re: just finished looper

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Because Old Joe wasn't going to stop trying to kill the kid, and Cid's "transformation" into the Rainmaker was the result of Old Joe killing his mother in front of him.

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He became the Rainmaker without Old Joe's help. If Joe did kill his mom, he would have known who it was the first instance he came back, and not killed those other kids first.

I agree that Joe would have kept pursuing the kid, but it would have been harder for him to catch up to him