Sunday, October 30, 1988 ·Before dawn
The Vortex opens over Middlesex
Donnie drives Gretchen’s body to Carpathian Ridge and watches a storm form over his house. The plane carrying Rose and Samantha home flies into it. Donnie tears the engine free and sends it back through the portal to October 2.
Who is there
In Sparrow's terms
- Tangent Vortex
- The point at which a Tangent Universe touches the Primary Universe. In the film it is directly above the Darko house.
- Black Hole
- What a Tangent Universe becomes if it is not resolved: it collapses on itself and destroys the Primary Universe with it. Visualised in the film as the storm vortex over Middlesex.
- Artifact
- The metal object that marks the start of a Tangent Universe and must be returned to the Primary Universe to end it. In Donnie Darko, the jet engine.
- Fourth Dimensional Powers
- The abilities granted to the Living Receiver: increased strength, telekinesis, mind control and the power to conjure fire and water.
- Time Portal
- A gateway between universes, made of water, that opens at the Tangent Vortex. The Artifact is sent back through it.
What happens at this moment.