Apocalypse

The **apocalypse** occurs on June 27, 2020, in Adam's world and November 8, 2019, in Eva's world.

In Adam's world, it is triggered by the following:

1. activation of the God particle at the plant in 2053 by Elisabeth Doppler
2. activation of the twin God particle at Sic Mundus lab in 1921, seemingly by Magnus Nielsen and Franziska Doppler
3. opening a yellow barrel at the plant in 2020 on the orders of Clausen
4. the Cs-137 from the open barrel rise to form into a God particle then a stable wormhole between 2020 and 2053 (similar to the end of Season 1 when Jonas and Helge touch through the 1953 and 1986 portal).
5. Kathrina Nielsen travels through the cave portal moments from 2020 to 1987.
6. the paradoxical mother and daughter pair touch each other through the portal at the 2020 plant.

The exact nature of the event is unclear. A massive shockwave is seen engulfing the Kahnwald family home, and a sizable blast radius surround the plant is visible from aerial photos in 2053 as well. At the same time, the chamber in which the God particle was located in 2020 remains intact in 2053, and the nearby bunker withstood the blast also intact.

In Eva's world, it is triggered by the following:

1. opening a red barrel at the plant in 2019
2. Ulrich Nielsen using the passage in the caves to travel to 1986

## Survivors

Only a few people from 2020 Winden seem to have survived.

### Bunker

Five people hunker down in the bunker:

1. Young Noah from 1921
2. Elisabeth Doppler
3. Peter Doppler
4. Regina Tiedemann
5. Claudia Tiedemann from 1987

### Time travel

Hannah Kahnwald uses Jonas's apparatus to travel to 1954 and does not return to 2020 before the event.

Four people use Noah's portable time machine to escape to 1888 before the blast hits.

1. The Stranger
2. Bartosz Tiedemann
3. Magnus Nielsen
4. Franziska Doppler

The teenage Jonas Kahnwald and alternate reality Martha also escape to another time using her clockwork time orb. In an overlapping reality, Jonas also survives by hiding in the basement of his house. He later emerges and finds Claudia in the plant. This Jonas becomes Adam.

Katharina Nielsen, deep in the Winden Caves, survives as well. She travels to 1987.

### Power plant

Charlotte Doppler is pulled into the portal an instant before the apocalypse blast happens.

### Others

Other people survive, including Tronte Nielsen.

## Casualties

The total number of casualties is unknown, but may number in the hundreds or even thousands, from the initial shockwave as well as from lingering radiation effects—signs placed around the former plant indicate extreme radiation danger. Aleksander Tiedemann, Torben Wöller, and Justyna Jankowski all have grave markers indicating their death of June 27, 2020. Jürgen Obendorf, Benni Wöller, and Clausen died as well.

The fate of all other characters who were alive in 2020 prior to the event is unknown. These include Jana Nielsen and Ines Kahnwald.

## Aftermath

The event devastated Winden. Claudia Tiedemann, in a cassette tape recording, says there were "few" survivors. There were enough people who remained to give several townsfolk a burial in the church graveyard, but by 2053, Winden is a ghost town of derelict buildings and barren land.

It affected other parts of Germany and the world. By 2052, heavily armed bands of survivors roam the deserted streets of Winden and surrounding forest, and massive helicopters patrol overhead. In The Survivors a news anchor is heard on radio, explaining the consequences of the Apocalypse: The explosion in Winden caused spring tides and electric anomalies all around the world, resulting in planes crashing and a simultaneously fail of all nuclear power plants everywhere. A french team of scientiests assumes that the explosion caused the world to stand still "for a fraction of a nano second", resulting in a changing of the tides and extensive natural disasters. It is unclear if Germany and other countries have recovered from the Apocalypse by 2052.

The presence of the God particle in the ruins of the plant is known to the outside world. Elisabeth Doppler's band of survivors captured two of them trying to enter the grounds of the former power plant, and executed them.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"