Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-98.81.173.48-20121212123938/@comment-4356024-20130112155508

Wait a minute... that just made me think of something. You know how Dimitri is being left in the "present" to watch for signs of activity or whatever? What if he's The Collector?

The paradox could be that he began collecting pieces of antiquity to enable the gang to reach different eras of time (how else are they going to go from Fuedal Japan to the Wild West?). Sanzaru said the gang wouldn't leave time-travel to return to Paris for more treasures to change eras. That means they've either got to acquire them in the era they go to (seemingly impossible), or have them sent to them (somewhat pseudo-possible in this plotline), because they need an item from that era to reach that era (and didn't plan ahead, obviously).

Sly and the gang wouldn't realize Dimitri would be The Collector because he hasn't become him yet and that technically hasn't happened in their timeline, but both characters are reptiles (in my opinion) and both are Parisian. Also, some of the guards from Sly 2 were rats, and it's been shown that there are rats in Sly 4's Paris.

It's a bit of a stretch, but I think it's a definite possibility.