Redux Redux (2025) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Irene hunts Neville across universes because he murdered her daughter Anna in their original reality. Driven by grief and a need for revenge, she builds a universe-hopping machine to find and kill every version of Neville, believing this will prevent him from killing other versions of herself and bring her some closure.

Foreshadowing: The movie opens with Anna's murder, establishing Irene's motivation for the multiverse hunt.

• Irene Kelly
• Neville
• Anna's murder
• revenge
• universe hopping
• multiverse

The machine allows Irene to travel between parallel universes by jumping to realities where different versions of Neville exist. Each jump requires a fuel core, which occasionally needs replacement. The machine can transport Irene and anyone else touching it to a new universe instantaneously, effectively resetting their immediate location and circumstances.

• universe-hopping machine
• fuel core
• parallel universes
• time travel
• quantum portal

Irene initially takes Mia along because Mia was being targeted by Neville in that universe and needed protection. Irene saved Mia from Neville and felt responsible for her safety. Over time, their relationship evolves into a cautious partnership, with Mia becoming an essential companion in the hunt.

Foreshadowing: Irene encounters Mia in an early universe where Neville plans to kill her, prompting the rescue.

• Mia
• Irene Kelly
• partnership
• protection
• runaway

Irene burns the universe-hopping machine to end the cycle of revenge that has consumed her. After everything she's been through, including witnessing the consequences of her actions across multiple universes and forming a bond with Mia, she chooses to stop hunting and live in the present, even though it means accepting the loss of her daughter.

Foreshadowing: Throughout the film, Irene increasingly questions whether continuing the hunt is worth the moral cost.

• burning machine
• ending cycle
• Irene
• Mia
• closure
• moving on

This is a universe where Neville was imprisoned 15 years before the events of the story, meaning he never had the opportunity to kill Anna. In this reality, Anna is still alive and Irene has a chance to see her daughter happy, though in a different version of her life. Irene briefly considers staying but ultimately says goodbye.

Foreshadowing: Mia's anger pushes Irene to seek a universe where the tragedy never happened, leading to this pivotal discovery.

• prison universe
• Anna alive
• alternate reality
• 15 years
• Irene's daughter

The gas station clerk is killed during a gunfight between Irene, Mia, and Neville. Neville shoots the clerk during the confrontation, which escalates the danger and serves as a stark reminder of the collateral damage caused by Irene's pursuit. In some universes, the clerk survives, but in this particular jump, she does not.

• gas station clerk
• London Garcia
• shooting
• collateral damage
• Neville

Mia shoots Neville because she wants to stop the threat permanently and is motivated by anger over all the violence and loss they've experienced. She takes the shot as Neville attempts to take the deceased Mia to his hideout, but Neville overpowers her and abducts her, leading to the final confrontation at the lake.

Foreshadowing: Mia's anger about killing and loss has been building throughout the film, pushing both her and Irene toward increasingly dangerous choices.

• Mia
• Neville
• hideout
• final confrontation
• lake

During the final confrontation at Neville's hideout, after Irene shoots Neville, he triggers a bear trap that catches her leg. Neville then dumps her into the lake while she's still trapped. Mia manages to free herself from where she'd been placed in a barrel, kills Neville, and rescues Irene from the water, allowing both to survive.

• bear trap
• lake
• Neville
• Irene
• final fight
• Mia rescues

Irene and Mia form a partnership that evolves from rescue to genuine connection. Irene initially protects Mia from Neville, and as they jump through universes together, they develop a mother-daughter dynamic. Mia becomes the reason Irene considers ending her quest, and their bond is central to the film's emotional core.

Foreshadowing: Irene begins to see Mia as a surrogate daughter and questions whether continuing the cycle is worth losing another person she cares about.

• Irene
• Mia
• partnership
• found family
• bond
• mother daughter

After Mia is knocked unconscious during the confrontation, Neville places the deceased Mia (from that universe) into a barrel and dumps it into a lake. He also puts the unconscious Mia into another barrel. Irene arrives just in time to confront him before he can fully carry out his plan.

• deceased Mia
• barrel
• lake
• Neville
• body disposal

After jumping to a new universe, Irene's universe-hopping machine runs out of fuel and she needs a replacement core to continue her mission. She tracks down smugglers who have vehicle parts that can serve as a replacement, but they demand Mia in exchange. Irene and Mia ultimately escape by force, killing one smuggler and stealing the core.

• fuel core
• smugglers
• Billie
• vehicle part
• universe jump

Irene becomes increasingly consumed by vengeance as she travels across universes killing versions of Neville. The endless cycle of hunting and killing slowly erodes her sense of self and humanity. She admits she's the only version of herself who didn't die after Neville killed Anna, suggesting the quest has cost her everything else.

Foreshadowing: The film shows Irene's moral deterioration through her willingness to kill and her growing detachment.

• revenge
• consumed
• grief
• moral deterioration
• obsession
• Irene