 What's up guys and welcome to one take I'm Gil and today we're talking about dark season 3 episode 3 titled Adam and Eva There will of course be spoilers in this video through episode 3 But I have not watched beyond that in the final season So no spoilers for any episodes beyond the third one And before we jump into it quick reminder to hit that subscribe button If you haven't done so already and keep up with our coverage on the rest of the season With that let's jump into the episode. We begin in what appears to be the mid 1800s They don't tell us that specifically, but we see the blind townhouse We're familiar with from the previous episodes We see him here as a child with his father his father is reading to him from the play Ariadne Which we of course know from Marta She performs a monologue from that play in the alternate world episode one of this season and Back on our world in season one We also see that townhouse's father is wearing a ring with the trichetra symbol and he has that cane Etched into it is sick moon dust create us est His father goes on to say it was your mother's favorite play and he takes out a pocket wash Which says for Charlotte so this opening scene is a real brain twister when he says it was your mother's favorite play the first place my mind goes is Marta and Because of the Adam and Eve parallels we keep getting I've begun suspecting that we're going to find out Jonas and Marta are sort of the Adam and Eve of this family in a very literal sense I'm beginning to suspect that they will have a child or children From which this entire family tree branch due to time travel shenanigans So when he says it was your mother's favorite play is it possible? He is literally talking about Marta now That's of course strange because it would imply Marta was with townhouse's father But maybe we're not getting the full story here. Maybe somehow townhouse is a product of Jonas and Marta then of course there's the four Charlotte pocket watch which Noah ends up handing down to Elizabeth Somehow through again time travel shenanigans did Marta or Jonas grow up come back to the 1800s birth townhouse and hand down this pocket watch down the generations I don't know if I'm getting it exactly right But I feel like it's something in that ballpark then we jump to 1888 and we see the townhouse that we're familiar with from the previous episodes and from this point forward in the recap I am going to take it basically year by year character by character to try and keep everything straight So the blind townhouse has grown up and he's now in possession of that pocket watch and a copy of the Ariadne play He is visited by the lip scar to trio who tell townhouse that they know He's going into town because he wants to tell the world about the time travelers his father spent his whole life trying to prove the existence of time travel and Now this townhouse sees his father is vindicated because he's met Jonas and he's met these other time travelers The trio cannot allow him to do this. So he takes out his favorite weapon the Garrett wire We've seen him use a few times and it's implied that he kills townhouse Back at the townhouse machine factory where Jonas and company are hanging out Bartosh returns with Marta just after last episode she revealed to Bartosh that Jonas is Adam Bartosh is Understandably upset and he tells that Jonas you lied to us. You have no idea what you're doing Jonas tells Bartosh. This isn't Marta. You have to know. She's just using you Magnus butts in it says whoever she is She may be our only hope to get out of here and then Bartosh corners Jonas and tells him Tell them who really killed Marta Jonas tries to leave the room and just exit this tense conversation But Bartosh follows him and they end up having a fight in the rain Very reminiscent of the fight they had back in season one when Bartosh was annoyed at a teenage Jonas For ditching him the night they were supposed to meet Eric's drug dealer who turned out to be Noah And he was doubly annoyed at Jonas for Jonas kissing Marta when she was still Bartosh's girlfriend Then finally Bartosh says I told you all all along Jonas is to blame for everything. He is Adam. I Love this scene. I thought it was really emotionally charged when Bartosh yells I think three times he is Adam Jonas is Adam I kind of hated seeing Jonas not own up to the facts It reminded me of last season right before the apocalypse hit people were just attacking Jonas Bartosh tells Jonas. This is all your fault and Jonas owns it. He says Yeah, it's all my fault But I need to save you from the apocalypse and I kind of miss that Jonas the one who's just accepted Things are as they are and he's not super defensive But seeing Marta has clearly really messed him up. So I don't think he is exactly himself here Later this older Jonas visits Marta and he says to her you said I was with you in your world Why can't I remember it? Marta says that she doesn't know She also says she didn't write the letter that Jonas is in possession of then Marta asks What is Sikmundas Jonas explains that the older townhouse his father Was trying to create time travel so he could bring his wife back from the dead But Jonas goes on to say Townhouse was convinced time travel could bring you salvation But really all it brings is damnation Marta says she needs to hold on to the hope that somehow She can save her world save all her friends and family Then Marta says I know you don't trust me, but I want to show you that you can So she brings him outside to where she's buried her little spherical time travel device And pulls out a little capsule of cesium Supposedly all the cesium she has left her only way back home and she hands it to Jonas That seems to win over his trust Jonas brings it back to the room that contains the time travel machine prototype Places the cesium in a big bowl activates the machine and the cesium begins to rise We get a glimpse of the god particle before it collapses back into that big bowl Then they suddenly notice Marta during all the commotion has left She goes back to her room and it turns out she was lying that was not the last of her cesium She has quite a bit more left which she's able to use to activate the device And disappear before the others can find her so as has been the case throughout the series It looks like Jonas is again Being manipulated and for a moment I thought maybe Marta is lying to Jonas about him having visited her world Because she could have tracked down where Jonas is right now Through adam who later in the episode we learned she's collaborating with But then I remember in this very episode and in this season Of course, we do see younger Jonas Traveling to Marta's world. So there's an important question here. There are two possibilities one Jonas traveled to Marta's world and then Somehow forgets something happens that causes him to forget And he grows up to be the older Jonas that we see here But the more intriguing possibility the one I talked about in the last episode Is that we are truly seeing a deviation from the timeline And the past is being changed Young Jonas has gone to Marta's world and is no longer the same person as the older Jonas we see here That is what I suspect is going on But I'm sure we'll find out in the few episodes that remain now. Let's fast forward from 1888 to 2019 And switch over from our world to Marta's alternate world We find Jonas still in older Marta's lair And sort of adam's style this older Marta is ruminating about how we're all connected And she tells Jonas we are adam and eve. We are a glitch in the matrix Then she says do you want to know why you're here? And she explains Jonas you are here to save them All of your friends and family in your world and in mine Now at no point have I really trusted what older Marta is telling Jonas I assume that like adam she is manipulating him Well, really like adam and like just about everyone else that seems to guide Jonas I believe that this older Marta is manipulating him and that of course becomes clear later in the episode I also just want to know I love the fact that the matrix has had such a cultural impact That you can watch this German show that has a serious philosophical discussion And the phrase glitch in the matrix does not at all feel out of place And we all understand what they're communicating older Marta continues to ruminate about how Jonas Can never let go of Marta adam tried to sever the invisible tie between them But it appears to be impossible Then Marta reveals that she has the st. Christopher necklace that Jonas is also in possession of And Jonas is getting sick of all this. He just wants to know why he is here Older Marta tells Jonas that if you want your Marta back You have to do a few things. You need to meet up with my younger self And turn young Marta into the person that I am today. Jonas Understandably says I'm sick to death of having to do things But older Marta is able to win him over By pulling on his heartstrings saying ask yourself what you want. Essentially if you want Marta back Do what I say and if you want to manipulate Jonas and get him to do what you want You need to hang that carrot in front of him. I can get you Marta back I always love Jonas's outbursts anytime he's yelled at adam Anytime he just gets sick and tired of all the nonsense he's dealing with you totally understand his frustration But the magic of it is you completely get his frustration. You understand him being sick of all this You understand him not wanting to listen to a word older marta says But at the same time at least I completely buy into him changing his mind when you invoke Marta because That has been the one Shining light in his life ever since mekel took his own life Jonas's world has been nothing but darkness and misery The one beacon of hope has been his Marta and he got seconds with her on the lake He had a moment with her before adam killed her But he really has not had any time to enjoy the relationship that began to blossom back on the lake in 2019 our world So I totally get his frustration And I also completely buy that he would flip when you invoke his marta then older marta hands Jonas her world's version of those futuristic flashlight orbs on this world They're a little bit more rectangular and I have to wonder if there's anything more to these Futuristic flashlights if there will be some interesting twist relating to them Because at the end of the day it seems like they're really nothing more than just very good flashlights In fact, you don't really need them in the cave. Ulrich was able to navigate to the sickmundus Metal door using nothing but a lighter So it just seems funny that they are the only technological advancement We're aware of that happened beyond the year 2020 But I digress after Jonas leaves older marta The trio pays her a visit and they seem like I said in the last episode to play a role similar to noa Where noa was adam's henchman. This trio appears to report up to older marta They hand her marta's play Ariadne, which they must have taken from townhouse They also give her the pocket watch and the nuclear plant papers along with the master key Which they would have taken from jasmine last episode the middle aged gentleman from the trio the one who seems to do most of the talking Says to marta. You could have told him which path you're sending him down how it will end Older marta replies. He will never stop trying to break this cycle He'll never understand that we must preserve the knot that his marta has to die So all the others can live First it's interesting to see this trio say Something which can be interpreted as sympathetic It seems that the trio is sympathizing with Jonas saying you didn't have to lie to him You could have been upfront with him and it makes me wonder if the trio has some kind of a connection To Jonas it also seems that claudia adam marta All these people who spend their lives decades of their lives Trying to figure out all this time travel stuff in the end It seems like they reached the same conclusion You need to preserve these cycles as they are Older claudia did this adam did this and the marta we see here all three of them seem to run along the line of Whatever events occurred we need to ensure they occur again And anytime they send Jonas on a mission It always turns out that they are truly sending him To ensure events play out as they did originally adam sent Jonas to stop michael conwald suicide But twist no he didn't he sent Jonas to actually Make sure the suicide goes forward and that's very similar to older marta Who sends Jonas on a mission that supposedly will allow him Eventually to prevent his marta's death, but twist actually our world's marta has to die And we're going to preserve the knot. So what is going on here? I don't necessarily think that this world's marta and adam have the same motivations But I do think they've come to a conclusion that younger Jonas and even middle-aged Jonas has not yet reached My suspicion is that the knot this knot is caused by all of their meddling in time travel But I also think that all of the family lines That we see on this show branch from a family tree that only exists because of this time knot So the knot needs to exist in order for all of Jonas's friends and family to exist However, the knot also inevitably leads to the apocalypse. So perhaps older marta Selfishly wants to preserve the knot because that means she gets to preserve her own life She gets to preserve the life of all her friends and family Even though she is accepting that will ultimately lead to the world's end And even though this world isn't great the one that she inhabits at least it exists Because my assumption is that removing this knot Also means that marta and adam disappear. So her motivations here may be incredibly selfish I want to preserve this knot that artificially props up my life But at the cost of the rest of the world Literally ending now you can juxtapose that with what marta says in her monologue from the play ariadne knots can't be unraveled But they can be severed and that's similar to what adam says Not the knot cannot be unraveled, but it can be destroyed And that's where I think the motivations may be differ Perhaps older marta wants to preserve the knot live in this essentially bubble reality And adam wants to destroy the knot Which if i'm right that means adam is potentially being selfless here Destroy the knot that kills jonas. It kills this entire family tree But perhaps that's the only way to stop the apocalypse Anyway enough theorizing next we see jonas walking out of the cave And we'll check back with him a little later By the way before we continue just a quick reminder if you're enjoying this video Please go ahead and hit that like button hit the subscribe button And of course the bell icon so you get notified the next time we do a video and you can keep up with our coverage Of the rest of the season and now we'll stay in 2019 on the alternate world But let's check in with ol rick and charlotte. They're at the police station and ol rick Who i believe is in the role of police chief here on this world He's telling the team about the kids Discovering the body in the bunker. We of course know that it's mad's body ol rick and the others have not yet accepted that Ol rick is listing the items that were found with the child including the 80s clothing the walkman and then the license Which says mads nielsen Now at that point ol rick starts to break down. He can't even get the words out charlotte comes to the rescue and asks good old torben woeller to take over from there I love this scene. I love how you don't see ol rick's face at first While he's listing out the items and then when the camera pans over and you see his face You can tell that he's destroyed. You can see he's on the verge of a total breakdown because of course This is bringing back all the emotions from 1986 from his brother disappearing. It's such an emotional scene And as always the acting on this show is just incredible ol rick and charlotte meet in the evidence room And ol rick's thinking right now is that someone has kept mad's belongings for three decades Killed another boy and then planted these belongings on that unidentified boy Then ol rick goes into a version of the monologue that we saw back in season one The monologue where he talks about why he became a cop back in 1986 the investigation into his brother's disappearance They made every possible mistake. The detective in charge was a drunken moron. He's of course talking about egon there And ol rick vowed to become a cop and to be a better cop one that doesn't make all those mistakes But look who he is now ol rick says his marriage is ruined And he's cheating on the woman who he cheated on his wife with At that moment he decides he needs to end things with charlotte charlotte as always doesn't really react She probably has the best poker face of any of these characters a few thoughts on this scene one I wonder if we'll get to see the egon teedaman of this world I kind of love and hate the way that ol rick always writes him off as a drunken moron It was easy to bind to that characterization back in season one But they've done such a great job of filling out the egon character They did a lot last season to show us more of his backstory and you realize how good a person he is And he just got in over his head I wonder if maybe he gets a slightly happier ending in this world, but I doubt it It's also interesting how we're watching events Play out on this world that are nearly identical to ones we've seen in our world You would think it would get boring. For example, we're seeing ol rick give Essentially the same monologue again But the fact that we've already seen it to me almost makes it more interesting Because i'm constantly on the edge of my seat Looking for the slight differences a slight nuances in how what we're seeing here Differs from what we already saw It's also intriguing to see charlotte in this role in our world She seems so put together and I wouldn't expect to see her in a messy situation like this one carrying on an affair with ol rick And she is like I said such a hard character to read So when ol rick says he wants to end things I have no idea how she's processing all that later hannah pays the police station a visit After determining that catarina is not ol rick's mistress. She goes to charlotte as the next option And tries to suss her out. She asks you look so different that you get a haircut And then gets very close to her gives charlotte a hug And I believe a wall there inspects her hair and in that moment determines Ulrich is having an affair with charlotte from there hannah pays visit to alexander titamin at the nuclear plant and again We see an updated version of a conversation. We've already seen play out in our world Hannah showed alexander the bag that once contained his real passport and his gun Threatened him with blackmail and asked him to destroy ol rick's life In this world that conversation plays out again Except instead of asking alexander to destroy ol rick's life She asks him to destroy charlotte's life And I have to say that this version of hannah is being ever so slightly more evil than the previous version Because she's talking to an alexander that is raising his son alone After recently losing his wife. She goes right from asking. How are you and bartoe shoulding up? Oh, by the way, I want to blackmail you into destroying this woman's life So it'll be interesting to see if this plot thread actually plays out on this world Because in our reality This plot never really went anywhere hannah asked alexander to destroy ol rick's life Meanwhile, ol rick was stranded in 1953. So we never actually saw the payoff. I'm wondering if here charlotte will actually suffer hannah's wrath Meanwhile, charlotte goes to investigate the doppler bunker where the unidentified boy was found She calls ol rick to check in on him see how he's doing Then once she's in the bunker finds a coin on a red cord Just like the one helga has Beginning to suspect helga has something to do with all this charlotte visits peter at the church when charlotte walks in she finds peter with someone Who you may recognize as bernadette? That's the prostitute who worked in the trailer by the truck stop in our world Though on this world the character is represented with more male Characteristics when charlotte walked in I definitely got the vibe that peter and this character Were having some kind of an intimate conversation So I think that is one of the elements that carried over from our world into this one So charlotte starts to question peter about helga. Where was helga last night back in 1987 when you came to wind in Did helga still have the cabin and did he use that bunker for anything in particular charlotte shows peter that penny she found And peter doesn't buy any of what she's saying. How could helga have had anything to do With that child's death. He was with me all evening Then peter gets a call and finds out that helga is at the police station right now having just confessed to Murdering that child at the station helga is saying over and over that he killed the boy charlotte and peter are struggling to make sense of it Then orick comes in and grabs helga thinking that helga did something to mad's How did you get mad's things? What did you do to him? Then helga has a reaction to orick. You you're alive It was him Holds up the penny necklace Nobody knows what he's talking about But we of course know that helga is likely referring to the fact that orick is the one Who inflicted the disfigurement upon his face? So this confirms that most likely in this reality orick just like in our world will travel back to the fifties And bash helga's head with a rock Very curious how this is going to happen because in our world helga snuck out of the nursing home Went to the cave and orick followed him in order to time travel But in this world helga's in lockup So I think a couple of possibilities my guess is that orick is spooked by what helga said to him So maybe after hours orick is going to pay helga a visit And in their conversation helga is going to say something along the lines Of i'll show you where mad's is and take orick to the cave Or another possibility is that helga Will be let out of prison because even though he is confessing to this crime It won't make any sense to anybody. He's got a rock solid alibi. Peter and elizabeth were with him at night And nobody is going to speculate that yeah sure helga didn't kill the child now But he did 33 years ago and then sent the body to the future Then checking in on the martyr of this world. She's visited by orick her father Orick wants to know exactly what martyr magnus and the others saw in the bunker there When she sticks to her story that they saw essentially a portal open up and spit out a body Orick asks if maybe her and her friends were on drugs of some kind Is it possible that killian marta's boyfriend eric's older brother is it possible that killian slipped them some drugs Marta and magnus basically kick orick out of the house But marta thinks there might be something to what orick says She goes upstairs to talk to magnus and says maybe dad was right Maybe the body was already there and we just magnus doesn't even let her finish the thought and says i know what i saw marta then visits killian and killian lets marta know that orick has already questioned killian About whether or not he slipped marta and the others drugs marta asks did you and this Very much offends killian Apparently he is often used as a scapegoat him and his family Because they're seen as sort of low class. So he says i was right You were only with me all this time to rile up your parents as a sort of Rebellion marta leaves while jonas creepily watches from the darkness now at first i sort of Had a visceral negative reaction to killian in the first episode Only because he in essence was taking marta away from our jonas. It wasn't really fair of me But that's how i felt here i felt bad for him because i'm not sure he's wrong When he accuses marta of having been with him as a sort of rebellion But we'll find out along the way how much of a bond she really had with killian Is she at any point going to go back to him or as she gets pulled into this big time travel plot Is she going to forget about him now to be fair according to older marta There is some kind of eternal bond between marta and jonas Which is probably pretty hard for any guy to compete with marta goes to the woods and that's where jonas shows himself And they have another conversation jonas starts to mention some memories from marta's life to prove that he really knows her Finally the thing that gets her is jonas says that he knows the night that things went crazy in the cave Marta saw an image of herself in the woods She saw a version of herself covered in blood or some other black substance marta never told anybody about what she saw in the woods So when jonas says i know what you saw because your future self told me That gets her attention Enough that she is willing to follow jonas to the cave where they crawl down and get to that familiar metal door However, this door on their world instead of saying sick mundas creatus est It says erit lux, which means let there be light now. How do we interpret this? To me let there be light seems like a logical predecessor to Thus the world was created god says let there be light and then the world is created So i think there's a couple of possible interpretations here One if let there be light comes first Then is that implying marta's world is the original world? We've been assuming that jonas's world came first and somehow spun off into marta's alternate reality But that's really just a bias that comes from the fact that we Were first watching jonas's world. So that's the one we're invested in But could there be a twist which reveals that jonas's world is the alternate reality? That kind of makes sense when you think about the fact that one of the key features of jonas's world Is michel going back in time that is an unnatural thing to occur So if you say we've got a world marta's world and then michel goes back in time That creates the world that jonas lives in another possible interpretation Is think about how many characters have used the metaphor of light and dark claudia used it to say there's a good side and a bad side We're on the good side the light side no one used the same metaphor In opposition to claudia So if there is truly a light and dark side The fact that this door says let there be light could be an illusion to the fact that Marta on this world truly is the light Against adam's darkness that would also seem consistent with the idea that adam is trying to destroy the knot And create darkness while marta is trying to preserve it So a number of possible interpretations I doubt we'll get to the end and have one clean interpretation But maybe there'll be some more No pun intended a light shed on the question now earlier in the episode in 1888 on our world Marta used her device to escape before the others could find her Where did she go? She went to our world 2053 she's at the nuclear plant where she meets up with adam adam says so you gave it to him Marta nods and then he adds I was always too gullible. You did the right thing Marta then looks up and we see that the two of them are in a room Containing a version of the god particle. So in a strange twist It looks like marta from her world is working with adam on our world And jonis from our world is working with marta from the other world And in both cases I assume that the younger marta and jonis are being manipulated So both of our protagonists are being manipulated by each other's older selves from alternate realities So we've of course already seen younger jonis teaming up with a version of marta from the other world But i'm expecting at some point for our jonis to run into again the time traveling marta And what i'm wondering is instead of time traveling marta Manipulating jonis like she has been so far Will we see the two of them actually team up and potentially rally against the older marta and the older adam version of jonis When the younger marta and jonis realize that they're both being manipulated Now if they do that could it possibly achieve anything Or is that just part of the predetermined cycle of events that inevitably lead to the older adam And eve and ultimately the apocalypse If they are able to break from the predetermined cycle of events You've got to wonder what is different about this iteration of jonis and marta in this cycle What is different about them from previous cycles that allows them to break from the predetermined sequence of events If they are able to now still in 2053, but cutting over to the alternate world We see where jonis took alternate world marta when they went through the let there be light metal door They're in that world's post apocalypse Now where our world's apocalypse looks more like a nuclear winter This one looks more like a desert jonis tells marta She told me to take you here that she'd explain it to you Then we see somebody approaching them from the distance somebody that's covered in robes So you can't tell who they are until they get close and reveal themselves It looks to me like a middle-aged marta who then says welcome to the future Now i need to give myself a minor pat on the back here because when i did my season three trailer breakdown There were a few things i got wrong But also a couple things i got right and this was one of them when we saw that Robed figure walking towards jonis and marta I speculated we haven't seen a middle-aged version of marta That is kind of the counter to jonis's stranger character. So I thought maybe that's her And unless we find out otherwise next episode I believe that is who we met at the end of this episode and it was really just pure speculation on my part So minor pat on the back there. Anyway, another really solid episode. I continue to Thoroughly enjoy this season now seeing there's only five episodes left from here One thing i haven't thought too much about is how does this show end the show is called dark And in general it's been pretty bleak and hopeless Every time a character thinks they're doing something good There's a twist and it turns out that in reality They have set out on a predetermined course of events that never seem to lead anywhere very happy And you end up back in the apocalypse So it seems kind of silly to even ponder the possibility of a happy ending But after so much suffering Imagine how great a happy ending would feel now I know a lot of you have probably binged the season already. So you know where we're heading But i'm wondering if maybe we can get something bittersweet I feel like a happy ending Maybe it's too much to ask for but i love these characters so much That if we had an ending that's the knot is destroyed The apocalypse is averted but all our characters don't exist I would probably be pretty upset by that ending. So If happiness is out of the question i'm at least crossing my fingers for bittersweet Where maybe some of our characters get to survive and live out a happy life for Jonas The one thing i'm hoping for is i feel like ever since his father committed suicide He has not had a moment of joy from my perspective It seems like the last time jonas was truly happy for even a moment is when he was with marta upstairs at the neilson's party So i would like before the series end in the next five episodes I would love to just see one more moment of happiness for jonas If we're going to get a sad ending or even a bittersweet ending at a minimum for me to be satisfied at the conclusion of this series And not be totally emotionally broken. I just need to see that one moment of joy for jonas But we'll see anyway with that I think i can wrap up by saying if you enjoyed this video make sure to hit the like button Hit the subscribe button and of course the bell icon so you get notified The next time we do a video or the next time we go live I'm going to continue binging this season and after each episode. I'll do another one of these videos And once I get to the end of the season I'll do a live stream so we can have a live Discussion about the season as a whole try to dissect what we saw go through theories And just overall process this awesome series So you'll definitely want to make sure you're subscribed So you don't miss any of that with that. Thanks for watching and see you on the next one take Bye