Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Season 3, Episode 10, “Revelations: Chapter Two.”
Of Season 3, episode 10, “Revelations: Chapter Two” finally reveals what has been growing inside Fátima (Pegah Ghafoori). Fátima discovers she is pregnant in season 2, even though she was told she couldn’t have children. This miracle quickly turns into a nightmare the pregnancy causes Fátima to eat rotten vegetables, consume blood from a corpse and even kill Tillie (Deborah Grover) on Of season 3, episode 7. An ultrasound also fails to detect any baby growing inside Fátima, making it appear that she is not pregnant.
However, Elgin (Nathan D. Simmons) knows she is pregnant with a baby that isn’t hers and locks her in the town’s basement. OfElgin’s lady ghost makes Elgin believe that Fatima’s birth is the key to finding his way home and that he must hasten the baby’s birth by feeding Fatima her own blood. As OfAs the characters desperately search for Fátima, she is forced to give birth at the end of Season 3, and the origin of her unnatural pregnancy becomes clear.
Fatima’s baby was a resurrected version of the smiling monster
Smiley was killed off in season 2
After Fátima gives birth, the ghostly woman in the kimono takes the baby to the tunnels where Ofwhere monsters live and where they are gathered in a ritualistic circle. She places the placenta in the center of the circle and watches with the other monsters as it the fully grown Smiley monster (Jamie McGuire) emerges from the placenta. Fatima’s desires for rotten vegetables, blood, and killing Tillie make sense, as these desires stem from the bloodthirsty monster growing inside her. This also explains why ultrasound was unable to detect a human baby.
Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau) descends into the tunnels and watches in horror from the shadows as Smiley is reborn. In season 2, Boyd kills Smiley by slitting the monster’s throat and putting his infected blood into the wound. This is the only case so far in which the residents have managed to kill the monsters, which makes it all the more disturbing for Boyd to see that this victory against them has been nullified when Smiley is reborn, and it is as if he never killed him in the first place.
Why the Smiling Monster Was Resurrected as Fatima’s Baby
The monsters attacked her for a reason
Smiley’s resurrection confirms that monsters never really die. This is even more solidified by Fatima’s new understanding that the monsters were townspeople who sacrificed their children in exchange for immortality. Smiley’s death was only temporary and he would always be reborn. Fatima’s womb was chosen to resurrect him, as she is unable to give birth to human children and as a way for the city to break her and her loved ones.
Almost immediately after Boyd killed him, Smiley began to reform within Fatima.
The timeline of Smiley’s death and Fátima realizing she was pregnant works, as Smiley dies in Season 2, Episode 6, and it’s in the Season 2 episodes after that that Fátima realizes she’s pregnant. This means that almost immediately after Boyd killed him, Smiley began to reform within Fatima. Despite what many Of the characters believe, killing the monsters doesn’t do much good, as the monsters’ immortality will allow them to be reborn.
How will Fatima’s monster baby “save” everyone in the city?
Smiley’s revival just saves the monsters
The woman in the kimono told Elgin that Fátima’s baby would save the town’s residents and allow them to find their way home. This turns out to be a lie, just like the voices in season one lying to Sara Myers (Avery Konrad) about her guaranteeing the residents’ freedom if she killed specific individuals. The woman in the kimono was manipulating Elgin’s compassionate and naive nature and the connection he felt with Fatima because of how she helped him adapt to life in the city and at Colony House. Elgin thought the woman in the kimono was an angel, but she was just another monster.
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Fatima’s baby would never save the villagers and would only help the monsters. Not all hope is lost, as the ending makes it seem like the key to defeating the monsters and finding a way home is tied to Tabitha Matthews (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and Jade Herrera (David Alpay) saving the “Anghkooey” children and free them. This is probably the only thing that can save the residents, who will now have to face Smiley again, as he reappears every night to terrorize them. Ofcharacters.