A serial killer is targeting young men and leaving their bodies exposed to the elements, pale and pristine, as though they had only just entered the world.
Gilles Bannier's direction sustains a creeping sense of dread while a long list of credible suspects has you questioning almost everyone.
So, who is the killer? And what drove them to commit such chilling crimes?
Read on for a full breakdown of The Dark's ending.
The Dark ending explained: Who was the killer?
During his final confrontation with Monica at the home of social worker Michael Bach, whom he also attempted to murder alongside his own daughter, Tammy, Kyle laid bare the twisted philosophy that fuelled his reign of terror.
He would identify young men who had plenty of promise but, in his eyes, "a tragic lack of vision", and give them the opportunity to "do better in the next life".
Said young men also appeared incredibly vulnerable – shaped by unrest at home, from extended parental absences (demanding jobs) to permanent absences (death), or experiences in the care system – who he groomed using burner phones which were distributed by Jason's brother Nicholl.
There was only enough love for one of the Morgan brothers and that honour was bestowed upon Jason.
Owen MacLennan, the son of Gloria, who owns the sawmill that employs much of the town, was also one of Kyle's apprentices.
Then, when the headmaster deemed the time was right for his victims to shuffle off this mortal coil, he would poison them and watch as the life drained from their bodies, each possessing a black onyx stone which he claimed would grant them safe passage into the next life.
For all of his claims, none of this was about helping those young men who had supposedly lost their way. No, far from caring for them, this was about revelling in the control he held over them, particularly in their final moments, when "a life and all its dreams, hopes, potential" faded away.
This wasn't about mercy. It was about power and rage – which Kyle had twisted into a pseudo-spiritual rationale for cold-blooded murder.
Yet, despite the detective's lucky escape, there was a storm brewing...
What Monica's past means for The Dark's future
But as we now know, Lucy's father is the leader of the Burning Light cult, and Monica had spent years disentangling herself from the life she left behind.
"My darling daughter, it is time to let the light in," it read, a message which understandably sets her teeth on edge.
"We don't get the full story... and what I hope gets revealed over time, if we get to come back and do another season, is that there's far more to explore there. There is this past, and it explains so much about her."
"There's also so much about her and her story with her father and her own history that came before that that explains how she also ended up in that situation," added Donnelly.
"So there are lots of different threads that work together that are very layered. It's not just this kind of, 'here's one explanation that happened in her past that tells you who she is now' – which is [the case] a lot of the time."
"And with Monica, it did seem to be, even from the first script, to be rooted so much more in the reality of what it is to live a life, that there are lots of different things that all thread together and become a tapestry of who that person is."
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