Yeah, or if he can get back to the present time just before she winds up being put in the time machine I think either one of those scenarios will play out.
Exactly, but time paradoxes are around the corner in this kind of situations... no, who am I kidding, they already happened with MC and Bacon's doubles (and the old man who I believe is actually an older Bacon) the timeline is already messed up, most likely mixed with alternative realities, but we do know that everything we're doing already happened: at first we suspected MC was Juli's bf in her college time, then we had proves he was (the "dream" and the photo) and now we know
why he went back in the past (to save Nika), although is very possible something could change along the way.
And what the doubles are planning to achieve? Is it good? Bad? I mean their behaviour looked like it was bad, or really fishy to the very least, but something tells me it's not how it seems. I guess only time will tell (this time more than others
)
Besides we still have to figure out how MC (and Nika) would go back to the present, I mean it's not like he has a DeLorean to go back on his own, right?