Part 4 begins in the past somewhere deep in the jungle. It shows the leader of a tribe, his guards, and one man standing before them. As they talk you find out the man has committed treason against his tribe. The man who has committed treason is Fate. Fate is sentenced to be trapped inside of an oak plant for 1000 years. It then goes back to Steven and Fate. Fate says that Steven has to finish all the images of his past before he can move on. Something clicks in Stevens mind and he realizes that he's dead. Fate confirms his realization as he begins to go through the images one last time. It shows his family struggling without him. Both the wife and the son are depressed as they quietly try to live life as nothing happened.
Steven is trying to cope with it as well. He realizes that things must change as he turns off the TV which he watched almost constantly. He drove himself to the edge by trying to figure things out. After he finally cracks he kills himself. Later the police arrive at the house to tell the mother and the son the news. As it fades back to Steven sitting next to Fate he has finally realized what he has done. Steven accepts and acknowledges his mistake. Fate tells him that he cannot go back to his family because it is against the rules of fate and destiny. Steven knows he can't change fate and destiny and he must face up to his consequences. Steven asks Fate what his name is and he says his real name is Moirai. Steven says his goodbyes and tells Moirai that he loves his family.
Things fade out and a snowy sidewalk appears. Steven is outside standing in the snow. He looks around and sees his house in front of him. His wife opens the door smiling at Steven and they both run over to see each other. It goes back to the tribe with Moirai standing in front of his leader. His leader says he has committed the crime again and has to go another 1000 years as an oak plant. Moirai accepts this and says "this is my destiny, this is my fate."
THE EXPLANATION
Okay so in part 4 Steven realizes that he's dead and to move on to the next level he must watch his wrong doings. He watches his wrong doings and learns that it's something that he's done and he cannot change what he's done. Moirai seeing these changes in Steven has sympathy for him and sends him home a few days before he kills himself to be with his family that he loves. In the beginning of Part 4 you see Moirai being accused of committing treason. At the end of Part 4 you see he has committed the crime again. So, the crime that Moirai committed was helping Steven get home again and obviously this wasn't the first time Moirai has done this. Moirai learns that it is his duty to teach people how to love again so he doesn't care about fate or destiny anymore at the end of Part 4. He says he knows what he must do. He also says that is his fate and destiny. Which means its his ultimate duty to help save people from their mistakes.
From the beginning it has looked like this story was about Steven and his struggle to over come his pride and understand how to truly love again. Yes, that's a touching story but no. That wasn't the true story. Otherwise I would've named the series "Steven's Incredible Struggle" or something. The real story/back story was about Moirai. It was his journey to learn how to love again. If you watch it from the beginning of the story to the end you will see the character changes that Moirai has.
In Part 1 Moirai begins asking Steven many questions trying to clarify what is going on and why Steven was in that room with him. A little bit into Part 2 Moirai begins to realize what's really going on here and what he's suppose to do. By Part 3 his heart is softening for Steven and his problems. In Part 4 Moirai finally learns that he must focus more on loving and helping people then showing them what they did wrong and telling them they are pretty much screwed. Through the series Moirai is having a back and foreth battle over whether or not he should teach to help Steven or do what he's suppose to do with Steven so Moirai can get his body back again.
In Part 1 the beginning dialog pretty much sums up the entire theme for the story. It's a spoiler in some ways too. The dialog explains how humans must realize that it's not about fate or destiny and how it takes something grand and unforgiving to make them open their eyes and figure out what they truly love. For Steven the thing that was grand and unforgiving was Moirai. For Moirai it was his tribe and the leader that accused him of the crime.
I don't know if you've noticed but there are four characters and four episodes. Each character has their own episode pretty much. As the two main stories unfold in these four episodes it's also telling the story of each character individually. Part 1 was Steven's, Part 2 was Stevens son, Part 3 was Stevens wife, and Part 4 was Moirai.
If you search Moirai on google you'll get this... "THE MOIRAI (or Moirae) were the goddesses of fate who personified the inescapable destiny of man. They assinged to every person his or her fate or share in the scheme of things. Their name means 'Parts', 'Shares' or 'Alottted Portions'. Zeus as the god of the fate of mortals was their leader." So who was the tribes leader? Zeus? Who were the others around Zeus? They were people who had the same job as Moirai... Although they weren't goddesses in my story.
That should explain the entire miniseries. Now when you watch it again you'll see these character developments and story archs. It took a lot of research to make this series and it took a lot of thinking to write the confusing dialog and make sure I wasn't giving anything away too early. Thanks for watching the series!
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