Charlotte presses Elisabeth to describe Noah after Yasin vanishes
With a third child missing, Charlotte urges her young daughter to describe the man she met, and gets a chilling sketch of him.
S1E5 · Truths
16 moments · 22 min of essential viewing in a 46-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Charlotte demands Peter swear he had no part in the disappearances
Charlotte catches Peter's alibi for the night Mikkel vanished as a lie and asks him to look her in the eye and deny everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ulrich tries to end the affair and Hannah refuses to let go
Ulrich tells Hannah to stop calling; she demands he admit it meant something, and warns she will not simply let him go.
1986: teen Katharina makes Ulrich promise no kids
Young Hannah gushes about a film to an inattentive Ulrich, who slips off with Katharina; she agrees to sleep with him on one firm condition.
Ulrich's self-loathing and Charlotte's 33-year cycle theory
Ulrich admits he became the incompetent cop he swore never to be; Charlotte answers with the lunar-solar cycle and a feeling that Winden repeats.
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.
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.
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.
Young Hannah accuses Ulrich of assault to her father
A young Hannah hesitantly tells her father she saw Ulrich force himself on a girl, a story that will carry heavy consequences.
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.
The Stranger visits Tannhaus to talk about time
The Stranger walks into the old clockmaker's shop with one request: to talk about time.
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