‘From’ season 3 finale ending explained: Smiley is back

“From” Season 3 ended as wildly as the entire show is. A major character died, Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and Jade (David Alplay) share a past, and Sara finally makes Elgin look straight…. You’ll get the joke later.

Episode 10: “Revelations: Chapter Two” starts with Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) having strong contractions, showing that the birth of what is growing inside her is near. While this is going on, Tabitha explains that Victor’s mother, Miranda (Sarah Boothe), was previously murdered by Smiley, and Ellis (Corteon Moor) tells Boyd (Harold Perrineau) that he thinks Elgin (Nathan D. Simmons) has something to do with Fatima’s disappearance. Oh, and the chirping of the cicadas pushed Randall (AJ Simmons) to the point of trying to shock himself in the head with a defibrillator.

There’s a lot going on. Here’s your rundown of everything that happened in the “From” season 3 finale.

Boyd and Sara torture Boyd, plus Father Khatri returns

Look, sometimes you just have to go Thanos and take matters into your own hands. And that’s exactly what Boyd did. After Ellis reveals his suspicion that Elgin knows where Fatima is, the group corners Elgin as he tries to find his way to where he is holding Fatima captive. After several attempts to get him to spill her whereabouts, Boyd realizes he will have to resort to torturing Elgin. And as he packs up his instruments, guess who shows up? Father Khatri. We haven’t seen him in a while, and he just so happens to always show up in moments when Boyd is conflicted.

Father Khatri tries to convince Boyd that violence is not the answer, but Boyd is hesitant to go along with his plan. Once in the room with Elgin, he explains that he has two options: tell him where Fatima is or be tortured. Elgin insists that what he’s doing for Fatima will save her life, prompting Boyd to ask him to put his hand on the table. Boyd then starts smashing Elgin’s hand with a hammer. Elgin’s screams are heard by Acosta, who runs up to stop Boyd. As Boyd, Acosta, and the rest of the group argue about their choice to brutalize Elgin, Sara enters the room where Elgin is tied up.

Sara knows what it’s like to have the town trying to convince her to do bad deeds, and she explains it to Elgin. Still unmoved by Sara’s words, Elgin continues to withhold Fatima’s location. Sara tells Elgin that Boyd doesn’t understand how far he has to go to get answers out of him. In the middle of their argument, the group suddenly overhears Elgin crying out in pain. They run up to the room to find that Sara has taken out Elgin’s eye. Well, at least now she knows where Fatima is, right?

The children in white reveal the meaning of “anghkhooey” and Tabitha and Jade are reincarnations

After Jim Matthews helps Jade crack the 12-track code and connects that Victor’s mother, Miranda, played the violin, Tabitha and Jade go and play the tune with her violin at the distant Bottle Tree – where Miranda was killed by Smiley earlier. As they play the tune, the children in white appear from the forest and only step closer to them as Jade plays the instrument. One of the children then says “anghkooey” once more to Tabitha, who then realizes that the word means “remember.”

She then remembers her time in the city as a different person. Viewers learn that Tabitha and Jade are reincarnations of Miranda and Christopher (the man who wanted to talk to the ventriloquist doll) and have been to the town several times as different people since its existence. Their temper keeps returning to the town every time they fail to save the children. Also, one of their versions shared a daughter together.

Fatima gives birth to Smiley and says that a vision revealed to humans the immortality of the night

All this season, the big question has been: What’s inside Fatima’s belly? Well, it’s none other than who? Smiley. That’s right, he’s back.

Just as Fatima is slicing her stomach to stop the pain from the cursed pregnancy, the witch lady appears to stop her and then tells Fatima that the baby is on the way. That’s when Fatima’s water breaks and she goes into labor, giving birth to a sac with an organism moving inside.

As this all happens, the floor door Fatima tried to open ladders by herself. The witch then carries the offspring under the floor and into the cave where the night people live. At this point, Boyd and Ellis have finally come to Fatima’s rescue. In an attempt to discover the witches’ plans, Boyd follows where he sees all the people of the night circling each other. After the witch places the organism on the ground, it begins to grow larger and take the form of a humanoid being. The creature breaks out of its fleshy sack to reveal Smiley.

After the birth, Ellis and Kenny comfort her, and Fatima tells her that she had a vision that told her that people in the night killed their children because “it” – whatever it is – told them they would live forever.

Julie finds out she is a “story walker” and Jim dies

The “From” writers really packed a lot into the Season 3 finale, and boy, do they know how to leave you with a gut-wrenching cliffhanger. First things first, though: Julia learns from her little brother Ethan that she is a “history walker,” someone with the ability to travel to the past or future. However, while she can interact on different timelines, she cannot change its events. Remember it for later.

After Tabitha tells Jim that she and Jade have been in town since the beginning trying to save the children in white, she asks Jim to give her “some time” and walks into the woods in tears. A flashback of the Matthews family driving in their van before running into the tree then plays and then it cuts back to the present. As Jim processes what his wife just told him, Julie comes running calling for her father. But it’s not just any Julie, it looks like it’s her from the future as she has a shoulder-length bob and is wearing different clothes. She also has wounds on her face, which shows that she has been in some kind of fight. She then tells him that he needs to run back to town, that she thinks “this is where it’s happening” and that she’s trying to change “history.”

That’s when a man rocking a yellow tattered suit, really serving up an undead version of the iconic zoo suit from “The Mask,” appears. Viewers have never seen him before and he does not reveal his name or identity. But he gives us a clue as to how the city reacts when its inhabitants try to learn more about it. He taunts the two by mentioning Jade, who plays the violin, tells him that “it didn’t have to be this way” and that “knowledge comes with a cost.”

The man says he was trying to warn Jim and then grabs him by the neck. Julie tries to stop the man, but he pushes her off. It’s…too late. The Man in Yellow rips Jim’s throat open and the episode ends with a black screen. As we mentioned, the man in yellow didn’t reveal his identity, but we have a hunch that he’s the same man who spoke to Jim over the radio when the town was trying to get a signal out, when he mentioned that Tabitha shouldn’t have dug that hole.

The good news is that MGM+ has renewed “From” for Season 4, so the story will continue.