Inside, he stops at the bottom of the grand staircase and waits for his mother, Greta, to come down and judge him. Young Helge rides his bike back home, which is the mansion that in 2019 has become Regina’s hotel. It connects the past, present and future.” A wormhole connects not just two, but three different dimensions. When describing the Time-Space continuum, Einstein and Rosen overlooked something. Tannhaus: “Nothing is complete without the third dimension.
Everything appears to us as opposite pairs. Tannhaus: “Our way of thinking is shaped by dualism. Tannhaus continues speaking as Ulrich becomes a time traveler. He soon finds Ariadne’s red thread, and follows that to the time travel doors. Ulrich follows Old Helge deeper into the caves. To pass through it is to travel through time.” They’re continuing a previous conversation, and pick up with the Einstein-Rosen bridge.Ĭlockmaker/Tannhaus: “That is a passage between a black hole, the entry, and a white hole, the exit, which connects the two, coupling time and space. The message reads: An Important Investment- Nuclear Power for Every Household!Īfter the opening theme, the Stranger visits the Clockmaker to talk physics. Their clothing is from one of the future time periods, so it looks like strange costumes to the people of 1953.Ī billboard looms over the construction site, showing Bernd Doppler and his family looking toward the future.
The site spokesman shows Egon to the bodies of two boys found buried in shallow graves in a pile of sand. Egon gives Helge dirty looks on the way there and after they arrive at the site. When Helge gets to the site, he stays on the edge and watches. Whoever decided to put Egon in a car that could be mistaken for a clown car, you have my admiration. Young Helge rides his bike along the unpaved road to the site, while Egon drives past him, blue police light and siren turned on, in his Volkswagen Beetle police cruiser.īest police car ever. In 1953, the power plant is nothing more than a construction site and a nightmare dream. Though we’re near the end of the season, 1953 would be Act 1 of this three part time loop cycle. The quote is from Act 1, scene 2, as everyone abandons a burning ship. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here!” William Shakespeare, The Tempest But, while he’s had some good reasons to dislike Ulrich, he’s also always been an incompetent investigator.ġ953 Winden alternates with the Stranger and the Clockmaker in 1986, having a physics discussion that starts with wormholes and proceeds through time loops and the creation of time machines. This episode also begins to explore Helge’s origin story and to explain why Egon has always been suspicious of Ulrich. Tronte’s mother, Agnes, who comes to town as a single mother, wearing a red dress and a confident, flirtatious air, is particularly worth noting. The new characters are an intriguing bunch, including middle school Helge, Jana, Ines, Claudia and Tronte, and some of their parents. Most shows wouldn’t introduce an entirely new cast just 2 episodes before the season finale, but most shows aren’t Dark. In this episode, Ulrich follows Helge from 2019 back to 1953 and we’re introduced to a generation of new characters.