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Night Sky: Who Is Jude's Mother & Why Is She Important?
Jude's mother is rarely spoken of in Night Sky, but lines of dialogue hint at her identity and the role she may play going forward in season 2.

Night Sky: Who Is Jude's Mother & Why Is She Important?

Warning: Contains spoilers for Night Sky season 1.

Jude’s mother in Night Sky is rarely mentioned, but a few lines of dialogue hint at her identity. Night Sky premiered on Amazon Prime on May 20, dropping all eight episodes of season 1. The sci-fi drama stars J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek as a couple hiding a portal to another planet in their backyard whose lives are altered when a mysterious man, Jude, appears from the portal one evening.

Throughout Night Sky season 1, Jude maintains that his mission is to find his father, and Irene York (Sissy Spacek) aids him on his quest. However, he rarely mentions his mother. As Jude attempts to track down his father, he is hunted by a group determined to kill him, who call him “the apostate”- a person who renounces or abandons a faith or religion. In Night Sky, Jude (Chai Hansen) appears to be more significant than simply a mere former member of the cult of Caerul.

Based on dialogue in Night Sky season 1, it’s apparent that Jude’s mother plays a large role in the cult or Caerul, and might in fact be the cult leader. Jude and Cornelius both make remarks referring to his mother as a powerful figure. If she is not the cult leader, she possesses sufficient power to give orders to high-ranking members Cornelius and Stella, including the order to kill her son.

Jude hints at his own mother’s identity when he first meets Stella, one of the Guardians, assassins within the cult charged with protecting the portals. Jude says to Stella that he saw her before when she knelt before his mother. That a Guardian would kneel before his mother is a clear sign of his mother’s high status within the cult.

Cornelius (Piotr Adamczyk, Hawkeye) makes two references to Jude’s mother in Night Sky, each of them confirming her role as cult leader or a similarly important figure. When he sends Stella to pursue and kill Jude, he tells her that Jude is “her” son. Since Jude has been the target of their mission, this marks his mother as a figure of significance; by his wording, it’s clear that the reason she must kill him is because of who his mother is. This is driven home by Cornelius’s second reference to Jude’s mother, spoken to Jude himself when he arrives to kill him. Jude asks if “she” knows that Cornelius is here, and Cornelius replies, “Who do you think sent me?” The implication is that Jude’s mother gave the orders to kill Jude, and if she is not the cult leader herself, she is in a position of extraordinary power.