Why Did Daniel Kill Ada In 1899?: 1899 has been wreaking havoc on the metaphorical brains of fans all over the world with its mind-bending story about an immigrant ship that is destined to go to the US but then finds out that there’s a whole other thing at play that is bigger than anything that they could imagine of.
1899 has been full of mysteries that we are trying to understand and probably it is way too early to make sense of what we’ve seen in Season 1 we’ll have more of it coming in the upcoming years but devising theories and discussions is what makes a community.
One question that might arise in the audience’s minds is why Daniel, who was a master programmer and probably the only one who knew what he was doing and fighting against, why did he kill Ada, the little Danish girl, and sister to Tove and Krester?
As we know, Daniel wasn’t one of the passengers of Kerberos and boarded the ship when the captain and others went to check the lost ship Prometheus. During his time at Kerberos, we can see Daniel using a device in which he’s switching buttons and creating a pattern in the end.
When he kills Ada, it’s followed by an examination from a doctor present on the ship and he concludes it to be natural causes possibly a stroke or a heart attack since there are no strangulation marks or attack signs. Given the whole shebang of the Kerberos is a simulation that Daniel very much knows, he might have just turned off Ada’s character because of which we do not see any physical signs.
The question arises why would he do that to a child right? Well, in his conversation with Eliott, they have been in this exact simulation a lot of times and Daniel probably knows that Ada, if alive do something that is harmful for the whole simulation or her role is just straying people away from their roles which is why Daniel, who’s already been in multiple simulations to know who’s who, turn her off or shut her down.
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This plot device irritates me. If there is a 2nd series I hope they explain this because there is zero explanation for spending crucial time to do this.And your explanation really doesn’t hold water as why would he apologise, as she is either a simulation or a person in the matrix. They don’t really die, why apologise. Probably just a dramatic plot device. Makes one feel a bit cheated though.
Maybe Daniel is aware that Ada is a real person and turning someone off means they’re effectively shut down for the whole of that simulation and that she’s immediately sent to the next simulation if the simulation loops back again. If he’s unsuccessful (on waking Maura up) and the simulation shuts down again, he’s basically sending her to another hell. The Scarab (which symbolizes rebirth among other things) is like a bug, it locates which target (or whatever that) will trigger a chain of events that would benefit his mission, he doesn’t know which target would cause such chain reaction and that’s why he’s sorry.
For example, when he was on the previous simulation, the Prometheus, he probably had another victim, and with him being unsuccessful on the Prometheus which led to another loop, the victim, immediately wakes up on board the Kerberos right after being turned off.