The Third Day Ending Explained What Happened To Sam & Nathan

The Third Day Ending Explained: What Happened To Sam & Nathan

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HBO’s The Third Day has a thought-provoking ending, leaving some events unresolved and open to speculation, including what happens to Sam and Nathan.

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The Third Day Ending Explained What Happened To Sam & Nathan

HBO’s The Third Day has a thought-provoking ending, leaving some events unresolved and open to speculation. What’s to become of Sam and Nathan? How will the conflict between Sam and Jess be resolved? Is Helen’s vision of her son on the raft significant?

The Third Day began much like other folk horror tales, such as The Wicker Man and even Ari Aster’s Midsommar. Sam (Jude Law), a man grieving the loss of his six-year-old son, is drawn to the island of Osea off the coast of England. There, he discovers the people who live there practice a religion that is an odd mix of Christianity and ancient Celtic traditions. They are preparing for their annual festival in celebration of the god Esus. The longer Sam stays on the island, the more he starts to suspect he has some sort of connection to it.

Sam discovers in Part One of The Third Day that he is the direct descendant of the leader of Osea. In Part Two, which is a 12-hour livestream shot in one continuous take, Sam becomes the island’s “Father” after going through an intense ritual in celebration of Esus. In Part Three, Sam’s wife, Helen (Naomie Harris), comes to the island with their two daughters in search of him and the money he stole. She stumbles into the middle of a conflict taking place on the island between those who follow Sam and those who support Jess (Katherine Waterston) and her baby. By the end of it, Sam helps Helen and his daughters escape by killing several of the men who opposed him. He then decides to stay on the island with Nathan, where he will have to confront Jess and the consequences of his actions, leaving several questions unanswered.

What Will Happen To Sam And Nathan?

The Third Day Ending Explained What Happened To Sam & Nathan

As Sam is leading his wife and daughters to escape, Jason is in their way. Helen hands him a knife and he reluctantly approaches Jason, tells him the darkness is here and stabs him. As he is doing so, he seems to let go of his pent-up anger and stabs Jason over and over again, to his daughter’s horror. He then says that he knows what to do now. He grabs Jason’s rifle and leads his family to the church, where Larry and another man who is on Jess’s side are resting. He shoots and kills them both, then pulls the sack of money out of a hole where he’d hidden it and gives it to Helen. Sam and Nathan then stay there in the church, while Helen and her two daughters escape into the night.

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Given that he’s just killed several of Jess’s closest allies, what’s going to happen to Sam and Nathan? Has he killed the key players so that he can regain control of the island, or is he doomed to be killed himself? It seems that Sam has never been interested in being the Father of Osea. All he wants is to be with his son Nathan. For this reason, Sam might be happy to allow Jess to lead Osea and, in turn, Jess could allow him to live. However, as Nathan is not his true son, it’s possible that the boy will be taken from him if he’s not the leader. Sam could lose everything, and a part of him may know this, willingly ready to take whatever consequences come his way in order to free his wife and daughters from becoming trapped on Osea Island.

Why Are Sam And Jess Fighting?

The Third Day Ending Explained What Happened To Sam & Nathan

Speaking of which, whatever conflict takes place between Sam and Jess happens offscreen, leaving audiences to piece it together. In Part One, Jess is very sympathetic to Sam’s plight, and seems to care for him very much. She’s even supportive of him when he tells her about his psychoses. Then, in Part Two, she is seen taking part in the ritual by reading scripture, but breaks down crying, perhaps in sympathy for everything Sam has been put through. She leans on Jason, a man from the island, for support. Later, it is Jason who leads the uprising for Jess against Sam and his supporters.

When Jess confronts Sam in Part Three of The Third Day, she expresses disgust over him. She says she can’t even look at him. It’s unknown what, exactly, he’s done, but he’s clearly failed to fix the issues on Osea. He may have said something nasty to Jess, or Jess may have come to him after he became the Father and asked if she could live with him, since she was carrying his baby. Sam, still thinking of getting back together with his wife, might have rejected her. It could also be that those who were against Sam becoming the Father in the first place convinced Jess that her baby was the rightful leader of Osea, and she was meant to restore balance to the island. After all, Sam appears to have done very little, other than hide away in his giant house with his son.

Nathan’s Shocking Final Words To Helen

The Third Day Ending Explained What Happened To Sam & Nathan

Earlier in Part Three of The Third Day, Helen confesses that her last words to Nathan before he went missing were to tell him that she wished he’d never been born. She has since closed up and been overly-pragmatic about everything. She rejects all forms of religion and mysticism, anything that can’t be touched and seen in the real world. Later, her daughter accuses her of being like stone, although she thought she was doing what she had to to keep the family together. She has struggled to process her grief over the loss of Nathan and attempted to reason her guilt away over her last words to him.

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Just as she is leaving the church where Sam and Nathan are going to stay, Nathan tells Helen that he knows she didn’t mean what she said, and that he knows she always wanted him. Helen stares at Nathan in shock and horror, both because of the emotional impact of that statement and because she knows – or thinks she knows – that the boy in front of her is not really Nathan. The extent of training that the boy must have gone through to be convinced he is Nathan is staggering. Helen leaves then, but she is shaken. Perhaps, her resolve to reject everything religious is beginning to crack.

Helen’s Vision Of Nathan On The Boat Explained

Fearful of being caught before the causeway opens off of the island, Helen decides to risk her life swimming across the ocean. She puts her daughters into a small boat, ties it by a rope around herself, and sets out across the water. At one point, as she is becoming exhausted, she has a vision. Her daughters are gone and Nathan is in the boat, the real Nathan. Then, the vision is gone and her daughters are in the boat again calling out to her. Interestingly, this vision could mean several different things.

For starters, it could be her exhausted mind projecting. On the other hand, it could be a supernatural vision showing that Helen has begun the process of opening her mind to the unexplainable. It may also be a sign that Helen fails to make it across the ocean and dies in the attempt. Her mind could have made up the final scene of her reaching the shore safely with her daughters. On Osea, she was forced to confront her grief; the emotions are complicated and difficult to process.

The fact that she chooses to risk the swim instead of hiding and waiting for the causeway to open shows how determined she is to get her and her daughters away from what she perceives as the insanity of Osea. Still, her vision of Nathan may have shown her that there is more to the world than what can be easily perceived. Whatever the case may be, The Third Day leaves audiences thinking, left to fill in the blanks themselves.

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