I guess that's not what I got out of it. He sought to get back to 1996 because she convinced him the rest of his experience in the future was an delusion. Rail

I guess that's not what I got out of it. He sought to get back to 1996 because she convinced him the rest of his experience in the future was an delusion. Railly has experiences that challenge her idea of reality. At first she believes Cole is insane but then experiences evidence that he's not. Now believing the plague Cole mentioned is coming she really has no one else.