So the time levels and the last scene make sense

The new series Bodies is currently generating enthusiastic reactions with its complex narrative and remains at number 1 in Netflix’s top 10. For everyone who has already watched the eight episodes, we declare the end of the mystery sci-fi series.

Accordingly it says from here: Warning, spoilers for Bodies’ series finale. We explain below:

Bodies explains: How can there be a corpse in four time levels?

What makes Bodies particularly complicated is that the Netflix series unfolds its mystery across four time levels and more than 160 years. In London in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, police officers investigate the discovery of a body in an alley called Longharvest Lane.

The naked body with a bullet wound in the eye but no bullet is the scientist Dr. Gabriel Defoe (Tom Mothersdale). He actually comes from the year 2053 and has the theory that time travel (with a machine called “The Throat”) is possible and ultimately finds out for himself.

However, complications arise when Defoe is shot at the same moment he enters the time portal: His Body splits into multiple copies on. All of these copies die from the gunshot wound. Only a Defoe who lands four days in the future in 2053, parallel to the Defoe sent four days into the past, can be saved with futuristic healing means. The series leaves it open whether other time travelers also create such split-off future doppelgangers or whether the injured scientist is an exception.

However, the initial mystery of the naked corpse is only the beginning: it only provides the impetus for the characters in Bodies to come across a certain Elias Mannix, who apparently appears in all time levels, during their investigation.

Netflix’s Bodies reveals the Mannix time loop

As we learn, all of Bodies’ characters are in one Time loop of the time traveling Elias Mannix. His life is a time paradox because he encourages himself to take decisive actions, which are best seen in the order of his life explained:

Netflix series explanation: Can the time loop be broken at the end of Bodies?

The big question that Bodies asks her gradually initiated characters after the circle structure is revealed is whether Mannix’s time loop can be destroyed. Actual The aim of the series is to prevent a massive explosion in London in 2023 that will kill half a million people.

In the final episode of Bodies, the answer to the question of whether Mannix’s circle life can ever be changed is: yes. The Time loop is broken thanks to the four police officers. And this happens with the following steps:

Why does Elias Mannix disappear into thin air at the end of Bodies and why does no one remember?

When the time loop in Bodies is destroyed, Mannix disappears into thin air. Because without the explosion and the love dictatorship that followed, he never used the time portal and fathered his ancestor. Because of his love for himself and the love he experienced from his mother, he no longer has the desire to chase this emotional void throughout time.

The older Shahara, who traveled back in time, also disappears because the future from which she comes will no longer arrive. All characters are without memories and find themselves in the life they led before it was influenced and changed by Mannix. Consequently, Hillinghead and Whiteman are not dead in 1890 and 1941.

The only thing left at the end of Bodies is one inexplicable cosmic connection between the charactersfor example when Whiteman lets the young thief Esther go, whose death motivated him to act in the first place (now no longer happening).

How can Shahara meet Iris in a taxi in the final scene of Bodies?

At the end of Bodies, Shahara gets into an Uber taxi in 2023 and expresses her concerns to the driver about what the future will bring. In the rearview mirror we see that the
The chauffeur is none other than Iris Maplewood. And she even knows Shahara’s name.

There can only be one logical explanation for this: Iris, who we last saw in prison in 1890, must have ended up back in her original timeline in 2053 due to the time loop reset, just as all the other police characters were also “reset”. In the future, Iris may have taken the time portal to 2023. The big question that remains unanswered in the end is, why they traveled back in time again is.

With this latest twist, Netflix seems to be… Back door to season 2 to keep open. The “new” Iris must come from the changed future after the averted explosion. Did something happen that motivated her time travel? And why does she know Shahara when everyone else has forgotten each other? The final scene raises enough questions to be followed up on in a sequel.

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