Claudia returns to Adam and reveals a third, origin world
Adam faces the woman he had killed. Claudia tells him the origin lies outside both worlds, in a third world born of Tannhaus's mistake.
S3E8 · The Paradise
20 moments · 41 min of essential viewing in a 74-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Claudia explains the knot: Jonas and Martha's son is the origin
Claudia tells Adam this meeting is happening for the first time, and that the child of Jonas and Martha sustains both worlds.
Claudia confesses everything she did was for Regina
Claudia admits she lied to Adam and Eva, keeping everyone in the dark, because Regina can only live in the origin world.
Helge Doppler is attacked in 1986 in Eva's world
In the other world the attack on Helge happens in November 1986, while Claudia explains that the two worlds differ only in timing.
Claudia reveals the loophole: time stands still at the apocalypse
Claudia explains that when time freezes during the apocalypse, cause and effect break, and Jonas and Martha must use it to reach the origin world.
Adam pulls a grieving Jonas out: not what time, but which world
A shattered Jonas confronts Adam over Martha's death; Adam takes him away and promises a way he never has to become Adam.
Tick tock: Jonas is sent to save the other Martha
Adam sends Jonas into the other world's apocalypse to rescue Martha, while Claudia hopes the plan will finally let Regina live.
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.
We are the mistake: the glitch in the matrix
On the way to undo it all, the two halves of the knot admit that their own desires are why everything repeats.
Adam and Eva finally meet, and the cycle breaks
Eva expects her death to keep the cycle going, but this time it plays out differently, and the old pair face their end together.
Life is a labyrinth: the old pair accept they are the mistake
A meditation on death and reconciliation as the two architects of the knot admit they must be the ones to end it.
Tannhaus's lost family: the pain that created the knot
Claudia explains that Tannhaus lost his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter on a bridge, and Jonas and Martha must take that pain away.
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.
Origin world: Marek storms out on his father Tannhaus
In the origin world, Tannhaus's son Marek explodes over the store and a lifetime of being overlooked, then leaves in the rain.
Marek and Sonja in the car: you can't choose your family
Driving off in the storm, Marek vents about his father to Sonja, and a tender exchange is cut short by figures on the road.
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.
Origin world dinner: Hannah's dream of the world ending
At a dinner toasting Regina, the power fails and Hannah describes a dream of infinite darkness that felt like freedom.
A world without Winden, and a name for the baby
The friends toast to a world without Winden, and Hannah considers a familiar name for her unborn child.
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