The question of who killed the researchers is further complicated after both Navarro and Danvers see visions connected to their past while being stuck at the base. Navarro, who is far more attuned to these visions, is called out by something in the ice, while Danvers struggles to stay grounded while being pulled into the day her son, Holden, died. Both women are forced to contend with their trauma in different ways — through Navarro, who sees visions of Holden in the afterlife, Danvers is able to talk about the accident that led to Holden’s death and find closure after Navarro states that Holden sees her.
This is the first time we see Danvers so vulnerable, as she was furious before when Navarro had wanted to tell her about Holden in her visions. “I am not merciful. I have no mercy left in me,” she proclaimed, but this hardened instinct cracks once Navarro listens to her recount the past. Similarly, Navarro finds closure after reaching out to the phantom of one of her elders, where she finally learns her Inuit name, solidifying her sense of belonging to the community. By venturing into the ice and facing their past, both women are reborn, finally breaking through the toxic flat circle of time, and the pains that accompany it.
Peter also undergoes a similar loop when he buries his father, closing the door to this chapter forever. However, Rose (Fiona Shaw) sagely reminds him that the worst is not over, as what comes after is unbearable, given how he has to learn to live with what he has done while taking steps towards healing himself one day at a time.