How Does Time Cut End? Unpacking the Final Minutes of the Netflix Thriller Starring Antonia Gentry and Madison Bailey

Warning: Time Cut spoilers ahead!

Netflix’s Time Cut takes viewers back to the days of velor tracksuits, polo shirts and uggs: 2003.

Written and directed by Hannah MacPherson, the film is set in Sweetly, Minn., and follows high school student Lucy Field (Madison Bailey) who is transported back in time to 2003 — the year her sister, Summer Field (Antonia Gentry), was murdered. . by Sweetly Slasher.

When given the chance to save Summer and her friends, Lucy teams up with “physics genius” Quinn (Griffin Gluck) to change the past.

At the end of the film, Lucy learns that her presence in 2003 has changed much more than her sister’s fate—and she is faced with a future she could never have imagined.

Here’s everything you need to know about the unexpected twists at the end Time Cut and who is behind the mask of Sweetly Slasher.

What is Time Cut about?

Madison Bailey in “Time Cut”.

At the beginning Time Cutviewers get to know Summer Field. It’s April 18, 2003, and three of her friends, Emmy (Megan Best), Val (Sydney Sabiston) and Brian (Kataem O’Connor), have already been killed by the Sweetly Slasher — a serial killer on the rampage in Sweetly, Minn. Still grieving, Summer decides to go to a high school party at a barn outside of town. There, Sweetly Slasher also kills her.

Fast forward to 2024, and audiences are introduced to Lucy Field — a daughter, Summer, who was welcomed by her parents through IVF after her death. Desperate to escape Sweetly, where the events of 2003 still haunt the town, Lucy gets her wish when she stumbles upon a time machine in the same barn where Summer was killed.

Lucy is transported to 2003, where she meets her sister and befriends Quinn—a fellow science geek. After successfully convincing both that she’s from the future, the trio team up to stop the Sweetly Slasher on his killing spree.

What happens at the end Time Cut?

(L-R) Antonia Gentry as Summer, Madison Bailey as Lucy and Griffin Gluck as Quinn in 'Time Cut'.

Antonia Gentry, Madison Bailey and Griffin Gluck in “Time Cut.”

After traveling through the time machine, Lucy arrives in the year 2003 on the day the Sweetly Slasher kills his first two victims. He is unable to save Emmy and Brian, who are murdered at the mall, but with the help of Summer and Quinn, they manage to stop the killer from getting his next victim: Val.

The next day, a curious Lucy talks to Summer’s parents about their plans for the future. When she learns that they are not expecting another child, Lucy realizes that if her sister survives, she will probably cease to exist in 2024.

Lucy hesitates about the idea of saving Summer, but eventually, in the remaining minutes Time Cutshe and Quinn intervene when Sweetly Slasher tries to kill Summer in the barn.

In which was Sweetly Slasher Time Cut?

Sweetly Slasher in

Sweetly Slasher in “Time Cut”.

While at the barn, Quinn, Summer and Lucy come face to face with the Sweetly Slasher, who removes his mask and reveals himself as Future Quinn.

They all end up in Past Quinn’s garage, where Slasher explains that in his timeline, he was bullied by his high school peers and rejected by his crush, Summer. So he came up with a plan: kill Summer and all her closest friends and disappear through time.

To save Past Quinn and Summer, Lucy restarts the time machine and grabs the Sweetly Slasher — transporting them back to 2024. Lucy and Future Quinn get into a physical confrontation, which ultimately ends in the killer’s death.

Does he survive the summer in Time Cut?

The Sweetly Slasher behind Antonia Gentry as Summer Field in 'Time Cut'.

Antonia Gentry in “Time Cut”.

That! Lucy and Quinn successfully rescue Summer from the Slasher and Lucy returns to 2024. However, as she returns to her own time, Lucy discovers that her parents have no idea who she is.

In a shocking twist, Lucy returns to 2003 to be with her sister and Quinn, effectively canceling the 2024 timeline. Given that the film ends there, it is not clear what happens next with Lucy. Bailey said she hopes Summer’s parents will adopt her.

“We can only hope that she’s like, ‘So I’ve got nowhere to go,’ and that these people are just so lovely that they took her in forever,” the actress said. Today in October 2024.

What other versions of the ending did the filmmakers consider?

Antonia Gentry as Summer Field and Griffin Gluck as Quinn in 'Time Cut'.

Antonia Gentry and Griffin Gluck in “Time Cut”.

The return of Lucy in 2003 was not the only ending MacPherson considered.

“There was a version that we all liked where they all somehow ended up alive in the present day, which meant that Summer was 43 and Lucy was 17, and it was basically like she lived and the parents still had the child.” , the director shares with Today.

Ultimately, MacPherson found Lucy and Summer’s upbringing more “satisfying”.

What Antonia Gentry and Madison Bailey had to say about the role of nurses in Time Cut?

Antonia Gentry (L) and Madison Bailey attend a special screening of Time Cut at Netflix Home Theater on October 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Antonia Gentry and Madison Bailey at the Los Angeles screening of “Time Cut” in 2024.

Gentry and Bailey created a true sisterhood on and off screen while filming in Winnipeg, Canada. MacPherson said Today that it was “magical” to watch the duo’s “crazy chemistry” on set.

Speaking to Screen Rant in October 2024, the actresses shared that they spent most of their free time together.

“We played Mario cart and had wine and painting nights,” Gentry said. Bailey chimed in, adding that they also enjoyed a pastime from 2003: going to the mall.

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