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.
CCharlotte
Eva?
CCharlotte2
I know you thought you could trust him, but you can't do that.
CCharlotte
Who?
CCharlotte2
Jonas. He belongs to the dark.
CCharlotte
Jonas? He's dead.
CCharlotte2
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.
CCharlotte
I don't understand. Jonas said we could change it. We change one component, we change the entire world.
CCharlotte2
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.
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.
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
As humans, we struggle to accept our own mortality. One holds onto events that are long gone. We long in vain for a way to turn back time...to reverse death. But when time is relative and nothing really ever passes, and the simultaneous overlapping of different realities is possible, shouldn't it then also be possible to bring back something that was believed to be dead long ago and to create a new reality in which the dead live again? If our life is defined as everything between birth and death, it exists there ad infinitum. Could we succeed in cheating death by finding a way to bring back life? There, in between time.
You made me a promise. Adam made me a promise. You said that the apocalypse must happen. So we can get saved. So all of us can be saved. You cannot die.
[Noah gives Jonas a gun, who tries ro shoot himself, but the gun will not fire. Noah takes it back and the gun again fires, to the side]
You cannot take your own life. Because your older self already exists. Time won't permit it. No matter what you try, a force, or someone, will always stop you. Elisabeth and I, we found the passage. You must keep your promise. It will open up again. And then you take us...Adam takes us...to paradise, finally. He said we will become friends. Before you betray me.
Fate is playing a cruel trick on us. And yet we will always believe that there is a way to turn the tide in our favor. If we only want it hard enough. Man is able to pursue any goal, no matter how unattainable it may seem, over the course of an entire lifetime. No resistance, no obstacle is great enough to stop the human will in its tracks. Isn't this stubbornness in our striving what distinguishes us from animals that know only short-term desire? And throughout the ages, is not this unquenchable thirst at the heart of any progress that is ever made? No matter what motivates our will, it guides us on our path. We will only be able to let go once we've reached our goal.
Why do you even trust her? Why did you trust him? Adam? He lied to you. There is no paradise. There is no world besides this one. I know you think I'm becoming him, but I'm not.
I know the portal will work. I've seen it. In the future. Everything repeats itself. If I travel back, I know I can change everything. My older self tried it before. But this time it's different. The components in the passage have changed. This time it'll work.
She told you all that? Claudia? What do you really know about her? She sometimes disappears for days. How does she know all the things she knows? She said that not all that's here should exist here. What did she mean by that? ...Claudia's hiding something from us. We can't trust her. I hope you know that.
You can choose as you want, but your wants are chosen for you. All the paths we take in our lives, every choice we make is guided by our deepest desires. It's pointless to fight this sense of want. It determines every one of our actions, no matter how difficult and unimaginable they seem.
[voiceover] Every journey has a beginning. But yours has no end. It goes on forever and ever. [to Adam] I'm here to finally make your journey come to an end.
Your world and Eve's world, they both should have never existed. You thought that the origin lies in the bindings of both worlds. But in reality, it's outside of both worlds. Our thinking is shaped by dualities. Black, white. Light and shadow. Your world and Eve's world. But this is false. You need a third dimension to fulfill it all.
The world that gave birth to this knot. Where everything originates. Where a single mistake was made. Tannhaus, in the origin world, like you, he lost someone. And like you, he tried to bring that person back from the dead. But instead he divided and destroyed his world...And created our two worlds. But there is a way to destroy the knot. Through preventing, in the origin world...the invention of travel through space and time in the first place. I'd have liked to have spared you all that. But your path has to remain unchanged. Every step has to be taken as before. Up until this very moment.
Your trying to destroy the origin has happened an infinite number of times. But this here, you and I... this is the first time. It's time for you to understand how everything is really connected.
A man lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naivety, the second, with the loss of innocence and the third… with the loss of life itself. It’s inevitable that we go through all three stages.
Life is a labyrinth. Some wander around until their death in search of a way out of it. But there is only one path, and it leads ever deeper inside. Only when one reaches the center will one understand. Death is incomprehensible. But one can reconcile oneself with it. All that we've done...is ultimately forgotten. We are responsible... for this never-ending déjà vu. And we're the ones who have to end it. We...are the mistake.
Both of our fates are bound together in eternal damnation. Across both worlds. All is cause and effect. Every pain tempts us to act, forms our will. Tannhaus lost everything that ever meant anything to him in the origin world. His son, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter died in a car accident. They were forced off a bridge and drowned in the river. He could never let go of his pain. Jonas and Martha...must take his pain away. So that he never looks for a way to undo everything. They must go to the origin world... and prevent our two worlds...from ever being created.
