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<\/a>Clark is the first discover a null zone in his furniture store.<\/p>\nThe final sequence of the film really kicks off when Mary Kline decides to look for her missing patient. Her search brings her to the Backrooms through the null zone Clark had marked off in his furniture store. Mary encounters some familiar and some entirely new liminal spaces, until she eventually finds Clark himself. He promptly knocks her out, and when she awakens, she\u2019s tied to a chair at a disturbing dinner table. <\/p>\n
Overdue notices under the furniture store\u2019s door indicate some time has passed since Clark and his employees were first trapped in the Backrooms, but some lore outside of the film itself also indicates that time passes differently in these spaces. Either way, Clark has been here for some time, establishing a somewhat new life for himself that he ultimately confesses to enjoying. <\/p>\n
In the dinner table room, we finally get our first clear look at some of the \u201ccreatures\u201d that have been glimpsed over the course of the movie. Clark has established the theory that, much like the rooms are remembrances of real places, these are real people being \u201cremembered\u201d in the Backrooms. One distorted woman is suggested to be a version of his ex-wife. <\/p>\n
Clark has established the theory that, much like the rooms are remembrances of real places, these are real people being \u201cremembered\u201d in the Backrooms.\u201c<\/p>\n
These \u201cStill Lifes\u201d are somewhat distinct from the creatures already shown in Parsons\u2019 Found Footage videos, like the Bacteria Man many were expecting to appear in the movie. In my opinion, it\u2019s possible for both \u201cforms\u201d to exist under the same world logic. Perhaps the Bacteria Man is just a particularly distorted iteration of what was once a remembered man.<\/p>\n
Regardless, Clark is disturbingly content showing off his ability to stab and even eat them without the Still Lifes offering any apparent reactions. It seems some of his enjoyment in existing in the Backrooms stems from not being alone, or more specifically, being surrounded by life forms that have no true will to leave him. He opens the fridge to grab a surprisingly accurate beer, while also revealing the decapitated head of his employee, Kat. <\/p>\n
When Mary questions why she\u2019s been brought here, Clark compels her to once again \u201cre-enact\u201d the night his wife left him. Mary eventually states her true analysis: Clark refuses to take any responsibility for himself. However, Mary also tells him what he wants to hear: that he doesn\u2019t have to change, and might not ever be able to. <\/p>\n
Just when Clark has softened to the idea of freeing Mary, a new Still Life approaches, terrifying the remembered version of Clark\u2019s ex-wife. This is revealed to be Captain Clark, the remembered version of Clark as informed by his persona in the furniture store. \u201cReal\u201d Clark tells the Still Life that Mary has said they don\u2019t have to change, and begins to offer one of the first apologies we\u2019ve seen from him over the course of the film. Captain Clark responds by eating the original version of himself alive. I\u2019ll leave the metaphors of this self-destruction up to you.<\/p>\n
This is the last we see of the real Clark. Unlike other characters, such as his employees Kat and Bobby, we never see a missing poster for Clark \u2013 a final statement of the extent to which he had isolated himself from the world. <\/p>\n
An Encounter With Async<\/p>\n
Mary manages to escape from the dining room table space, but is being chased by Captain Clark. She makes it all the way to a version of the furniture store\u2019s interior, briefly thinking she found her way back to the real world. She then realizes, however, that this is yet another \u201cremembered\u201d space in the Backrooms, and Captain Clark has found her once again. She manages to incapacitate him by breaking his peg leg and smashing his face with the concrete block she\u2019s carried with her since childhood. Then they are gassed, but not before Mary manages to catch a glimpse of the men in hazmat suits we saw briefly in the film\u2019s opening scene. <\/p>\n
When Mary awakens, she has been cleaned of blood and is being guided through the Async Research Institute. We witness the researchers taking scans of Captain Clark. Mary is brought to what appears to be almost like an interrogation room, where she is eventually joined by a researcher who introduces himself as Phil. He poses a relatively simple question: \u201cHow did you get here?\u201d There\u2019s some room for interpretation on whether \u201chere\u201d is referencing the Backrooms or the lab \u2013 or if they\u2019re one and the same. The focus on the blue sky behind windows seems to indicate we are back in the real world, but there\u2019s not exactly proof of it. <\/p>\n
After some pushing from Mary, Phil acknowledges that his job as part of Async is exploring the Backrooms. We\u2019ve seen Phil briefly over the course of the movie in his own environments, like watching Clark\u2019s furniture store commercial with his family, indicating that, if he has truly spent time in the Backrooms, he\u2019s also capable of leaving them.<\/p>\n
The dynamic here, on some level, mirrors the therapy session that the film opens with. <\/p>\n
When Mary asks what will happen to her, Phil says that that is a decision outside of his control. In the meantime, he just wants them to talk, casually, to try to learn \u201ceven a little bit more\u201d about the Backrooms. In his words, this research has become the most important thing in the world. <\/p>\n
What he does offer a hint into is that Async was, at one point, an MRI company. While he suggests they may have just \u201ccome across\u201d the Backrooms in a way similar to Clark, it would be correct to think twice about that suggestion. Kane Parsons\u2019 own Backrooms series establishes Async as a company that does not stumble across the Backrooms, but in an experiment pursuing an \u201cinfinite space,\u201d created them. The specific element of MRIs is yet another connection to the idea of \u201cmapping memory.\u201d <\/p>\n
I would take that understanding of Async\u2019s direct role in the Backrooms with a slight grain of salt, as much of what this movie seems to be doing is reinventing the original Backrooms lore as much as adding on to it. Kane Parsons has said that he\u2019s long had an \u201cending\u201d in mind for the lore, and with Backrooms 2 already confirmed,<\/a> there\u2019s a strong chance we see more clarification about this version of Async in the future. <\/p>\n