Season 9 should start right at the end of season 6. Season 7 and 8 were dreams - explaining why he was not really himself and some of the major plot holes (like when he banged on the window while his "mother" was getting her throat slashed instead of going THROUGH THE DOOR! or when the sea was perfectly calm hours before a hurricane).  These things made me mad, but if it were just a dream I could forgive it.


So when he wakes up, he doesn't know Hannah yet. La Guerta and Deb are still alive. Etc.


He then meets Hannah in a different situation, like, maybe she comes on to work for the police department? She is not a serial killer in this reality, but he doesn't trust her and he has a hard time separating what happened in his "dream" and what is happening now.


Thoughts?