Hallmark's The Way Home S4 E4: We've Got Tonight

Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time is diving back into the pond! Garry and Amy are recapping and reviewing Season 4, Episode 3 of The Way Home: We’ve Got Tonight. From Jacob trying to build a new life with a whiskey bar while being haunted by Thomas to Nick’s charming return to Port Haven and growing curiosity about the pond, there’s a lot to unpack. Alice travels back to 1979 and gets a revealing glimpse at Colton, Del, and Tessa before returning to the present with shocking news. Meanwhile, Kat investigates Grayson Goodwin, uncovers a mysterious handwriting connection between Tessa and the 1800s, and starts questioning whether the Herald should remain open. From reunions to new clues and revelations to more questions than answers, this episode is absolutely jam-packed from start to finish!

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Welcome And How To Support

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Episode Setup And Spoiler Warning

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Oh, so much easier. Well, today we're going to be reviewing episode four of season four of The Way Home, titled We've Got Tonight. It originally aired on the Hallmark channel on Sunday, May 10th, 2026, and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus, along with all the other seasons and all three previous episodes of season four.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Yes, which has been really good.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

This episode was directed by Michelle Latimere and written by Jessica Runk. So let's go ahead and drop the sonats.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Alrighty. When Nick arrives back in Porthaven, Dell throws a party like old times. Alice has to keep her distance from young Colton and Dell, but tries to learn more.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Yeah, the kitchen parties were a blast back in the 70s and 80s, huh?

SPEAKER_03 2:00

I guess.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Well, this is the part of the episode where if you haven't watched a movie, we suggest you stop listening to us, go watch it. The episode, not the movie. The episode. Yes. I'm sorry. We're doing T T V series. We're doing TV series. Anyways, go watch it. Come back. Turn us back on. Let us know what you think. Shoot us an email. Give us a rating. Whatever. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

All right.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

All right. So where did we leave off?

SPEAKER_03 2:31

We left off. Let's see. Alice met Tessa. Right? Jacob is in Toronto.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

I think so, yes.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

He's not at home in Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

He's definitely not at home.

SPEAKER_03 2:43

Del's horse gets a little wonky by that particular area. I guess it's on her land, right? Where there's a big rock, where the suitcase was found, where um the path to the pond. Alice buries something too there, doesn't she?

SPEAKER_00 2:57

Yeah, she buries her time capsule.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

Her time her own time capsule. And of course, Kat was in jail. Or is in jail. She's behind bars. Kat is behind bars.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Kat is a drunk. What's going on?

SPEAKER_03 3:09

So that's that's where we are. Now we're all caught up. And go.

Jacob’s Bar And Thomas Returns

SPEAKER_00 3:13

And go. So we open up with Jacob in his new whiskey bar.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

In comes a couple, a man and a woman. And I don't know. Do you think that's Tessa? Because it kind of looks like her.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

I mean, it might look like her, but how would she have not aged?

SPEAKER_00 3:34

I just I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

Wouldn't that don't you still that that's confusing to me? It is confusing to me. You kept saying you thought that was Tessa, and I'm like, but they made a big deal about it.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Like there was some banter there. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

I agree. I agree. I think that's definitely gonna end up coming back because doesn't she say something like, maybe I'm old school? Right. Or he's or he says that, or she says that, and he said, Oh, that's right. She says she's old school because her fiance wants to order a fancy schmancy drink.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Yeah, foo foo.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

A frou-fru drink and espresso martinis, which are delicious, by the way, which we do like. But and Jacob is like, you know, this is a whiskey bar, we don't serve that kind of schmancy stuff here.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Yeah, we're old fashioned.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

Yeah, so they talk about being old school, and then when she's leaving, she says, Wish me luck. And I think you immediately said that's gonna come back. She she's gonna say it, and somehow he's gonna know it's her in some scene and some scenario, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:37

I think so. I think so. But then we get something surprising because Jacob turns around once they leave, and poof, in the mirror is Thomas from 18 whatever, you know.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

18 or whatever, 1880. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Which was interesting that they brought him back, and it it's it's seeming like it's his conscience, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Because he's yes, that's what I I have that in my notes. It's like his conscience, yes. Oh well, good. With samers, we're samers.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

All right, so that's that's interesting.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

Well, and and Thomas is kind of encouraging him, right? Right? I don't know exactly what he says at the beginning, but he's sort of encouraging him, and he is sort of his voice of reason, even though Jacob is kind of not listening to him.

Tessa’s Letter And Nick’s Comeback

SPEAKER_00 5:26

He is totally not listening to him, he's like, call your mom, call your sister, go back, stop running, right? So then we move on to the next scene where Elliot and Alice are talking about the bracelet.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

And Kat.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

And Kat, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

Oh no, you're talking about Elliot and Alice are talking about how Kat has time traveled and they don't know where she is.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Right.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

Right?

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Right. That's first, yeah, and um that's when Elliot shows Alice the letter, uh Tessa's letter.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

Oh, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

And then M Pop's You Know Who Boyfriend from 1976, Nick.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

Nick, Nick, was it 76? I don't know what year it was. Whatever year it was.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

When they were in when they were all in high school.

SPEAKER_03 6:17

Yeah, I love his character, and his character is really funny in this one.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

It is really funny.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

I don't remember him being so funny, but it's been a little bit since we've seen the other seasons.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

So yeah. Well, he was never like a jerk or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Oh, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

But they really made him kind of funny in this this season.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

Yes, yes. I like him. So he's back, he's buying a house, and he's like, So, what's the latest Pond drama? You know, it was kind of funny. He's just so curious, and yeah, yeah, it could be. So I wonder if something's gonna end up happening with him. But you know, and I kind of wonder like, are they gonna make it so he and Alice can be together? You think they would do that?

SPEAKER_00 6:58

No, no, okay. I I hope to get in some realm, in some reality.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Well, you know, they keep they keep harping on like you gotta stay together. Whoever's the jumper, the other person has to stay, they have to stay together or they'll get left behind.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

Well, yeah. So yeah, that's a big theme in this episode.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

For sure.

Del Faces The Move-In Question

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Um well, I thought it was I thought it was a good scene. Then we move on to Sam and Dell. Um, Sam wants Dell to move in with him, you know, this is the next step in their relationship. And Dell's kind of like, well, you know, I want to, but I don't want to. Yeah. So I thought that was an interesting scene.

Kat’s Jail Night And Fern’s Reveal

SPEAKER_03 7:45

She's sort of like like grinning through her smile, like you know, gritting her teeth while she's smiling. She's like, that's fine. I totally will do that. That's totally fine. She's like, Yes, we can move in. Yeah. And then we go to we see Kat. She's in jail, right? And Cliff, it's kind of an interesting scene between her and Cliff because Cliff is kind of like, Who are you really?

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

You're not from here, you know. Of course, he's not quite on board with the time travel, but he he knows he's like, You don't sound like you're from here.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

You don't have any money.

SPEAKER_03 8:17

What you don't have any money, any ID, like what's going on, right? And then Fern shows up to bail her out of the clinker.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Kitty cat.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Kitty cat. She walks in. I just love that actress that plays her.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

I think it's just she is so good. She is so good. Yeah. So she pays the bit the bail and off they go.

SPEAKER_03 8:39

Yeah. So she gets out of she gets out of jail pretty quickly. Yeah. Well, in our time. I don't know if she spent the night there or what, but until the morning time, until Fern could come and and bail her out of jail.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

Yeah. I and then she's go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

No, I was just gonna say, and then she's I mean, we can kind of finish that out, isn't that? Then they go back, her and Fern go to the pond because she's got to get back right to jail. And we find out that I was wrong.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

In my guess from last episode. I had obviously no idea. We obviously don't get screeners, and I hadn't watched ahead.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

Because I did not believe that Fern was the one that drugged her. And as it turns out, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Well, it was because she needed to keep her safe from the Augie Boys.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Well, right. We know the reason now, but I was I was totally like, She is surprised she's that, you know, like she's been drugged, but Fern looks surprised in that scene, and I was completely wrong. Well, you know, well done.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

It was a good theory though. I mean, I would have, if I would have noticed it, because you're the one that showed it to me, I would have said the same thing. Actually, I did say the same thing. I was like, Oh, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

Proving, proving once again that I have absolutely no clue, but and cannot predict a thing. But it's per huge for me with mysteries.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Yeah, because Kate was also meh wanting to know, or Kat, I keep saying Kate. Kat also wants to know where she got that song from Tainted Love.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Oh, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Because she's like, There's no way. It's like, what'd she say, 60 years? That song hasn't been written yet. It's gonna be another 60 years before it is, and and uh Fern is like, well, you know, I heard it somewhere. Maybe, maybe you guys got it from us.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Yeah, Fern Fern says something about how they're deflecting. No, but it is kind of good because I now so do you believe Fern? Do you think she she knew the song? Well, she and Fern is kind of like she basically says, I'll bet your version's just a cover, you know, from the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Like it's that'd be funny if it was that in the in the TV series, that'd be funny. Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 10:49

No, so do we believe do we believe Fern that no she's known that song for ages? But actually, well, if if Tessa had time traveled, I know. Because when Tessa when does Tessa time travel, actually? She doesn't she doesn't time travel till the 80s, right? Right. Because it's 76 when she sees Fern or 78 or whenever it is in that in this episode, which I know we have it somewhere. 76? Is that right? But we know that Tessa doesn't time travel until the 80s, so and then we we do find out in this episode, this is spoiler alert, that she did know Fern as a baby, so maybe Tessa sang it to her.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

I'm beginning to believe that's it.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

When Fern was a baby, maybe that was one song that Tessa remembered, and but you just she would have all her memories from the present day, but she was the nanny, yeah. So maybe she maybe she was, and she sang it as a lullaby. Maybe she did. Okay, and that's why that's why Fern said, I've known it for ages, like I feel like I've known it forever. Yeah, I just put that together just now. Let that one be incorrect. Yes.

Julian Arrives With Snapdragon Energy

SPEAKER_00 12:03

So then she jumps in the pond and we move on to Nick, Elliot, Alice, Dell, and Sam. So uh I think Alice, Nick, and Elliot are walking up to Del's house where Sam and Del were standing outside, and they're talking, they're talking about the time jump with Tessa. And here's where Nick's kind of funny. He's like, Well, if she's back in that time, that means she's probably dead. She probably died there. And Elliot's like, well, let's not go there.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

Let's squash the dead mom talking.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

And then that's when we see a new character.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

A new character drives on us.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Canadian theater actor comes in. He's coming into the picture, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:48

And he is instantly flirty with Del.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Oh, and Del's kind of liking it.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Well, she's kind of enjoying the attention. Kind of enjoying it. Sam's like, hello.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

She seems cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Hey. Remember me.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

But Sam's kind of like all nonchalant about it, too. He's like, eh, I trust her, maybe. I don't know. That's that's the kind of attitude he seemed to be.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

He doesn't get upset. He doesn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Yeah. And one of the interesting things in this one is Julian kind of is looking off in the distance and Dell's like, what? And he says, Snapdragons, and she's like, What? Like she was taken aback. And he said, My mom planted them all over our farm. So I'm wondering if that's that's gonna play into it.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

Is there some connection to Snapdragons and that farm? I don't know. You think that particular farm or just in general that's gonna come back? The Snapdragons.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

I think everything is a clue. We should have researched Snapdragons.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

There's probably I I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

Everything is a clue.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

So man. And then of course we um the oh, we forgot to mention when Kat before she jumps, she tells Fern that Grayson Goodwin is working with the Augie Boys, and Fern doesn't want to believe it.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

In that moment, Fern, you know, Fern is is adamant that that's probably not true, or that's not true.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

He's got all the money. It's not true. Yeah. How do you think he has all that money? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

And then we kind of we kind of go, you know, this really goes back and forth a lot in this episode, too. So then we see Jacob again and he's in the alley and he sees and hears Thomas again. And you know, Thomas is basically like you're you're hiding. You're not, you know, you're not starting a new life, you're hiding from your old one.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

You know, you're running from that's pretty much what Elliot ends up telling him.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Yeah, that's true. So much true. So, so much true. And then we get um they're all back in the house, Del, Nick, the whole crew, Julian and all of them. And they're talking, and it was funny because Julian said when was talking to Alice and says, Oh, that's interesting. Nick had a girlfriend or liked a girl.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

No, he says his first love.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

His first love was name Alice, and yeah, and Nick kind of chokes or gets ready to spit out whatever he was drinking, and they they kind of like you know, like he is he's another one, he's so good in this episode.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

I just and he's not in the whole thing, but he's in it enough, yeah, where he's like sprinkled throughout. He's he's really good in this episode. I really like him.

Bullet Casing Clue Points To Grayson

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Right. And then we get um uh Kat walks in, and everybody's like, Oh my god, where have you been? You know, she's all like, Yeah, I'm good, I'm back. And they go up in the room, her, Elliot, and Alice, and she tells them what had what happened. And she noticed something. The the casing, the bullet casing had uh, what was that, a crown, an emblem on it?

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Like the family crest or something.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

And it was the same image that was on Grayson's uh gun handle in the book that she was reading. So they found that out. So, hmm, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

So there's a connection with Grayson and potentially his gun. We don't know that it was him, but it was related to him somehow, that bullet casing that was found in the tunnel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

So who was he shooting at?

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Which we kind of suspected anyway. I mean, it's in the house he was right, remodeling, and yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

And it looked more modern than it did back in the old times. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

What the bullet itself?

SPEAKER_00 16:40

Yeah, the bullet casing itself.

SPEAKER_03 16:42

Oh, okay, okay.

unknown 16:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

All right. So then then we get uh Kate, Alice, and Del. They're talking Cat.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

Kitty Cat.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yeah, and Kitty Cat.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

It's not Kate. Cat.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

I don't know why I'm saying Kate. Yes, and they're kind of talking and having a good time. And uh Kat, Kitty Cat, um tells Del that she wants she's thinking about closing the paper because she's just not interested in it anymore. And I think it's because when she met Fern back in the day, it was hopping, and now it's kind of like nobody comes in, there's nothing really good to write about. So she's kind of I don't know if I want to do this anymore.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

Well, I think she's just not sure. Yeah, like where she wants her life to go. What I actually love about that particular scene is that, you know, Del tells them, tells Kat and Alice, you almost have me saying Kate now, tells Kat and Alice that Sam has asked her to move in with him. And they're both like, wait, what? You know, especially Kat. She's like, let's go back to that, please. Excuse me.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Um and you know, and and Del is is sort of not feeling it. She doesn't know if she wants to settle down, and and she's like, you know, maybe I want to travel. And Kat is sort of like, but you never do. Like you never leave the farm. And she said, you know, age doesn't determine how quiet your life is. And I was like, that is so true.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Proformed, right?

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Like everybody has a certain image of people over a certain age, and it's like, you still want to do stuff, yeah. Unless you're physically incapable, but I mean, for the most part, your brain is still working, you want to travel, and that's the time you want to do it.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

Because you've raised your kids, you know, you kick them to the curb, they're all good. But I thought I thought that that was interesting, and that's sort of where they start talking about the parties.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

And yeah, Dell tells them that the uh this their house used to be the party house back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Yeah, she said that we had the best kitchen parties, and then she said it was an East Coast thing, and I'm like, was that a thing? Did you ever hear about kitchen parties? I just I didn't know they were referred to as is that like a was that like a thing? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

We refer to them as house parties. That's all I can see. Well, yeah, back in high school, back in the 80s. So yeah. And then uh Kitty Cat, she kind of says, but I don't remember them. And Dell was like, Well, you wouldn't because you were born in 82 and we stopped them as soon as you were born.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

So so that comes into play.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

And that's a key year that comes into play a little bit later on in the episode. Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Um so then you have kind of more scenes with Nick where he's trying to find out, he wants to know what Kat found out when she was traveling. You know, they're at coils and and Alice and Nick are kind of chatting and talking about jumping and yeah, and then you know, Jacob, Kat is trying to call Jacob, but he won't pick up. I know.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Come on, man. Yeah, pick up, dude. Maybe he's got a secret. Maybe him and Tessa were a thing. Anyways, maybe I don't know. We'll move on.

The Herald Files And A Marriage Shock

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Um, and then Kat, you know, she goes to the newspaper office because they don't want her to time travel right right now because she could be in trouble because the Auggy brothers want to, you know, kill her. And um, so she they think she's in danger in that time. Yeah. So she's gonna do her own research on Grace and Goodwin. So she goes to the newspaper office to dig everything up and you know, find all the articles and everything.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Right. And uh yeah, they put her in pond out.

SPEAKER_03 20:21

Yeah, pond out. Is that what they said?

SPEAKER_00 20:25

No.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Okay, you're just saying out, pond out. I made it up. Okay, you're just making things up, and that's when she finds Grayson's marriage certificate, yeah, and we see that he did not, in fact, marry Fern.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

No, Alison or Fern, Fern, Annalise.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Right. He married Annalise.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Annalise, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

He did not marry Fern, and that surprises Kat. But I was like, why are you surprised? You warned her about him. So I'm a little confused. Exactly. Before she warned her about him, and then you're like, oh, they didn't marry. Why not? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

And you would have thought she would have said, Maybe it was because I warned her about it.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

I thought that was a little bit odd. Yeah. I think so too. She's like, she didn't marry him. I can't believe that, you know. And then they find out that Grayson had a sister that died young.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

I know.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Yeah. So I don't know how that's gonna play into everything, if it will or if it won't. And then, and that's when Kat sort of really decides she's definitely gonna close down the paper and that it's time to to do something else. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

And here's an interesting theory. What if her Grayson's sister dying had to do with the Augie boys, the Augustines? Hmm. And maybe he's you know, getting revenge.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Just putting it out there.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

It could be. I don't may I mean I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Maybe we'll find out. So then Alice, she decides she wants to jump again. But her mom can't jump, but she can't.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Right. She's like, hi.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

So she jumps back in and she shows up at Dell's and Colton's house. And she's this is funny because she's right next to the tree and people come walking up and they don't see her.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Which is so funny. But anyways, but so it's it's uh Tessa and Victor. And they're outside before they go in, and they're talking, and he decides Victor goes in, but Tessa stays back and notices Alice and they have an interesting conversation. Yes. Yes. So Tessa is like, what are you doing here? And Alice just not thinking said, I just came out. And she's like, well, let's go back in. She's like, no, but don't tell them I'm here. And she goes, You didn't just come out of the house. And she's like, Yeah, well, I know what I remember what you did. You took money out of Cole Coyle's register cash register. And she's like, Oh, you got a good remember memory. That was uh a while ago. So I don't know how where we are, maybe two years later.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

This is 70 79. We end up finding out it's 79.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

All right, so a year or two later.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

So she so they kind of make a pact and they don't say anything, and she goes on in the house.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

So Tessa goes into the house. Alice stays outside at first and kind of peeks in. And what's what I think is so great about this is, you know, she's kind of looking in on them having this kitchen party, and it's um it's uh Dell and Colton, Tessa and Victor, and there's a couple other guys there, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah, we don't know who they are, and we don't know who the yeah, friendship. They don't mention their names, so right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Yeah, and then you know, and Colton's playing the guitar and singing, and they're just kind of having a lovely time. They're having wine. Hello, you know, having wine. Cheers, and you know, Evie kind of tells tells Tessa that she's glad she's there. Yeah, and Tessa's kind of excited because she feels like she has friends for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

And in the meantime, Alice is in the house now behind the staircase. She's listening to this.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

Right, right. She can hear all the conversation, and then they go back to the present day where Dell is setting up for her party and she's putting flowers on the table. And um, the flowers are from Julian.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Ooh, the Snapdragons.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

The Snapdragons, right? And he walks in and he's like, Oh, I see you got my flowers, and you know, okay. It's a little forward, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

And you know, Dough, she was dancing around, she was all getting into it, she's having a party, Julian's calling.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Well, did you notice that song that's playing on the radio is dancing in the moonlight, and that's what Colton is singing in 1979.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

That's right. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

On the guitar. So I love how I love how this series writes that parallels the the different timelines like that. Yeah. And she's listening to it because she remembers she's reminiscing, right? And so um I I really enjoyed that. Or maybe she's playing it first, then they go to the 70s and he's playing it. I I can't remember which which came first, but right. Um, yeah, so he's so Colton is singing in the 70s and Del's listening to it on the radio. It's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Yeah, it is. And what was interesting back where Evelyn and and Colton and Del were is Evie, Evelyn gives hands Tessa or hands Del a glass of wine and notices she doesn't drink it. And she kind of has this smile like she knows that she's pregnant, but nobody knows yet because they haven't said anything.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Right.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

So that was an interesting scene too. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

And we kind of we kind of were like, hmm, clues, clues, clues here. Did she have a baby and lose it, or did she have a baby and gave it like, well, what happened to the baby? Right. Right. Because she never says either way in this episode, and then and then Tessa is walking around the house and she has found the book that records the births and deaths of the Landry's.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

Right.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

Right. And she asks Cole specifically about Jacob's entry, yes, from the 1800s. Right. And it's Cole's great-great-granddad, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Yep, great-great-grandad.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

And at that time, that's when Fern comes downstairs, Colton's grandma, and she's like, you, you know, and she's instantly like angered, upset by the sight of Tessa, and no one knows why, and neither do we yet, by the way. And she's like, put that book down, you'll never be family, you know. And Tessa's just like, What? What? Oh my gosh, okay, you know. So yeah, she's it's just it actually was a really good scene.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

I think that work because then you kind of see, but your brain is constantly like, well, Fur knows her, but she doesn't know her yet.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Right. And that's what I love about this, right?

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Yeah. So how is that? So when she jumps, she must have she doesn't jump until late. So you're trying to figure all that out in your head while watching, while taking notes for our episode. My brain can't handle this sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

Well, remember, I think it was episode two, that Fern uh, I think Kat had talked to Fern about something, and and Fern had said, Well, you haven't jumped yet to to figure to figure it out. And so now it comes back again where Tessa doesn't realize or doesn't know what Tessa or Fern is talking about because that part hasn't happened for her yet. Right. So it's so cool how they write. I don't know how they they must have a room full of sticky notes of where they're at in the top.

SPEAKER_03 27:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Gotcha man, this is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

And then in the present day, you have the the kitchen party with uh Julian and Dell, and they're kind of having not a heart to heart, but you know, he basically tells her that she's real comfortable with Sam. Right. And she's like, that's a good word for it. And I think that's when she starts to really realize that maybe she's settled a little bit and she's not really ready to move forward.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

You know, um, and Kat makes her announcement that she's closing the herald.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

And then Julian gets up and does some Shakespeare quote from The Tempest.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah, I know. I always know people remember those lines, but well, he's an actor, so I mean it's just like any other lines, but we're not Shakespeareans here, so I don't find out not as familiar with that a good piece of information on Julian because Del had said, you know, how did you know Nick come about? And he told her how was Nick born? Right. Like because he's he's his biological father, but not in the way that we think. We find out that uh a couple, Jude and Joyce, um, went to him asking asking, I guess, you know, if he would be the father of their of their child. So I guess he was a donor.

unknown 29:03

Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

And that's how he came up.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Yeah. So something, something's up, because they wouldn't just mention that out of nowhere. So take it. I think something's with up with that.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Keep a lookout for that, yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

All right, so and then we go back to the past. Fern is pacing, she's outside, she's very troubled, and she's like, the end is her beginning, the beginning is her end, the end is her, and she's very, very upset. Yeah, and Alice tries to talk to her at first, but then Del and Colton come out, and they or no, Del does it's just Del comes to the house. And tries to talk her and get her, you know, to calm down, and then Fern goes back inside, and that's when Colton comes outside and they have this moment. Alice is watching them. Yes, again, this is 1979, and that's where Alice finds out that Del is pregnant in 1979, but quickly calculates that her mom wasn't born until 82, so they don't they didn't know that Del had a miscarriage, or she had a miscarriage. Maybe had a baby that they didn't keep, or something. I don't know. I don't know. This they thought something happened, but the baby didn't. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Right.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

Maybe, maybe something's gonna come of that too.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Right. But you know, and that's that's interesting. That again, that's what I'm saying. They must have a room full of these sticky notes to keep up with all this stuff.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

So yeah.

Del And Sam Break In The Stable

SPEAKER_00 30:25

Right. Um, so then we move on to, I guess, Sam and Dell. Um, Dell is in the horse stables and she's kind of, you know, brushing the horse when when Sam walks in, and this is where, oh, poor Sam, he gets dumped.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

I know, he really does. He gets the kick to the curve in the stable.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

No pun intended, but he gets to boob.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

Yeah, but you know, I think that Dell was a little bit unfair because she's she's kind of like, you know, he he's basically like, if you need space, you need space. If you and she's upset that he's not fighting for her, but I think Sam, you know, once you get to a certain age, sometimes you're like, do what you I mean, if you want to be with me, be with me. If you don't, I mean I'm not gonna force you.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

He's like, I'm not playing these high school games. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

Yeah, that was the only part about that that I really didn't like. Like she's she's just kind of I think a little bit, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Right.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

She's irritable in that moment and he doesn't know why, and and then she's upset at him because he didn't fight for her, and he's just like, look, you know, now we still don't know what's up with him. Something's up with him, obviously. We don't know what, but I did sort of feel like, you know. Right. She was a little bit unfair to him. And then you have so then we go back to Elliot.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Right.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Right, and he has left town and no one knows where he is, and he has gone to see Jacob to try to bring Jacob back home back home.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

Because Del is really struggling with him not being there, and you know, she's already lost him once, she feels like she's losing him again, and she really wants him there, and there's this misunderstanding because Jacob thinks the family is better off without him, right? That he's too much trouble, and they don't want to be without him.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

Because they love him and they want him home.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

So yeah, but he hears them and he thinks they're having a good old time, and he just doesn't want to come back, you know, right when he had called earlier. But um, yeah, I mean, come on, man, just go back. Your mom misses you. They all miss you. Right.

Handwriting Exposes Tessa’s Timeline

SPEAKER_03 32:29

Go back, come back, come back, come back, and then you have the big reveal of the handwriting. We realize, yeah, Kat r realizes that the handwriting is very similar to the letter that Elliot's mom wrote to him.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 32:45

Because after The writing that's in the the writing that's in the family almanac book, the family almanac, the birth and death book. And she that's when they realize that she's the one who wrote Jacob's death date.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

On there, and she also wrote Fern's birth date.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Tun on there.

SPEAKER_03 33:04

Yes. Which is why I think she might have been singing Tainted Love to her. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

You are absolutely correct.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

When she was a baby, so then we find out Tessa was in fact in 1882, 1896, and 1925. Wow. But we don't know where she is now currently.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

And you can't get back without the person who jumped with you to that particular time frame, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:30

Right. So that's when they realize that which I think we had kind of assumed Griffin jumped with her, but then left and she got stuck.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

She stayed, and you can't you can't jump with someone who's not from your era and get back to your era.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:45

So if she were to jump from someone from 1882, they would probably go further back in time.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

That's why I think Jacob jumped her back to the present. And that's why she's not as old as she is. So that's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Because he would be allowed to jump her back to the future because he's originally from from that time period, from the present time, which Tessa. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

Could be could be. I mean, that's yeah, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Yeah. Well, that's my theory. I'm sticking to it.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

Yep. Yep. And then we have Nick walks in while Alice and Kat are discussing the book. And he is so funny in this moment, too. And he's like, I always walk in at the most interesting times. And Alice is like, is this just the thing you do now? You know, it's just such a good, it was so good. You know, and then um that's when we find out all the information about Tessa and the book. And and then Kat says, you know, Tessa's stuck there. I'm gonna go get her, you know. And of course, Nick's like, I want to go, me, me, me, pick me, pick me.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

Well, at first, Alice wanted to go with her, yeah. And and Kat was like, no, because of the Augie boys. And so right, because the name decides, hey, I'll be your bodyguard. I got special skills that you don't know I have, right? And I'm thinking, okay, here we go. Probably. But how giddy was he that he was.

SPEAKER_03 35:18

He was giddy. That's the word I wrote in my notes. Nip was giddy to go.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

He's like, I'm I'm going in the time machine.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

And he's like, Do I get a towel? What do I do? Do I need to change the clothes and cat's like calm down, calm down. I mean, it would be exciting but scary, but I think it would be a little bit exciting. But he is just like over the moon excited to go.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

So and then when Alice says, But if you get separated, you get stuck. And he's like, Well, I was excited until then.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Well, because she's like, Do you still want to go? And he said, Well, I'm less sure now, but yes. Because he might get stuck there. Yeah, it was pretty good. That that scene was really funny to me. I enjoyed that a lot.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Right. So, um, so what happens next? I think so.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Jacob, Jacob goes to try to convince Elliot to come back home.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

Did we already talk about that?

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Or Elliot tries to get Jacob to come back home.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Oh, sorry, yes. Elliot tries to get Jacob to come back home.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Yeah, we already talked about that. Oh, yeah, and then you get Kate, Kat, and um Nick are hand holding hand in hand, and they jump into the pond.

Nick Takes The Leap And Del Falls

SPEAKER_03 36:26

Right.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

And then we move on to where Dell is just riding horseback riding, and she's over by the rock in the path to the pond and notices somebody walking in. And we don't know. So it's either gonna be Sam, Julian, or Cole or Colton. We don't know yet.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

I don't know how it could be Colton.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

Well, he he's jumping back and forth, so we don't know.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

Well, but uh okay, yeah. I don't think it's described what I'm thinking right now because my brain is mush, but I don't know. But anyway, yeah, we don't know who it is. We just see a figure move.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Yeah, and she decides to ride her horse into the path, into the forest, and the horse is not liking that.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

Well, she thinks it's Colton, right? Doesn't she say his name?

SPEAKER_00 37:17

Yes, she thinks it's Colton, and the horse ends up throwing her and poof, she is knocked out.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

Yes, yes, and then uh you know, I think it's interesting because when Kat and um Nick jump, there's a song that starts to play, and I looked it up, and it's the song that Colton played at once, and then Alice sings it during the party. Man, that's crazy, and then it plays, and then it plays at the end, and it's a song called Song for Myra, and I really, really like that song.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 37:47

I think it must have been in it. The song is actually from 1974, it was originally released in 1974, yeah. But I was like, oh, it's such a good song, and I don't know who the artist was that was singing it on the way home. I don't think it was the original art. It sounded like a more modern right version of it, but I'm like, I need to find that. I need to find that, yeah. So that's pretty cool. So, and then she's knocked out, Dell is knocked out, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:13

Yep, and that's it. End scene.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

Well, yeah, and now we gotta find out we kind of seen previews um for uh the next episode where Del is seeing Colton. So is she knocked out and seeing him? Right, which I presume is the case. Right, you know.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

That's a good point. But you know how they they edit those uh next scenes or next episodes, right? Yeah, they make you think one day when actually it's another one.

SPEAKER_03 38:47

It's something else.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

That's a that's another good good theory there that she's just dreaming it. So we'll find out. It's coming in.

Five Jumps Rating And Farewell

SPEAKER_03 38:54

I was just trying to find the lyrics to that song, but oh well. All right. So if you had to pick a best moment, what's your best moment of this episode?

SPEAKER_00 39:04

I think my best moment was just Nick.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

About getting to jump into the pond. I just thought he was. That was a great scene.

SPEAKER_03 39:16

I I would agree with that. My favorite moment of the episode.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

It didn't look forced. He looked, he genuinely looked like he wanted to go jump, man. He was excited.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

Yeah, and we say the best moments are not necessarily the most revealing moments in the episode. It's just what we personally liked. Yeah. What about so I'm the same as you? What about character of the week?

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Oh, it's definitely Nick. 100% it was Nick.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

I'm so glad he's back.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Yeah, he's I'm glad too. Yeah, yeah, and you know what's funny is I had mentioned him before this episode.

SPEAKER_03 39:49

Yes, you did.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Like the night before, and here he is showing up.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

And he just popped right up. Look at that. It's like serendipitous, right? Serendipity happening.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

All right. So out of five jumps, how many jumps would you give this one?

SPEAKER_03 40:04

I would give this one a five. I think we're back up to five. Yeah. Last episode was a four for me. This was a really good episode. Um, you know, I I'm not even gonna guess what happens because I really don't. I I I I'm not even sure at this point. Like, you think the one girl is Tessa who walked into the bar and I'm like, she's young, how could that happen? Are they gonna throw something else in? Or was that what they were planning before they were canceled?

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Right.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

And then at what point, like I would be curious at what point did they find out and have to sort of structure the rest of the season? Because I think they were filming in the middle of filming when they found out they weren't gonna get renewed. So I would I I'm just personally curious.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

So some things might not get tied up in a nice little beautiful bowl.

SPEAKER_03 40:47

No, I think they had enough time to do what they wanted to do. Oh, okay. It kind of sounds like based on interviews I've seen. I mean, I don't know that everything gets tied up with a bow, but I think, you know, I hope we have some conclusion and maybe leaving some things open for a possible, you know, movie down the road. I would watch a movie.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

Heck yeah, an RB.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

Yeah, it would be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 41:11

So yeah, I'm gonna give it a five, two.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

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SPEAKER_00 41:17

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SPEAKER_00 41:45

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