“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Jonas Kahnwald

What time are you from?

Martha Nielsen

The question isn't from what time, but from what world.

Hell is empty. And all the devils are here.

That's when I knew that nothing changes. That everything remains the same. The spinning wheel turns. Round and round. One destiny leads to the next. A thread, blood-red, connects all our actions.

I don't have a name. I was never given one.

Not all human connections are formed out of fondness.

[voiceover] Why do we die? What is death? Could we escape it if we knew when to expect it? Is the time of our departure predetermined? Our dying, part of an endless clockwork? We all have one truth in common. We are born and we die. No matter what path we take to get there.

Adam

[to Charlotte] Your path will always lead you here. To Elisabeth. To me. Time plays a cruel game. Have you decided? Just one more day and we can unravel this knot once and for all. But you must...like us all, play your part in it. Will you do your part? Eva will never achieve her goal. Her world is no more deserving of salvation than ours is.

Have you ever wondered if it's possible to rewind time?

Yes. Yes I have.

And? Possible, you think? To go back and try changing anything?

You're such an adult now. Adult enough. For quite a while now, I've wanted to be able to turn back time. But my place is not in the past. Nor in the future. It's here, with you.

Are those my parents? I thought you said there were no photos.

That photo's not you. Those aren't your parents. That's my son and his wife. And my granddaughter. They died in a car accident. That night, when it happened, I woke up. There was a noise down in the store. There were two women. Strange looking. They were carrying a bundle. That bundle was you. They said that on that night everything would be taken from me. And then I'd be given everything. Then I got the call. On the bridge, a truck... had forced my son's car into the river. They only ever found the bodies of my son and his wife in there. My granddaughter...was never found. [hands her a watch] This is the only thing you brought with you.

I don't understand. Who are my parents?

Charlotte.

Who am I?

I just don't know. I don't know.

You're from another world? What do you want?

I'm here to guide you into the light. There are two groups out there fighting for superiority in time travel. Light and dark. I want you to join our side. Eva's side.

Eva?

I know you thought you could trust him, but you can't do that.

Who?

Jonas. He belongs to the dark.

Jonas? He's dead.

No. He's not. He wants to destroy both worlds forever and untie the knot. He doesn't know that death is what he'll want in the end. But all his impulses on this journey will lead to that end. But Eva wants to save both worlds.

I don't understand. Jonas said we could change it. We change one component, we change the entire world.

It was you who told him that. Your older self. A positive feedback loop. Jonas opened the passage in 2020. The older Jonas had previously shut it in 2019. After it'd been opened in the summer of 1986 for the first time. In all three moments, they left behind traces of cesium residue, a component of the black matter. Half-lives. In every cycle, at each of these three moments, this cesium is carried through the tunnel and back before it's completely decayed. It exponentially expands endlessly. So the passage is the result. It must continue to exist forever. Everything has to happen again. Jonas has to bring the matter to the passage. And opening one of the nuclear plant barrels has to trigger the apocalypse. Everything in this loop repeats. Life...and death.

Eva

Adam and Eve. And so it begins all anew.

Martha

You lied to us. You said we could save both worlds when it was only one. Or is that a lie as well? I want to return! Now! To my world!

Eva

Naturally you'd want that. But there's no way back for you at all.

Jonas

What are you saying?

Eva

A human lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naiveté. The second one with the loss of innocence. And the third with the loss of life itself. Yours ends here and now.

Jonas

What?

Eva

You've accomplished what you were sent to this world to accomplish.

Martha

We've accomplished nothing. She said we have to stop the apocalypse. The containers in the plant...

Eva

You will understand everything. When it's right for you to understand.

Martha

Who are you?

I'm sorry. [she shoots Jonas]

Martha

[in a letter] Dear Jonas, you promised to make everything right again. I want you to know that you will do that. You must never lose hope that there is a way out of this maze. A way to save me...and you. But we will have to make sacrifices... do unimaginable things...to untie the knot at the end. Each fate in this knot is linked to the next. A thread, blood-red, that connects all our actions. In light...And in shadow. But the apocalypse...must take place. You must let me die, so I can live. We have to let some things go before they find their way back to us. You and I are perfect for each other. Never believe anything else.

Adam

Old Tannhaus. He firmly believed he was creating a paradise where we'd all be free of destiny, and free of our pain. A world outside your world and my world. But I...have finally realized what this paradise really is. Unending darkness, in which nothing exists. But for that...the apocalypse must happen. In my world...and in yours.

Eva

[to Martha] There's a switch point...in the loop of time. The moment...that causes things to run in one direction or the other. You bring him to our world. Or you don't. A line that starts at one point, then loops into itself once more. Two possible ways. On the outer edge of the line or on the inner edge of the line. And yet it is the same line. Two overlapping realities. On one of these roads, he dies. On the other, he doesn't. Both realities continue here, repeating endlessly in the loop. One triggers the other. Quantum entanglement. Adam has tried to sever it for years. So that the thing growing inside you will never be born. But it's impossible. Our worlds can never be disconnected. Every step Jonas takes is guided by us. He cannot escape his fate.

Eva

It's time. Adam has moved each of his tokens into position. It's time we do the same. This knot has given us all life. And we are its keepers. In both worlds. He'll never be able to untie this knot. In all these years, he's never understood how everything is connected. How it all ends and begins. Not only in our world, but also in his. We are...destiny. We raise the walls of this labyrinth. Each of us shapes the paths and extends their hand. Bartosz, you must save yourself to save our lives. Claudia, you must guide yourself to be our eyes in the other world. Egon, you must create your past... to preserve the family tree. Noah, you bring love...to make everything new. Every darkness is followed by light. With every death comes a life.

Eva

The beginning is the end...and the end is the beginning. Every connection in one world...must also be closed in the other world. Everything is interconnected. In light...and in shadow.