Thread:Prof. Draco/@comment-24588058-20150728205926/@comment-24588058-20150805235744

Well. . . . We know the Warehouse was going to track Man Ray's Camera in 1961, but they were distracted by Cinderella's Knife. The Camera disappeared. Let's say that after Cooper's disappearance he realized that his ripcord and parachute were "magical". That scared him at first; I mean, the idea that your possessions are magical would probably frighten anyone. He sold them off, but later in his life (perhaps around the 80s) he discovered other objects with magical properties. This began to interest him, and it led to him looking into objects who were supposedly "magical" in nature, such as a lockpick that could unlock all modern doors (helpful when you are locked out of your house!) and a hat which causes drunkenness (a hat of Irish origin, most likely).

As the years went by, he began to form an idea in his head of reliving his greatest crime, but instead of using luck, using artifacts to help him. He began searching for objects with specific properties: a bomb that would not explode, an object that could "transport you" someplace else, and something to make him younger. While he searched, he came across a record from 1961 about a camera owned by Man Ray. He tracked down the owner and learned he could make himself younger. This man looked younger (I bet he made himself younger in 1961), and Cooper offered him a large sum of money to make him look younger. The man agreed, and that is when the Warehouse was made aware of Man Ray's Camera again.

It took a few more years, but he finally found a bomb that would barely explode while appearing to pack a large punch and something which would teleport him to a specific location (he tried it out before the flight several times to make sure he knew the area where it would teleport him). With the two artifacts necessary to make his getaway, he made his way to a specific flight.