Why couldn't Cage and Rita take a military helicopter to reach the dam?
When Cage and Rita first meet they attempt to reach a dam in France which apparently locates the Omega creature. They spend hundreds of lives to get out from the beach, then hundreds more to reach the helicopter. But why couldn't they have simply taken the military helicopter to do the job, similar to how it worked in the ending?
Best Answer
Most of the loops that Cage is doing in the beginning results in him gaining combat skills.
After that, based on what Rita says, they are trying to get to the Omega to kill it and end the war.
The Omega has places a false vision inside Cage's head, the dam.
When he gets there he realizes it's a trap to drain his blood and hence his ability.
Then they move to steal a device to find the actual location of the Omega with Cage's alpha blood.
Before they can go to the actual location in Paris, Cage get's a transfusion and he can't loop.
Now, as a final attack they assemble a crew and fly to Paris.
So you see, they learn through the looping and change the course of events. Till then they Live Die Repeat to get better at doing that one thing and move to the next step.
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Why does Cage wake up in the helicopter?
This would have happened 24 hours after a point in time prior to Step 1 above, while he was asleep on the helicopter. It would have triggered the start of a new time loop from that point it time. Ergo, Cage was sent back 24 hours prior to when the Omega was killed, which means he wakes up in the helicopter.Is Cage The new Omega?
Since Cage essentially stepped into the role of an Alpha when he died, the time looping isn't actually his power. It belongs to the Omega. Without an Omega around to fling Cage's consciousness back in time whenever he dies, Cage is fated to live and die \u2014 with no repeat \u2014 just like the rest of us.COULDN'T RIDE ANYMORE AND HAD TO STOP S06 EP.06 | MIDDLE EAST ON MOTORCYCLE
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