If Netflix’s Bodies has you scratching your head, we attempt to untangle its questions here.

Warning: major spoilers for theBodiesfinale.

Fans of that category will know that its a perilous place to be when it comes to recommissioning.

Shira Haas as Iris Maplewood in Bodies on Netflix

Lets explore that ending, and any lingering questions…

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Why Did Teenage Elias Disappear?

After briefly reuniting with his birth-mother Sarah outside her house, Elias and 2053-Hasan vanished into thin air.

1941 Elias recorded a secret message that he entrusted to Whiteman before begging Whiteman to kill him.

Whiteman left Hasan a clue as to where the record was hidden.

So, Elias Mannix Was His Own Great-Great-Grandfather?

Which meant that he married and impregnated his great-great-grandmother Polly Hillinghead, daughter of Alfred.

Hayden Harker fathered a son named Daniel, who took his mothers surname of Barber.

Through investigation of the Deutsch Particle (perhaps named for real-world physicist and quantum computation professor David Elieser Deutsch?

So, Everybody Else Survived?

Everybody else did make it.

Did Mannix Really Regret the Bomb or Was He Manipulated?

The result was a lifetime of isolation and hostility, not the happy ending Elias had sought.

Why Was Maplewood Driving the Taxi in 2023 at the End?

Finally: What Did it All Mean?

Bodies is available to watch nowon Netflix.