Dark Matter Season 2 May Have Fixed The Show's Biggest Multiverse 'Plot Hole'

Apple TV

Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Dark Matter" Season 2, Episode 6, "What the Universe Is Made Of."

It took a little longer than we may have thought, but "Dark Matter" Season 2 finally did the inevitable and stopped the ongoing story in its tracks in order to give us a little lesson in quantum mechanics. Following Daniela Dessen's (Jennifer Connelly) decision to leave and take a little time for herself last week, Jason (Joel Edgerton) decides to throw himself into his research in figuring out the secrets of the box – during pretty much all of his waking hours. (The divorced, single dad energy he's giving off throughout Episode 6 is off the charts.) While holed up at the café that his son Charlie (Oakes Fegley) works at, Jason provides a simplified explanation of the nature of quantum entanglement.

It starts when Jason is met by (who he thinks is) this particular reality's version of Blair Caplan (Amanda Brugel). When asked about what he's currently taking notes on, he goes full college professor on her and explains how two particles suddenly separated by trillions of miles (like, say, by a supernova explosion) could still be connected on a subatomic level — entangled, so to speak. When asked whether the same could hold true for people, Jason hesitantly admits it's possible. Little does he know he's sitting next to someone whose mere presence in that restaurant confirms that theory.

In short, this entire scene solves a certain so-called "plot hole" fans may have noticed during Season 2. Why is it that, in this vast and infinite multiverse, the same characters we've followed since the beginning keep running into each another in different realities by complete happenstance? Quantum entanglement may be the key.

Apple TV

Don't you love it when a mind-melting multiverse show solves an issue before it ever even became a problem in the first place? That's essentially what "Dark Matter" pulls off in just a few short scenes in Season 2, Episode 6, titled "What the Universe Is Made Of." As Jason nerds out in front of his eager audience, he does so without even knowing who Blair really is. As it turns out, she takes this moment to reveal herself to be the very same one we first met back in Season 1 — when he and Alice Braga's Amanda Lucas reluctantly left her behind in the world destroyed by a plague of murder hornets. She was also glimpsed back in the Season 2 flashback scene that kicked off Episode 2, celebrating with "Jason2" when the box first became operational.

At first, Blair's appearance in this most clandestine of worlds (yes, the same low-fi one with the "Star Wars" reference) shatters our suspension of disbelief. You're telling us that, of all the infinite multiverses for her to escape to, she just so happens to choose the exact same one that Jason, Daniela, and Charlie have made their new home? Luckily, episode writers Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry and Blake Crouch seem well aware of this coincidence. Jason and Blair puzzle over this very same thing at his home, speculating that the box itself has entangled those who use it. Or perhaps, as Blair suggests, they've always been entangled.

Either way, it's an elegantly simple answer to this narrative shortcut. After all, on a dramatic level, it's simply more interesting to have Jason bump into people he already knows. But at least we now have an in-universe explanation for that, too.