WARNING! This article contains major SPOILERS for From’s season 3 finale!The ominous word repeated byFrom’s children,“Anghkooey,” is finally translated in the season 3 finale, giving it a deeply tragic meaning. Tabitha has been plagued by terrifying visions of deceased children throughout her time in Fromville, and she’s spent much of her time trapped there trying to figure out who they are, what they want, and what happened to them. This long-standing mystery has frustrated audiences as much as Tabitha and Jade themselves, andFromseason 3’s endingfinally provides the tragic answers to the children’s backstory.
From’s season 3 finale solves more mysteries than anticipated, as Jade, Tabitha, and Jim’s discovery of the numbers’ meaning andFatima’s birth of the monstrous babyyield numerous answers. It’s revealed that the numbers correlate to musical notes, leading Jade to play the song on a violin at the bottle tree. As he plays, the children come to the tree, with their arrival and the tune prompting Jade and Tabitha to recall the tragic truth of their past lives. At that moment,they also realize the meaning of the word “Anghkooey,” which hid a deeper message to Tabitha and Jade.
From’s Season 3 Finale Confirms That “Anghkooey” Translates To “Remember”
“Anghkooey” Was An Important Message To Jade & Tabitha
When Jade and Tabitha are finally able to remember their past lives, they’re also able to remember what“Anghkooey” means: “remember.” Playing the notes of that song, which was the tune of a lullaby that their past selves would sing to the children, allowed those memories to flood back into them, and gave them the ability to translate the word that their former selves understood. While the word and its chants by the children were often creepy throughoutFrom, “Anghkooey” was tragically said so often because the kids needed Tabitha and Jade to “remember.”
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Jade and Tabitha confirm that “Anghkooey” means remember, butthey fail to explain what language “Anghkooey” comes from. It’s not a word in any real-world language, so this hints thatFromwill eventually introduce a made-up language that the children originally spoke. Since Tabitha and Jade’s past selves were seemingly among the original inhabitants of Fromville, it’s possible thatFromseason 4will include a flashback to that time when the children were killed, with the dialogue being spoken in a fictional language.
The Children Have Been Telling Tabitha & Jade To Remember Who They Really Are & How The Children Died
Tabitha & Jade Needed To Finally Remember Their Past Lives In Fromville
The children appearing to Tabitha and Jade has been unsettling, especially when they uncomfortably crowd Tabitha whilerepeating the word “Anghkooey,” but there’s a sad reason for it.Those children have been coming to Tabitha because they see her as a helpful savior, as Tabitha and Jade were seemingly the only adults who tried to prevent their sacrifice. Tabitha and Jade may look different, but each iteration of them in Fromville serves as a beam of hope for the children to be saved. However, in order for them to fulfill that purpose, they have to “remember.”
All along, the children have been trying to makeTabitha and Jade remember that they’re reincarnations of Miranda and Christopher. It’s revealed thatTabitha/Miranda and Jade/Christopher have been reincarnated several times in Fromville, dating back to their original forms as the parents of one of the “Anghkooey” children. The song finally allows them to remember the many times that they’ve been in Fromville across their past lives, and why they’ve been sent to town to save the children.
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It turns out that Jade was right when he believed that the meaning ofFrom’s symbol, the bottle tree’s numbers, and their visions of the children saying “Anghkooey” were all connected, as they were each tactics to get Jade and Tabitha to remember their identities in their past lives. InFrom’s season 3 finale, the pair finally realizes thatone of the “Anghkooey” children was their daughter, and they unsuccessfully tried to save her. Since that sacrifice, Tabitha and Jade have been brought back numerous times to try to fulfill their purpose by rectifying their failure.
Their souls have been trapped in a cycle in which they’re destined to return to Fromville to complete their mission.
Fromseason 3 had been gradually filling in the blanks of what happened to the children, such as with theBoy in White’s message to Christopherabout them in episode 8’s flashback, explaining that they were killed by people they loved and trusted. Fatima giving birth to the Smiley Monster then elaborates on their deaths, as she reveals that she saw “what [the monsters’ did.”The monsters were originally humans who sacrificed the children in exchange for eternal life, but it seems Jade and Tabitha were the only parents/adults who tried to stop the ritual and save the kids.
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Ever since, their souls have been trapped in a cycle in which they’re destined to return to Fromville to complete their mission. The children seem to help call the new incarnations of Tabitha and Jade to Fromville after their previous forms are killed, but,each time, they have to go through the process of making them “remember” their pasts. Once they remember who they were and what happened to the children, Tabitha and Jade’s mission and the steps they must take to complete it become more clear.
Can Tabitha & Jade Prevent The Children’s Deaths By Traveling Back In Time?
How Can Tabitha & Jade Save Them & Stop The Cycle?
Now that Tabitha and Jade remember their histories and purpose, they have to figure out how exactly to save the children.The Boy in White told Christopher that “the answers to the end are in the beginning,”which could mean that they need to travel back in time in order to prevent the children’s sacrifice, and thus end the cycle that traps people in town.Fromseason 3 introduced time travel elementswhen Julie went back to the dungeons, so it’s possible that she can help bring Tabitha and Jade back in time to when the sacrifice originally happened.
However, Ethan told Julie that while she can go back to different “chapters” in the story, she can’t change the story. That would suggest that Tabitha and Jade wouldn’t be able to stop the children’s deaths even if they could travel back to that moment, but Julie seems to be trying to find a loophole for this. In the final moments ofFromseason 3 when the man in yellow appearsand kills Jim, Julie yells that she has to “change the story,” soshe also is seemingly trying to use her time travel to undo certain tragedies.
Fromseason 4 has officially been renewed by MGM+, but no release date has been announced.
If Julie can figure out how to stop certain events from happening, then it becomes more likely that Tabitha and Jade can return to their original forms and succeed in saving their daughter from sacrifice. It’s unclear whether returning to the lighthouse will still factor into saving the children, or if its role was fulfilled after Tabitha was sent there and leftFrom’s town. However, since the children are supposedly “trapped” there,perhaps Tabitha and Jade have to go to the lighthouse to free the kids’ souls as well as their own sometime in the past.
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From is a series revolving around a mysterious American town that ensnares newcomers, forcing its inhabitants to maintain order and find an escape amidst nighttime perils from the surrounding forest. The residents face threats from terrifying creatures emerging after sunset, complicating their struggle for survival.
