The terror Season 1 ended in 2018, and years later many viewers still revisit the moment when the villain Cornelius Hickey and the tired Francis Crozier finally faced the Twenbak – the spirit monster that was hunting them. Based on the novel of the same name by Dan Simmons, which in turn is based on the true story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, The terror Spent 10 gripping episodes blending fantasy-horror with the grim truth of the 19th century voyage that claimed the lives of 129 people.
After leaving the Terror and the Erebus to embark on a long and difficult journey back to civilization, things went from bad to worse for Captain Crozier and his remaining crew. Hickey led a mutiny, which divided the survivors into two groups, and the rotten food began to take its toll on the men. Hickey forced the people in his camp to turn to cannibals in order to survive, And in the last episode, he sent some of his followers to kidnap Crozier. in The terror Finally, the true nature of Hickey’s plan finally came to light.
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which was achieved by Godsir’s sacrifice
Harry Goodsir poisons himself to thwart cannibals’ plans
Resigned to die in the tundra at the end of The terror, Harry Goodsir decides to go out on his own terms and find a way to make his death serve a purpose. He tells Crozier that, when Hickey and the others make a meal of him, they should “eat only from my feet” if given no other choice, and eat from the feet, if possible, where the skin is. The hardest.
Later, Goodsir mixes a poison and rubs it on his skin. Then he also drinks a bottle of poison to make sure his “flesh” is completely dissolved. In order for Hickey and the others not to suspect that he has passed out, Godsir then cuts his hand with broken glass. He dies soon after.
Hickey takes the candy, saying that Goodsir “made himself a gift” and orders Crozier to eat his corpse with the rest of the people. Crozier refuses, and Hickey orders one of the remaining men to stand up – clearly implying that he will be killed if Crozier continues to refuse. Crozier refused, but according to Godseer’s instructions, he took a slice of his leg. Hickey is satisfied, and the rest of the people eat the poisoned meat.
Hickey’s Ritual Explained
Hickey’s deception leads to his brutal death by Tuunbaq
In the latest episodes of the terror, The men drag the lifeboat up to the top of the hill, on Hickey’s orders. They believe they are going there to kill Twenbak, but Hickey has other plans. Finally he reveals the truth: he is not Cornelius Hickey. He murdered the real Cornelius Hickey after hearing about the expedition and deciding it would be worth a year-long trip to get to the other side of the world. He stole Hickey’s identity in order to participate in the expedition, and declared that after three years spent in the freezing Arctic, he had no intention of going back to London.
He murdered the real Cornelius Hickey after hearing about the expedition and deciding it would be worth a year-long trip to get to the other side of the world.
Hickey starts screaming the tune “God Bless Our Native Country” at the top of his voice to draw Tweenback, As around him the men begin to vomit, succumbing to the poison. The toonbuck arrives, and despite the engines’ attempts to fight it off, they are slaughtered one by one, until only Crozier and Hickey remain. When the tunbak kills the people, Hickey cuts out his tongue – part of the Inuit ritual by which a person can bond with tunbak and become a shaman. Hickey brought the people not to kill the creature, but as sacrifices to it.
The last of the men to be killed was Hickey’s fellow mutineer Tozer, who was chained to Crozier. Twenbak swallows Tozer, the chain sticks in his throat. Hickey then held out his hand with the severed tongue in the palm, clearly awaiting a reward for all his victims. However, Hickey is not fit to become a shaman: his soul is corrupted by the sin of cannibalism, and his body is corrupted by the poison Godsir used. Instead of biting Hickey’s arm, instead of biting his tongue, he rips it in half, teaching us all a valuable lesson about the dangers of The cultural supplement.
How Twenbak died at the end of the terror
Tuunbaq dies from injuries and poisoned food
Tuunbaq is already sick when it comes to the end of The terror. In a previous episode, the terror‘s ice master, Thomas Blanky, revealed that his amputated leg had become gangrenous – a death sentence. He decided to sacrifice himself to give the others a chance to escape the beast, and tied vessels over his body. That when Twenbak swallows him, he will be torn apart. The creature came upon Blanky shortly after he discovered the Northwest Passage—the entire purpose of the expedition.
When Twinbak tries to eat the upper half of Hickey’s body, the chain is already wrapped around his neck and he begins to suffocate. It’s already dying from eating people who got sick from the contaminated tins, from the damage it ate blankies, and most recently from eating the people who were contaminated. became by eating Goodsir’s body. It doesn’t take much longer to finish it. Crozier tugs viciously at the other end of the chain, causing Twinback further internal damage. Finally, it collapses, vomits, and dies – a symbol of the damage caused by the invading British explorers’ attempts to tame its lands.
Although the creature has dogged the crew’s footsteps throughout the series, The terror Shy away from open explanation of its true nature. Simmons based the monster on the Inuit myths of the tuurngaq, collectively known as tuurngait – spirits that can be helpful or harmful. Tunbak can be connected to invite shamans through the ritual that Hickey tried and failed to perform, which involves a person cutting out their tongue and Tunbak eating it.
This allows the shaman a measure of control over Tuunbaq. Lady Silence’s father was one of the shamans associated with Twinbak, so the creature began slaughtering the crew after they killed him. Ultimately, however, the vendetta against the expedition ends up killing Twinback as well.
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Lady Silence’s departure
Lady silence leaves alone
Lady Silence is traveling through the tundra with one of the other shamans connected to Twenbak, looking for the creature, when the shaman senses that Twenbak has died. Resigned, the shaman returns, but silence decides to continue searching. She passes a crew member who fled when Twinback arrived, but ignores his pleas for help and leaves him to die. She finds Crozier and Twinback, and spends a moment mourning the Great Spirit, spilling the last drops of water from her watery skin onto her tongue.
After discovering realizing that Crozier’s wrist can not be released from the chainCuts off the silent hand and then takes him away, sets up a camp and treats his wounds. Crozier insists that they go look for his people, and they travel across the tundra in search of them. Sadly, there is not much to find: camp after camp filled with dead bodies, with the last camp revealing that the people eventually gave in to cannibalism.
The only person left alive is Edward Little, the officer who tried to get the men to rescue Crozier. His face is adorned with piercings and golden chains—a detail based on the real-life discovery of a Franklin Expeditionary officer whose body was similarly adorned. Klein dies soon after Crozier arrives.
Lady Silence and Crozier return to the Inuit camp. Crozier learns this from their leader Lady Silence’s real name is Silna. We see you leaving in the early hours of the morning, And when Crozier comes out of his tent later that day he discovers that she is gone. He asks the Inuit leader where she is, and is told, “She lost Tvnbak. Alone is the way for you now.Crozier asks why, and is told,This is the way. Everyone accepts this.” Crozier wants to go after her, but no one will tell him in which direction she left in. Finally, he has to accept that she is gone.
What is Crozier’s fate at the end of The Terror?
Crozier stays with Inuit and tells rescuers he is dead
Crozier is asked where he wants to go, but he can’t find an answer. He is told that he can stay with the Inuit through the winter, and decide what he wants to do in the spring. In the end, he elected to stay with the tribe. In September 1850, two men from the rescue party looking for Terror and Erebus arrive at the camp – as they did in the series premiere. Crozier pulls up his hood, and tells the Inuit leader to tell the rescuers that he is dead, Along with everyone else on the ships, that the ships are gone, and that the Northwest Passage is not.
The series ends with a shot of him spearing a fishing hole, an Inuk child sleeping by his side.
Afterwards, Crozier heads out onto the ice with some of the other Inuit. The series ends with a shot of him spearing a fishing hole, an Inuk child sleeping by his side. After all that Crozier has been through and burdened with the guilt of losing his men, he cannot bring himself to return to England. The novel ends on a similar note, except that Tuunbaq does not die and Crozier decides to leave with Lady Silence rather than stay with the rest of the Invite.
The real meaning of the terror ending
There are a number of themes at play
The end of The terror has no shortage of moving parts in its complex narrative. Each of them has its own themes and meaning. However, the overall message behind the 2018 miniseries is that For many of the real “doomed voyage” that The terror is inspired by, there is no single answer to the question of “What is wrong”.
There are many reasons that the expedition ultimately, and fatally, failed. If any of these were in a vacuum, the crew might be able to get them. The fact that each present obstacle was more-or-less simultaneous, however, meant that the final fate of the crew was more-or-less a foregone conclusion.
The terror Did a great job mixing the fantastic with realism inspired by historical events. The inclusion of Twenbak, for example, not only made for a great story, but also played into the gaps in understanding left when actual expeditions into unknown territories went wrong. With no one left to tell the tale, rumors of monsters or supernatural occurrences would often become part of the hearsay rumors surrounding tragic voyages, such as the 1791 Houghton Expedition, or Franklin’s lost expedition in 1845.
The other key theme of the terror, Of course, the comparisons between the native Inuits and the crews of the Airbus and the terror. The crew quickly show that they are capable of much worse than barbarism, their prejudice leading them to believe the Inuit are capable of due to their inherent prejudice and ignorance. Ultimately, it is the invaders into the Inuit lands who turn out to be the immoral group, and their behavior elicits a response of disgust from the likes of Lady Silence.
The Terror returns for season 3
The anthology horror series returns in 2025
The terror Season 1 was followed by a second batch of episodes in 2019, this time set in World War 2. A third season was confirmed a year later in 2020, although news on its development quickly fell silent. However, in early 2024, AMC revealed that Work on The terror Season 3 has resumedAnd it would be subtitled Devil in silver.
The terror Season 3 will consist of 6 episodes and is based on the novel by Victor LaVelle, who will also co-write the screenplay. Although no specific release date has been set yet, the next season of The terror is expected to arrive in 2025.