How did Jonathan get the cut on his arm in denial?

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Denial episodes 3 and 4.

Jonathan has a mysterious cut on his arm in Apple’s new mystery thriller series Denial. Cate Blanchett leads a talented ensemble cast of Denial Like Catherine Ravenscroft, a hard-working and acclaimed television documentary journalist from London, England. Catherine’s world unravels once a mysterious novel titled The perfect stranger comes to her doorBringing back memories of one of her deepest and darkest secrets. Denial Also starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Robert, Catherine’s husband, Cody Smith-McPhee as Nicholas, Robert and Catherine’s son, and Kevin Kline as Steven Brigstocke, a local London man who has lost his wife and son.

Denial is based on the 2015 book of the same name written by Renée Knight. The Apple series is Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón’s first return to television since 2014. Believe. Cuarón has won two Best Directing Academy Awards, one for 2013’s Gravity Starring Sandra Bullock and another for his 2018 black and white film Roma. Denial earned an impressive Repeat Tomatoes critic score of 78%, which is a satisfying rebound for the 2-time Oscar-winning actress after the massive commercial and critical disappointment of Borderlands. Denial Consists of seven parts with the final episode releasing on November 15.

The cut on Jonathan’s arm may be from his father’s knife

Stephen first noticed the cut when identifying Jonathan’s body

After four episodes of DenialThe biggest clue to what may have really happened to Jonathan is the mysterious cut on his inner right forearm. It was first noticed by his father, Stephen, when he and his wife Nancy observed Jonathan’s body in Italy to confirm his identity. Stefan also keenly notices that Jonathan’s face is not swollen despite the fact that he drowned, which raises another element of suspicion against Catherine and the claims of the Italian authorities. If anything other than what was depicted in Denial Episode 4 happened to Jonathan, it is more than likely that The cut on his arm holds an answer to an open question.

One possible theory for the cut on Jonathan’s arm is that he got it from the pocket knife Stephen gave him, which Stephen reveals he did to win his affection. The pocket is seen during two crucial scenes in Denial. first, Steven rediscovers it in the first episode when he unlocks Nancy’s top desk drawerWhere he first finds the manuscript of The Perfect Stranger. Second, and first in the chronological timeline, Stephen finds it in Jonathan’s room in Italy when he and Nancy arrive to collect his belongings. Since the knife has received a bit of attention without much explanation so far, it would make sense if it was how Jonathan was cut.

Did Catherine cut Jonathan, or did he do it himself?

The cut may have been accidental or intentional

Continuing with the theory that Jonathan was cut before he drowned in the sea, either he or Catherine are the most likely people to have caused the scratch beforehand. The explanation that it happened while Jonathan was in the water trying to save young Nicholas doesn’t make the most sense but is still certainly plausible. Just before Nicholas got stuck on his dinghy, Another child is seen rushing off the beach, bleeding. The mother says the child needs emergency medical help because of a cut he got in the ocean. The child could plausibly have been cut by coral, shells or glass in the sea and Jonathan could have suffered the same fate.

Another possible reason is that Catherine cut Jonathan as part of their sexual encounters. It may have been intentional since even Jonathan calls Katherine “wild” and she uses Jonathan to experiment in ways she never has before. It could also just have been an accidental and unintentional scratch What happened in the heat of their passionate business. There is also a small chance that Catherine used a knife in self-defense against Jonathan since he was delusional about flying back to London with her and Nicholas, but that seems to be the most unlikely outcome. Perhaps Disclaimer has a clever way of tying Jonathan’s knife with his cut and with Catherine.

The cut on Jonathan’s arm shows that we don’t know the truth about how he died

Some details between the retelling of the novel and the true story do not line up

If one thing is certain about the cut on Jonathan’s arm, it is that it shows that the full truth of his death has yet to be revealed in Denial. The cut is almost small enough to be deemed insignificant, however To the grieving Stephen and Nancy, it provides a glimmer of hope and validation To their suspicion that Jonathan was not simply drowned, but he was actually murdered. Jonathan’s death as depicted in Denial Episode 4 is only as it was depicted in The perfect stranger novel in the series. Catherine ignores Jonathan’s initial cries for help, which could have made all the difference in saving his life. Still, there are a few key details in the novel’s retelling, such as Jonathan’s cut, that may not line up with the true story in Denial.