S1E10 · Alpha and Omega

Moments, in order

Peter finds Mads's body and Claudia steps out of the dark
2019, the day Mikkel vanished: a praying Peter calls Tronte to the bunker over a boy's body, then an older Claudia arrives with a plan.
3m 26sPeter DopplerTronte NielsenClaudia Tiedemann#cold open #bunker #mads
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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.
2m 50sJonas KahnwaldInes Kahnwald#confrontation #letter #family secrets
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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?
1m 09sJonas KahnwaldInes Kahnwald#philosophy #dreams #paradox
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1953: Egon interrogates Ulrich, who taunts his future
In 1953 Egon photographs and grills Ulrich as a child killer; Ulrich begs to be freed and mocks Egon about the drinking and divorce still to come.
1m 34sEgon TiedemannUlrich Nielsen#interrogation #time travel #1953
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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.
59sBartosz TiedemannJonas Kahnwald#betrayal #fight #friendship ends
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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.
2m 11sH.G. TannhausThe Stranger#science #1986 #time machine
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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.
58sH.G. TannhausThe Stranger#monologue #1986 #free will
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1986: old Helge begs his younger self to stop serving Noah
The aged Helge tracks down his 1986 self and warns that Noah is lying, that today is the beginning and the end, and that he must stop.
1m 38sHelge Doppler#warning #1986 #same person
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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.
38sJonas KahnwaldHannah Kahnwald#mother and son #goodbye
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1986: Noah's sermon to Helge about the sad stranger
Noah tells Helge of a haunted lodger from his boyhood who said nothing is in vain, and that pain makes us who we are.
1m 49sNoahHelge Doppler#monologue #sermon #1986
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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.
1m 04sInes KahnwaldMikkel Nielsen#origin #adoption #1986
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1986: the Stranger is bringing someone back from the dead
On November 12, 1986 the Stranger explains he is here to bring someone back from the dead, by finding them younger, and is called crazy.
53sThe Stranger#1986 #time travel #eerie
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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.
3m 13sJonas KahnwaldThe Stranger#time machine #free will #same person
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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.
22sJonas Kahnwald#song #montage #80s pop
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Noah recruits Bartosz: light, shadow, and pawns on a chessboard
Noah says the older Jonas will create the hole he wants to destroy, casts time travel as light against shadow and tells Bartosz to never trust Claudia.
3m 07sNoahBartosz Tiedemann#monologue #recruitment #villain
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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.
49sJonas Kahnwald#cliffhanger #future #finale
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