All you can do is hope it won't happen

[etana]

Perry said that this thing was set to happen, it happens, whether you like it or not. A certain number of people are going to die every year, and if you save one -- or prevent one of those people from being you -- that number doesn't really change. What Perry means is that fate is set, and if you know yours, all you can do is wait. I think you can never really know your fate, so there's no way to know whether or not any of us have a set destiny. If we do, I don't think it's one straight path; it is branched, and can change by how you react to different situations. No one is born with a sign on their forehead saying "Hi, I will be a serial killer!", but many of us are born with the potential to fulfill that fate. So I agree and disagree, on the basis that one cannot know their fate.

[brian]

I agree with Etana that we don't know our future. There are several different possibilities that your life can take. In Dick and Perry's case there were several different things that could have gone wrong with the investigation that would have let them go free. It is just because those things didn't go wrong that their case didn't go cold. Our future is not a simple path we follow, rather an intricate reaction to how we live our lives.