When I sat down to watch The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Episode 6 of The Way Home had me baffled and mad. Everything is a question and no, that’s not a bad thing. What it is though – it’s an interesting thing that frustrates me.
I need answers about SOMETHING.
Wanting answers and getting them with a television show – it doesn’t matter what I want and writers will give them when it’s time. It’s weird because as much as I hate that, I love that.
The Way Home is special. I say that because in the midst of all the drama and mystery, it still manages to give you a sense of belonging. It’s a show that still gives you hope.
I NEED YOU TO LET ME TAKE THIS
Kat, I was rooting for you. I was rooting for you to grow up and realize that you don’t need to own things that you didn’t do. It’s almost as if you wanna be responsible for drama. But it also feels that you are running from something, Kat. Go figure.
I do love that we picked up where we left off and didn’t just glance over Colton’s death. If he is dead. Yes, I went there. Because at this point, I do trust nothing. Who knows if someone is anywhere in time?
Del – as anyone would – needs some time. It’s a lot for Kat to spring on her – that Jacob isn’t there and Kat saying Colton’s death is her fault. If I was Del, I would have gone and checked myself in somewhere.
Alice heard what Kat said and confronted her. Alice was the one in the road and Kat didn’t tell her Mom that. She seemed to want to be punished by Del, rather than telling the whole truth.
Part of me thinks – wait – Kat is being a Mom. But, I don’t think that is it. I think that Kat really does blame herself. I just also think that if you hurt a person with a lie, that’s like death with a thousand cuts. I would want the truth first. Hurt me once with the truth.
And I think it’s that way that Kat decided to tell Del this information, as well as telling Jacob the same thing – that makes her selfish. I feel like it’s not protecting anyone. It’s how to hurt people.
A LOT HAS CHANGED
If you can’t trust the president, who can you trust, Colton says listening to the radio.
Oh, Colton, you can never trust a president. They lie. All politicians lie. But to be that young and naive. I can appreciate that.
He’s at Evelyn’s when Alice shows up. Alice needed an escape from her Port Haven to the Port Haven of the 70’s. It’s just that when she returns, Evelyn thinks that she has figured out who the woman in the photo is.
Alice knows that it is her Mom, but Evelyn remembers the lady as the person who saved her and Colton when they were kids. The white witch.
It’s crazy to think about all that Kat has changed throughout time. It’s crazy to think that she has such a big part of all of Port Havens beginning and that Alice has such a big part in all these peoples lives.
Colton is doing whatever he can to get out of there and go to see Del. When he and Alice leave, I smiled. I smiled because I thought that Colton knew who Alice was. I believe that there is something about Alice that seems familiar and that he is trying to not show it.
Colton wants to just get to Del right now and spend as much time with her as he can before she has to leave. You can see that Colton is having a hard time with her having to leave.
THE POND IS BROKEN
Alice being back heads to talk to her Mom. Kat and Del need to make up. However, Kat doesn’t know how to deal with Del and what was told. She doesn’t know how to deal with her Mom taking the blame when the blame was theirs to share.
Nick enters and Alice leaves. I have to admit, that even though the two may have gotten their stuff together and worked everything out – it’s still weird. I loved young Nick and Alice together, but this is just a reminder that time does change everything. If it was a different time and a different moment – and they were the same age – Alice and Nick would have been great together.
Kat is determined that the way to fix things with her Mom is to bring Jacob back, so she heads off to the pond.
The thing is though, that pond only allows you to do what it needs you to do. You can go in it, but it doesn’t mean that it will take you anywhere. Sometimes what needs to be done is in the present time you are in.
What does happen when it comes to Kat and Del though, it’s Alice not being able to handle not taking her share of the blame. She doesn’t want her Mom to live with this guilt, because she has it too.
I mean it happens later, but Alice does come clean. Her telling Del the truth – Alice knew what she’d be sacrificing but was willing to do it. She wanted her family to get along. She wanted to make sense of a situation.
And she wanted them all to understand the truth. Landry women are stubborn like that.
YOU NEED TO GO…
My favorite Landry family member is Elijah. Yes, we don’t know a lot about him, but what we do know – I do love him. I think that the man has a heart of gold. if that is going to change, I don’t want to be around for that. Elijah is a good man.
He wants Jacob to head back to 2025. Sending him back isn’t because Elijah doesn’t want him around. It’s because he wants to make sure he’s safe.
I am actually mad at Jacob. I think that the way he talks about Kat is unfair. Kat didn’t explain everything and some things do need explaining. This needs explaining. Should we blame Jacob for when he was a kid and disappearing which started this road?
When you watch this show it is hard to understand sometimes why it is hard to explain things. Everyone has an opinion, but more than that everyone is always moving time all the time.
I also understand that Jacob doesn’t know how to deal with all of the emotions that he has and he doesn’t know how to balance out all of his feelings.
That being said, I don’t think that it’s fair that he doesn’t take responsibility for his part. He is just living in the hate and I think also – that it is normal because none of us like to face our emotions.
SUSANNAH AND THOMAS FOR THE WIN
When Cyrus’ henchmen came to get Jacob, I was scared for Jacob. With Kat not around, was Cyrus going to come for Jacob?
Turns out that it was Susannah who summoned him. She wanted Jacob to go back to Kat. She knows that if Kat was keeping a secret, she was carrying it for the sake of others around her. Sometimes things worked that way – you didn’t know the whole story.
And you should have never forced your sister to leave.
Enter Cyrus, with his bad hair and sideburns. He was there to escort Thomas and Jacob out. Why can’t someone put Cyrus in his place? Why is he always the person able to do that? There has to be some reason that Cyrus is feared so much, but I don’t know it. I guess it’s just the money that buys the intimidation.
Thomas tells Jacob he needs to go back. Somehow he’s convinced to do just that and have to admit I was excited about that. Jacob needs to go home.
LINGERMORE
You will never be able to convince me that Max and Alice aren’t going to get together. Max may not like her right now, but she doesn’t like him either, so it works. It’s just Max is a new kid and I would hope that Alice gives him the same patience and support she got.
After all, she was new once too.
When arriving at Lingermore, Alice and Max immediately become passive-aggressive with each other. Max has walls up and Alice just has a lot of distrust – immediately.
But he doesn’t seem to get that he doesn’t have to have all these walls up. He’s suspicious of Alice and her family – which is whatever. It’s that whole walls-up thing that makes me dislike Max but also be intrigued by him.
I don’t think for a second that he’s a nice guy, but it doesn’t mean he won’t eventually be. It’s just how he treats Alice when she mentions Evelyn that makes me take a second look and wanna be like, “Ewww.”
Cause he was ewww.
KARAOKE CURES ALL?
Nick is an interesting character. He goes to Alice to have a karaoke night, because apparently it cures everything.
As a person who has never heard that at all nor would believe it, I call bull****. But what do I know? H*** even Sam wants to take Del to karaoke night.
As much as I love The Way Home, it’s always the last twenty minutes of any episode that moves so fast, that I become afraid to blink. This entire town is against each other at every turn and I was hoping that Nick could be right here. Only in the long run, he wasn’t right.
You see, Nick picked the worst song for Kat and Elliott to sing. Though, that was a bad idea because it’s all sorts of grim. Though hey, Kat and Elliott’s singing was so good. Those two can belt a melody.
It’s when Del walks in and ignores Sam that a part of me swallows air and buckles in. Things were about to get complicated. You see during this song, Kat and Elliott knew that something was happening and it was the beginning of the end. Maybe it’s not forever.
But it is for right now.
Kat went straight into her mom’s arms. They were able to reconnect. It’s not even that they needed comfort, but what these two needed each other. Everything is about to get more complicated.
And they will talk things out. They know that family is important. There is also just this moment where they can see that Del is in shock. She’d lost a lot in a matter of moments.
I could take a breath though when Jacob walked in the door. Del had something back.
KISSED HER BACK
Elliott is going to have to come clean about the kiss with Emma. It is his coming clean though that changes everything. Kat, of course, wasn’t happy and didn’t know how to react. She does know that she needs out. She needs to leave and go back to her Moms.
What happens next? They are going to have to figure that out.
Kat really loves Elliott, but she loves her family and her peace even more. I think she loves herself more. Now, breaking up isn’t an easy thing, but Kat heading home and moving back in with Del is what she needs to do.
Maybe they will work their emotions out. This is a possibility. I am happy for now that Kat is going back to her Moms. The Landry women need each other right now.
What I did love was that Alice ran into Jacob by the pond and told him the truth. She also told him that Elliott is a good person to talk to. She gave Jacob that friendship that he needed and a person who could tell him about Colton.
Jacob wants to find his footing and so for him to have a friend – well we all need a friend. So for Jacob and Elliott to have that friendship is something I look forward to seeing.
CASEY AND COLTON
Casey Goodwin! Where have you been?
Having Casey appear makes me smile because I need more proof that Alice and Max are Casey’s parents. At the restaurant, Casey may have been able to convince Kat that they weren’t a time traveler – that they were there with their parents, but I don’t believe anything that they said.
It’s the scene at the end with Casey and Alice that shows me just who Casey is. Alice runs into them and some pleasantries are exchanged, before Alice asks her about the ring she wears around her neck.
The ring that was Alice’s. And before it was Alice’s it was Kats.
Casey says it is a family heirloom and takes off running when she realizes she’s going to have to answer if it’s a Goodwin family heirloom. We all know it’s a Landry family heirloom.
Casey and Alice are going to have to talk, but that’s going to be kind of hard, as they get closer to the pond and Casey goes in.
Casey is a time traveler. I knew it! Alice doesn’t follow her in. She’s stunned, though I am a little confused why she is because she thought this for a long time. I am hoping that Alice has the same thought as me – that Casey is her daughter. I believe that with all my heart.
And I will not accept any other answers to who Casey is!
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Nick hoped that Alice was okay with him being there.
- Jacob seeing the picture of Colton as a teen and telling Del that was the boy that was in 1814 – I about fell off my chair
- Also if thats the boy that went to 1814, how did Colton willingly leave Jacob in 1814. Wouldn’t grown Colton have known where to get him
- I will never get over this fact
- I am glad that Jacob realized that he did have time with his Dad
- The way that Jacob tries to justify everything – hell no. The boy needs to grow up
- That summer, Colton had to say goodbye to Del – that broke me. Especially knowing she was going to propose
- I actually feel bad for Evelyn having to take Del to the train, it had to have been awkward to drive up on
- Why did Max say that Alice did her part in the lab?
- What is the purpose of Elliott pushing Max so hard for Alice?
- Thomas trying to follow Jacob into the pond… I feel like someone should explain to Jacob how he is going to be able to travel with people
- I ship Thomas and Kat
- I also ship Kat and Susannah.
- Sam has a lot of nerve and I also think he’s the one who has been sending Del those messages
- Rita is a good bestie
- Del – “mother-son privilege” – we applaud this
- I don’t feel like we can trust Sam. Sorry not sorry!
- Sam has nerve
The Way Home airs Fridays on The Hallmark Channel.
