sentences:  Boris, knowing he is going to be arrested from his older self, goads K to do just so, but this provokes K into killing him, thus preventing the cycle from repeating.The colonel's young son James arrives and when he inquires about his father, K neuralyzes him and tells him only that his father is a hero.Observing from afar, J realizes that the young boy is himself, the colonel was his father, K has been watching over him his whole life and that he was there when the timeline changed, thus explaining why he was the only one who remembered K in the alternate 2012.