FROM Season 4: Jade’s Bonkers Suicide Plan Might Be the Reason Why He Was Killed in Previous Lives

One of FROM’s ongoing mysteries is the relationship between Jade and Tabitha and the township.

While Tabitha has been a little conservative about exploring her origins, Jade went on a full stoner-style mushroom-laced trip, which actually revealed something.

His mushroom vision showed violin-playing figures, who are supposed to be Jade’s past selves.

Every single one murdered by the people around them, not by the night creatures. Not torn apart the way Jim was, but turned on by the very neighbors they were trying to help. 

When Jade asked his younger self who could have done it, Young Jade said, “Minnows in a shark’s net.”

The townspeople learned the truth about who Jade was and what the children were calling out for, and then hate set in. Blame followed, and violence came last.

The Man in Yellow practically gloated about it in the Season 4 premiere. His favorite part of the whole arrangement, as he told it, was watching the residents tear one another apart.

And then FROM Season 4 Episode 7’s “Best Laid Plans” stripped away the one thing Boyd was counting on to make any of this survivable. The totem did not work on the creatures. 

Kenny nearly died proving it, and the creature responded by saying, “Just kidding.”

The residents of Fromville were now heading into the scariest stretch of the series with Jade’s bonkers plan still on the table and nothing to defend themselves with if they actually followed him into those tunnels.

The Same People Who Need Saving Keep Becoming the Weapon

Boyd’s instinct in FROM Season 4 Episode 6 was right, even if his reasons were incomplete.

Jade laid out the plan, and Boyd called it a suicide mission almost before it was finished: find the door in the Colony House basement, go down into the tunnels, dig up the Anghkooey children’s bones, and break the cycle. 

He was skeptical of anything built on a mushroom trip, and he had every reason to be. The tunnels could be full of creatures guarding those bones. 

Opening direct access from Colony House into that space was not a small ask for a community already running on fear and grief. 

But Boyd was focused on the practical dangers, the visible ones, while the more serious threat to Jade was the one that had already happened to him repeatedly, across generations.

Young Jade was pretty clear during the trip: once the truth came out, the townspeople turned.

Every version of him had walked this road, gotten close to the answer, started pushing people toward something that looked terrifying from the outside, and paid for it when that fear curdled into something worse. 

The Man in Yellow had always been waiting for exactly that moment, because watching the residents tear one another apart was the entire point of the exercise.

What the show seemed to be suggesting, and if that is indeed the case, was that Jade might not have been wrong in any of those previous cycles.

His plan might have always been the right one. 

What kept failing was never the destination; it was that Jade, being Jade, presented a suicide mission to already-terrified people and expected them to follow without flinching. 

Previous versions of him did not have Boyd Stevens.

Nobody with the credibility, the history, and the sheer stubborn decency to translate the madness into something a frightened community could almost trust.

Left to his own eccentric devices, it seemed Jade pushed too hard and too fast in every previous life.

The terrified, grieving people around him resolved their fear the way desperate people sometimes do, which was to find someone to blame and act on it.

Boyd Had One Thing to Sell the Town, and the Creatures Took It Away

For one brief window in FROM Season 4 Episode 7, Boyd had something he could actually sell.

The totem had already worked on the reanimated dolls and later on a reanimated Roger. If it worked on the night creatures, the tunnel mission had real legs, dangerous and terrifying but survivable. 

Boyd rang his bell through the streets, convinced a handful of residents, and sent Kenny out with the spear. 

And then Kenny stabbed one of the creatures clean, and it told him “Just kidding.” Because of course it did.

The totem had no effect on the night creatures whatsoever.

Smiley and the others closed in from every direction, and the only reason Kenny was still breathing by morning was Fatima’s discovery that she could see through Smiley’s eyes and distract him just long enough. 

A strange, unwanted power that nobody understood, that she had no idea she could even use, that could just as easily not have worked. That was the margin they were working with.

So the residents knew exactly where they stood: no totem, no protection, and Jade’s plan still required them to walk into the tunnels where the creatures slept during the day, with nothing but the theory that removing the children’s bones would break the cycle. 

The Man in Yellow, disguised as Sophia, was already in their midst, having spiked Henry’s drink and quietly planted the idea that death was simply an escape from a nightmare.

This was exactly the kind of environment that had gotten previous Jades killed: mounting fear, a plan that looked like madness from the outside, and a figure at the center of it who had always struggled to make his certainty feel like anything other than recklessness. 

But the question the show was quietly raising was whether Boyd’s presence alone is enough to keep history from repeating.

Young Jade’s warning had been unambiguous: every version of him had reached this point, and every version thought this time would be different.

Hopefully, we’ll find out this season.

Did the creatures saying “Just kidding” to Kenny’s face officially bury any chance Jade had of convincing the town this wasn’t a suicide mission?

Or do you think Boyd can still hold it together long enough for the plan to work?

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