The OA Season 2: What Does The Ending Really Mean?
3. The Puzzle Was Designed To Solve The Mystery Behind The House
All of this is quite confusing, but let’s try and explain it anyway. Nina Azarova and Pierre Ruskin are dating and are also business partners. Ruskin likely became obsessed with Nina and her research.
Nina wrote a paper on shared dreams titled ‘They Dream of Blood Rivers.’ It focused on the phenomenon in Germany in the 1920s where a few dozen psychoanalysts discovered their patients were having the same dream: The Rivers of Berlin running red with blood, men in black shirts and paired snakes. The dreamers predicted World War II twenty years before it happened.
Ruskin became fascinated with this and put together CURI, a sleep study to monitor dreams to check for other recurring images that may lead to future predictions. This allowed him to become a wealthy entrepreneur.
He brought in overlap specialist Dr. Marlow Rhodes to find the patterns that appeared the most. Three things emerged: a tunnel the size of a coffin, a curved, double-sided staircase and a rose stained-glass window.
The only building in the whole world which contains all three happens to be the mysterious House on Nob Hill. This made Nina and Ruskin purchase the house, but when they began rebuilding it they noticed workers were going crazy. Nina called in Dr. Percy to help figure out what was causing it (which turned out to be poisonous gas) and try to figure out what the House means.
Dr. Percy convinced Ruskin to use his resources to create a puzzle (the Q Symphony app Karim investigates) to lure and prepare smart kids to solve the greater mystery behind the House. Could it be that the rose window leads to other dimensions? Yes. More on that next.