On the Netflix series, Klaus' brush with death provides some major plot developments. He wakes up in a black-and-white country lane (the only color is in his palm tree-printed tank top) and flags down a young girl on a bike (Birva Pandya). The following dialogue implies that she may be God, although Klaus informs her that he's agnostic.
Maybe-God tells Klaus that he can't stay in the afterlife with her, because she doesn't like him "all that much" — even though she acknowledges that she probably made him (she "made everything else," so it tracks). She then tells Klaus, "He's waiting for you." Klaus thinks she means Dave (Cody Ray Thompson), the boyfriend he watched die in the Vietnam War, so he runs off to the shed she's gesturing towards.
However, the shed is actually a barbershop. Inside, Klaus' dead adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), gives him a shave and a lecture about not living up to his potential, and using drugs to dull his powers. Sir Reginald then reveals that he killed himself in order to bring the Umbrella Academy back together to stop the apocalypse. He's just about to tell Klaus something important when Klaus wakes up back on Earth.
In 2019, Sir Reginald actor Colm Feore told Pop Mythology that this was one of his favorite scenes to shoot, partly because he's a fan of Klaus actor Robert Sheehan. He wanted the shave to look convincing, so he bought a straight razor (and solicited some advice) from a local barbershop and practiced on himself at home. "Luckily, the gashes were hidden by my beard and mustache! But I was practicing to be good for Robert," he said.
