"Auf Wiedersehen" is the seventh episode of The Umbrella Academy's third season.
Stan is revealed to be the son of a rocker friend of Lila's from 1989 Berlin.
Five wants to investigate the Hotel Oblivion, but everyone is called away for a family meeting with the Umbrellas and the Sparrows. Everyone sans Klaus (who is off investigating his resurrective abilities with Reginald), meets at the mansion, where they learn Harlan is responsible for the grandfather paradox and thus the kugelblitz. Allison and Viktor get into an argument about killing Harlan, resulting in Viktor storming off. The rest plan to trap the next wave in a Dyson sphere.
Reginald has Klaus run over by passing cars enough times that Klaus can now come back to life near-instantly. He then takes Klaus to a mausoleum in order to confront his mental block on his powers. Following a pep talk from Reginald, Klaus is able to control the ghosts around him.
Allison admits her nihilism to Lila before their plan to contain it starts. Grace attempts to stop it with a flamethrower, which Five stops by teleporting Grace away and snapping her neck. Lila, Sloane, and Viktor successfully contain the kugelblitz inside Christopher, and the two groups celebrate together. Luther proposes to Sloane, who accepts, while Lila admits to Diego that she brought Stan to see how Diego would be as a father because she is actually pregnant with his child. Five tells Viktor that heroics will always take lives, reassures him that he'll always be there for him, and warns him that if Viktor goes rogue again, Five will personally kill him.
Ben stops Fei's suggestion to kill the Umbrellas because he needs them as part of some deal he made with Reginald. Offended, Fei and Christopher try to break from him... but then the kugelblitz breaks free, killing Christopher and Fei, while the others escape.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: Five tells Viktor that in saving the world, sometimes they must step on ants. This references the first season when Viktor was locked in the bunker, with Klaus disbelieving that Viktor was dangerous as he always cried whenever the others stepped on ants as kids.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Emotionally distraught after killing Harlan, Allison takes a smoke in the Sparrows' staircase.
- Fisticuff-Provoking Comment: When Allison and Viktor argue about Harlan, Allison tells Viktor that they should have left him in the basement. Diego yells that it was too far, and it does provoke Viktor into hitting her.
- Hope Spot: The Sparrows and Umbrellas successfully contain the potentially world-destroying kugelblitz. Sloane and Luther get engaged, Lila admits to Diego that she wants to start a family with him, Klaus bonds more with Reginald, and Five even comforts Viktor in his own way. Then everything goes south when the kugelblitz breaks free, kills Fei and Christopher, and actively begins consuming the universe.
- Internal Reveal: Everyone learns Harlan was responsible for the deaths of the Umbrellas' mothers, which Viktor has known for a few episodes.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: A dying Grace slowly sings "Onward, Christian Soldiers"
in an increasingly mechanically distorted voice, to very creepy effect. - Jerkass Has a Point: Although being his usual assholery self to Viktor, he is right in saying that Viktor is allowing the world to burn because he is mad at her sister. However, this trope is also averted as he fails to tell Viktor that he is one of the four people needed to contain the kugelblitz.
- Kick the Dog: Ben taunts Viktor, who is already upset that Allison killed Harlan and her words to him in front of the family. And this is right after Viktor's flashback to where Allison had told him that he was family and that nothing in the world would would change that.
- Laughing Mad: Allison's uncomfortable laugh while she considers that they might already be dead or sometime else in a few days discomfits even the normally unflappable Lila.
- Music/Age Dissonance: There's hilarity in Reginald, who looks like a Quintessential British Gentleman, jamming along to Nelly's upbeat, hedonistic rap hit "Ride Wit Me".
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Lila's blonde hair is revealed to be as the result of falling in with the Berlin rock scene after the Berlin Wall fell, and we see rockers with hair dyed and styled all sorts of ways.
- Noodle Incident: Just like in the previous episode, the "Jennifer incident" is brought up again, this time by Klaus when he lists all of Reginald's misdeeds in the original timeline. Later, Viktor is in Ben's bedroom and sees drawings of a woman named Jennifer.
- Not So Above It All: Reginald, of all people, is revealed to enjoy listening to rap music.
- Pass the Popcorn: When Viktor and Allison start squaring off, Ben grabs some cheese balls and starts betting on them with Five.
- Rewatch Bonus: Once it's revealed that Lila is actually pregnant, we understand the real reason why she turns down Allison's drink; and during the celebration of the (unbeknownst to all, temporary) containment of the kugelblitz, she is the only one not drinking the champagne.
- Sins of the Father: Lila describes the Commission calling for her head after the death of her mother thus: "Ding-dong, the bitch is dead, so make her daughter pay instead."
- Straw Nihilist: The amount of how much she's lost to the temporal tomfoolery has reduced Allison to this, making her believe that they'll either die or just end up in another timeline that's fake and doomed.
- Voiceover Letter: The Handler's letter to Lila is read in her actress's voice.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Reginald of all people gives this to Klaus to give him the motivation to defeat the ghosts in the cemetary.
