Bending time and space: the black hole lecture
Over the caves, a recorded voice explains how gravitational anomalies might bend time and space, and asks what price such a journey would cost.
H.G. Tannhaus
Every Dark moment featuring H.G. Tannhaus, in story order. Played by Christian Steyer.
18 moments · 25 min
The Stranger visits Tannhaus to talk about time
The Stranger walks into the old clockmaker's shop with one request: to talk about time.
Tannhaus explains wormholes, the triquetra and 'Sic mundus'
The old clockmaker lectures his visitor on the Einstein-Rosen bridge and argues a wormhole links three times: past, present and future.
The Stranger quizzes Tannhaus on his book and the number 33
The Stranger produces a rare copy of Tannhaus's time travel book; Tannhaus lists the places the number 33 keeps appearing.
Tannhaus on whether we can change the course of events
Asked if fate can be altered, Tannhaus cites causal determinism, then admits he no longer dreams of time travel and lives only in the now.
1953: a visitor in the clock shop learns the year
A man holding Tannhaus's book walks into the 1953 clock shop, is told the year, and grasps that 33 years may separate the wormhole's planes.
The Stranger explains why he is obsessed with time
Asked why time fascinates him, the Stranger wonders who decides our purpose and whether we are free or slaves of space and time.
The Stranger reveals he is from the future and shows his device
The Stranger tells Tannhaus his theory is real, hands him a broken machine bearing his initials, and asks for help destroying the wormhole.
Tannhaus asks where man comes from and what drives him
The cold open narration frames the episode: seeing origin and end at once might answer the biggest questions about humanity.
The Stranger hands Tannhaus the plans for a time machine
After closing time a visitor tells the clockmaker he has something of interest: a device to set the course of time straight.
1986: Tannhaus shows the Stranger two copies of the same machine
Tannhaus sets his device beside its future self: the future shaped the past, and cesium plus a Higgs field can make a black hole.
Tannhaus on why he chose to help: one piece of a puzzle
Asked why he helped, Tannhaus muses on cause versus feeling and suspects his whole life leads to this moment; the Stranger hopes tomorrow will be different.
Tannhaus explains the bootstrap paradox
In 1987 the clockmaker admits his time travel book found him before he ever wrote it, and asks where any beginning lies.
Claudia gives young Tannhaus the blueprint
In 1954 old Claudia hands the clockmaker plans that will take 33 years to build and says they will meet again after her death.
Tannhaus tells young Charlotte how she came to him
Tannhaus admits the photos are not her parents: two strange women left her as a bundle the night his family died.
Tannhaus explains Schroedinger's cat and split realities
A narrator walks through the cat that is both dead and alive, then asks whether time could split so two realities exist side by side.
Between time: a grieving narrator dreams of reversing death
Over a family grave from 1971, the narrator asks whether a new reality could be built in which the dead live again.
Origin world: Marek storms out on his father Tannhaus
In the origin world, Tannhaus's son Marek explodes over the store and a lifetime of being overlooked, then leaves in the rain.