NOTICE! This article contains major SPOILERS for Time Cut (2024)!After Lucy is transported back to 2003 from 2024 in Time cutshe discovers the shocking identity and motivations of her sister’s killer, the Sweetly Slasher. Netflix cast and characters Time cut are led by Madison Bailey as Lucy Field, a present-day teenager whose life continues to be impacted by the 2003 murder of her older sister Summer, which occurred before she was born. In Lucy’s original timeline, the Sweetly Slasher was never capturedso there was never a clear explanation for why Summer and her friends Emmy, Brian and Val were tragically killed 21 years earlier.
However, on the 21st anniversary of Summer’s death, Lucy finds a time machine and is transported back to the fateful date when the murder spree began. After Lucy befriends science-minded student Quinn and eventually her own sister, the group works to stop two of the tragic deaths and discover who really murdered Summer and why. In Time cutIn the finale of Lucy, Summer and Quinn finally unmask the killer as he reveals why he chose his teenage victims, with the Sweetly Slasher’s identity still creates a paradox that leaves the characters’ future safety in question..
The Sweetly Slasher is Quinn from the Future
Future Quinn used the time machine to kill Summer and her high school bullies
The Sweetly Slasher is technically not any of Summer’s classmates — or even anyone from 2003. Instead, Sweetly Slasher is Quinn of the Year 2024. Although Quinn was generally a friendly teenager who liked science and enjoyed the summer of 2003, the time travel film reveals that he becomes embittered by time and, in the year 2024, goes back in time to kill Summer, Emmy, Val and Brian. Apparently having taken a job at SONR, the approximately 40-year-old Quinn uses the antimatter time machine for a three-day murder spree in 2003, before returning to his timeline.
At the end of the Netflix horror film, teenager Quinn finds himself face to face with a terrifying version of himself from the future and is intent on stopping him from becoming that person. Lucy finally kills the future version of Quinn after he tries to murder Summerwhich means it’s up to teenage Quinn to avoid repeating this tragic turn of events in the future. Considering there’s no telling what the butterfly effect of Lucy’s return to the 2003 timeline will be, whether Quinn will become the Sweetly Slasher again is technically still unknown.
Why Future Quinn Killed Summer, Emmy, Brian, and Val in 2003
Future Quinn wanted revenge for the mistreatment suffered by his teenage self
Because the killer was never found in the original timeline, the Field family never had any conclusion as to why Summer was targeted by the Sweetly Slasher. However, Lucy’s time travel interference causes her to finally get the answer. When the teens fight Future Quinn in Time cutFinally, he explains that his motivation for the murder spree is based on the poor treatment he received from classmatesthe bullying directed at him by Ethan and Brian, and Summer rejecting his romantic advances. After 21 years of this hatred building in Quinn, he decided to take brutal revenge on his younger self.
Time cut reveals that Quinn didn’t have many friends and was chosen by Ethan and Brian to be the senior thrown embarrassingly into the river in front of his classmates. This bullying was soon followed by Quinn delivering a letter to Summer confessing her love.to which she responded by saying that she could never like him that way. In revenge, Future Quinn planned to kill Summer and her closest friends and escape by returning to the future. Furthermore, by leaving Ethan alive, Quinn would take even more revenge, making him the horror film’s biggest villain suspect.
However, many of the reasons Future Quinn had for returning to the past and killing her classmates were erased by Lucy’s time travel to 2003.. Lucy became friends with Quinn, stopped Ethan and Brian from throwing him in the river, helped him become closer friends with Summer again, and even influenced Summer’s decision to feel supported in revealing her sexuality to her family and friends. . After Lucy, Summer, and Quinn killed Future Quinn, the changes they’ve already made to the new timeline seem to also kill those motivations for becoming the Sweetly Slasher.
Will Quinn really stop himself from becoming the Sweetly Slasher?
Hopefully Lucy’s timeline changes will prevent Quinn’s dark turn
Teenage Quinn promises he will never turn into the monster who returns to kill Summer and her friends, but There is no way to know that the promise will be fulfilled. While Lucy returned to Time cutIn the 2024 timeline and saw that Summer had no husband but was still alive, she doesn’t give any word about what happened to Quinn. It’s possible that Quinn will still become a killer but spare Summer. Furthermore, this alternate future timeline has already been altered once again by Lucy’s decision to return and stay in 2003.
Teenage Quinn and Future Quinn are both portrayed by Griffin Gluck.
Lucy’s eventual return to 2003 means she will never be born in the future, but her presence will continue to impact Quinn and Summer’s lives as they grow older. The future Lucy saw when she returned to 2024 probably won’t be the same as the one in the new timelineas there will be a whole new butterfly effect with Lucy staying. This could potentially impact whether Quinn would eventually act with potentially different motivations to become the Sweetly Slasher; there is simply no way to know unless a new timeline and a new paradox are created again.
Lucy killing Future Quinn means Brian and Val’s killer has still never been identified
This version of Quinn may no longer exist in this timeline
Although time-traveling Lucy helped prevent Emmy and Summer’s deaths, she arrived too late to stop Future Quinn from killing Brian and Val at the mall. One of the greatest tragedies of Sweetly Slasher being from the future was that when he returned to his timeline, the city was never able to find out who killed the teenagers. This time, Lucy and Summer discovering the killer’s identity suggested that the audience would finally find out who murdered Brian and Val.
Lucy and Summer cannot expose the killer, considering that Future Quinn returned to 2024 before dying, the teens would have to convince authorities that time travel is real, and this information could lead to teenage Quinn being incarcerated for the murders that he didn’t commit it. still committed
However, the The paradox of being Future Quinn means the information will still never be released. Lucy and Summer cannot expose the killer, considering that Future Quinn returned to 2024 before dying, the teens would have to convince authorities that time travel is real, and this information could lead to teenage Quinn being incarcerated for the murders that he didn’t commit it. committed yet. Tragically, this means that Val and Brian’s murders will remain technically unsolved afterward. Time cutdespite the fact that Lucy, Quinn and Summer all know who did it.