Jonas's first therapy session after his father's suicide
Back from two months away, Jonas admits he still sees his dead father, then explodes at the one question no one can answer: why.
Jonas Kahnwald
Every Dark moment featuring Jonas Kahnwald, in story order. Played by Louis Hofmann.
85 moments · 2h 22m
Bartosz welcomes Jonas back to the madhouse
Bartosz covers for Jonas's absence with a fake French exchange story, shuts down the staring classmates and hints at what he missed with Erik.
Jonas and Martha: a glitch in the matrix
Waiting for the others in the forest, Martha tries to explain last summer and Bartosz; Jonas feels deja vu and she calls it a message from the other side.
The kids ask what really happened to Erik
On the walk to the caves Mikkel imagines a witch's basement, Jonas cites his dead father on good and evil, and Mikkel decides even the dead want to be found.
Franziska beat them to Erik's stash
The boys find the hiding spot empty; Franziska already has the bag, quotes the law of possession and tries to sell it back to Bartosz for 200.
Something in the cave, and Mikkel is gone
Flashlights die, a noise comes from the dark and the kids scatter; when they regroup, Jonas is alone and Mikkel is nowhere to be found.
Jonas asks Hannah whether she loved his father
Jonas wonders if his dad kept secrets; Hannah admits she misses a notion of him and may never have known who he really was.
Bartosz asks Jonas to come meet Erik's dealer
Over a video game, Bartosz swears Jonas to secrecy and asks him to come along to a night meeting with Erik's dealer.
A man who knew Jonas's father: 'Life is a labyrinth'
An older man tells Jonas his father once saved his life, then offers a haunting speech about life as a labyrinth and making peace with death.
Jonas confesses to Martha he was never in France
After her performance, Jonas admits he spent the summer in a psychiatric clinic and asks whether what happened between them meant something.
Michael's letter: Mikkel became Michael
Jonas finally opens his father's sealed letter and learns Michael traveled from 2019 to 1986 as a boy. The show's first big reveal.
A nightmare in the dark: calling for Katharina and Ulrich
The episode opens inside a dream of running and screaming for help, before a quiet reassurance that everything is all right.
Jonas asks Hannah how she met his father
Jonas asks his mother about meeting his father in a hospital at fourteen, and what he was like before he got sick.
Jonas and Martha before the play; Bartosz asks where Jonas is
Martha blames herself for the night at the caves and offers to run away with Jonas; moments later Bartosz asks if anyone has seen him.
Jonas tells Martha they are wrong for each other
Martha demands to know why Jonas vanished after their kiss; he insists the thing between them is wrong without saying why.
Jonas confronts Ines: she always knew his father came from the future
Ines hands Jonas the letter he burned and admits she knew; he unloads the tangle of his family and says he is the thing that is wrong.
Houdini and the butterfly: a dream of finally waking up
Talk of Houdini turns to Master Zhuang's paradox: is he a person dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of a person?
Bartosz turns on Jonas over the lies and Martha
Bartosz throws Jonas's lies back at him, from the cover story to the kiss with Martha, and drives him off for good.
A bruised Jonas tells Hannah everything will be fine
Jonas comes home hurt from the fight, brushes off Hannah's questions and heads out, promising her it will all be fine.
In the bunker, the Stranger reveals he is Jonas
Locked in a bunker that is a crude time machine, Jonas learns the Stranger is his older self, who cannot free him without undoing who he became.
An 80s German pop song about the future plays
A song about the future starting somewhere, sometime plays over the episode as its threads converge.
Jonas wakes in a ruined future: welcome to the future
Jonas is held at gunpoint by strangers, asks what year it is and is told he has landed in the future.
2052: Jonas finds Martha's name on the wall of the dead
In the future, Jonas reads a memorial of people who died on June 27, 2020, including his father's date and Martha's name.
2052: Jonas rejects the survivors' paradise and wants to go home
Jonas is told crossing the dead zone means death and the passage leads to paradise; he says everyone he loves dies in six days.
Jonas stumbles into 1921 and asks what year it is
A ragged Jonas is taken in by a veteran who mistakes him for a returning soldier, and learns he has landed in 1921.
Young Noah tells Jonas the travelers are waiting
At the passage in 1921 a boy says it will not open for 32 years and that Sic Mundus wants to send Jonas home.
Jonas meets the travelers' hideout in 1921
Brought to a hidden place, Jonas learns the boy is not a traveler yet, and a familiar face reminds him of their last encounter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cold open: where does it all begin?
A voice asks whether beginning and end are the same moment as Jonas arrives in a new time.
The last ordinary breakfast at the Kahnwalds' in 2019
On June 20, 2019 young Jonas heads to the lake while his father Michael admits to a strange deja vu.
Martha and young Jonas talk parents at the lake
In 2019 Martha wonders whether parents are ever happy, and a Saint Christopher pendant turns up.
Ulrich teases Jonas about Martha's crush
In 2019 Ulrich mistakes the time-travelling Jonas for his younger self and ribs him about Martha.
Jonas tells Martha they are perfect for each other
In 2019 the older Jonas finds Martha, muses that time has us, and tells her they belong together before leaving.
Jonas tells his father he knows he is Mikkel
In 2019 Jonas comes home to Michael, repeats a phrase only Mikkel would know, and reveals the truth.
Jonas begs his father not to hang himself
Jonas tells Michael he knows about the suicide and the letter, and pleads with him to promise he won't do it.
Michael recalls the night Jonas led him into the cave
Michael tells Jonas how, in 1986, an older Jonas took him through the cave tunnel and left him there overnight.
Michael realizes Jonas came to show him the way
Michael decides Jonas is here not to stop him but to show him what he must do; Jonas refuses to accept it.
Old Claudia tells Jonas Adam lied to him
An old woman who follows the light warns Jonas that Adam wants destruction and that he must fight himself.
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.
June 27, 2020: change one grain of sand
On the day of the apocalypse Jonas hopes one changed detail will undo every loss; Claudia says only the small things can be altered.
Katharina tells Jonas he shouldn't exist
Katharina demands to know how to bring Mikkel home; Jonas explains Mikkel cannot return because Jonas already exists.
Noah hands Jonas a letter from Martha
Noah wonders when Jonas will turn into Adam, calls him the future saviour, and gives him a letter that tells him who he must save.
Martha tells Jonas she knows everything
Martha finds Jonas back in Winden and tells him she now understands the rain, Mikkel and the lake; they hold each other.
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.
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.
Jonas reaches the bunker to save his friends
Magnus lets Jonas into the bunker; he admits it is all his fault and says he came to save them, while they demand to know about Martha.
Another Martha appears: not what time, but what world
Jonas is found by a Martha who should not be there, and she answers his question with a twist that sets up a second world.
The other Martha: your world and my world form a knot
In the ruins of the apocalypse a Martha from another world tells Jonas their two worlds are tied together, then leaves him with a promise.
Jonas walks into Bartosz's black hole lesson
Jonas turns up in a classroom where no one knows him, while Bartosz's talk on black holes ends on the idea of a new world beyond.
Jonas realises it is 2019 and his mother doesn't know him
A student tells Jonas the date in Martha's world, and when he calls out to his mother she treats him as a stranger.
Martha has never heard of Michael Kahnwald
Jonas tries to warn Martha about Mikkel and Michael, but she says Hannah's husband is her own father and tells him to get lost.
No grave for Michael Kahnwald
At the cemetery Jonas asks for his father's grave, learns no Michael Kahnwald is buried there, and starts to grasp why he was brought here.
Déjà vu in the forest: Jonas and Martha meet again
Jonas tells Martha they know each other from another time, then learns Mikkel came along that night, and her friends chase him off.
A world without Jonas, doomed all the same
Someone who has long waited for Jonas tells him he will never be born in this world, yet it will fall apart just like his.
1888: not your Martha, here to find the origin
Jonas is overjoyed to see Martha alive, but she says she is not his Martha and has come to help him find the beginning of everything.
Eva tells Jonas they are Adam and Eva, a glitch in the matrix
In Martha's world, Eva explains that no self is independent and that she and Jonas exist to save both worlds.
Eva asks Jonas to choose the side of light to save his Martha
Eva describes an unbreakable bond between Jonas and Martha and says he must make her who she is, while Jonas balks at being told what to do.
Eva: none of us is prepared to let go
Eva says everything repeats because no one lets go of the past, and tells Jonas he must show Martha how it all connects.
2019, Martha's world: Jonas tells Martha they share a past
Jonas recalls childhood moments from his own world that match hers and offers to show her how everything is connected.
2053: Jonas brings Martha to the future
Jonas takes a bewildered Martha to a strange place in 2053, where she is welcomed to the future.
Jonas and Martha see 2052 and the list of the dead
November 2052, Martha's world: a ruined future and a wall of crossed-out names, all due to die in two days.
Jonas is told to choose: save this world or his Martha
2052: the barrels can be stopped and Mikkel can live, but only if Jonas lets his own world and Martha go.
Jonas comforts Martha after she learns everyone will die
Martha breaks down at the truth; Jonas swears he will keep searching for a way to set things right.
Martha's scratch tells Jonas she is becoming the other Martha
Martha's world, one day before the apocalypse: a scratch at the plant convinces Jonas they're repeating the loop.
Jonas tells Martha he is wrong in her world
Martha realises Jonas has already chosen his own world; he insists he never wanted this, and their night together sours.
Jonas is shot and Martha begs him to stay
A masked figure apologises before firing; Martha cradles the dying Jonas and promises to make it right.
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.
Martha finds Jonas alive and explains the switch point
Martha, who killed her world's Jonas, finds Jonas alive in his world and explains the loop's two edges and quantum entanglement.
Jonas and the God Particle: a way back to save them all
Jonas shows the matter left after the catastrophe and his dead device; Martha offers to help him save Martha and everyone.
1888: Bartosz rages at Jonas after two years stranded
Stuck in 1888, Bartosz demands the truth; Jonas admits he wants to find and destroy the origin, and Bartosz just wants out.
Noah tells Jonas he cannot die before his older self
A despairing Jonas is stopped by Noah, who explains time won't let him take his life and reminds him of Adam's promise.
Jonas and Bartosz turn on Claudia
As the portal fails, Bartosz questions Claudia's motives; Jonas swears he will not become Adam, and doubts about Claudia grow.
Noah blames Jonas for losing Charlotte
Desperate, Noah accuses Jonas of helping Claudia take Charlotte, curses him, then vows to Elisabeth he will bring her back.
Hannah finds Jonas and introduces his sister Silja
Hannah tracks Jonas down with her daughter Silja, says Eva showed her the way, and owns the damage she has done.
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.
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.
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.
The passage opens in 1986: a bridge between three worlds
As Tannhaus's machine splits his world, Jonas and Martha prepare to cross, and Martha asks if her world's Jonas was different.
Young Martha and young Jonas glimpse each other in the light
As children, Martha sees a sad boy in her closet and Jonas sees a girl in the basement; the adults see nothing.
Jonas and Martha stop the Tannhaus family at the bridge
Jonas and Martha turn the car back from the bridge and pass on Tannhaus's words, rewriting the origin world's fate.
Jonas and Martha's farewell: a perfect match
Jonas and Martha realise they saw each other as children, wonder whether anything of them will remain, and say goodbye.