Warning! This article contains spoilers for From Season 3, Episode 5!Dale’s journey into the distant tree in of Season 3, Episode 5’s ending results in one of the show’s most brutal deaths, setting up bigger problems for the trapped residents’ hopes of finally getting out. After Tabitha’s return in of Season 3, episode 3’s finale, she attends a meeting in episode 5 in which she Tells her experiences of being transported to the lighthouse of the distant treeBeing pushed from the lighthouse, and ending up in the real world in Maine. Since this is the first known time that someone has escaped the city, Dale stubbornly repeats this strategy.
Ignoring warnings about the unpredictable destinations of the remote tree, Dale brags about the will to take action, leave town and get help for ofs trapped letters. However, after stepping through the gate, of Season 3, Episode 5’s ending reveals that The next tree sent Dale into the concrete wall of the motel pool. Only superficial parts of Dale’s face and body protruded from the concrete, with Dale horribly crushed to death and suffocated to the wall as the city looked on. Providing a brutal revelation for the others, this is the first recorded time the tree destination has instantly killed someone.
Dale’s pool death could be a warning from the city not to trust the distant trees
The residents cannot control where the distant tree sends them
Consider the distant tree earlier sent Boyd to a well, Sara to the church, Julie to the root cellar, and, later, Tabitha to the lighthouse in of season 2’s finale, Dale’s destination is the most brutal yet. The distant trees were previously used as a portal to get the characters out of desperate situations with the creatures around them, or a means to be transported to a place connected to the dark history of the city, such as Tabitha finding the lighthouse to save ofs “anghkoooy” children. Dale’s journey through the tree, however, was simply in pursuit of getting out of town.
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Dale’s fate may be the evil forces’ way of saying that trees don’t work that way. The residents cannot bend them to their will, and passage through them is dictated by what the city powers want of the person. Who goes through them. The town seems to have intended to send Boyd to the health and Tabitha to ofs lighthouse gate for its own purposes, but it did not accept Dale’s desire to go home. Therefore, fatally sending Dale into the pool’s concrete wall where everyone could see him would provide a dark warning about using the distant trees.
Dale’s death kills the group’s biggest source of hope after Tabitha’s Fromville return
The distant trees are not a reliable way to find their way home
Although ofThe letters often concluded that “Hope” is the biggest weapon that the powers have against the trapped residents, the city is also very quick to break it. Tabitha’s successful return to the real world through the lighthouse portal gave the residents a glimmer of hope That it is possible to go out. Hope caused Dale to climb into the far tree and die almost instantly as they were transported inside the pool’s wall, so now they’re all back to square one.
Tabitha & Jade may still be able to find the true nature of the remote tree by discovering the meaning of the numbers in the hanging bottles.
It seems that killing these hopes for the residents, the town was the way to be further divided between them and they should Look for other, dangerous methods to find freedom. Proving that they cannot simply enter the farthest tree to find their way.Season 3 will seemingly put Boyd back on his mission to capture one of ofs mysterious monsters and ask it for answers. In addition, they will have to rely on what Victor remembers about Christopher’s tragic massacre and ofIt’s a deeper dark story.
New episodes of of Season 3 releases Sundays on MGM+.