‘Revival’ Bosses Explain Dana & Ibrahim’s Continued Slow Burn in Finale

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Revival Season 1 finale “Rend the Veil.”]

Revival, in its first season finale, does as executive producer Aaron B. Koontz promised us it would: It gives us answers.

The cause of Revival Day and Em’s (Romy Weltman) death are linked: Aaron (Gianpaolo Venuta) and Lester (Peter Millard) killed her, and that was the detonator to blow the door of immortality off. Dana (Melanie Scrofano) comes to her sister’s aid once she’s in Lester’s clutches, but it’s Em who kills him, tearing out his heart with her hand. But then Em dies … or so we think. A time jump of 35 days reveals that Aaron’s wife, Nithiya (Gia Sandhu), who’s been undergoing treatments for cancer, went out of her way to ensure she was Em’s therapist — and is with her in a cabin somewhere!