'From' Season 4 Finale: Fatima Transforms, Fate Unknown

Fatima Hassan, played by Pegah Ghafoori on MGM+'s From, visibly transforms into a creature-like being in the show's season 4 finale. The episode, "If a Tree Falls in the Forest...," aired on June 28, 2026, closing out a ten-episode season that began on April 19. It shows Fatima's face and body changing as she stays behind in the town's tunnels, but it stops short of confirming whether she dies, returns to human form, or becomes permanently one of the show's night creatures.

What happens in the season 4 finale

Boyd Stevens leads a group that uproots the town's Bottle Tree with a truck and chain, hoping to open an escape route for Jade Herrera and Tabitha Matthews, who are trapped in a bone-filled chamber below it, according to detailed finale recaps. The rescue takes place in the season's tenth and final episode, according to the official Prime Video episode listing.

The rescue ladder fails almost immediately. Sophia, the current form taken by the Man in Yellow, had secretly weakened the rope in the previous episode, leaving Jade and Tabitha to slip deeper into the tunnels once the tree comes down.

Pulling up the tree is followed by an abrupt shift from daylight to darkness, an earthquake that tears through the tunnels and the town above, and red lightning rising from the open chamber. The episode links these events to the tree's removal but does not explain the exact mechanism behind them.

Two named residents die in the finale. Sophia kills Elgin Williams after he refuses her bargain and chooses to pray instead, and the creature known as Smiley fatally wounds Marielle Sinclair at the clinic. Marielle dies with her partner, Kristi Miller, beside her, a sequence confirmed in TV Insider's finale recap.

Elsewhere in town, Henry Kavanaugh, whose judgment has been clouded by blood-laced visions through much of the season, retrieves a gun from the sheriff's station and nearly shoots his son, Victor. Ethan's sudden arrival breaks his concentration, and Victor disarms him before anyone is hurt.

Fatima's transformation: confirmed facts and open questions

Fatima is at the clinic with Marielle when Smiley approaches and addresses her as "Mother," a term tied to her connection with the creature, according to SciFi Vision's finale recap. He then wounds Marielle. Fatima's resulting screech makes Smiley pause and call her reaction "interesting" before he leaves her unharmed, according to a scene-by-scene account from Yahoo Entertainment.

Later, in the tunnels, Fatima senses that the rescue party is in danger, asks her partner Ellis to remember who she used to be, and then transforms into a creature in front of the group while Boyd pulls Ellis to safety. The sequence is described consistently across multiple finale recaps, including SciFi Vision's detailed episode breakdown.

Here is how the episode's confirmed events line up against the questions it leaves open.

Coverage of the finale differs on how to read what happens to Fatima. ScreenRant's ending explainer describes her standoff as an almost certain death sentence, while Drawpie's finale breakdown notes that she does not die on screen even though she is lost to the others. The finale itself does not resolve which reading is correct.

Sophia strips the town of its talismans

While the rescue plays out in the tunnels, Sophia and an accomplice named Clara move building to building, removing the talismans that have protected residents from the creatures. By the episode's end, the town is largely defenseless, though most residents have not yet realized their protection is gone, according to SciFi Spiral's episode recap.

Sophia later meets the Boy in White in the woods. He warns her that she is "going to lose this time," pointing out that the residents now have the children's bones, according to ScreenRant's ending explainer. Sophia does not dispute the point, instead noting that the Bottle Tree is already gone before dropping the stolen talismans into a Faraway Tree, whose destination is unknown.

Season 4, episode by episode

From season 4 ran for ten episodes between April 19 and June 28, 2026, according to the official Prime Video listing.

The season skipped a week on May 24 with no new episode, which is why the finale landed on June 28 rather than a week earlier.

Where season 5 stands now

MGM+ renewed From for a fifth season on April 15, 2026, four days before season 4 even premiered, and confirmed it as the show's final outing, according to the official Amazon MGM Studios press release.

In a joint statement announcing the renewal, showrunner Jeff Pinkner, creator John Griffin and director Jack Bender said they had "officially begun work on season 5," adding that the final chapter would answer questions while raising new ones.

Production on the final season is expected to begin later in 2026 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the series has filmed since it premiered in 2022, with a release targeted for 2027, according to Deadline's renewal report.

No exact premiere date, trailer, or episode count for season 5 had been announced as of June 29, 2026, and the finale does not show whether Fatima survives the confrontation she stays behind to fight.