The Way Home brings a lot of emotions out of us, but we don’t think that our excitement for time travel will ever be on the same level that Nick’s is in season four, episode five. That man is so thrilled to be traveling through time and well, we’re just impressed with ourselves if we travel out of bed and to the couch. Real life vs. television is just so different.
What may be the best description of time travel ever – Nick calling it that underwater sucky thing – means that Kat and Nick have made it to 1925. He’s very excited to be in charge of keeping Kat safe, but also to have time traveled. I guess it’s true that some people get jaded to things. Kat isn’t excited, even if Nick is.
But these two aren’t the only ones jumping this week. It turns out, Elliott and Alice are jumping to 1979 in search of Tessa. Elliott may act as though he’s okay with not finding his Mom or not knowing things but he’s not. He wants to be able to understand why his Mom left.
But to do that means that we’re spending the last season focused a lot on the Augustines and for me – I feel like there was so much Landry family to understand. But since we’re seeing the families intertwined, I guess it is both.
What I would like though is some answers to who Tessa is though.
DEL
I am so confused as to what is happening with Del. She’s been knocked out from the horse, but what does that mean? Not sure. Because I am so confused by which part was a dream and what was reality. She fell off the horse and I am wondering how hard that she hit her head. She saw Colton and went with him.
But then did she make her way back and then keep falling asleep and going back to sleep and seeing Jacob and Colton there. Does this mean that she was close to moving on into the light?
There is a part of me that thinks that Colton is still alive and he’s traveling through time. I think that she misses him and is afraid of moving forward, because moving forward would mean that she would let go.
Colton was the great love of her life. I can and do respect that. I don’t think we have to move on from one great love if we don’t want to. I think that it’s okay to stay with the love that you’ve known.
Sam pushes so hard for Del to be something that she’s not and that is hard to watch.
I think that Del has a lot of life left to live. I thin that for Alice, finding her Grandma when her Mom isn’t there and having to face it all on her own was just too much for her to bear and I can respect that fear.
It’s why I was happy when Del woke up.
ALICE BOOKS
When Kat and Nick go back, after getting the family almanac the two set out to the underground club. Against her better judgement Kat leaves Nick with the Auggie boys as a distraction. If he can keep them from going after her – it will buy her sometime to figure out what is going on and to find out as much as he can.
For Kat that means she’s going to find Fern and demand answers.
And where is the first place for her to look? Well that would be the newspaper office. They are signed to Fern from “Coop.” Now, Kat is better than all of us because catches on that is Tessa.
What confuses me is what time period Tessa is really from. Because it seems like she’s been at every turn with the Landry’s and I am not sure of what that really means.
When Grayson Goodwin comes around the corner and accuses Kat of a lot of things that we all know that she didn’t do – it’s hard to watch. Why? Because I have a hard time believing that other founding families don’t now about the pond. Kat pleads her case and he suggests the the two get to now each other better.
The two have a drink and when the phone rings, he asks her to leave. She does, but not before hearing him say that he’s taken care of Fern and instructing whomever he’s talking to to take care of someone else. Kat knows that time travel is dangerous, but it’s getting even more dangerous.
THE STILL
TBH, Kat should take lessons from Nick on how to make friends. That man can make friends with anyone. He’s made friends with the Auggie boys, which is going to help, because they like him so much that they gave him directions to the still.
The issue? Of course Kat and Nick get themselves into more trouble, ending up in jail. Kat and Cliff make a deal – she’ll help him find the still and he’ll be able to stop all the bootlegging going on. I was shocked that Cliff made the deal. I mean there was also that part about catching Greyson. That wasn’t shocking.
Even more shocked that Nick and Kat were able to find the still.
Did the Auggie boys say that they were getting things ready for Capone? That shocked me. But there is so much always happening in Port Haven that it shouldn’t have.
Quickly Kat and Nick have to make a run for it, where eventually they run into Fern. She finally admits to knowing Tessa – and from the look on Ferns face she doesn’t like Tessa at all. As much as one can’t trust Fern, I happen to now believe that Tessa is the one who made her that way.
But I can also say that Fern is going to do whatever it takes to protect Kat, which makes me believe she knows who she is.
ELLIOTT
I do respect that Elliott wants to bring his Mom home. As he goes jumping with Alice – hoping to end up in the 1920’s they are right back to 1979. The first voice they hear is Evelyn’s – she’s playing with Lewis and telling him the story of the White Witch.
And suddenly, Tessa is there and Elliott gets his first look at his Mom.
Elliott and Alice aren’t really making themselves known. But they follow the girls back to the Landry farm – where Evelyn wants to get Del for a picnic. It’s not a good time and Colton is visibly upset.
Alice overhears Del and Colton and she knows what happened. Del lost the baby.
Alice knows that her Grandmother is a strong woman, but she wants nothing more than to let her know that she doesn’t have to be strong.
ALICE AND JACOB
Alice is terrified when she gets home and her Mom isn’t there, but it’s obvious that something is wrong with Del. Alice is scared.
She’s concerned.
And she’s alone.
Last episode Elliott had gone to to Toronto to try and get Jacob to come home. Jacob was so adverse to the idea and I do kinda get it. Don’t agree with it, but I don’t think that anyone really understands Jacob.
However, Alice calls him and she’s terrified. She got his voicemail and tells him that Del needs him – but also that she’s afraid.
The vulnerability that she shows in that moment is a beautiful thing. Alice had been in 1979 and she’d seen and heard the pain that her Grandmother went through that day. She didn’t want her to always think that she always had to be strong.
The truth is as crazy as it sounds – Del has never let her guard down. I am starting to think that we don’t even know her because she’s never truly let anyone but Colton in. So as every clue comes out, I wonder if we can trust Del. Then again, maybe she’s the only person that we can trust.
Jacob shows up and he calls Del back. She returns – happy that her son is home.
We don’t have that many episodes left, which is scary. Why? Because it feels like we have no answers and if we have no answers what are we supposed to be believing in? What has happened?
Am I glad that Jacob is back? Yes. But I am also worried because he’s distracting Kat and that means we have no one to stop Elliott from the stupid choices that one would make. It’s obvious that Elliott has made one because he’s stolen Kat’s keys and is in the newspaper office looking for any clues of where his Mom could be.
