Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife.

HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife episode 3 features the revelation that a future Henry will be shot and die at a certain age, tying into the previous foreshadowing of his death. However, this indicates a slight deviation from both The Time Traveler's Wife book and movie. In both, Henry dies at age 43 of a gunshot wound, and in the series, the shooting occurs when he is 42, hinting that his age of death has been altered for the series. However, they may yet be another twist in the show.

The Time Traveler's Wife series has already deviated from Audrey Niffenegger's book in several ways. Changing Henry's age at the time he was shot could be a setup for a more significant plot change. It's a hint that the series intends to take the ending in a different direction than both the book and the movie, which both end in Henry's definitive death.

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In The Time Traveler's Wife episode 3, an aging Clare looks back on her life with Henry after losing him. A young Clare hears a gunshot followed by a 42-year-old Henry calling to her in pain. She rushes out into the snow to see her father and brother, guns raised. A pool of blood rapidly vanishes, confirming that Henry has been shot. However, Clare's narrative tone is peaceful, rather than devastated, suggesting that his death is somehow not the end. It raises the question of whether Henry dies as he does in the book and movie, of the gunshot wound at age 43, or whether the show plans to make a major change. The Time Traveler's Wife implies that the answer is both yes and no. His age of death has almost certainly been changed to 42. However, Henry's death, while real, is not the end of the story, as The Time Traveler's Wife book and film reveal that Henry's daughter will become an important figure who can control where and when she travels, preserving Henry's life.

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The Time Traveler's Wife episode 3 introduces the idea that Henry's death is both final and not absolute. His dialogue suggests that he does die; however, it's more likely that death is simply relative. First, older Clare explains that while at first, it seems like there are multiple Henrys who visit her at different ages, they are "the same Henry, just shuffled." By this logic, Henry is alive after his death. He dies at age 42 when Clare is just a child. Yet she still grows up to marry him. By the logic of The Time Traveler's Wife, Henry's death is relative to her experience of the timeline of his life.

Henry's Time Traveler's Wife encounters with his mother after her death underscore this in episode 2. Adult Henry tells child Henry that he cannot change the past. However, Henry is, in fact, able to change the past. Henry gives his mother a note to read addressing Clare. In addition, The Time Traveler's Wife book and movie both reveal that Clare and Henry's daughter can travel through time deliberately to the time and place of her choosing. Since the dead are considered alive in the past and being alive therefore depends on having a time traveler to visit and interact with the deceased, Henry's death is relative.

All signs point to the fact that Henry will die. However, Henry was able to alter the past to send messages to Clare via video. His daughter may also be able change history in The Time Traveler's Wife to allow Henry to communicate with Clare after his death. This could explain the meaning of the films and would be a brilliant change from the book and movie.

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