Warning: There are spoilers ahead for From season 3, episode 8, “Thresholds.”
Fromseason 3, episode 8, “Thresholds” provides the most telling backstory yet about the"Anghkooey"children and how they died.The children first appeared in season 2 when Tabitha Matthews (Catalian Sandino Moreno) began seeing themaround the Town. During theFromseason 2 finale, Jade Herrera (David Alpay) saw them as well when he went into the tunnels, where the children were lying on stones and looking up at the tree roots shaped in the pattern of the symbol Jade had been seeing.
When Tabitha was in Camden, Maine, none of the otherFrom cast memberssaw the children around the mysterious vicinity.It was only after Tabitha returned to the Town that the"Anghkooey"children reappeared, making it clear that Tabitha’s mission to save the children remains incomplete. She learned that Victor Kavanaugh’s mother, Miranda (Sarah Booth), had visions of the children and the need to save them before she became trapped in the Town. Thanks to Victor (Scott McCord) and his restored memory of Christopher (Thom Payne), what previously happened to the children has been revealed as well.
Victor Reveals The Children Were Killed In Town By People They Trusted
They Were Murdered In The Dark
Victor realizes that in the memory he has been trying to recall, it wasthe Boy in White(Vox Smith) and not the ventriloquist doll, Jasper, talking to Christopher. He recalls the Boy in White telling Christopher that"the answers to the end are at the beginning"and that it all started with the children. As Victor explains to Tabitha and Sara Myers (Avery Konrad),the Boy in White said the children were born in the dark, and were later betrayed and murdered in the darkby the people they trusted and loved.
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The children were not betrayed by everyone they trusted, though, as someone they loved told them a story that gave them hope. When the children laid on the stones, they were able to channel their hopes into the roots that becameJade’s mysterious symbol, which created a faraway tree. The Boy in White told Christopher that he would need to go through the faraway tree to save the children. However, Christopher did not follow through on this, andwhen Victor told his mother what the Boy in White said, she went to the faraway tree instead.
Were The Children Being Used For A Ritualistic Sacrifice In From?
Many Signs Point To A Sinister Ritual
In terms of the individuals who killed the children, who they are, and what their motivations are remains unclear, but they may have used the children as a ritualistic sacrifice. The stones that the children lay on in the tunnels, thestatues found inFrom’swoods, and the red rocks next to the statues all seem ritualistic, as do many of the Town’s supernatural elements. Some ofthe drawings that Victor and Tabitha see in the tunnels also have a ritualistic look to them.
At the end of season 1, Victor knew to wait for Tabitha in the tunnels because the Boy in White told him.
The children may have beensacrificed as part of a ritual to appease the dark forces that control the Town. If this is the case, the sacrifice seemingly did not go as planned, since the children can still be seen and heard by Tabitha and Jade in their"Anghkooey"forms, and they even had the power to grow the roots of the symbol and the faraway tree. Another ritual, though hopefully not one that involves the betrayal and murder of innocents, may need to be performed in the future to free the children.
How Will Saving The Children From The Tower End Everyone’s Entrapment In From?
Saving The Children May Be The Key To Everything In From
The Boy in White saying that"the answers to the end are at the beginning"suggests that the betrayal and murder of the children is at the root of the Town’s origins, the many horrors it contains, and that freeing the children may be the answer to escaping the Town. Since Miranda was having visions of the Town and of the children needing to be saved before she and her own children became trapped, this indicates that the injustice done to the children took place more than 40 years ago.
If Tabitha and otherFromcharacters can figure out how to free the children from the Tower, they may synonymously secure their own freedom, and be able to permanently return to the outside world.
It may be that no one can fully escape the Town until the children are free from the Tower. Tabitha briefly escaped, unless her experiences were just a deceptive extension of the Town, but she eventually became trapped again. If Tabitha and otherFromcharacterscan figure out how to free the children from the Tower, they may synonymously secure their own freedom, and be able to permanently return to the outside world.Tabitha can finish the mission that Miranda startedbefore the events ofFromseason 1 began.
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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.
