Warning: Spoilers ahead for From Season 3, Episode 2.of Season 3, episode 2, “When We Go,” has prompted viewers to wonder even more about what’s wrong with Fatima’s unborn baby. A few episodes earlier of In Season 2’s cliffhanger ending, Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) learned she was pregnant after asking Christy (Chloe van Landschoot) for a test at the clinic. Instead of being excited by the news, Fatima kept the development to herself. In fact, the first person in ofThe character Fatima told about her pregnancy was Donna (Elizabeth Saunders), the fairly loving head of Colony House. Donna’s rare optimism proves both jarring and helpful.
With Dana wanting to celebrate the big news, Fatima explains her hesitation. Before arriving in ofS Town, Fatima learned that she was unable to conceive children. This makes the pregnancy something of a miracle. However, given the township’s increasingly supernatural and aggressive developments, The mother-to-be is rightly worried that the miracle is actually a researcher of something nefarious. Donna assures Fatima that she has defied the odds before; Fatima finds Alice (Corteon Moore), the love of her life, after being trapped. yet, of Season 3, Episode 2’s reveals make it hard not to worry about Fatima’s seemingly miraculous pregnancy.
Fatima’s pregnancy makes her extremely sick and only able to eat the rotten crops
Marielle examines Fatima and suggests that she is severely malnourished
in of Season 3, Episode 1, Fatima spends a long time in the bathroom, navigating her morning sickness — though the pregnancy makes her even sicker in the season’s second outing. Locked in another one of Colony House’s bathrooms, an exhausted Fatima stops being sick long enough to stand at the sink. Outside, Ellis presses his ear to the door, insisting that they visit Christy at the clinic. Although Fatima is dismissive of the idea, what happens next eclipses her avoidance. When she coughs up blood, Fatima reaches her mouth and discovers that one of her teeth has fallen out.
When Ellis and Fatima arrive at the clinic, Christy is not in, so Marielle (Kaelen Ohm), who is a pediatric nurse, checks Fatima’s vitals. After completing the check-up, Marielle concludes that Fatima is incredibly malnourished. Since the township is facing a dire food shortage, this is not necessarily shocking news. In fact, severe cases of malnutrition Can Lead to tooth loss. Marielle is optimistic that it will cure Fatima’s symptoms of malnutrition, which makes Alice feel much better. However, Fatima still seems unconvinced. And given ofMonsters and other supernatural events, it is difficult to take the diagnosis at face value.
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When Fatima returns to Colony House, she lingers on the porch before heading inside. Several other residents gathered all the rotten crops from Colony House’s gardens in crates on the porch. According to one of the residents, they plan to compost what can be saved. In an earlier episode, Donna called the soil “poison,“So it is difficult to imagine the composting giving any beneficial results. Still, Fatima is drawn to the raking vegetables. Once she is alone, Fatima eagerly gathers some rotten root vegetables and eats them with vigor. This disturbing scene suggests that something else is wrong with her pregnancy.
What the baby wants nasty crops means for Fatima in the 3rd season
Fatima revealed in Season 2 that she couldn’t get pregnant
While it’s not yet clear what the unborn baby wanting nasty crops means for Fatima, it can’t be good news. Pregnancy can certainly cause some unusual cravings, but the nasty crops – which turned bad overnight – are definitely a negative sign. It is possible that the township, and the other forces at work, had influence on Fatima’s baby. If it craves rotten crops from ruined soil, the baby’s origins are likely very dark. Unfortunately, the miraculous nature of the pregnancy paired with the baby’s desire for Poland sets the stage for Fatima’s tragic fate in future episodes of of Season 3.