The first episode of Lanterns ended with a huge twist: Hal Jordan is dead. Discovered by John Stewart and Sheriff Kane in Rushville, we see Hal’s frozen body sitting upright with a bullet in his head at the end of the episode.
This sets up a major mystery about who’s behind the big death (you can read our list of suspects here). However, one viewer has noticed something in the show’s trailer, which might have blown the case wide open.
Sharing a few screenshots from the new Lanterns trailer on Reddit, they saw a body with a similar wound as well as a similar skull. Check this out below.
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Spoilers for Lanterns: Something caught my eye in the new trailer
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“The body Hal drags out from the morgue has a wound on its forehead, exactly where “Hal’s” wound is at the end of episode 1,” they wrote. “And the skull John picks up also has what looks to be a healed wound in a similar area. Lends me to suspect Hal’s still alive, and these are all aliens being murdered.”
Another viewer agreed, pointing out that elsewhere in the same trailer, Hal can be seen dragging the body from the morgue into the same football field that his body was found in.
Redditors have been running with the theory. “That’s an actually insane discovery. If true, this would be exceptional foreshadowing,” one wrote, while another added: “Don’t forget they made a HUGE point to tell the audience that there are species of aliens who can shapeshift so well that they can even fool medical scans without an issue.”
We’ve got to admit, we’re hoping there’s something to this theory. While we’ll likely see more of Hal in the series, we’re holding out hope that he might somehow be still alive.
For more on Lanterns, check out our Lanterns review as well as our breakdown of the Lanterns release schedule.