Leaving the field isn't just difficult; it's lethal. Anyone attempting to exit the town is killed by an "immense dimensional recoil".
While only six days have passed for Magnus, her colleague Ravi has aged significantly and is now 76 years old within the field. [S3E18] Carentan
Having been trapped for decades in "normal" time within the field, Ravi has built a life there with his wife, Anna, and assistant, Josie. Leaving the field isn't just difficult; it's lethal
The episode is often noted for its dejected, bittersweet ending as the characters deal with the fallout of a timeline that can't be perfectly "fixed". Sanctuary's awesome Normandy follow-up | CliqueClack TV Having been trapped for decades in "normal" time
Magnus, Will, Kate, and Declan must navigate the tight urban areas and old Nazi bunkers of the French town to find the source of the dilation—a cave on a coastal cliff—before they too are lost to time.
The episode returns to the site where Magnus and James originally pushed a fire elemental into the earth's core, suggesting the current anomaly is a direct consequence of those past actions.