After last week’s The Way Home cliffhanger, I wondered how they would pick up. I wondered how they could leave us like that and then I wondered what it is that they expected us to feel. Last week’s ending left me feeling like my heart was going to drop out of my chest and as if I couldn’t breathe.
If you recall, the redcoats rode in on their horses and arrested Jacob Landry for treason. Chaos ensued and everyone was freaking out. No one knew what was happening, because Jacob Landry was not the type to commit treason. He was the furthest thing from it.
The beauty of this show is that there are a lot of twists and turns and you’re probably never going to be able to figure out everything that is happening. But what you will be left with is a captivating storyline that will leave you begging me for more.
And that more that you’ll be begging for will definitely happen with this story. You’ll also be asking what you did that Hallmark wants to assault your emotions and leave you wishing that you were dead emotionally.
Thomas Coyle is like 1814’s s*** talking Elliot. I don’t like him and I especially don’t like him because he’s the reason that Jacob has been taken. He paid for Jacob’s return, but he made Jacob do something very specific for him. What’s that? Well, that would be having him skim off of the rum for the British soldiers.
Now we know why it was that Cyrus Goodwin had interrupted Coyle’s bonfire before and accused him of doing just that. It’s just gross. So gross. Coyle is willing to let Jacob go down for his sins. Katherine on the other hand is willing to fight the British government if she has to. She’s definitely not going to let her brother go down without a fight.
I can’t even imagine what it’s like for Kat. There’s this constant worry that she’s going to lose Jacob again and in this episode, we come to learn more about why. When Jacob was first taken, there was one call after another, all claiming to know where Jacob was or having seen Jacob. Only no one really had. We know that.
Kat and Del are both dealing with the possibility of losing Jacob for another time. Del gets a phone call, saying that they’ve found something that they believe could be Jacobs. We all know that isn’t it; that it’s not Jacob. No one can tell Del that. No one can even approach her with that. However, when you see her breaking, I have to say that Kat, Elliot, and Alice are strong for not telling her what they know.
The most painful part of this episode was seeing all of the times that Del was breaking inside. She thought that declaring Jacob dead would be the thing that helped her move on. She thought it would give her closure. Yet, is there every closure when you’re dealing with a child? I don’t think so. There is just pain and you grow around that pain. When you grow around that pain, sometimes it deflates, and what you’re left with again, is the pain that is overpowering and you can’t feel anything but just that.
Kat has returned from the past, looking through records in order to make sure that her brother hasn’t been killed. She is able to verify that and then return back to 1814. Elliot and Alice offer to step in for her so that she can journey back to find Jacob.
Jacob wasn’t even taken by the British. He was taken by Cyrus Goodwin and his men. Susanna, Katherine, and Coyle come up with an elaborate plan to get Jacob out of Goodwin’s house. No surprise that it doesn’t go as planned and Kat decides to protect Coyle and Susanna over herself.
Kat is not my favorite person, that’s a fact. But this season she’s grown on me because she’s really just wanting to find a way to make her family whole. However, the way that she’s just always sounding and feeling whiny, becomes overwhelming. Sometimes, it’s like, Kat, I know you are so strong, where did we deter from that? Now, yes, it’s gotta be a complex road of emotions, but also – get your sh** together.
Kat is strong. Look at all that she’s overcome. She’s a lot like her Mom in that way. She’s fierce and she’s not one that people should mess with. Seeing Kat with her brother and the way that she felt both fierce, strong, motherly, and invincible at the same time – that was the Kat that we wanted to see.
Back in the present day, Del gets the call that it wasn’t Jacob who was found. Alice was there for her and that was a beautiful thing. It was also heartbreaking because we know that Alice knows more. We know she wants to tell her Grandma that her Mom is doing everything that she can to bring Jacob home and he’s still out there.
Jacob is still out there.
Alice is able to handle it with such strength and grace. It’s a lot for her to handle as a child. I don’t care that she’s a teenager, she’s still a child. She is protecting her Mom and she’s protecting her Uncle. I am not sure if Jacob may know that he needs protection though.
But, I wonder, does Jacob know that he can go back and forth between times? That being said, we find out that time travel is really confusing because when Kat outruns Cyruses people and goes back, she drops the key and that’s what Jacob finds a hundred or so years later.
Kat seems to be the catalyst for everything happening, and I have to wonder why. I have to wonder why that picture of her is in Goodwin’s house. Is she Goodwin’s new woman in order to protect Jacob? I need to understand.
The Way Home airs on Sundays on Hallmark.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Knowing Kat is the White Witch and how she became that made us kinda shocked
- Del doing pottery again – love that
- Elliot is so wishy-washy that I don’t even pretend to understand him, but he does frustrate me
- Susanna was one betrothed to Cyrus? Ew.
- Are Susanna and Jacob being a marriage of convenience? Not shocked, but I wish they both had a life of love.
- Who is it that was a time traveler and was watching Colton and Jacob a few episodes back?
- Elliot and Alice putting together the paper was comical.