 Just a quick warning before we dive into it, this video will be full of spoilers for Dark Season 3, so don't watch this until you're done with the season. The third season of Dark is an incredible work of art, but it's also a confusing one, especially when it comes to Marta, simply because there appear to be a lot of Marta's in this season. Just look at the scene where Jonas is killed. There's yellow raincoat wearing Marta, scarred murderous Marta, middle-aged Marta, and of course, old Eva Marta. And don't forget that during all this, there is also a fifth Marta in 2053 who is going to be held captive by Adam. Upon first viewing, many assume that these are all the same Marta, just at different points in her timeline, kind of like Jonas, older Jonas, and Adam, except with a lot more iterations in between. However, if you look closer, you can see that this doesn't add up, and in fact, it's a little more complicated than that. Before diving into the explanation, just a quick reminder to hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, and the bell icon so you get notified the next time we do a video. Back to the show. At one point, Dark very clearly explains to us that Jonas is essentially split in two. One Jonas is killed by Marta, while another survives the apocalypse on his own, grows up, and becomes Adam. Similarly, after witnessing Jonas die, this Marta will also split. One Marta becomes scarred murderer Marta, while another becomes Adam's captive. To understand this fully, let's go back to the moment where Marta witnesses Jonas's death and follow her from that point forward. Then we'll see where her timeline splits and show where each of those two branches leads. After Jonas dies, Marta rushes home where she cuts off the hair stained with Jonas's blood. Then she recruits Bartosz to help stop the apocalypse. They hop on a bike and head towards the nuclear plant where they hope to stop Bartosz's father from opening the barrels. They believe doing so will stop the apocalypse from happening. However, on the way, they are stopped by an older Magnus and Francisca sent by Adam. They recruit Marta to Adam's cause with the promise of reuniting her with Jonas. Her first order of business is traveling to Jonas's world in the moments before the apocalypse to rescue him and bring him to her world. We saw her do exactly this in the final moments of season two, leading into the beginning of season three. However, as we learned in the final episode, something odd occurs during the apocalypse. Time stands still for a moment. In that moment, the rules of cause and effect also break down. This is a loophole Eva is aware of and she uses it to enact change in the cycle. Specifically, she sends Bartosz from her world to stop Marta from rescuing Jonas, preventing the event we witness in the season two finale. You'll recall that after Magnus and Francisca recruited Marta, Eva sent an older Bartosz to recruit his younger self. When Bartosz per Eva's orders stops Marta from rescuing Jonas, this is when the timeline splits. In the moment time stands still, when you enact change, something strange happens. Your action both occurs and does not occur simultaneously. Marta rescues Jonas as we saw in the season two finale. Marta does not rescue Jonas and instead follows Bartosz, rejoining Eva's side of the war. Both realities overlap, both occur simultaneously. As a result, two Martas with two unique timelines coexist. Let's follow those two Martas from this point forward, starting with the one that rescues Jonas, the one that is still working for Adam. After rescuing Jonas, this Marta drops him off in the Winden Cave of her world. Then, per Adam's orders, she heads to 1888, where she hands some cesium over to older Jonas before abandoning him. This sets Jonas on the path to eventually stabilizing the God particle and becoming Adam. After leaving older Jonas behind, this Marta heads back to 2053. While there, an older Magnus remarks that back in 1888, he was confused why Marta abandoned them. Now, he knows that he, as an older man, and Adam are the ones that gave her the order to begin with. Silia, working for Adam, then locks up this Marta, and ultimately, Adam uses his machine to destroy her. Marta number one's life comes to an end. Revisiting the moment time split, let's follow the other Marta, the one that does not rescue Jonas and instead follows Bartosz. He takes Marta back to Eva's lair. Then, Eva scars her younger self and introduces Marta to her future son. She then explains that in order to preserve her son's life, Marta must preserve the knot, meaning she must repeat all events that previously occurred in the cycle exactly, including the death of Jonas. Working with her middle-aged self and Eva, although the memory of watching him die is fresh, Marta nervously goes through the motions of greeting her younger self and killing Jonas. In this scene, the Marta wearing a yellow raincoat is Marta from before her timeline split. After the split, one Marta will die thanks to Adam's machine, and the other Marta will become this murderous, scarred Marta. After killing Jonas, scarred Marta grows up to become a middle-aged Marta and eventually Eva. And that's pretty much it. This is one detail I really enjoyed from season three, because it's a great example of dark giving us everything we need to figure something out without spelling it all out for us. I first realized something was odd when I picked up on the detail that murderer Marta has a very prominent scar, while the Marta held captive by Adam does not have this scar. Then, thinking back on the explanation for two Jonas's, I realized that Marta experiences the same phenomenon. This same loophole is also used by Claudia to create a version of her that is killed by Noah and another version that can go on to show Adam how to finally destroy the knot. Anyway, that about wraps it up for today. If you enjoyed this video, please go ahead and 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. Thanks for watching and see you on the next one take.