Warning: This story contains spoilers from Umbrella Academy Season 3.

The Umbrella Academy’s Season 3 finale “Oblivion” pulls a fast one on viewers. The Hargreeves siblings find themselves in another inscrutable new timeline: Sparrow Ben (Justin H. Min) is stuck with the Umbrella Academy; Luther (Tom Hopper) is alive (with a 100% human body!); Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez) is missing; Reginald (Colm Feore) is reunited with his long-dead wife, Abigail (Liisa Repo-Martell); and absolutely no one has powers anymore. Did we miss anything? 

The season finale is perhaps so overwhelming that you might just need to lie down once the credits roll. But that would be a mistake, as “Oblivion” is hiding The Umbrella Academy’s first-ever mid-credits sequence. 

Ben's Mid-Credit Scene | The Umbrella Academy S3E10

Patient viewers will find a bookend to the Season 3 premiere cold open, which reveals Ben’s supernatural birth on a train. In it, The Umbrella Academy introduces a dapper new version of Ben on a subway in Seoul. Suited up and wearing glasses, he sits by himself in a speeding car, reading a patterned book — with two red umbrellas on the cover. As the train clicks along, Ben looks up from his book and smiles to himself. 

According to executive producer and director Jeff F. King, he wants fans to consider two questions after watching the scene: “One, what is the significance of the umbrellas on the book? And two, when Ben looks up and smiles, who was he thinking of?” King told Tudum at the Los Angeles premiere of The Umbrella Academy Season 3. 

Min, who plays Ben, can’t answer that mystery just yet. “I wish I knew. I was told nothing,” he assured. “On the day of filming, I was told to sit there and read a book. I didn’t know where I was going. I didn’t know who I was.” 

While the cast is unsure of what Ben 3.0 could mean for the future of The Umbrella Academy, some other plot points are much less obscure. Now that Luther no longer has the body of an ape, his portrayer, Tom Hopper, was free of all those massive prosthetics for his character’s final scene of Season 3. “I felt very light, to be honest. Putting that suit on is very much like putting a bit of Luther on. I feel different [without it],” Hopper said. “But it’s interesting to see where that could lead. Am I like this for long as Luther?” 

Hopper’s on-screen wife, Genesis Rodriguez, also has questions. “Hashtag where is Sloane?,” she joked, referencing Sloane’s disappearance in the finale. “Where is she? What happened to her? I would like to know.” 

For his part, director King points viewers to a different series of Umbrella Academy finale brain teasers. As the Umbrella Academy — plus Sparrow Ben, who has clearly been co-opted into the Brellie family — realize they are without powers and, really, anything in their newest reality, they accept it might be time to go “live [their] lives.” Two pairs seem to leave together: Luther and Klaus (Robert Sheehan) and expectant parents Diego (David Castañeda) and Lila (Ritu Arya). “I would like people to be wondering what ‘Live our lives’ means,” King urged. 

As the Hargreeves brood go their separate ways, the camera pans up to the tallest skyscraper in their new hometown. Reginald stands at the top floor, looking upon the metropolis, which is filled with Hargreeves-owned businesses, and is joined by Abigail, who was last seen on the moon. She reaches for his hand. “I would like people to be asking themselves if it’s good or bad that Abigail and Hargreeves are reunited,” King said. “I would ask them if they wonder why we used matching images of Diego and Lila holding hands and Hargreeves and Abigail.” Well, now we are.