The MGM original supernatural science fiction thriller series From has always done one particular thing exceptionally well, which is to end every season with shocking twists and revelations compelling enough to bring viewers back every time. This year’s season 3 has not been any different, as the ending leaves us with satisfyingly complicated possibilities, along with an unexpected death. Although it can be argued whether these revelations do a lot in solving the mysteries of the story and the unnervingly strange setting of the show, Fromville, they surely do their part in ensuring that viewers remain hooked to From until the next season arrives in the future.
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Why does Boyd ask Sara to help?
From season 3 episode 10 opens with Ellis returning to Boyd in the sheriff’s office, with a solid hunch that has occurred to him in the last few minutes. As shown in last week’s episode 9, Ellis had gone out to search for Fatima with Elgin, and during the whole time, Elgin had tried to comfort him by stating that the woman will be fine and she will give birth without any complications. Elgin had been clearly trying too hard to convince Ellis that his wife was safe, leading to Ellis feeling that there was something definitely wrong with his Colony House neighbor. Thus, Ellis now tells Boyd and Kenny, who is also present at the sheriff’s office, that Elgin must be the one who has kidnapped Fatima. Boyd quickly reacts to the situation by sending his son and his deputy to the Colony House to ensure that Elgin cannot step out of the place while he goes in search of Sara Myers.
When Boyd reaches Sara’s house and tells her that she is urgently needed at Colony House to speak with Elgin, she too wonders what role she can play in this situation. Based on the sheriff’s explanation, it becomes clear that he believes Elgin has been getting visions and hearing voices in his head the same way that Sara once used to receive. It must be the voices that have told him to kidnap Fatima and make her forcefully give birth to her nonexistent baby, and they must have promised that he would be helping everyone at Fromville get home by doing all this. Sara, too, was once told by the voices in her head that she would be saving everyone in the mysterious town if she killed Ethan, and it then got her to kill her own brother as well. Thus, Boyd feels that Sara will be the ideal person to speak to Elgin and tell him that the voices in his head are actually evil.
Soon, Boyd, Sara, Ellis, and Kenny corner Elgin at Colony House and sit him down in one of the rooms on the upper floor for a talk. They rope in Donna as well, who is initially angry at the lawlessness of the place as Ellis and Kenny do not allow Elgin to leave, but as soon as she is told that the young man knows where Fatima is, she too joins in on the interrogation. The matter initially begins like an intervention, with all the characters trying to lovingly talk to Elgin and make him reveal where Fatima is being kept hostage. However, Elgin refuses to budge from his opinion that the kimono-wearing woman spirit is a helpful being, and he even calls her an angel, stating that she has been guiding him on the right path. After trying very hard for quite some time, Boyd realizes that he needs to make things more intimidating for Elgin, and says he wants to continue the interrogation alone.
This is when the camera, that the spirit had been basically communicating with Elgin through, takes a photo by itself, and the man briefly tries to turn Boyd onto his side. However, the photo is of the house that Boyd had built for his family after his retirement, and it was to this very place that he had been driving when he and his family ended up in Fromville instead. Interestingly, Boyd mentions that the boat that was supposed to have been there, which his wife had bought for him, was not there in the photo. Therefore, the photo is fake and meant to just manipulate the sheriff, and it makes him lose his calm. Despite his conscience, in the form of the spirit of Father Khatri, trying to stop him from doing so, Boyd brings in a range of torture devices and uses them on Elgin to make him reveal the location where his daughter-in-law is being kept hostage. The technique does not work immediately, and he is then also interrupted by Acosta, who questions his terrible decision to torture a seemingly innocent man.
It is during this time, when everyone else is busy with the argument going on, that Sara slips into Elgin’s room to have a word with him in private. Although Boyd had brought Sara to the house to make her convince Elgin using her words, she ultimately helps the sheriff in a very different manner. Since Sara had herself experienced what it felt like to be controlled by the monsters, she knows that there is simply no way to make someone in this situation change their mind. She knows that the only way to make Elgin talk would be to torture him inhumanely, to the point of killing him, and she wants to keep Boyd from the terrible guilt of taking someone’s life.
Sara has already experienced that feeling in her life once, when she had killed her brother, and has also lived with the shame for it while being persecuted by the townsfolk for her actions. Although she had not been able to kill Ethan, she still lives with the guilt of having tried something like that as well. Therefore, Sara decides to take matters into her own hands, and when she goes to Elgin’s room, her intention is to fish out Fatima’s location, by hook or by crook. She beats and tortures Elgin so badly that the man is seemingly on the verge of death from the injuries, but more importantly, Sara reveals to everyone that Fatima is being kept hostage at the underground cellar.
What does Fatima give birth to?
In From season 3 episode 9, Fatima had been forcefully made to drink Elgin’s blood, both by Elgin and the monstrous baby inside her womb, and this had led to her belly growing rapidly, with her body reaching the final stages of pregnancy magically. The helpless woman struggles to cope with the extreme physical difficulties, particularly when the monster in her belly moves around, causing her immense pain. She desperately tries to call out to someone for help, but to no avail. At one point, Fatima frustratedly throws the jar of blood at the wall before realizing that a broken shard of the glass can be used as a weapon. However, there is nobody to attack besides the very baby monster growing in her, and although it will surely hurt her as well, Fatima tries to cut open her belly and kill the mysterious being.
This is when the kimono-wearing woman appears once again, as if as a quick reaction to stop Fatima from hurting the baby, and she forces Fatima to use the shard on her own throat as a sort of punishment for her audacious attempt. The spirit then says that she is ready to give birth, and as Fatima’s water breaks, she is laid down on the bed and helped in pushing out the baby by the ghostly woman. Just as the baby comes out, the trapdoor on the floor of the room, which Fatima had found and tried to open in the last episode, slowly rises by itself, revealing a flight of stairs under it. The ghostly woman takes Fatima’s baby, which is actually a small bundle of flesh and blood with no discernible features, and then climbs down the stairs to a chamber, just according to the plan made by her and some associates.
Meanwhile, Boyd and Ellis find out about her being trapped in the cellar and rush to the place to save her. They even hear her screams while giving birth from the outside, but by the time they can enter, she is alone in the cellar. But in a significant revelation, Fatima states that she has finally found out a grave secret about the monsters, as they were once people who had all sacrificed their own children in order to gain the power of immortality. There is not much time for the others to react to this, though, and Boyd tells Ellis and Kenny to immediately take Fatima to Colony House while he checks out the underground chamber. He climbs down the stairs, following the kimono-wearing spirit, and then peeks from the corner to see what is actually going on.
This is when the real nature of the object that Fatima had just given birth to is revealed, as it is placed on the floor, with all the monsters gathered around in a ceremonial circle. The monsters clearly celebrate and joyously look on at the heap of flesh on the floor, which keeps growing every moment and finally takes the shape of a human. Soon, a human-like monster steps out of the fleshy mass, and it is revealed that he is none other than the Smiley Creature monster seen in seasons 1 and 2. Although Smiley Creature had been killed by the humans in the previous season, he returns to life through Fatima, meaning that the monsters are really immortal because they had sacrificed their children to some more powerful supernatural being.
What do Tabitha and Jade finally remember about themselves?
From season 3 episode 10 also majorly focuses on Tabitha and Jade coming to a shocking realization about themselves, which ultimately answers a number of questions regarding their erratic behavior. As Jade tells Jim, he has been seeing people or things at places where they are not supposed to be, like the civil war soldiers or even Christopher and Jasper in recent times. On the other side, Tabitha had just started experiencing what seemed to be visions of Victor’s mother, Miranda, at the end of the last episode. However, she now states that they were not really visions, but she felt like Miranda was actually there around her, and the mystery is solved when Jim cracks the code of the dates mentioned on the papers hung from the bottle tree.
Jim figures out that the numbers are probably codes for musical notes, and when Jade starts playing the same notes on Miranda’s violin, he seems to remember the music by heart without having ever heard it. Finally, when Jim plays the same music in front of the bottle tree in the forest, with Tabitha and Jim standing nearby, the strange children appear once again, walk up to Tabitha, kneel in front of her, and utter the word ‘aangkhooey’ once more. But this time, both Tabitha and Jade magically understand what they are saying, for they realize that the word uttered means ‘remember,’ and they instantly recall something significant about themselves. As strange as it sounds, Tabitha reveals that she was actually Miranda in her past life, and similarly, Jade was once Christopher.
Miranda and Christopher had both set out to save the children in their original timeline because their own daughter was also present among these kids in danger. While how exactly they had had a child together, despite Miranda being married to Henry in the real world, is not made clear just yet, it is revealed that they both had failed to save the children. This is why they keep returning to Fromville in each of their lives, desperate to save the children in the tower, and so have been brought here in this lifetime as well. With this crucial information, Tabitha and Jade realize that it is once again up to them to save the kids and break the cycle, which they will definitely set out to do in the next season.
Who Kills Jim In The End?
When Julie tells Ethan about exactly what she had witnessed during her brief visit to the ruins, the younger brother states that she must be a ‘story walker,’ based on the fact that she seemed to have gone back in time and witnessed events that had already taken place. Ethan says that a story walker is someone who can go back and experience previous chapters of a story, but they cannot really change it. Julie still wants to go and explore the ruins once again, hoping that she can indeed change things from the past and save some of the people, like their younger brother, Thomas. But at the end of From season 3, Julie runs to the forest and tries to take Jim away from the place, but a mysterious man wearing a yellow suit arrives out of nowhere.
The identity of the elderly man is not revealed, but he seems to be a monster with higher powers than the rest of his folks, as he is able to walk around freely during daylight. He also clearly knows more about this place than anyone else and might be one of the select few in control of things, and possibly bears resemblance to Martin, who was seen chained inside the underground vault by Boyd, and then Julie as well. In one last shock of the season, the man states that he is punishing Jim for the actions of Tabitha and then slits his throat to kill him on the spot. Julie cannot do anything, at least for now, but look on with horror as her father is mercilessly killed by the monstrous man.
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