Nielsen breakfast chaos ends with Mikkel's magic trick
A missing hoodie, a hunger strike and a boy dressed as Houdini; Ulrich asks how the trick worked and Mikkel says the real question is when.
Magnus Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Magnus Nielsen, in story order. Played by Moritz Jahn.
30 moments · 44 min
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.
Magnus tackles Franziska in the woods
Magnus pins a girl he catches sneaking around the cave; she admits she overheard talk about Erik's drugs and offers an awkward apology about Mikkel.
Martha asks about the uncle who was never found
Martha asks Katharina how old her father was when Mads vanished, recalls Mikkel's fear of never being found, and insists her brother is coming back.
The Goethe lesson on doubling and symmetry
A literature class on repetition and mirrored symmetry in Goethe is interrupted when Magnus turns up in the wrong room.
Franziska's money and the fat secret at the table
Magnus finds Franziska's cash stash and accuses her of dealing; she fires back that her parents' marriage is a lie everyone sits down to dinner with.
Martha fights Katharina and Magnus says it out loud
Martha wants to go to the school play, Katharina wants her home, and the shouting ends with Magnus saying what nobody dares to.
Katharina and Hannah brawl after the play
After the curtain, a barbed exchange between Hannah and Katharina turns physical, and Hannah tells the kids who their mother really is.
Martha and Magnus: you don't really know your parents
Unable to sleep, the Nielsen siblings talk about the fight at school and how little anyone in a family knows about each other.
Martha and Magnus find Ulrich's cave maps and a hidden door
In their father's papers the siblings spot a door in the cave leading to the plant and decide everyone is keeping secrets.
Magnus and Martha leave Bartosz behind in the cave
The teens catch Bartosz with a strange device, take it from him, and abandon him in the tunnels despite his pleas.
Martha and Magnus lock up Bartosz until he talks
Martha and Magnus trap Bartosz and threaten to starve him until he admits he has a time machine.
Bartosz admits Noah predicted everything
The chair is gone and Bartosz confesses that Noah foretold the kiss, his mother's cancer and Jonas's return.
Katharina and Ulrich's 25th anniversary party
In 2019 the Nielsens celebrate 25 years with friends, champagne, a driver's license gift for Magnus and dancing.
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.
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.
November 4, 2019 in Martha's world: Mikkel's nightmare
A Nielsen family breakfast in the other world: Mikkel muses that none of us are real and pokes Martha to check, while Katharina rouses Magnus.
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.
The cave monster story turns real
Searching the caves for Erik, the teens swap a tale about experiments a century ago, until something happens and they run.
A body in the cave: Mads Nielsen's student card
After the chaos the teens find a dead boy whose student card names Mads Nielsen, born 1973.
1888: a Martha who should be dead appears to the travelers
In 1888, Magnus is stunned to see his dead sister alive; the Stranger says she is not their Martha, and she admits she comes from another world.
1888: the travelers interrogate the other-world Martha
Magnus, Franziska and Bartosz refuse to believe in a parallel world where they are already dead, while the Stranger demands to know how she traveled.
1888: in the secret lodge, Martha reveals who Adam is
Shown the Tannhaus lodge where Jonas rebuilds a time machine, Martha tells the others the truth about Adam's identity.
1888: Bartosz explodes at the Stranger and names him Adam
Stranded with an empty device in 1888, Bartosz accuses the Stranger of lying all along and tells the others who Adam really is.
2019, Martha's world: Martha and Magnus doubt what they saw
Martha asks her brother whether he saw anything else in the forest; he wonders if they are losing their minds, she insists she knows.
Magnus confronts Bartosz about abandoning them in 1888
Decades on, Magnus asks why Bartosz helped create the matter and then disappeared, before they go to Adam.
Martha tells Magnus the world ends today
Martha's world, apocalypse day: Martha comes home insisting Bartosz was right about the plant, and Magnus dismisses her as unhinged.
Older Magnus and Franziska from the other world recruit them
Their older selves from the other world say their own elders lied and urge them to trust Jonas; then Martha arrives with another plan.