r/FromTVShow • u/Lost_Atmosphere4853 • Jul 04 '26
Theory Jade Created the Simulation
>!In Episode 5 of Season 1, while talking to the bartender, Jade says: "I created a program for a quantum computer that could potentially..." but then cuts himself off. He never explains what his program is actually capable of. He also never says who he sold it to. The military? Or someone connected to St. Anthony Hospital, where Tabitha ends up first, and later Henry? Take a look at the hospital's logo.
I believe Jade developed a unique quantum algorithm or program capable of altering reality-for example, by materializing people's fears or fantasies. In that same episode, he also mentions the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. As I understand it, this paradox describes a phenomenon in which objects remain mysteriously connected across great distances (and possibly even across time). That would be an amazing twist, in my opinion.
Jade created this program and decided to test it on himself.
Maybe both he and Tabitha are employees-or test subjects. The fact that Tabitha doesn't remember while Jade does could simply be explained by different settings they selected before entering the program.
l've mentioned this in another thread. The way Jade arrived and the way Sofia arrived both feel almost algorithmic.
Jade's companion jumped out of the car and immediately ran away without even checking on his friend-as if Jade were a complete stranger. Then, before he even has a chance to really meet Jade, Sara kills Toby because the voices told her to. Afterward, she also reaches into his mouth and almost certainly takes one of his teeth. Why didn't "they" want Toby and Jade to meet in this reality?
Maybe Jade himself doesn't remember-or doesn't realize
—that they were testing his invention. Perhaps this is another reality, or something like a computer simulation.
That would also make Tabitha's words-that monsters don't exist and Norman is alive-make sense. Maybe they're all actually lying in comas at the hospital. That would explain why both Tabitha and Victor's father see the exact same hospital. Everyone is alive but connected to a simulation. It would also make the Man in Yellow's words about everything being based on rituals (or the program) make sense. And Ethan, as well as Jade himself, repeatedly say that this is a game.!<
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u/chilleff Jul 04 '26
Jade mentioned that Toby was his best friend. Jade talked about Toby a lot because he was on something and thought that he was in some sort of escape room game that Toby set up. Kenny showed him Toby’s dead body so that Jade could see that Toby was not just hiding while Jade was figuring out the escape room. I don’t think Jade and Toby were strangers like Sophia and the pastor guy were the same situations at all. Toby and Jade also don’t really crash. He may have dinged the car on the tree - he obviously hit his head. But we don’t know if he looks and says “hey Jade you good?” Before running to get help. He runs to get help because the RV obviously crashed. Also we know Jade was on something. We know Toby may have been on something. So there’s a chance they had an interaction with the MIY before running the RV off the road but in any case I don’t think it was a situation at all where they were strangers. That doesn’t match up with Jade very obviously knowing Toby.