Adam on the apocalypse: burn the dead forest
Adam reflects on the futility of endless cycles, insists the apocalypse must happen and sends Noah after the missing pages.
Adam's Best Moments
Every Dark moment featuring Adam, in story order. Played by Dietrich Hollinderbäumer.
25 moments · 48 min · by Favseen
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Adam reveals to Jonas: I am you
In 1921 the scarred leader of Sic Mundus shows Jonas his face, speaks of everyone's end, and says he is Jonas himself.
- 03
Adam in 1921: a man lives three lives
In 1921 Adam tells Jonas every man loses naivety, innocence, then life, and that Jonas will become him.
- 04
Adam declares war on time: God is time
In 1921 Adam explains Sic Mundus is no religion but a war on time itself, which he calls God.
- 05
Adam: the universe is a knot with no escape
In 1921 Adam tells Jonas that 66 years on he finally understands his older self, and hints at a way out.
- 06
Adam's machine and the plan to stop Michael
Adam shows Jonas a man-made time device; Jonas picks June 20, 2019 to stop his father's suicide and erase himself.
- 07
The letter to Jonas, and a challenge to Adam
Michael's letter speaks of truth and wanderers in darkness, then Adam is told he could have warned Jonas.
- 08
Jonas's older self explains why no one is free
An older Jonas tells his younger self he must walk the same path exactly, because our will is never free, then sends him on his way.
- 09
Noah confronts Adam and learns the truth about Charlotte
Noah accuses Adam of lies, then hears Charlotte is his daughter, before Agnes ends the confrontation for good.
- 10
Adam reveals what he is the trigger for
Adam arrives, tells Jonas to say who he is, and explains the dark matter must be made and that he triggers only what turns Jonas into him.
- 11
Jonas holds Martha as Adam leaves him a choice
Jonas desperately tries to keep Martha alive while Adam tells him he will carry this pain until he lets her go.
- 12
A letter to Jonas: the red thread that ties every fate
A voice promises Jonas he will set things right, but only through sacrifice, as fragments of a locked-up Martha and Adam drift past.
- 13
Adam's real paradise: eternal darkness
In Adam's world, the imprisoned Martha accuses him of lying; Adam answers that paradise means nothing existing at all.
- 14
Adam reveals his machine for absolute annihilation
Adam tells the pregnant Martha the child of both worlds must die, using the energy of both apocalypses focused on one point.
- 15
Martha begs Adam not to do it as Eva speaks of endings
Martha pleads with Adam, calling him Jonas, as he turns on her; Eva's voice says the beginning is the end.
- 16
Adam sends Noah after the book's missing pages
Adam tells Noah that Claudia took Charlotte, and that finding the book's last pages will lead him to her and to paradise.
- 17
Claudia returns to Adam and reveals a third, origin world
Adam faces the woman he had killed. Claudia tells him the origin lies outside both worlds, in a third world born of Tannhaus's mistake.
- 18
Claudia explains the knot: Jonas and Martha's son is the origin
Claudia tells Adam this meeting is happening for the first time, and that the child of Jonas and Martha sustains both worlds.
- 19
Claudia reveals the loophole: time stands still at the apocalypse
Claudia explains that when time freezes during the apocalypse, cause and effect break, and Jonas and Martha must use it to reach the origin world.
- 20
Adam pulls a grieving Jonas out: not what time, but which world
A shattered Jonas confronts Adam over Martha's death; Adam takes him away and promises a way he never has to become Adam.
- 21
Tick tock: Jonas is sent to save the other Martha
Adam sends Jonas into the other world's apocalypse to rescue Martha, while Claudia hopes the plan will finally let Regina live.
- 22
Jonas finds the other Martha alive during the apocalypse
Jonas reaches Martha before Magnus and Franziska can, and they learn it is June 21, 1986, the day the passage first opens in the origin world.
- 23
We are the mistake: the glitch in the matrix
On the way to undo it all, the two halves of the knot admit that their own desires are why everything repeats.
- 24
Adam and Eva finally meet, and the cycle breaks
Eva expects her death to keep the cycle going, but this time it plays out differently, and the old pair face their end together.
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Life is a labyrinth: the old pair accept they are the mistake
A meditation on death and reconciliation as the two architects of the knot admit they must be the ones to end it.