Before
This article contains discussions of mental illness andMAJOR SPOILERSforBefore!
He then agrees to take on Noah as a patient.
Over the course of the series, Eli realizes that Noahs symptoms dont fit medical explanations.
He hallucinates a worm, dark water, and ice.
The child becomes freezing cold suddenly and speaks languages that he doesnt know.
Elis behavior turns erratic with him exposing Noah to environments from his past life.
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Eli grabs Noah and dives under the water with him.
After taking him out of the water, Noah gives him chest compressions.
The show even hints that the farmhouse could be connected with Lynns childrens book.
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Eli is flooded with memories that he and Eli were looking for their friend.
They find their friend out by the lake.
They go over to look at a bee’s nest and run away when the bees come after them.
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Her weight then cracked the ice, causing her to sink into the frozen lake water.
Even though the friend tells him to jump in after Noahs past self, he runs away in fear.
This event is why Noah hallucinates bees, dark water, and ice inBefore.
However, Elis epilogue shows that hes still hallucinating the worm under his skin.
The hallucination is peculiar because the past life events at the farmhouse dont involve worms.
This could be a loose end inBeforethat the creative team simply forgot about.
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They could have a history that stretches further back, with a past life that involves a worm.
After all, his symptoms should have subsided when Noahs did.
However, this explanation only works if the farmhouse incident involves a worm.
Noah might have forgiven Eli hence the lack of symptoms but Eli tends to hold onto the past.
Was Noah Benjamin Or Lynn In His Past Life?
Even Eli believes this to be true inBeforeepisode 6.
This is furthered by the fact that Benjamin says, We have to find our friend in Elis dream.
The little Dutch girl says this in the farmhouse memory, and shes a confirmed past life of Noah.
However, the climax of Befores finale adds a question mark to this assumption.
Eli remembers Lynns death while under the water.
These scenes make it seem like Lynn, Noah, and the Dutch girl are all the same person.
As such, it seems more likely that Noah is a reincarnated version of Benjamin.
He suggests that if theres an afterlife, there must also be a beforelife.
Eli proposes that theres no reason to believe in one without the other.
Its an interesting philosophical question that fits within the confines of the show.
At face value, this is very true.
People should absolutely seek psychological treatment for their traumatic experiences.
Eli repeatedly behaves in reckless ways with zero plan and puts Noah in danger.
As such, viewers would be wise to take the basic message but ignore where it originated.
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