BEFORE YOU SEE DARK
SEASON 3: RECAP AND EXPLANATION TILL SEASON 2
Dark, the most anticipated show
of 2020, is coming to an end with its third and final season. Before watching
dark season 3, let’s go through an overview of the last two seasons.
The Story of Dark is a dependent
of its characters itself. The confusion and excitements given by the identity
of each character is the backbone of Dark and of course it can be considered as
the prime reason behind the enormous success of the show. So, identifying and
remembering characters are the important factors before heading to season 3.
STUDY ON MAIN CHARACTERS
The characters are spread between
3 time lines in season 1 with a gap
of 33 years: 2019, 1986 and 1953. In season
2, there are 4 time periods 1921,1954,1987,2020 and 2053.
Main events starts with the
disappearance of mikkel, son of Ulrich from the city of Winden in 2019.He
travelled back to 1986 through a worm hole connecting three periods. Ines
kahnwald adopt him as her son and he grown up and become Michael of
2019.Michael is married to Hannah and Jonas is their son. They all belongs to
the kahnwald family
But Mikkel of 2019 is the son of
Ulrich Nielsen and Katherine Nielsen. Mikkel, Martha and Magnus are siblings. Tronte
Nielsen and Jana are the parents of Ulrich. Ulrich had a brother who
disappeared in 1986 and not yet been found. And Agnes Neilson, Mother of Tronte
can be seen in 1956. Together they constitute the Nielsen Family.
Regina Tiedemann, a hotel manager
in 2019 is the wife of Alexander Tiedemann, the director of the Winden nuclear
power plant. Claudia, is the mother of Regina, was the director of the power
plant in 1986.Regina and Alexander has a son, Bartosz. Egon Tiedemann, the
father of Claudia was the chief inspector of Winden in 1986 period. His younger
version can be found in 1956 along with his wife Doris Tiedemann. They together
form the Tiedemann family.
Charlotte Doppler is the present Winden
police chief (2019-20).Peter Doppler is her Husband .Elizabeth (deaf by birth)
and Franzisca are their daughters. Helge Doppler is the father of Peter. His
parents are Bernd Doppler and Greta Doppler, Bernd was the founder of nuclear
power plant in 1956. They form the Doppler family.
Connection between the characters
Jonas, Martha, Magnus, Franzisca
and Bartosz are teens in 2019-20 and are friends. Jonas and Martha were in love
but later she became the lover of Bartosz. After Jonas rejoins the school, she
again gets attached to Jonas. Francizca and Magnus are also in an affair.
Coming to their parents, Ulrich Nielsen
and Charlotte Doppler are police officers working together. Ulrich is cheating
his wife with Hannah, Jonas’s mother. Back in 1986, Hannah had a crush on
Ulrich but he got attached to Katharina. These made her jealous and she faked a
complaint against Ulrich by accusing him for raping Katharina. Egon, the police
chief, who was not font with Ulrich, arrested him. Later Katharina justified it
was not a rape and thus he get released. But Ulrich and Katharina misunderstood
Regina (Granddaughter of Egon) for getting him caught with police and they treated
her badly. On that events going on Mads, brother of Ulrich got missing.
Claudia, the director of plant at that time, have a relation with Tronte Nielsen,
Ulrich’s father.
Further going back, In 1953,we
can see that little Tronte Nielsen and his
mother, Agnes Nielsen renting a room from young Egon Tiedemann and Doris
Tiedemann .Thus Claudia Tiedemann and Tronte Nielsen becomes friends and the
relation continued. Meanwhile Agnes and Doris become closer.
An ambiguous character present in
the first season is Noah. There is no proper explanation is given to Noah in
the first season, rather than he appearing in all the three years in the same physic.
But in second season it is revealed that he is the brother of Agnes Nielson. Also,
nothing speaks about the identity of Charlotte Doppler. Later we come to know
that H.G Tannhaus, the clock maker appearing in 1953/54 as young and in 1986/87
as old is the guardian of Charlotte.
RECAP THROUGH EXPLANATION OF MAIN STORY
Let’s look at the important events through the perspective of main
characters (Only important events are discussed)
Children start missing from Winden in 2019. Ulrich investigates Mikkel’s disappearance. A body of a boy found with the eyes damaged, but was not Mikkel. Ulrich doubts the present disappearances with the ones happened 33 years ago including his brother Mads and comes across the fact that his dad Tronte Nielsen was sleeping with Claudia Tiedemann at the time of his disappearance. This information lead him to Regina Tiedemann (Claudia’s daughter), from whom he understands that it was Hannah who cheated him in 1986.Ulrich searches Egon Tiedemann’s diary (who investigated mads missing) and understands that he planned an interview with helge Doppler in 1986 but never happened. He doubts helge for the kidnaps and follows him which led him into the worm hole. Helge travels to 1986 whereas Ulrich reaches 1953 by mistake. There he meets little helge and tries to kill him for abducting children in future and dump his body in a bunker. But before escaping, he got arrested by the police and gets trapped in 1953.Meanwhile Helge travelled back to 1986 meets his younger self. It is revealed that Young Helge is kidnapping children for Noah. Helge was manipulated by Noah for the purpose of making a time machine and testing the time machine. Noah explained to him that it is all for a good future. Older helge tries to stop his younger self but Noah had a great influence on him. So Old helge crashes into young one’s car but he got killed and young one escapes.
Helge: little,adult,old
Meantime in 2019, Charlotte doubts her husband for lying about his activities during the time of kidnap. But the secret was that, it was Peter who found out the body of mads’s falling from nowhere into his bunker. He informed Tronte Nielsen and they met older Claudia in the bunker. She asked them help for correcting the time line. It was them who moved the body of mads into the woods. The body of different kids are turning up in the bunker at different time due to the experiment conducted by Noah and helge at the same time in past. Time travel tunnel is right under Helge’s basement that’s why they are doing experiment there.
Jonas of 2019, find out about
time travel with the silent help of his future one. Adult Jonas is wandering in
2019 and 1986.He had a time travel machine which was broken. He travel through
the worm hole and meets H.G Tannhaus in 1986, where Jonas ask him to repair the
machine. The machine had a sign which indicated that it was made by him. But
later it is revealed that Older Claudia from future gave him a design to make
such a machine (in 1953). He gives it to the adult Jonas. Whereas, young Jonas travels back to 1986 and
knows the truth about his father. He tries to bring Mikkel back but before that
helge and Noah kidnap him and locks him in the experiment bunker. Where he sees
his adult one and asks for help. But he refuses by saying that it should happen.
Adult one goes back to 2019 and tries to destroy the worm hole using the time machine.
But instead of being destroyed it closes only. The closing produces black hole
above the tunnel (including the bunker) in all the three periods. This makes
Jonas (at bunker in 1986) to see little helge (at the bunker in 1953, who wakes
up after the attack of Ulrich) .But the space time glitch transfers Jonas to
2052(Post apocalypse Winden) and helge to the bunker in 1986.Noah then
transfers little helge to 1954 (Little helge successes in travelling back
unlike other kids). Thus Helge start to believe in Noah.
Jonas : young, Adult, Old (Adam)
Jonas, now in 2053, knows about
the apocalypse at Winden on 27 June 2020.He wish to travel back to 2020 and
stop the apocalypse by any means. But the people there believes in some
prophecy and they are waiting for the opening of passage which bring them to paradise,
A grown up, deaf young lady, Elizabeth Doppler (daughter of charlotte Doppler)
is their leader. They try to stop Jonas from going back. He trespass into the
half destroyed power plant (due to apocalypse) and sees a flooding sphere like
object said to be god’s particle which he uses to go back. But unfortunately he
ends up in 1921, where the tunnel is not yet been created. He meet teen Noah,
who is a member of sic mundus (the time travellers).Adam is the leader of sic mundus.
Later Jonas understands that Adam is his own older version who comes from future
(probably 2085) for some purpose. He created a black hole similar object (like
the one in the apocalyptic future) which enables time travel. He sends Jonas to
2019 to stop his father’s suicide which, he says, can change the future. But
thing took a turn when Jonas meets Michael. It is revealed that it was Jonas
(younger one) who brought little Mikkel to the cave (so there was two young
Jonas present at 2019.Now also, the original one and returned one).Then Claudia
visits them and says Michael’s suicide is necessary for the existence of Jonas
and about the hidden agenda of Adam (i.e., to start the last cycle).And then he
suicides, the events starts to repeat again. May be this version of younger
Jonas was took Mikkel to the cave.
Claudia Tiedemann’s older version meets
younger one at 1987 and tells her about the time travel. She hides the time
machine under soil in 1954.Later young Claudia finds out this using the map
provided by her older. Using that machine she travels to future and learns
about Egon Tiedemann’s(her father) death in 1987.Whereas Egon in 1987 now
understands time travel is possible(by talking with Ulrich who trapped in 1953
and living in a mental asylum in 1987).He starts to doubt the power plant about
this. This creates fallout between young Claudia (who tries to save him from
death) and Egon and unexpectedly Claudia kills him (not by purpose). Young
Jonas meets depressed Claudia and asks her to join with him as per the wish of
old Claudia. (Question arises how Jonas reached 1987.He was at 2019, trying to stop
his father’s death. It is only possible to travel back 33 years. May be, After
took Mikkel to the cave he may reached 1986.Lived there because he has no
duplicate in 1986 and waited for right time to meet Claudia as per older Claudia’s
words).They travels into 2020 to enter the bunker( Only those who are in the
bunker will survive). Claudia meets her daughter Regina (adult) and brings her
too to the bunker. Jonas goes to his home to bring his mother to the bunker.
Claudia : little, young, old
By this time almost all
characters in 2020 knew about time travel. Hannah knows it from adult Jonas. He
also informs it to Charlotte Doppler, Peter Doppler and Katharina. Hannah
steals the machine from him and gets settled in 1957. Martha, Magnus and
Franzisca know about time travel from Bartroz (he had a machine given by
Noah).This machine is later taken by Katharina to Adult Jonas. He saves Magnus,
Fransisca and bartosz with this machine during the apocalypse. [Note: An adult
version of Magnus and Franzisca can be seen in 1921 with Adam. They may be
working for Jonas who becomes Adam later]
Franzisca : young, old
Magnus : young, old
So during the time of apocalypse Peter
Doppler, Elizabeth Doppler, Claudia, Regina and also teen Noah from 1921 is
present in the bunker.
Noah is the most mysterious
character in the show. He was actually a teenager belongs in 1921.He joins with
Adam to create a world without time. An adult version of Noah can be seen in
many time periods. He is making a time machine in 1987.Actually he was only a
small prawn in Adam’s big game. His sister Agnes Nielsen is working undercover for
Old Claudia (she is against Adam). Agnes joins with Noah again to work with Adam
(by Claudia’s instruction) in 1957.Noah kills Old Claudia (in 1957) and
understands Charlotte Doppler is his daughter. Later it is revealed that Elizabeth
(daughter of Charlotte) is Noah's future wife and Charlotte is their daughter
(happens years after apocalypse).May be Charlotte was actually born in the
future and it Adam or someone gave her to Tannhaus by coming to past. By
knowing the truths, Noah turns against Adam but Agnes (Appears in the same physic
as 1954) kills him, in 1921.Adam then transfers teen Noah to 2020 to enter in
the bunker. Now teen Noah is in bunker along with Elizabeth without knowing
about Adam's play (beginning of last cycle).
[Note that in 2020, Alexander (Real name is
Boris Niewald but he impersonate as Alexander Köhler) is suspected by new
police officer Clausen for the activities of plant. Later it is revealed that Alexander
Köhler was actually Clausen’s brother who was gone missing. So he came to
Winden in quest for his brother’s disappearance. ]
Clausen and team open the
radioactive waste disposal but Charlotte tries to stop them because she knows
the after effects .But they open the drums which has rock soiled with dark
matter (There was an experiment conducted on god’s particle. These wastes were
the remnants). This creates a portal which connects charlotte with Elizabeth in
1953.Meanwhile; Jonas meets Martha at his home, while he was searching for his mother.
But it didn’t end up happily. Adam approaches there and kills Martha. He says
the apocalypse will happen. Then surprisingly another Martha claims to be from
another world, reaches there and escapes with Jonas using a ball like time
travel machine. And finally the Black hole created over Winden ends up in an
Apocalypse.
Thus the season 2 ends with the
Apocalypse. Hope you got an overall idea about the story and characters. Expects
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