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.
Martha Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Martha Nielsen, in story order. Played by Lisa Vicari.
77 moments · 2h 11m
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.
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.
Ariadne's thread: one path through all times
As Helge is found in the woods, a voice reflects on searching for a guiding thread when there is only one predetermined path from beginning to end.
Hannah brings food to the Nielsens and Ulrich walks in
Hannah turns up at Katharina's door with a meal; Ulrich's arrival and Katharina's offer of a ride for Hannah make the room unbearably tense.
Martha's Ariadne monologue: the red thread of fate
Martha performs the school play, a dark monologue about a spinning wheel and a blood-red thread binding every fate, intercut with the town's turmoil.
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.
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.
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.
Martha's Ariadne monologue: a loose end in time
On stage, Martha delivers Ariadne's descent into darkness: no king's daughter, no man's wife, no brother's sister, her only judge herself.
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.
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.
Martha breaks up with Bartosz, who blames Jonas
Martha ends things in 2020; Bartosz accuses her of pining for Jonas, she snaps that her father and brother are still missing.
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.
Franziska and Martha call a truce before the caves
In 2020 Franziska turns up with her little sister, neither apologizes, and Martha resolves to go into the caves herself.
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.
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.
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.
Bartosz fumbles a compliment to Martha
In 2019 Bartosz cancels on Martha, then trips over himself trying to praise her hair.
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 Stranger refuses to let Martha go
The Stranger turns up at Martha's home warning that everything will explode in hours, and takes her by force because he saw her die once.
The Stranger admits to Martha who he really is
Locking Martha in the bunker, the only safe place, the Stranger lets her realise he is Jonas and begs her not to leave whatever happens.
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.
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.
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.
Martha rehearses Ariadne: knots that can only be severed
Martha performs a monologue from the school play about a red thread binding fates, a knot cut by the sharpest blade, and a bond that remains.
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.
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: 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.
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: the blind man promises the Stranger paradise
Martha hears how the group arrived in 1888, then the blind workshop owner reminds the Stranger they will build a perfect world.
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.
Martha: we cannot escape our destiny, and her world ends in three days
Martha tells the Stranger that a world without him would not be better, since both worlds face the same apocalypse.
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: Ulrich grills Martha about the bunker
Ulrich asks if the kids took drugs before finding the body; Martha sticks to her story and snaps at his sudden fatherly concern.
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.
1888: Martha explains Sic Mundus and offers the Stranger her last way home
Martha recounts how Tannhaus's father tried to raise his dead wife, then gives the Stranger her final device to prove he can trust her.
2019, Martha's world: Martha and Kilian fall out
Kicked out of the dorm and suspected of drugging the teens, Kilian accuses Martha of dating him only to rile her parents.
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 learns her unborn son is the origin
In Martha's world she is told her older self sent her back not to stop the apocalypse but to create the origin.
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.
Eva shows Martha the Adam and Eva carving and her three lives
Martha accuses Eva of lying and demands to go home; Eva answers that a person lives three lives and hers ends now.
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 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.
Eva tells Martha that Jonas had to die
Eva tells her younger self the two of them are wrong in both worlds, and that she will learn to let Jonas go.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bartosz warns Martha that Adam will kill her
Bartosz stops Martha at a door and insists Adam lied, wants her dead, and that he knows what the origin really is.
Claudia's secret: a third path where Regina truly lives
Claudia admits she keeps the matter from working, then reveals she wants to untie the knot without destroying life, unlike Eva or Adam.
Eva brands Martha with her scar
Eva tells Martha they share the same pain and scars, marks her as a memento, and says choosing Adam is choosing death.
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.