FROM Season 4 Episode 6 Breakdown - Ending Explained, Unanswered Questions & Episode 7 Theories!

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[00:00:00]What do you think the Egyptians mummified their rulers for?

[00:00:02]>> This episode is not about a huge answer.

[00:00:05]The central question of the episode is asking the following. How do you have fate in a place designed to consume it?

[00:00:11]How can the characters find an escape if the same town is bringing obstacles to them one after the other stopping them from actually achieving their goal of finally escaping the town? And this is the theme of this episode. Believing versus seeing, fate versus doubt. I counted how many times doubt is mentioned in this episode. and is 20 fear six times and fate and hope only once. Episode 6 of Forum gave us a hidden door, a drawing of the lake of tears. Victor about to end it all and Donna almost dying in boy's arms and by the end of the episode boy is standing in the basement of colony house asking the town to show him the door and the town responds. We see the door but it's closed. The question about this ending was going to be boy's plan. The timing is the interesting part of the episode because the whole motif is about having fade as well as the absent of it. Void goes from doubt to the man inside this episode. And that's really the whole journey of episode 6 for him and for the other characters. There's a few things I want to dig in in this video. The hidden door that is different from anything Jade has talked about before. And that difference is what I want to figure out.

[00:01:17]And yes, we know that boy doesn't trust what Jay saw. And we can completely understand why. He has no hope, no belief, and no proof. He wants the answers to be real answers. But I don't think this episode was really about the answers. I think it was about fate and the absent of it. How do you believe we live in a place that keeps turning belief into a trap? My next question from being premiered. Don't forget to like and subscribe and let's begin.

[00:01:41]>> We're going to need a plan.

[00:01:42]>> The town is escalating in a way has not done before. We have the new puppets. We have Donna almost dying. Fear starts taking a physical shape, but also hope and protection with the golem of Fatima.

[00:01:54]And I think this episode is more important than we think. Everything that happened is not random. And here's the one thing I keep getting stuck on. Boy demands a town to show him the door at the end of the episode. And then we have a door. In the previous episode, Jade asks to show him what he used to know.

[00:02:10]>> We need to ask.

[00:02:11]>> And this makes me think that if they want answers, they just need to ask the right questions. Show me the answers.

[00:02:16]And I believe maybe they will. But keep this map in your head as we go. We have the men in yellow. We have the monsters on the top. We have the nightmares deeper. We had the forest. The bones at maybe at the center. So every scene in this episode sits somewhere on this map.

[00:02:30]We'll come back to it in this video. But episode 6 of Forum is titled the heart is a lonely hunter takes us to a new location that we have not seen before. A door, but not any door. A hidden door.

[00:02:41]Not a hidden door. A door that looks like it will bring the characters into the caves and will push them to actually make a plan and work together because the town or whatever it is does the following. It doesn't give it takes.

[00:02:55]>> And I know, I know. And some of you are writing, "What a boring episode or something like that." And I can understand completely why. But looking through all of it, we have a strong why this episode works. And this is perfectly shown in the moment of Austa looking at the images. Each image is different. That's what the show is telling us. Change your frame and look at it differently because this connects to all the characters. The episode title is about the emotional journey of the characters. Everyone is hurting.

[00:03:23]Everyone is hunting for something that's outside of them. Jade and Boyd search for proof and a plan. Victor emotionally is tired of the pain of the town. Fatima uses the golem for protection. Donna's heart literally stops. And when we have Jay coming and talking about bones, the tunnels, the dead kids, and a possible way to escape after his trip, but is not hearing a possibility or hope. his hair in danger and a horrible plan. That's why this episode is centered around things that happened that block you from moving forward. Jade is telling him that he saw those bones and normally we could see Boyd accepting what he's saying. But in this situation, it looks right to look at him like, okay, how to prove what you saw in your head, but maybe it's all in J's head. How to have faith and hope in something that it cannot be seen. It's like the quote that says seeing is believing. And to understand how he gets there, we have to understand boy's mindset. Because at the beginning of the episode, he's doubting him. He's doubting the plan. He doubts the answers. He even doubts Jade. But by the end, he says the line, "We're going to need a plan >> that's going to push everyone into action for the last four episodes finally." And going from the trailer, it looks like they have a plan. But is it going to be a good one?

[00:04:36]>> Is where you make your stand. All of this is a lot because the details are the worst thing to have when you want to ignore it. A basement door is the well the caves, but this hidden new door on their colony house is very specific.

[00:04:49]They have the first point of proof into a possible escape. So, finding this door, I imagine, is a cause and effect.

[00:04:56]After this moment, everything that happens will be because of void finding this door. But that's just my theory. I mean, it just makes sense because once the door is real, once the door is there, the bones are something they can follow. What Jade is saying is true. And then the wall does the most from thing possible. They go down there and the door is gone. But in Jay's mind, he's completely sure. Jay looks at the door like, "Okay, the room is lying to him or his own mind because if his mind is lying, then what he saw is not true."

[00:05:26]But what happens? Boyd gets the worst answer and confirmation. His doubt looks like all hope was gone. The clue is close enough to stop them. And now Jade is doubting everything. But he says that he found answers which contradicts what the door completely because this is the opposite for Jay. It doesn't matter if the door is there or not. He has faith and he has hope. And in a way we can see how Boyd left the basement feeling more trapped than when he walked in because Jay says he went to find answers.

[00:05:54]>> I went looking for answers and I found answers. This is her shot. But now the answers may not be true for Void, not for Jade. And I think the scene works so well because both men really had hope.

[00:06:07]Jake is pushing to get answers. Even this exact discussion they have, which things escalated quickly, I love that scene. And that's why he wants to go to the caves. He knows that the answers possible escape is in that caves. By the end of the episode, we know they continue to wait or to give up. More people will die and now in different ways. Exactly what we saw with Rogers.

[00:06:28]Because after bringing the body from the town, we see how it was turning to the same face of the puppets. So the monster created another type of humanoid puppet.

[00:06:37]It's really interesting, but it confirms that fear doesn't die. It just transform person to person. Actions looking dangerous or waiting looks worse. This new puppet is the actual proof of the transformation because Donna's heart attack is exactly the desperation. Like everything in the show points to something fear, but also now is pointing to the caves because we know that David fell down there. Victor also went through and the creatures sleep there during the day. So the reason they're there during the day is that like Jake says >> are what anchor the spirits of those children here.

[00:07:09]>> This is why the kids are more important.

[00:07:11]Now since season 2, the kids in the show have always been like ghosts. But in this episode, episode 6, it confirms everything that we have known. If their bodies or their bones are still down there, then the town has not moved away from what happened from the sacrifice is still holding that. That's why Jay says >> protecting the very thing that makes this place possible.

[00:07:33]>> This changes the role of the monsters because the caves is the path towards them towards the bones. Now it feels like there a security system protecting that boat with the guards protecting the bones because now we understand even more how the puppets coming out of the water work. the bones and now what Martin said in season 2 Martin warning >> nightmares again to imagine tip of the spear >> it starts sounding very different if you think about it and that's why boy was thinking about at first that felt like okay there's something more that we have not seen before maybe the monster painting in the cave but now there are worse things than the smiling creatures we had the cicadas after this the music box and now we have those but it feels like the map has many more layers that we have not seen before we have the monsters, the nightmares, the forest, the bones, and now we have the caves, the kids, and the new puppets transforming from fear. And that's question one mostly answered. The door is very different because it points to the boat, and the vault is the bottom of the map. Now to question two, why is the town escalating right now? Because the door at the end of the episode is moving into episode 7, where now Boyd has evidence. The door is the why to everything, but Victor is the who and the what. Because this scene, he shares how he hates the town. And for a moment, it feels like he was about to end it all because he shares how one person hated the town. I feel that he's talking about himself. Those two questions have to eventually collide. The what, the who, and the why. Because Victor remembering the man in yellow is sad, but he's confirming what's happening again.

[00:09:07]>> The man in yellow's back. It could all be happening again.

[00:09:10]>> This is the why everything's happening now. The events from the 1970s are repeating and we can perfectly see this why with Sophia. She's now digging into Henry. She has a plan with him. Corrupt a father with those drops of blood. And maybe Henry is going to take horrible actions in the town. This connects back to Martin and blood when he says >> my blood is your blood now.

[00:09:32]>> And we're seeing it perfectly here. The man in yellow giving blood to Henry. And I think that we have the first answer on what happened with Abby. Maybe the man in yellow as someone else saw Abby around the town and hen did the same thing he's doing now asking that question.

[00:09:46]>> I wondered if maybe this is all just a dream >> because remember what Abby said.

[00:09:51]>> It's not real. It's nightmare.

[00:09:54]>> What if it's all just a dream?

[00:09:56]>> Remember the town worsen psycho. We know that Jade was killed by the town. And maybe we're seeing now what maybe Sophia wants that is to Henry to kill Jade. But that's just my theory for now. Even Victor talking about what he remember, a normal man, the suit, the car, and his arrival. This felt too normal until he did what I think he's doing now with Henry. Henry right now in this episode feels like an alert sign because of all of this. First, he's Victor's father, but he also is a father who lost Miranda, then his daughter, then lost Victor for decades, and then got Victor back inside this nightmare whose remmonster is going to use him. Because if Sophia's using grief or pain as source or telling him that it's all a dream, then Henry's walking around with a lot of material for the man in yellow's plan. I mean, the man in yellow even asked him again, "You ever wondered if maybe this is all just a dream?"

[00:10:48]>> And this is the first seed of what Abby said back in season 1. This is why Victor said, >> "The man in yellow's back. It could all be happening again."

[00:10:56]>> Because whatever is going to happen, it all begins in this episode. If we go to Donna, she has been the wall of Colony House since the very beginning. Everyone leans on her since everything started.

[00:11:05]Even the story of how boy says about how the monsters hear everything, even snoring. This part is about protecting everyone from the monsters outside and the panic inside like in episode 7, including bad decisions. Donna was through all of it. And not going to lie, I cried thinking she was going to die in this episode. It was a really scary situation. And by the way, what happened with Christy? She was about to throw the towel. But this part of the episode, it feel like we're there. It was also said like we're screaming at her to wake up because episode 6 episode 6 less the pressure finally hit the person who hold all of it boy and Donna her collapse connects to the main mystery after the discovery of it after bringing it to the town and the surprise that things come to life is a lot emotionally but also physically because we have this moment which is serving everyone and then the heart attack because I think it's a pressure of the monsters of everything.

[00:11:58]It's not this one scene if you think about season 3 when she talks to Boyd about this and she said >> why can't they leave us alone this is the sum of all of that the explosion because all of this is fear the fear of how things become real can't even say it in this episode he takes us back to what Sarah said in season 2 >> if their fears become part of the forest >> if you remember she said because Nathan was scared of cicas and after he died the cicatas became in part of the town's attack. Maybe this is just the character's theory. This episode was all about confirming this, but also about coming together to take care of someone they love. That's the huge part of the episode. And yes, how fear can become part of the forest, but also about the people they love. The doll suggests fear can leave the person that dies, stay in the town, and it can take its shape. It can become part of the town itself, like the town is using their fear. Episode 5 reveals that the dolls in the lake were connect to the man's nightmare. Tapad talk about this and after his death, those nightmares came out of the lake.

[00:13:02]But one day, >> somehow they came to life.

[00:13:05]>> Episode 6 is building on that by making the settlement feel like the place where fears were stored. But I don't think that is true. That means the town besides trapping people, it keeps their fear after they die and use them later.

[00:13:17]Dead becomes a storage state. makes the town feel like it's collecting the fears like a dream catcher was given to Fatima but the reverse of it every from gets more dangerous under this frame. It is already horrible when someone dies obviously, but the town can keep that fear. Maybe store it in a bottle like the bottle tree and throw it back at the living then dead. It's not the ending like Mario said. And this is my theory.

[00:13:42]I think that the bottle tree where everyone fear are trapped and where they're stored. I think they're part hope and part fear. I mean the bottle tree already feel like it's some sort of a capture spirit in folk tradition catching holding something. They even make sounds in the forest and Sarah heard them screaming.

[00:14:01]>> Can you hear them?

[00:14:03]>> But speaking of dead boy doing CBR and Donna is sad and it hits in this moment but is fighting and she's almost dying but it's also fighting the town's habit of using dead more than normal which connects perfectly to what a cost of seeing those images. This is a small scene but it's huge in lore. We see the pyramis of Egypt which connects their incarnation to life and death but also how ancient Egyptians preserve the bodies. They believe the person needed a recognizable body for the afterlife.

[00:14:33]This matters because Egypt is one of the clearest human traditions where dead body preservation the soul travel and the afterlife is all connected. This is what they talk about this exact thing.

[00:14:45]>> What do you think the Egyptians mummified their rulers for? The other image is mountains and a lake has in the lake of tears. But talking about the lake of tears, we have Eden and Victor drawing and then we have this moment where I'm so mad because the drawing is right there and they cannot discuss it.

[00:15:01]So frustrating. Even the camera like pans up, rotates to point us that their drawing is there. Like come on now. The good part of this episode is that Donna doesn't die. She's able to wake up. And not sure if this is a connection or not, but boy commands Donna to open her eyes like to be, you know, to be alive and then she does. I'm not saying that boy magically heal her or that he's in, you know, control about what happens. But the episode is centered around this motif of speech and fate and somehow it can bend the town. And by the end of the episode, he does the same thing. He says, "Show me the door." And it's there. Show me the money. But Ethan visiting Donna and saying that line >> that fear is what makes us heroes.

[00:15:44]>> It's sad because he lost his dad and now he's in this state where everyone may die. So we're seeing how Ethan can become Victor. How Victor was like Ethan. So it makes sense. Everything in this episode is about relationships. We can understand the relationship of Void and Donna when he imagines Father Catherine is in the room or imaginary Father Catherine. the episode leave everything for a moment for us to be part of the things that happen in the town to be part of the normal things. I mean like the scene with Sarah and Julie talking about food painting that room for Sophia which is just horrible. But back then Randall and in the kitchen cooking some food. I mean think about this moment where we have Elen and Randall. Two people that have nothing in common. They don't know each other before the town. Maybe outside the town they would never have been friends, but it's under their scars where we can see the pain of the town where we can see how this affects everyone. You can see how the town breaks you in a completely different way. And this episode is not for everyone for this reasons. Nothing happens, but at the same time, everything happens in this episode because we're seeing the normal things of a life. Think about this. If you're in this town, where will you be? Will you be with Sarah paint that room or will you be cutting the food with Becca?

[00:16:57]That's why the show works so well because it's about human beings. One of the scenes that is center on that and that is faith and that is the conversation of father Katherine and boy that is all about fate. He says things you just have to take on faith and I love that scene so much because it connects perfectly well about how belief and fate chapes you. We have that Fatima scene where she talks about the jin the golem of Prague. But let's explain this golem because this one of the most interesting ideas of the episode. This is the opposite of what we have in the town. She's creating this for protection and maybe it's going to work. Maybe it doesn't. But it's only about the myth of it. Because if the town can create things from fear and nightmare, but it can also be the opposite. It can also do the opposite. And what I think she's doing is showing us how to survive in a town where everyone feels powerless. But the question becomes, would it come to life? How it's going to be used? And after what happened to her, this feels like some type of control. This brings us back to the door because boy now found it. Now he was breaking it. He had fade. Once the rule was visible, the door stops being doubted. Now becomes fate. That's why the next episodes are going to be incredible because because he finally have something to go after to hold. This is exactly why Boyd getting what he asked for should make us nervous. That's question two. Fear becomes physical. The town learns from every dead. inner thing is turning to outer places which set of the question this pill video has been building towards the boy wants these people to go home now becomes pressure because Don almost died so he's like okay we need to get out because he doesn't want everyone to die there if you think about it the talisman didn't work on those puppets so what else doesn't work but now the question becomes by the end of the episode what's going to be the plan why do they need smiley for because Jay's row is now changing also he he has now an important path to take He's the guy with a vision. We even see him making like a plan in the bar. And episode 7 feels like it's going to be intense before we even see it. The town finally gave Boyd enough to move. And Froom has taught us not to trust the town's gift.

[00:19:02]My theory is that the town is not dragging boy by the hand is putting him in the exact spot. And the timing also bothers me than the door. But speaking about the next episode, it airs June 7 and the title is best late plans. And the synopsis is the following. As David and Jay travel in history is brought to light, things begin to arrival to another resident in town. Boy wants to test a dangerous theory. So what is going to be that dangerous theory and how it connects to Canyon Smiley? So that's the breakdown of this episode.

[00:19:31]Not the best, I had to admit, but it was filled with important moments in this town. Tell me in the comments what are your theories. My name is Christian from VM Premiere and I will see you in the next one. Bye-bye one.