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Recap / Dark S3 E7 "Between The Time"

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Across three centuries, Winden's residents continue their desperate quest to alter their fate and save their loved ones.


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  • Alas, Poor Villain: Hanno's desperation to find Charlotte leads to him becoming Noah and kidnapping and killing children, and his death at Agnes's hands.
    • While Hannah isn't a villain completely, her failed attempt at redemption and her death by her own son's hands definitely count.
  • Bungled Suicide: Jonas tries to kill himself several times but doesn't die. Noah explains to him that he can't die because Adam's existence proves that he won't die.
  • Call-Back: 1911!Jonas kidnaps Silja the same way he tricked Mikkel into traveling to 1986.
    • Jonas and Noah exchange many scenes that has already been shown earlier.
  • Dead Guy Junior: Hanno (Noah) is named after Silja's mother Hannah.
    • Charlotte in 2041 was ostensibly named after 'Charlotte, Elisabeth's mother who died in the Apocalypse', no one knowing that she and the woman she was named after were the same.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Jonas reaches this once the dark matter fails to stabilize and despite Claudia's request, attempts suicide.
    • Elisabeth reaches this once Charlotte is kidnapped from her crib.
    • After Silja gives birth to Agnes and dies, Bartosz hits this realizing his children are indeed the child-murdering Noah and Martha's great-grandmother, and all part of Adam's plan to perpetuate the Stable Time Loop.
  • Death by Childbirth: Silja dies shortly after giving birth to her second child Agnes.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Claudia kills her alternate self and infiltrates Erit Lux because Eva was playing both of them to maintain the cycles of suffering.
  • Dramatic Irony: Adam assures Noah that he wasn't behind Charlotte's kidnapping, while the audience already knew he was.
    • 2053!Elisabeth also kidnapped baby Charlotte, while her adult self is clearly despairing over her missing daughter.
    • Noah and Jonas aren't aware that one of Jonas's selves is dead already.
  • Foreshadowing: Tannhaus's scenes in this episode (and more notably, the lack of Charlotte)...
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: Hannah is clearly regretful of the choices she made in her life, and wants nothing more than to be reunited with her son, who eventually kills her.
  • Ironic Echo: Noah should have heeded his own warning to younger Jonas that he can't die before he has fulfilled his purpose before going to confront Adam...
  • Kidnapped While Sleeping: Baby Charlotte is taken away by an older Elisabeth.
  • Killing Your Alternate Self: Adam's World Claudia kills the other because she wants to find a way to save Regina's life.
  • Matricide: Adam kills Hannah because he says she is not where she is supposed to be, and he had to kidnap Silja to send her to 2040s.
  • The Mole: Adam!Claudia infiltrates Erit Lux to glean information about the Knot from Eva.
  • My Future Self and Me: Charlotte and Elisabeth from 2053 arrange the former's kidnapping while she was a baby.
    • Noah (from 2041) meets his younger self for the first time.
  • Papa Wolf: Noah almost kills Jonas and betrays Claudia once he (mistakenly) assumes the latter duo kidnapped his infant daughter Charlotte.
  • Plot Armor: It's revealed that Jonas (the one who was never saved by Alt!Martha) is effectively immortal due to having older selves, the Stranger and Adam.
  • Protagonist Journey to Villain: Jonas completely becomes Adam by 1911, while he was already cracking by 1890.
  • The Reveal: Bartosz and Silja are the parents of Noah and Agnes, and Hannah is the mother of Silja.
    • Charlotte was taken as a baby by herself and her mother/daughter in 2041.
    • Martha was split into 2 alternate realities due to Eva!Bartosz intervening during the Apocalypse in Adam's World.
  • Rewatch Bonus: This episode clears why Bartosz in 1921 accepted his death at Noah's hands.
  • Screaming Birth: Silja, when she gives birth to Hanno.
  • Stable Time Loop: The name 'Charlotte' also travelled in the Knot.
  • Title Drop: Tannhaus monologues about his will to time-travel, stating he can bring back the dead, by snatching them 'in between time'.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Claudia after taking matters into her own hands, becomes the highly knowledgeable traveler we have seen earlier.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Hannah, sometime after the birth of her daughter, Silja, is solely motivated to repent for her past deeds and reunite with her son.
  • The Unreveal: It's not shown how Noah jumped from 2041 to 1920.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Noah and Jonas are manipulated by Claudia on Eva's orders.
    • Noah, again, in turn, is manipulated by Adam.
  • Vorpal Pillow: How Adam kills Hannah.
  • Wham Shot: Adam unable to end his existence, and looking around in shock.
    • Claudia appearing at the nuclear power plant in 2053.

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