This article contains spoilers for3 Body Problemepisode 2 Red Coast.
The early episodes ofNetflixsci-fi epic3 Body Problemare fraught with mystery.
Why is science suddenly broken?
What does the countdown mean?
How doesthe Chinese Cultural Revolutionfactor in to all of this?
But Tatianas identity, allegiance, and motivations remain a mystery.
While Clarencess wife gets a red velvet cupcake on her posthumous birthday, Tatianas father gets coconut cake.
But then Tatiana moves the conversation to somewhere more uncomfortable, if not outright sinister.
Its obscene isnt it?
How fragile we are?
My dad thought hed walk me down the aisle.
Tatiana asks Clarence how Jennifer died.
He says breast cancer and then asks how her father died.
She says he was shot in the head.
She tells him not to be.
Its a good way to go.
Its quick, she says coldly.
And just like that, the real reason for this seemingly chance meeting has been revealed.
It reads: Edith Marsh 1905 1909. Who is Edith Marsh?
What does matter is the fact that a four-year-old dead girl named Edith is clearly not Tatianas grandfather.
Of course, thats only the beginning of the Easter egg rabbit hole here.
Why did the episodes writer, Rose Cartwright, opt for Edith Marsh in particular?
Edith Ngaio Marshwas a New Zealand mystery writer.
Both Alleyn and the writer who created him share some interesting similarities with3 Body Problems Clarence Shi.
Like Alleyn, Clarence is a London-based investigator with ties to Oxford.
Like Marsh, Clarence has connections to two prominent cultures.
For Clarence, that is England and China.
For Marsh, it was the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
In fact, her Ngaio middle name is from the Maori language for light on the water.
Edith Marsh and her hero Roderick Alleyn arent referenced in any of the next six3 Body Problemepisodes.
All eight episodes of 3 Body Problem are available to stream on Netflix.
