Damn He Went Missing Again Stranger Things
The latest bingeable horror series on Netflix is Dark, a German sci-fi horror which begins with a missing child in the pocket-size and very rainy German boondocks of Winden and ends with a full and utter mind-flip of interlinked timelines. Some are calling it the adjacent Stranger Things, merely we reckon it's a fleck more... well... nighttime.
It is very good. But it is besides very complicated. In an attempt to get our ain heads effectually exactly what happened by the end of the last ep nosotros've prepared this handy explainer.
Bring some h2o and some Kendal mint cake, it's going to be a tough journey...
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON
Very handily, Christianlorenz97 has created this family tree of the key residents of Winden. We're going to leave this here and so y'all can scroll back and look at information technology once again when needed.
To epitomize:
The series begins in 2019 with Michael Kahnwald, father of Jonas, husband of Hannah hanging himself and leaving backside a notation saying 'not to exist opened until iv November at 10:13pm'.
Cut to November 4, when nosotros learn that a scarlet-haired boy called Erik Obendorf has been missing for two weeks and the case is assigned to police officer Ulrich – the case is very personal to him considering his teenage blood brother went missing in Winden 33 years ago and has never been found.
On the 4th, Ulrich'due south son Mikkel goes missing in the forest nearly the caves, and so the next twenty-four hours a dead kid turns up in the woods wearing '80s togs and a nickel with '1986' on it round his cervix. He's carrying a Walkman and he has severe burns around his eyes and his eardrums are completely burst.
Teenager Jonas was with Mikkel on the night of his disappearance and resolves to try to find him.
The next morning we see Mikkel emerge from the cavern in the woods where he went missing. Only when he gets back into the boondocks he realises information technology's not 2019, in fact it's 1986.
That'south the basic setup of a show focused on fourth dimension-travel between three eras: 1953, 1986 and 2019. The action is entirely set around Winden and is focused on four families – the Kahnwalds, the Nielsens, the Dopplers and the Tiedmanns, who have lived in the town for generations (which is convenient since characters regularly encounter younger versions of themselves and their relatives when they fourth dimension-travel via the cave).
Unsurprisingly, information technology gets complicated. Here'southward what we retrieve is going on.
Time Travel
This centres around an hugger-mugger cellar where Noah (more than on him later) has built a machine which opens wormholes in 33-twelvemonth increments (it's 33 years because of a theory that because a yr isn't really exactly 365 days it'south only every 33 years where things are completely aligned and 'reset' – apparently).
The missing kids are being used to test the fourth dimension car, which currently doesn't work properly and merely kills them and dumps them dorsum in the cellar in another era. At the same fourth dimension it opens a wormhole in the caves so Helge (more on him later too) can go through, find the bodies and motility them out of the cellar to be found. The boy found in episode ane is Mads, brother of Ulrich, who went missing equally a teenager in 1986 and turns upwardly in 2019.
The Stranger
Nosotros learn that the stranger is in fact Jonas Kahnwald as an adult. The Stranger is a fourth dimension-traveller who wants to destroy the time loop and plans to do this with the aid of a machine built by clockmaker and time-travel expert Tannhaus. Noah claims that it'south The Stranger's attempt to close the loop that really created it in the first place.
Noah
Noah is a murderous fourth dimension-travelling priest, and he'due south at war with Claudia (more after) to control time travel.
At the stop of season one Noah'due south origins are even so unclear, though there are clues. While most of the other characters we meet at different ages, we merely ever see Noah equally a middle-aged human – or at least we think then. His priest'due south go-up is a massive advantage since his clothing doesn't tie him to ane era in item.
There's an implication that Noah could be the estranged husband of Agnes Nielsen and the father of Tronte – Tronte has cigar burns on his artillery which seem to have been inflicted by his male parent. His mother Agnes says she was married to a priest.
In 1953, the farmer who has had 33 of his sheep plow up dead i day also says: "There's a new priest at the church". Agnes and Tronte are new in boondocks (and rent a room from Claudia's female parent).
Claudia
Claudia is an skilful time-traveller – and at war with Noah to control fourth dimension travel.
In 1986, Claudia is the caput of the nuclear power plant that's at the centre of Winden. She learns that at that place's been a radioactive leak over the summer. Barrels of nuclear waste product are stored in the caves – these chemicals are stolen by The Stranger and power the device made by Tannhaus which he uses to destroy/create the time loop.
Claudia's domestic dog goes missing in 1953 through the caves and turns upwardly again in 1986 where Claudia finds her. Claudia is aware of time travel (and in 1986 is given Tannhaus' book A Journey Through Fourth dimension by Helge) and seems to exist the primary opposition to Noah. Or is she? Nosotros're really non clear if she'south a goodie or a baddie by the stop.
It's Claudia who gives the blueprints of the device to Tannhaus and convinces The Stranger to set it then that he can destroy the time loop. Noah says she lied to The Stranger – just information technology's not like he's terribly trustworthy anyhow. There is a sense that the two sides we might follow in season two are Helge and Noah vs Jonas (The Stranger) and Claudia.
Helge
Helge is the father of Peter and the father-in-law of Charlotte. He'south too the owner of the fourth dimension-travel cellar (in 2019 and 1986 certainly). Helge is a pawn of Noah, and works with him to abduct and then later cover up the killings of the children.
Helge's time line is super complicated....
Helge is a child in 1953. Ulrich from 2019 goes back in time and meets the young Helge and tries to impale him by hitting him in the caput with a rock and dumping him in the time-travel cellar. Just Helge isn't dead. When adult Jonas sets off the car built by clockmaker and time-travel expert Tannhaus (as e'er, more than on him later) with the intention of closing the wormhole, instead it creates information technology, linking teenage Jonas and child-Helge who are both in the time-travel cellar – Helge in 1953, Jonas in 1986.
They reach out for each other and in doing and then, Jonas is catapulted into the hereafter (presumably 2052). It'south not clear exactly what happens to Helge at this betoken, only we'd imagine this is the signal at which Noah would have gone to recruit him – this is borne out by Helge'southward son Peter, who says his father was kidnapped every bit a child in 1953.
Meanwhile in 2019, we besides learn from Peter that Helge had an accident in November 1986. Erstwhile Helge in 2019 has dementia, but begins to have several attacks of censor (partly brought on by Ulrich's realisation that Helge was responsible for the killings). Old Helge claims he can set up things and change the past and the future, and he leaves the care facility where he lives to go back in time to 1986.
There, he attempts to talk middle-aged Helge out of working with Noah. Only middle-anile Helge won't listen to his older self and instead goes dorsum to Noah, prompting Old Helge to endeavor to kill him in a car crash.
Old Helge simply succeeds in killing his older self and injuring center-aged Helge, who consequently misses the scheduled interview he was supposed to have with the police force. An interview which might perchance have led the police force to realise he was involved in the child disappearances and could have stopped the whole thing...
Causality
Throughout Dark there are paradoxes, such as the higher up, where someone time-travelling actually ends up beingness the cause of the thing they'd travelled back in fourth dimension to forestall.
The Stranger creates the time loop by trying to destroy it. He's only able to practice so with the automobile built past Tannhaus, but Tannhaus only knows how to complete his machine because The Stranger brings him a completed (but broken) version back from the future.
Noah has a book which seems to chart all of the events before they've even happened (certainly up to 2019) which implies he might be from a time to come further on – peradventure 2052 – or only an expert time-traveller who has studied the events of the different eras. This also implies that at that place's an element of the idea of Fate here – that everything was always going to be exactly as it is and it's impossible to change the past or the time to come.
Peter
Peter is Helge's son and the hubby of Charlotte who'southward a policewoman working with Ulrich. Peter is gay and occasionally visits a transvestite male prostitute. He'due south roped into the time-travel thing in 2019 when he's in the cellar (which belongs to Helge) doing the 'Serenity Prayer' on the night of Mikkel's disappearance when the torso of Mads (Ulrich's brother who disappeared in 1986) suddenly drops through the ceiling.
He calls Tronte (Mads' father) who turns upwards with Claudia, who says they must have the body to where it will be constitute. It's likely therefore that he is clued-in to the time-travel thing.
Mikkel and Jonas
Mikkel is revealed to be Jonas' father – aka Michael (who kills himself in the prologue and leaves the annotation with instructions not to read it until Mikkel has already travelled back in time). Mikkel travels back to 1986 and is unable to get dorsum to his own time. Dejected and on his ain, he's eventually taken to hospital where he meets nurse Ines.
They class a bond and when information technology's time for him to be discharged, Ines takes Mikkel in instead. Mikkel tells Ines he'southward from the future, though she doesn't necessarily believe him initially. Later though, she realises (because Mikkel is born and grows upwards in Winden to become the boy she first met, earlier he disappears) just doesn't endeavor to prevent his disappearing once again.
Martha, Mikkel'due south sister and Jonas' love interest, is in fact Jonas' aunt – which he realises and therefore rejects her.
Bartosz
He was a friend of Jonas in 2019 but considering he finds out that Jonas got together with Martha (before he knew she was his aunt) even though she was Bartosz's girlfriend, he turns against Jonas.
Bartosz is contacted past Noah who makes various predictions about things that volition happen via his special book – all of which he gets correct – and manages to convince Bartosz to trust him. Bartosz is therefore likely to join Squad NOAH. Claudia is actually Bartosz' grandmother – even so, his parents told him she was expressionless then they're very much estranged. Some people on Reddit reckon that Noah might really BE Bartosz. Nosotros're not sure, but it's plausible.
Aleksander and Regina
[This is a flick of Ulrich and Hannah]
Aleksander is a immature man who helps out young Regina (Claudia's daughter) in 1986. Regina asks her female parent if she'll requite Aleks a job at the ability constitute and Claudia eventually does, though it'southward a pinnacle secret job in the cave.
Aleks has really assumed the identity of another man. His real name is Boris Niewman – nosotros see him burying two passports (his own and that of the real Aleksandr Köhler) along with a gun, in the forest. Young Hannah sees him do this in 1986. In 2019, she uses this information to blackmail him so he'll "ruin Ulrich'due south life" after Ulrich ends their affair.
The time to come
At the end of the finale, Jonas is in some sort of dystopian hereafter. He finds himself in a cabin with pictures of past, present and time to come version of the townsfolk pinned to the wall with articles and links joining them. Every bit he ventures outside, he is hit in the head with the butt of a gun.
So at that place you go, crystal clear.
Season two, if information technology happens (which it really needs to) has a lot of explaining to exercise.
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