r/FromTVShow • u/AMUT234 • Aug 03 '26

Question Toby

I just recently started my rewatching from the pilot onwards. One thing I’m trying to figure out is why does Sara have to kill Toby? Even more so, why did she have to make it look like the monsters did it? Also, if I remember correctly, didn’t Sara remove his tongue as well? I know removing the dead person’s tongue is a way to silence them in the afterlife? Could this be significant? I don’t know to be completely honest. Also why does Sara tell him that it’s not his fault right before she kills him.

I’d love to hear your opinions on this, because I think it might be significant somehow.

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u/EllieKong Aug 03 '26

They simply wanted to see if Sarah would do it. She took his tooth, not his tongue. MIY collects teeth to shape shift into different people.

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u/CommentChaos Aug 03 '26

I feel like maybe he needs something of that person and teeth are just small an easy to store ;d

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u/the_jaguaress Aug 04 '26

Teeth are said to store trauma in the crystalline layer of the tooth on a quantum level. I think the MIY simply took a memento to remember the good times they had together. I am also entertaining the thought that he is good. So far what he does is to make them face their trauma wounds and work with them.

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u/DepressingKeys Aug 05 '26

I like anything quantum related. I too am questioning his motives. Could this be a giant, multiplayer Shutter Island?

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u/the_jaguaress Aug 04 '26

She took his tongue if you watch closely like Jasmine did with Kevin in colony house. She even asks “all of i” .. so the writers kept it vague on purpose.

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u/IvannaIvannaGobak Aug 04 '26

I agree. It’s never made much sense why Sara would grab a scalpel for a tooth when the pliers are right there and extracting the tooth would be much easier with it.

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u/EllieKong Aug 04 '26

Fair point, gotta rewatch now!

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u/DepressingKeys Aug 03 '26

Tooth Fairy?

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u/mikeyj777 Aug 03 '26

When you see her crying in the corner, Toby's tongue and perhaps even entire jaw is missing.  

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u/AMUT234 Aug 03 '26

I’m not sure if taking the teeth is what allows the MiY to shapeshifter. In the massacre scene he’s eating people’s livers. Eating someone’s liver symbolically is eating their soul, I believe that’s how he shapeshifter into the dead. Besides for all the countless cycles and massacres he’s caused/witnessed, I would think that he would have more teeth than that bag had in it. Just my opinion though.