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.
Mikkel Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Mikkel Nielsen, in story order. Played by Daan Lennard Liebrenz.
20 moments · 26 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.
Mikkel knocks on his own door and meets young Ulrich
Mikkel insists he lives here; a teenage Ulrich and Katharina mock him as the wrong-house fool, and a Chernobyl headline dates the year.
Mikkel wakes in his own house with a stranger in it
Mikkel calls for his mother, but the woman who finds him does not know him and only wants to know where Mads is.
Mikkel asks teenage Hannah and Katharina for his mother
Two schoolgirls argue over a Falco song until a lost boy asks for the principal, his mom, and gets laughed at for dropping acid.
Mikkel learns the year is 1986 at the police station
Mikkel says his father is Ulrich Nielsen; Egon assumes a prank by the local troublemaker until the boy asks the date and hears the year.
Nurse Ines meets the silent boy
Ines introduces herself to Mikkel and promises to look at his arm and bring him home safe; he does not say a word.
Mikkel tells Ines where he really comes from
On the night shift Ines gently offers the boy a place to stay and something to read, and he finally speaks: he says he is from the future.
1986: Ines gently tries to coax Mikkel into speaking
In the 1986 hospital, nurse Ines brings the silent boy a gift and promises whatever he tells her will stay safe with her.
1986: Noah the priest debates the Big Bang with Mikkel
A priest named Noah visits Mikkel in the 1986 hospital and counters his science answer with talk of God's plan.
1986: Mikkel meets young Hannah, 'boy from the future'
Young Hannah dreams of doing magic; Mikkel tells her about Houdini and illusion, and introduces himself as being from the future.
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.
1986: Ines decides to adopt the boy from the future
As the lost boy is led away to a children's home, nurse Ines insists she will adopt him: he trusts only her.
Old Ulrich grabs Mikkel and is dragged off in 1987
In 1987 Ines finds her boy gone; police tear the escaped old Ulrich away from Mikkel as he swears to kill Egon.
Mikkel's rubella ruins the Nielsens' morning
In 2019 Katharina turns Ulrich down, then Mikkel shows up covered in red spots on the worst possible day.
Ulrich teases Jonas about Martha's crush
In 2019 Ulrich mistakes the time-travelling Jonas for his younger self and ribs him about Martha.
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.
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.