This sub plot being casually discarded for cutting time (if it was) has to be one of the luckiest edits in film history, as it allowed a much cooler story, 2 gr

This sub plot being casually discarded for cutting time (if it was) has to be one of the luckiest edits in film history, as it allowed a much cooler story, 2 great sequels, and a delayed plot twist outside of the first movie. Someone else points out that it wasn't strictly necessary to cut this sub plot to enable the second concept of "one" cycles, which I agree with, but having just the b more interesting of the two is probably more potent storytelling.