Umbrella Academy Season 4 Theory Brilliantly Solves Season 3’s Biggest Five Mystery

The Umbrella Academy season 4 has a lot of mysteries to solve, and a theory gives a brilliant solution to the biggest Five (Aidan Gallagher) mystery left by season 3. After three successful seasons full of twists, turns, and shocking reveals, The Umbrella Academy is ending with its fourth season. The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended on the biggest cliffhanger of the series so far, leaving a lot of questions and mysteries that have to be addressed in season 4 in order not to leave any loose threads and plot holes that might never get solved after this season.

The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended with Reginald (Colm Feore) resetting the timeline and creating one of his own, where he’s the most powerful man and his deceased wife, Abigail, is alive and well. Unfortunately, and even though they’re alive in this new timeline, the Hargreeves found out that they no longer have their powers. The Umbrella Academy season 4 will not only have to explore how the Hargreeves can regain their powers, but it also has to solve the biggest mysteries left by previous seasons, including a huge Five mystery after a shocking season 3 reveal – and a theory gives a brilliant solution to this.

Umbrella Academy Season 4 Theory Says Five Will Found The Commission In The New Timeline

Five was revealed to be the founder of The Commission in season 3.

The Commission in the world of The Umbrella Academy is an organization that oversees and manages the space-time continuum, thus making sure that all events that are supposed to happen, happen in the way they should. The Commission has agents who travel through time and space thanks to special briefcases to eliminate anyone who poses a threat to the timeline. At one point, Five was recruited by The Commission, but he left to go back to his time and try to stop an apocalypse, but he failed at it.

The Commission, especially The Handler (Kate Walsh), were Five’s main enemies in The Umbrella Academy seasons 1 and 2, and when everything seemed to have calmed down once Herb took over the organization, Five made a shocking discovery. In The Umbrella Academy season 3, in an attempt to solve the paradox they accidentally created, Five and Lila (Ritu Arya) traveled to The Commission only to find it in ruins, and in it, they found an elderly future version of Five with a cryptic tattoo, without an arm, and sealed inside a breathing chamber.

This revealed that Five is the founder of The Commission, but The Umbrella Academy quickly forgot about this and didn’t go deeper into it. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has to address this part of Five’s and The Commission’s history, and a theory shared on Reddit has a simple but brilliant idea on how to do so: Five will create The Commission (again) in the new timeline in order to undo what Reginald did with his “perfect” timeline. This time, Five will count on the help of his siblings, which can ensure The Commission’s success and the definitive end of Reginald.

Umbrella Academy Season 4 Theory Faces A Huge Problem After Season 3’s Ending

The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended with a major twist for the Hargreeves.

While it’s possible that Five will create The Commission again in The Umbrella Academy season 4 and restore some balance and order to the timeline/multiverse, he’s facing a huge challenge after season 3’s ending. As mentioned above, the Hargreeves were left powerless at the end of The Umbrella Academy season 3, and it’s unclear how long it will take them to regain their powers. Time is ticking for Five and his siblings, and he’s going to need his powers to found The Commission, create the briefcases, and more.

It’s hard to say how Five could create The Commission without his powers, though it’s also worth noting that Five has genius-level intellect and a lot more experience than all his siblings, so he could use all that knowledge and experience to create The Commission again without his powers – and, of course, without Reginald knowing about it.

How The Hargreeves Can Regain Their Powers In The Umbrella Academy Season 4

The Hargreeves must get their powers back.

The first big challenge that the Hargreeves have to overcome in The Umbrella Academy season 4 is the loss of their powers. It’s being theorized that the marigolds that gave the Hargreeves their powers will be the key to regaining them, though it’s to be seen how they will get access to more marigolds. Reginald’s wife, Abigail, is believed to be a source of marigolds, so she could be the Hargreeves’ solution. Another solution could be Allison, if she’s the only one who kept her powers, as she could find a way to help her siblings and redeem herself in the process.

The Hargreeves will surely regain their powers in The Umbrella Academy season 4, though how soon that will happen is unknown. The Umbrella Academy has always found ways to surprise the audience and defy what they thought about the characters, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Five will be able to create The Commission before he regains his powers.