Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Netflix's "Dark."
The scene in Netflix's sci-fi series includes a group of important characters, and includes a key throwback line to the third episode of the show. Plus, the song playing over the end-credits ("Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" by Nena) has its own important meaning. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go.
In the final minutes of Netflix's mind-bending, time-travel-laden series "Dark," the story's sprawling cast of characters is whittled down to a dinner table of six people. The dinner party group is made up of a key set of characters, and their connections to one another (plus the important conversation they have in the scene) bring the whole show full circle.Before we dive into specifics, here's one last warning that the following article includes major spoilers for the series finale of "Dark."
Jonas Martha Netflix Dark season three Jonas and Martha in "Dark."
Netflix Jonas and Martha erased themselves from existence, creating a ripple effect among their family tree As revealed over the course of season three, the events we watched in the first two seasons of "Dark" were taking place inside just one of three worlds.Eva (aka Martha from the second world) and Adam (aka Jonas from the first world) were battling for the existence of their respective worlds. But they eventually understood that their respective worlds were aberrations — and their own lives were "glitches in the matrix," to borrow Jonas' phrase from the pilot episode.Their worlds were created when, in the "origin world," H.G. Tannhaus created a time machine. He was attempting to reverse the course of events which led to his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter all dying in a car accident.
Dark season 3 finale explainer Netflix TV 1 H.G. Tannhaus and the time machine he creates in the origin world.Netflix But by creating this machine, he accidentally opened up a wormhole and split his own universe off into two additional corrupted paths. In those worlds, Jonas and Martha and their entire family tree was locked in a tragic and tormenting cycle of death and pain.So Jonas and Martha (two versions of them, anyways) found their way into the origin world and traveled to the moment just before Tannhaus' family died. They encouraged his son, Marek, to turn the car back and go back to Tannhaus. The plan worked. As a result, Martha, Jonas, and almost all of the other characters born from their family tree disappeared. They ceased to exist. Their town of Winden, Germany, still lived on in the origin world.The last supper, and a closer look at who is left alive in the final minutes of 'Dark'
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The group at the dinner party in Regina's house.
Netflix Without Jonas and Martha, virtually all of the interconnected characters in "Dark" also disappeared. That's why the final scene includes just six key people: Katharina Albers, Hannah Krüger, Torben Wöller, Bernadette Wöller, Peter Doppler, and Regina Tiedemann. We know this is the same origin world where Tannhaus and his family lived, because it's in a different aspect ratio (also known as letterboxing, when larger black bars at the top and bottom of your screen are shown). Throughout season three, only scenes in the origin world were displayed with this way way. The group seems to be celebrating something, and Regina is hosting at the house best known as the Hannah and Jonas' house (from his world), but was the Nielsen's house in Martha' world. Now, in the origin world, Regina lives in this house. We briefly see a picture of young Regina, her mother Claudia, and an older man.
This is Bernd Doppler. If you need a refresher on all the various characters, including Bernd, see our character guide here.Dark season 3 finale explainer Netflix TV 2 Young Regina, Claudia, and a mystery man.Netflix According to the official "Dark" website, Bernd was Regina's father all along. So in the origin world, Bernd and Claudia appear to have been happy parents to Regina.Also, in this origin world Hannah isn't married to Ulrich or Mikkel, because they don't exist in this world. In the other two worlds, Ulrich was the grandson of Martha and Jonas' child, the menacing unnamed man we saw time-traveling with his own younger and older self throughout season three.You can see this in the connecting family trees that "Eva"/Martha created:Dark season 3 finale explainer Netflix TV 18
Eva's family tree.
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Ulrich also would have been the descendant of Hannah herself, after she time-traveled and had Silja with Egon Tiedemann. Silja then married young Bartosz (in the past), and they in turn gave birth to Noah and Agnes (who became the start of the Nielsen line). In the origin world, Hannah is instead with Torben Wöller, the police officer who has had a mysterious eye patch throughout the show.The lack of explanation for this injury, a long-theorized plot point among fans, is poked fun at in this final scene when Wöller is about to tell the story but gets interrupted when the power goes out.
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