen didn't really know each other that well). Not to mention helicopter piloting doesn't exactly transition well into teaching leaving one to assume that Colter got fired soon after the events of the film.]]
*** [[spoiler: And of course he has none of Sean's memories or experiences, so how long will it be until Christina (among others) realizes it's an impostor? From her point of view, some random guy erased her friend from existence, stole his body, and used it to seduce her.]]
** A bit of further FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Imagine all the people in the world who experience [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion Capgras Syndrome]]. Now imagine that all those people are ''right''.]]
*** And it goes on: [[spoiler: If, in future, Colter is ''always'' successful at preventing atrocities before they happen, then Dr Rutledge will never know that he's actually used Source Code, and presumably the government will get fed up with funding a project that never gets used. What happens to Colter then? It's implied that he's the only human subject they have, but what if there are others by then who don't want their life-support turned off?]]

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* If Colter is experiencing Sean's memories and experiences, and only Sean's, then how could he have found the bomb to begin with? After all, Sean never knew about it. It was never part of his experience. So how could the bomb have made it into the simulation?
** [[spoiler: It's made quite explicit that source code runs at a quantum level, and an inadvertent side-effect is that the universes it creates are not temporary. As each universe is a carbon copy of the original save Colter's presence in Sean's body, he is essentially exploring the full past and not just Sean's subjective memories.]]

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