Six months after the disappearances, the police form a task force. In 2052, Jonas learns that most of Winden perished in an apocalyptic event.
Tropes:
- Apocalyptic Log: Claudia has several tapes of what went down immediately after the Apocalypse, which Jonas studies.
- Bad Future: Winden is destroyed by the time 2052 rolled around due to a massive apocalypse, implied to be caused by all the Time Travel.
- Break the Cutie: Elisabeth before and after the Apocalypse.
- Catapult Nightmare: Jonas has a dream about sleeping with Martha, and wakes up like this.
- Contrived Coincidence: 2020!Elisabeth stumbles on the Sic Mundus Creatus Est's group photo with Noah in it by sheer accident.
- Covered in Scars: Adam's face is burnt heavily due to unknown reasons.
- Dead Guy on Display: Jonas walks through a forest where bodies are hanging from the trees.
- Despair Event Horizon: Hannah is on verge of one after the disappearance of Jonas and Ulrich.
- Eye Scream: 2052!Elisabeth seems to be blind in an eye.
- Face Death with Dignity: The older miner realises the young Noah is there to kill him, but doesn't beg for his life.
- From Bad to Worse: Before the end of last episode, only 3 people were missing from Winden (Erik, Yasin and Mikkel), in 2019. Now after the time skip, Jonas, Ulrich and Helge have been added to the missing persons list, which prompts an investigator to come to Winden.
- Regina's cancer has become a lot worse.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Agnes Nielsen, Tronte's mother is seen standing next to Noah in the Sic Mundus Creatus Est's group photo of January 1921.
- Future Badass: 2052!Elisabeth is a rugged survivor leading her own party in the Bad Future.
- Gone to the Future: Jonas is stuck in 2052 due to his older self accidentally closing the wormhole.
- Interrupted Suicide: In 2020, Hannah puts a gun to her face and seemingly considers killing herself but she is interrupted when adult Jonas opens the door with his key and walks in.
- It Gets Easier: Adult Noah convinces his younger self that his killing of the miner will eventually seem like this.
- The Man Behind the Man: Noah is revealed to have been taking orders from Adam, an enigmatic man.
- My Future Self and Me: Noah meets and talks to his past self in the 1920s.
- Plot Armor: As Jonas will obviously live to grow older, present Jonas risks traveling into the destroyed nuclear power plant to search for a way to go home.
- Public Execution: In 2052, several French men are publicly hanged by a group led by Elisabeth.
- The Reveal: Charlotte is H.G. Tannhaus's granddaughter.
- Noah is Adam's right-hand man in the Sic Mundus Creatus Est group.
- Time Skip: A minor one of 7 months in all timelines, in which the situation in Winden in 2020 has become worse.
- Where It All Began: Season 2 opens with the miners building the tunnel in 1921 that will eventually become the time-travel passage.
