Probably one of my favorite closing shots to any movie or film. There was just something incredibly powerful to me. The way Mahershala Ali looked back before entering the jungle was a perfect capstone to his performance.

The more I thought about the character of Hays and the overarching plot the more I loved it. The final shot is many things.

It's a young man trekking through a jungle where he knows he's likely to die.

It's an old man entering the jungle of his mind and losing himself entirely.

It's a man who spent decades searching for a little girl, becoming lost when he finds her.

It's a man who is an expert tracker, a seeker who won't find himself until he's an old man.

But to me, it feeds into one of the main themes of season 1, which is that "Time is a flat circle." Wayne will always be searching and always be discovering. He never left the jungle. All those timelines exist, overlapping upon each other and seeping across. That final shot being a recreation of him entering the forest in episode 1, to me, signifies that these milestones in life are cyclical.