Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 1 Ending: Wheelchair & Feet Explained

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This article contains spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1.

HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1 ended with a dramatic hint at Henry's fate as he looked at his own severed feet. Based on the bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger and written by Steven Moffat, The Time Traveler's Wife exploits time travel in a rather unusual manner. Time travel serves as the central plot device for a love story in which a time traveler named Henry DeTamble (Theo James) encounters the woman he is destined to marry, Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie).

The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1 sets up the premise of the entire show, explaining how its time travel works and introducing viewers to various iterations of Henry and Clare from different points in their timelines. The time travel narrative reveals that Henry essentially lives his life in the shadow of his future; he will marry Clare because he was always destined to do so, and in truth neither have any choice in the matter. Unfortunately, in HBO's adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife, Clare isn't the only thing Henry knows about his future, because he's haunted by other projections through time. Henry repeatedly sees a pool of blood, and in The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1's cliffhanger ending he even sees his own severed feet — identifiable because of a distinctively shaped birthmark.

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Viewers primarily familiar with the 2009 movie version of The Time Traveler'sWife will undoubtedly be surprised at this particularly gruesome twist. However, this is actually a more faithful adaptation of Niffenegger's novel, where towards the end of his life Henry was transported into a blizzard. In the movie,