“Other years, other nows.
All possible pasts, all possible presents.
Schisma is the sound of the universe trying to reconcile that.”
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We also learn the real name of the mystery man played byBill Skarsgard: Henry Matthew Deaver.
They don’t really share the same universe, or shouldn’t.
Skarsgard has spent decades locked below Shawshank prison, but he hasn’t aged a day.
That’s because he’s a man from another time, another place.
His body is not part of the chronology of the place he’s inhabiting.
The same thing happened to the young version of Holland’s Henry Deaver, played byCaleel Harris.
That child grew into Skarsgard’s Henry Deaver, a doctor researching a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
This other Ruth left her abusive minister husband and took her son to live with her and Alan Pangborn.
He’s summoned back by a call from Pangborn.
His father has committed suicide, out at the lake, just like Warden Lacy in the other timeline.
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I waited for years for instructions.
Then one day, one terrible day, God answered."
In fact, Castle Rock looks to be a lot more prosperous as well.
Seven are dead, ten still missing.
They think the boy did it.
Zalewski will trail them and stand watch outside, but on the drive home Molly veers into the woods.
The boy wants to return to the Schisma, so she’s going to help him.
Once they are in the woods, the boy stops.
He sees a vision.
Daylight, and a young girl standing in colonial garb, holding a bloody knife.
Here she stands inside the Schisma, which Molly can see when she touches Harris Henry.
Meanwhile, Skarsgard Henry and Zalewski are trying to keep up with them.
Zalewski fires a warning shot in the air, but somehow a bullet also goes through Molly’s stomach.
Help him," she tells Skarsgard Henry, evoking shades of Joseph Heller’sCatch-22.
“Help the bombardier.
“I’m the bombardier.”
Then he finds himself in the same spot, but a snowy landscape.
It’s 1991, but the episode ends in the present day, after Skarsgard Henry’s 27-year imprisonment.
“I wandered around for days, trying to get back.
I couldn’t,” he says.
“Then Lacy found me.
Took me to Shawshank.
Said he heard the call.
Said I was the devil.”
He looks back at her.
“You believe me, don’t you?”
He is God, and his voice dictates the stories.
