Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-173.224.248.92-20150720052025/@comment-25176701-20150720175822

Skyzy wrote: Even if Jasper killed Cage, he would have been shot dead immediately after and it still wouldn't stop the Mountain Men from continuing with the plan. They were willing to shoot their own people to walk on the ground. Emerson or someone else would have just taken Cage's place and continued on.

Well, it may have stopped the plan from succeeding. Think about it. Dr. Tsing (the head "Doctor", very important to the plan) was already dead. If Cage had died, then there goes another important person from the plan (the President). They wouldn't know who to follow if they had no leader. If somebody has no leader, they'll be lost.

People may have started arguing over who should take Cage's place, etc. If that happened, then it would have given Clarke and Bell more time to come up with a plan to save their people. I highly doubt that such a group of hostile people (the MM) would willingly "call each other equals" (let everyone be "leader"/in charge). They'd be fighting over the leadership position for sure. Tbh, back when Tsing was alive, it looked like she wouldn't have minded taking over as President either.