Jonas escapes and is led through the caves by a mysterious, faceless figure in a rubber suit and gas mask — a “Sic Mundus” foot soldier. This guide takes him to a hidden church ruins behind the cave. There, behind a massive wooden door, sits .

Adam is a horrifically scarred man, his face a map of calcified burns. He speaks in riddles and absolutes. He tells Jonas the truth: He is Jonas Kahnwald, from a future far beyond 2053. He is the founder of (Thus the world was created). Adam explains that time is a corrupted wound, a “glitch” in God’s plan. To heal it, the knot must be untied from its very beginning. And to do that, Jonas must become the man who created the wormhole in the first place — he must travel to 2019 and ensure Michael Kahnwald hangs himself.

Spoiler warning: This text assumes you have watched Season 1. It contains minor setup for Season 2 but no major reveals beyond Episode 1 of Season 2. “Beginnings and Endings” picks up seconds after the jaw-dropping finale of Season 1. The year is 1921 , and we are in the dusty, unfinished streets of a post-WWI Winden. A middle-aged man in a trench coat — Jonas Kahnwald — stumbles through a cave entrance, disoriented and clutching his bleeding ear. The world is colorless, bleak, and raw. He has not traveled forward; he has traveled back .

Cut to black. The ticking of a clock. The faint hum of the caves.

9.5/10 Key Quote: “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein (epigraph, paraphrased)