SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for From Season 4, Episode 10.

The From Season 4 finale is a stark reminder to fans that there’s only one more season of the MGM+ horror drama. While Tabitha and Jade somewhat successfully retrieve the children’s bones and so there’s some hope, other lives are brutally lost. Still more are changed forever. “If A Tree Falls in the Forest…” just makes fans wonder, where the hell can this show go from here?

The Season 4 finale makes up for a relatively death-free season (all respect to Roger) by getting rid of some major From characters and reminding the audience how brutal the town can be. Marielle is the first to go, with Smiley menacingly entering the clinic and slicing clean through her abdomen. Although his greeting of “Mother” to Fatima is pretty funny, things quickly turn dark as Marielle bleeds out. It’s hard not to feel sad for her—especially knowing she’s been particularly scared to die, having learned firsthand that souls who die in Fromville stay there and are tortured there.

Then there’s Elgin, who became From Season 4’s village idiot. Bless his heart, but he hasn’t made a single good decision since he got to town. The worst is absolutely him showing Sophia the clearly damning evidence he had of her in Episode 9, so it’s really no surprise that his time is up.Though Sophia offers him a chance to make a deal with her like Clara did, he ultimately refuses, resulting in a gruesome death literally at the hands of the Man in Yellow, with blood pouring out of his eyes. At least he did the morally right thing in the end and saved his soul.

Thankfully, one death is avoided for now. Though Henry did, as predicted, try to kill his son, Victor was able to knock the gun out of his father’s hand, also saving Ethan’s life. Where do father and son go from here? Can Henry shake his belief in his visions? Or will From Season 5 draw them even further apart or even turn Henry into a villain?

What Does the From Finale Say About the Final Season?

There are several elements of the From Season 4 finale that set the stage for a chilling Season 5. Pulling up the tree has—as Victor warned—immediate consequences. Red lightning strikes down, the daytime sky becomes dark and the monsters attack. The finale has some truly terrifying sequences. Even the positive parts come at a cost.

After being trapped at the mercy of the monsters, Tabitha and Jade narrowly escape the tunnels with the bones, and Tabitha finds the skull of their daughter. She also suggests digging their way out of their prison—because if there’s one thing From fans know Tabitha’s going to do, it’s dig, whether it’s in the tunnels or in the basement of her house. But her and Jade’s escape requires a major, heartbreaking sacrifice.

As Boyd, Fatima, and Ellis go down in the tunnels to rescue Tabitha and Jade, the group is descended upon by the monsters. Here is where Fatima’s black blood and almost-zero heartbeat story has been building to: she willingly becomes a monster herself to buy her friends and husband time to escape. It’s not a surprise that Fatima turns into a monster, but it’s emotional and impactful because it’s her choice. Her last words of “remember who I was” make this scene all the more heartbreaking. As she transforms, she screams a guttural roar, and the finale cuts to black.

Her transformation also creates more questions for From to answer in Season 5. Was this the plan the whole time—not just to rebirth Smiley but to turn her as well? Fatima did technically give up her child to the monsters, though not fully through any choices of her own. Was that enough to seal her fate? And has her destiny been lying in plain sight the whole time? In Arabic, the name Fatima literally translates to “one who separates,” but it is most often used in context as “separating people from Hell” or “separating good from evil.” It certainly seems that’s become her ultimate storyline, as she ventures into the tunnels—Fromville’s equivalent of Hell—and is the only thing standing between the monsters and the people she loves. Will Fatima ever become fully human again? Or is she doomed to be Fromville’s Persephone, tied to both the monsters underground and the humans above, but never to belong to either world fully?

From Season 4 also ends with some deliberate cliffhangers. Fatima’s mud Golem never really comes into play. Is it the Chekhov’s Gun of Season 5? Will it be the anchor that returns her to her human self?

And the finale’s last scene reveals some major information: the Boy in White and the Man in Yellow may be on opposite sides, but they don’t seem driven by true hate or anger towards one another. The Man in Yellow, still disguised as Sophia, walks slowly alongside the Boy in White and dumps all the town’s talismans she collected into a tree. Even before they speak, that betrays two things about the Boy in White. He doesn’t try to stop her from discarding the talismans, and he knows Sophia’s true nature yet never tells Victor or anyone. So does he really care about the townspeople?

The duo exchange minor barbs about the townspeople’s progress and failures, and Sophia remarks that he’s grown, indicating that something is changing and moving forward this cycle. But what sticks out is this line: “You’re going to lose this time.” That suggests that what happens in the town is a game to them. Over and over, cycle after cycle, it’s never more than a game—not only to the Man in Yellow, but also to the Boy in White. With allies like that, will the people of Fromville ever really escape? Or will Season 5 just be the tragic end of everyone?

From airs Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on MGM+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of MGM+.

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