Hallmark's The Way Home Series Finale - S4 E10: Ahead By A Century

It’s time for one last jump into the pond. Join Garry and Amy on Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time as they recap and review the The Way Home Season 4 finale, Episode 10, Ahead By A Century.

In this full spoiler filled breakdown, they dive into every twist, reveal, and emotional payoff as the Landry family’s journey comes full circle across 1820, 1926, the 1980s, 1999, the present, and beyond. They unpack the episode’s biggest moments, including Fern’s long awaited decision to jump into the pond, Tessa and Griffen’s relationship, the mystery behind the torn photo of Tessa and Elliot, Jacob’s emotional goodbye, Evelyn’s shocking revelation, Del finally finding closure, Alice’s heartfelt farewell to Evelyn, Casey’s ring, and the perfect proposal.

As they say goodbye to one of Hallmark’s most ambitious and imaginative series, Garry and Amy reflect on the layered storytelling, intricate time travel, unforgettable characters, and a finale that delivered long-awaited answers while, in true The Way Home fashion, leaving just enough mystery to keep fans wondering.

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Transcript

Welcome, Spoilers, And Where To Watch

SPEAKER_03 0:07

Welcome to Pour the Wine, it's Rom Com Time, where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom com on the Hallmark channel. I'm Amy.

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And I'm Gary.

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Yes, it has.

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There you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

All right.

SPEAKER_03 1:01

Should we dive right in? Let's get right to it. Today we're going to be reviewing episode 10 of season four, the series finale of The Way Home, Ahead by a Century. It originally aired on the Hallmark channel on Sunday, June 21st, 2026. And all four seasons are streaming right now on Hallmark Plus. You can also find seasons one to three on Netflix. Not sure when season four is going to drop, but we will let you know if we hear anything. I don't think it has yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

I don't think so either. Yeah. This episode was written by Alexandra Clark and directed by Grant Harvey. So let's drop the synops.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Okay, the synopsis, sis. Across generations, the Landry family and loved ones face endings and new beginnings as the pond always brings surprises.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah, it did, didn't it? So this is the part of the podcast where we tell you we're going to drop spoilers. So if you haven't seen the last episode, I suggest you turn us off, go watch it, come back, let us know what you think, or just watch us and then go watch the movie and let us know what you think.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

How about that?

SPEAKER_03 2:18

Yeah.

Big Picture Thoughts On The Series

SPEAKER_03 2:19

We should, before we get into it, I think uh we should talk about the series as a whole. I mean, what did you think in general?

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Loved it. I mean I love the mystery, I love the time periods. Uh yes. I'm sad that it's ending uh because I feel like they had at least two more seasons in them with the storylines.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

Yeah, the creators wanted to go at least one more season.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

They originally had that five season.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

We could have pushed them to five uh six plan.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

I feel like the fans could have pushed them to six. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

I mean, look, think about it. You got the ninety eighties, nineties, the two thousands. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

We could have so much, so much to explore still, so much to explore. I feel like, yeah, and we we mentioned this in one of our brief video clips that we you know we we our podcast is about homework and homework adjacent maybe films sometimes if we're gonna talk about them. But um, you know, we watch all kinds of things. Yep. We watch a lot of uh of series and movies, and um, I'm you know, a bit of an entertainment buff, you know, in my life. And we just this series is just so well written.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

It is.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

And the layers of storytelling and executed. I mean, it's well written and it's extremely well executed. And I just think it's really one of the best series. And I know it's on hallmark and they can't do certain things and certain things are constrained. Compared to other things that we watched, you know. I mean, which is fine, but for that reason, I mean, it is so good. And the performances this season, I mean, give I think it's Bianca Melquir Melquire.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

She plays Fern.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Give her an Emmy. You know, she's so good in this.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

That seems like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

She is so good, and not just at the level that we always say, you know, we kind of review Hallmark movies for what they are, you know, and sometimes they really stand out, and sometimes they're Hallmark movies or series. But I mean, this, you know, her performance in this could stand up against anyone's performance outside of the Hallmark genre, I think. I believe for an Emmy.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

So you are correct.

SPEAKER_03 4:40

I don't know. I've really enjoyed it, and I too am sad that this is, you know, this is maybe it, probably. Well, it's it for ha on Hallmark anyway. We're hoping maybe Netflix picks it up. There are surveys out there, people are signing. I last I looked, they had like over 30,000 signatures. You know, I don't know. Hopefully that means something, maybe not, but you know, come on, Netflix, pick it up.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Yes, that's cool.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

One more season, one more season. And you know, yeah, so all right, all right. So let's get into it. We're gonna go chronologically again.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

All right, okay.

1926 Opens With Chaos At The Pond

SPEAKER_03 5:18

All right. So we start in 1926. Yep, it is the new year, and it opens with Kat dragging Elliot, of course, because he has been shot, and there it's a dramatic scene because he passes out in the woods. Now, you and I both believed that Elliot was gonna survive.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Yes, we did.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

We really didn't think he was gonna die, but you never know. They've thrown in some twists.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Yeah, they have.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

So, um at the time Kat is dragging Elliot, you know, he kind of passes out and she's dragging him to the to the pond. Alice at the end of last episode had jumped, right, to go help her mom. And we saw Elliot leave, or I'm sorry, Jacob leave the party in the tunnels, and he immediately left, and we assumed he was going to jump, and now we know he did because he pops up.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Yep, right.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

So he and Alice are there, and they they help Elliot get into the pond, and Elliot and Jacob jump, and then Kat and Alice jump to go back to the present, and everyone goes but Kat.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah, the pond spit her back out, didn't it?

SPEAKER_03 6:23

Yeah, the pond takes you to where you're supposed to be, right? And she screams because Elliot is near death and she has not gone with him.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

And she doesn't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_03 6:34

Right. That was a pretty good opening.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

That was intense.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

That was a pretty good opening. I think, and then that's when we saw the way home, right? When she screams, she goes, No.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

So oh, so crazy. So the next scene is with Fern. She's at the cove. Um, they're cleaning up the mess from the explosion.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Um, and Kat runs up and she's telling Fern that the pond won't let her go, and she doesn't know what happened to Elliot. And Fern is kind of she's in shock, you can tell. Yeah. And she's wondering why Cliff didn't come and kiss her at midnight like he had promised. And fortunately, Kat is able to tell her that well, the reason he didn't, he was in the tunnels with us. And she thought he had escaped, but doesn't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Kat did. Right. Assumed he made his way out. And this is where Bianca is so good in this role because she's sort of like staring off into space. You can tell she's sort of, you know, in shock. Sometimes this is when people yeah, they're in shock. They end up having a breakdown sometimes, although she doesn't, you know, to be fair, in this episode. But she is just she's so good in that scene. Oh gosh. So so good. Fern is. And then we hear the guys say, you know, oh, there's a body.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Right.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

And Kat and Kat kind of leads Fern. Like, doesn't she lead her? They turn to walk away.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Yeah, Fern says, Let's blow this joint or something to the Fern, yeah. And then they turn and leave.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

So then go ahead.

Fern’s Shock And Cliff’s Fate

SPEAKER_03 8:07

No, I was just gonna say, and then we we get a brief glimpse of the present day. Sam has shown up at the Landry farm to apologize to Dell, to be like, you know, I I I'm sorry, I knew all this time. And when they start to talk, they hear Alice and Jacob are yelling for help because they are dragging Elliot.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Oof. Oof.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

And then we go back to 1926.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yes. And Fern and Kat are back at the Landry home. Fern needs uh she reads the letter that uh Cliff left her, and that's the one that we see prior episodes with the key and the cipher and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

The key is the key.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Yeah, and Fern tells Kat she's pregnant.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Ooh, the look on for on Kat's face. And she was going to tell Cliff at midnight that story that she was pregnant, but she didn't get a chance to. And then she starts singing Beautiful Dreamer, which is also on the clock.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

It plays. And then we get a knock at the door. Elliot's great grandfather, I can't remember his name. I don't know. He comes in and tells, you know, he tells them that uh Coop is gone, the undercover cop is gone, and Percy's gone. And then Fern asks about Cliff, and he pulls the hat, Cliff's hat out from behind his back, and then Fern kind of falls to the ground before Kat catches her and starts crying.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Well, that was a very, very intense scene.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Very, very well shot, very well acted.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Ver just everything in that moment was so good. Was so good. And it's the slow motion, the music.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

And it's going back and forth with this scene in the present time with Elliot on the ground and then playing 911. So it's kind of going back and forth. It was really, really well shot.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Yes. Really intense. And just I know we watched that and we're like, we're not even like five minutes into the series finale. We're already like, oh, it was it was very, very well done.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

Right.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

And then we go back to um to 1926. Like you said, we saw a bit of the present day, right? Where Elliot is, and that's what you were saying. The music is so good there when it leaves 1926 and moves into the present day with Elliot. And then we go back to 1926, and Kat has gone to get clothes for Fern from the paper, because that's where all of Fern's

Grayson, Susanna’s Will, And A Twist

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stuff is still.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

That's where she lives.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

And Grayson is there, and he says that he wrote the New Year's Eve column, you know, with a message to the bootleggers, and that's where we learn that he's the one who actually put the coded message in there for them about the tragedy, but he doesn't mention the tragedy in the paper. And basically he's like, he promised Port Haven would stay out of scandal. I think, isn't that what he kind of said? So because he really wants his film to get made. And, you know, he says it will just say that the big fish got caught. And yeah. And you know, Grayson is just like, you know, look, I'm just trying to help. Like he really, I think he really loved Fern at one time, and and he was, you know, it I like that they didn't make him like this jealous guy, this envious guy. And right, he just knew, you know, she loves someone else. Yeah. And I and I thought that that was that was great.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

The heart's gonna love who the heart wants to love.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

That's the truth. That's the truth.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

And and I'm just glad he was a good person. I mean, he he was more or less looking out for his image, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Well, that's true. That's true. He was in the image of the town.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

And we had been saying that for a month for a minute about we think he would he's a good guy. Because he he was never at any of the bootleg runs or anything. So right, right. Then he pulls out the will, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Oh my gosh, and that will Susanna's will.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Yes, Susanna's will has made its rounds. Now we know.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

Yes. And it proves that the Landry's do own the land and the the uh the Lingomore Manor home.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

Yep. So and he says his sister found it and gave it, right? She found it and gave it to him. And he was gonna make right by Fern. He was gonna make sure that she that's also what I loved about Grayson, that he he you know, he didn't even have to tell anybody. And here he found the will, he knows what it means, he knows that the home as he knows it is not gonna be his anymore.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

And he's gonna let Fern know, and he feels like that's the least he can do.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

You know, because he used to take his sister to Landry Farm and she loved it so much, and yeah, yeah. And then we go back to um the Landry home, the Landry home.

Fern’s Confession To Cliff

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Yeah, and Fern, well, we're still there. Yeah. Fern says she wants to jump.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

For the first time, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

Yep, yeah. Um, and and then so they do jump, right? Right. It goes right into that. So Fern says I'm you know, I'm ready to jump because she never wanted to jump before. And they go to the scene that was in the last episode of Kat talking to Elliot, only Fern and Kat are watching Kat talk to Elliot.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Right, right, or Cliff.

SPEAKER_03 13:45

Or Cliff. I'm sorry, you're right. Gosh, what am I doing? I get all these names. You're right, you're right. Cliff, cliff, cliff. So it's the day before when Kat Cliff was sitting on the front porch and Kat had walked up. Right. So Kat from the next day and Fern are watching Kat from the previous day talk to Cliff.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:08

Wrap that around your head.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

And as she walks away as Kat walks away from the porch, that's when you hear the sound of a twig snapping, and she turns to Fern and Kat direction and just keeps walking.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

Right. So now we know it was Kat and Fern who made that sound.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

We we thought it was them.

SPEAKER_03 14:29

Right. So that's and then um and then Fern goes into the house. I don't does Kat go?

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

After, okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

So yeah, so Fern goes into the house, and this was probably the best scene of the show. Is when she tells um Cliff that she loves him and that sh he's gonna be a dad.

unknown 14:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

Oh my god, the look on his face and the excitement. The it was just ooh.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

Well, and you can tell on her face in that moment too. Like she's struggling with she really wants to tell him what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 15:09

To like warn him, but she also knows she can't mess with the future. You're not really supposed, you're not supposed to tell people what's gonna happen in the future. And so, but you can kind of see the struggle, and you know, and I really thought for a minute, I was like, oh, is she gonna tell him so good? You know, are we gonna find out he he got out? But and then, like you said, she just tells him that they're gonna be a family, and and he's like it Dan Jeanette is so good in that moment as Cliff, you know, he's just like overjoyed, he wants to run and get married right then, yeah. And that's the moment where I feel like she's so tempted, yes, right? And then she says, Tomorrow, you know, with like a smile, but it's like gut-wrenching for her, but she's so happy he knows, and it's just this mixture of emotions from her that I thought was so, so good.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

So good. It was a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

And then she's she's getting ready to leave and to go, I think, do her um her scene. But um, Cliff didn't want his pregnant wife to walk, so he goes upstairs, and then that's when Kat comes in and her and Fern both leave together. So I'm not sure what what uh Cliff was thinking when he came back down and no one was there.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

No one was there. Like what well I like you know, Fern also tells him, run and find me before the clock strikes twelve. Yes. She's trying to tell him without telling him.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Right. Without telling.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

And then when they leave, Fern is like, now he knows, kitty cat, you know, he knows. When he's in the tunnel, he knows. So that's like, oh god. Oh, so yeah, so then Kat is making tea and she has like a vision of Elliot. She's still in 1926, but she kind of sees Elliot sitting there. And you know, she has no idea if he's dead or alive. And Fern is now comforting her, you know, because now they're back in the in the 1926 present where they know Cliff or are pretty sure Cliff has not survived, right? So and then Kat is like, what if Elliot's gone? And I'm like, I know you're worried, but you know, here poor Fern is comforting you.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

What does she say as she walks up with the bottle of whiskey? Misery loves company.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

Misery loves company, yeah. Well, and then Fern says, you know, the pond showed me how wonderful it can be, and maybe it's gonna do the same thing for you.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Yeah, which is really kind of blaming the pawn for everything. So and then Fern tells her about the one, the person who's who came into what was the 1800s, 1700s, and saved the Landry's back when?

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Saved their farm and their house. And um, so we that was a pretty interesting thing. And she was she was wondering, you know, why shrew up thinking she was gonna be the one, but she wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 18:08

Oh, Fern grew up thinking she was gonna be the one that went back. Oh I think I missed that. Okay. Okay, right, because she she says her great grandfather told the story of when he was a little boy, someone from the future fell back in time and saved them.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

Right. And then Kat tells her about Alice.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Yes, and that was so cute. She goes, You're a you're a mama kitty cat.

SPEAKER_03 18:34

Yeah. And then she says, Alice is Alice in Wonderland. Doesn't she say Alice in Wonderland? And then she says, I could be her Cheshire cat, right? Or something like that. I'm like, oh, it's so good. The 1926 scenes were so well written, man. Oof. All right.

Elliot Survives And The Pond’s Price

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Then we get a glimpse of the present day, and Dell tells Alice and Jacob that Elliot is going to be okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Like they're I don't are they at the Landry Farm or are they at the hospital? I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

They're at the farm. They're at the farm. They're in the kitchen when Del walks in.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Of course, the kitchen. The infamous kitchen, right? Where everything happens. And then we go back to 1926 and Grayson is showing Fern the will.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

And Fern is like, is that why you wanted to marry me? And he's like, No, I loved you. And then Grayson, you know, offers to marry her because he knows in those days, if you're, you know, an unmarried woman having a child.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Right. You're looked upon your frown.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

You're looked, yeah, yeah. There's a certain perception of you at that moment. And he's basically like, I'll say the child's mine. You know, he's he's trying to, he's really trying to help her.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

And Fern, now we find out why they don't know about the will. It was actually Fern. She tells him to burn the will because the only place for a Landry is on that farm. And she does not want anything to do with Lingamore. And you know, you really see that Grayson is a good man, and Fern is the reason they don't know about Susanna's will. It was actually a Landry that put the kibosh on that.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

I thought that was interesting. That was a good little twist.

SPEAKER_03 20:16

Right. And then Fern says she'll protect Cliff, you know, and then she says, I'll wrap him around my favorite key, my sweetest note. It will always be broken like me.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

And I'm like, just stop. Well, I thought I thought this was sweet too. And this goes back to when Grayson is walking out of the house. Uh Fern had told him, you know, you he will find the kind of love that she had. And he said they will not compare.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

I know. I thought that was like he really loved her. So sweet. I'm glad Grayson was a good guy. I'm just glad in the end he was a good guy. Yeah. I mean, maybe that was wasn't the plan, but if it wasn't, it worked out well.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

It worked out great. So yeah, so then Fern tells Kat that she will keep Cliff alive. She will keep him backstage, she says.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

She will yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

And then she will wrap the note around her favorite key, which is pretty good because that throughout the whole episode, that key was playing in the background.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

Was it really? Yeah, I was like, that particular key, huh? It's interesting. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Which I thought.

SPEAKER_03 21:24

You catch those, yeah. All these little nuggets throughout an episode, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Yeah. Good grief.

1980s Tessa’s Secret And The Suitcase

SPEAKER_00 21:31

And then we get Alice jumps in the pond again.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Again.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

Ends up in the 80s when Tessa was burying her suitcase. So now we get that scene finally. Yes. And that's go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

No, I was just gonna say that's when Tessa's kind of like ask Alice where she's coming from, and Alice says the same place you're headed, the pond. I thought that that was so well done. I thought that was so good between the two of them. Right. Because Tessa's always Kind of suspected but not known. Right. For sure. She's thought something was up. And then it goes back to the present day, and Del and Jacob are having, you know, kind of a heart to heart in the stables. And Jacob is really upset with the pond, you know, because he's like, if it weren't for the pond, he wouldn't have disappeared. The families wouldn't hate each other. And he really wants to jump to go get to Kat.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

Right.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

Right. And then kind of be done with it, right? Or something like that. Is that when is that when Dell says, I wish you'd all be done with it?

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Yes, she does. But then she gives him a little lecture about, you know, if you want something, you gotta fight for it. You can't just, you know, expect it to come to you. You gotta fight for it. And you're blaming the pond, but some of this might be on you.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

You are a grown man with decisions you're making.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Yes, yes. So then we get Tessa and Alice again. And Alice asks, this is when she asks why she's leaving, and Tessa is afraid she's going to hurt Elliot. So there's that, you know, that postpartum thing again where she doesn't feel like she's a a good mother, and just because of a couple of things that happened prior, you know, to her wanting to jump. And she thinks the best way to save Elliot is to leave him in the in the in the 80s or yeah, in the 80s.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

By the pond. Yeah. And she kind of asks uh Alice, is he there long? So you can tell she loves him because she doesn't want him to be left at the pond for a long time. Which he's not really, because that's when they come along and find him.

SPEAKER_03 23:36

That's when they come and find him and take him to the land. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

And it's it's so good because it's just an you know a continuation of the you know postpartum depression where she she loves him and she doesn't want to hurt him, and she feels like the best thing for him is for her to be out of his life.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

And Griffin has told Tessa about this magical place, right? Where he jumps into the pond. And so she's basically like, That's where I want to go.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Right.

SPEAKER_03 24:02

You know, as long as as long as it keeps Elliot safe, that's where she wants to go.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

And I and I thought that was interesting too, because Alice said, Are you and Griffin a thing? And she said, No, he's just my way out of here.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

And sh Alice kept trying, Well, what if you can't come back? And she's uh and Tessa's like, well, that'll be okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

You know, as long as as Elliot is fine, that'll be okay. And then that's when Tessa pulls that picture out.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

Now we got the picture again. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

And now you know who tore it, which was Tessa. She tears out Alice and says, Yeah, I'll keep your secret forever, and you'll keep my secret forever.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

That is so cool, man.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

I know the way the story came around. They really did, you know, in this episode, they really did uh and I almost feel you know, they really did reveal a lot. We got a lot of things solved, resolved, things that have been lingering.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

And, you know, it kind of sucks in a way because you know they probably wanted to draw out a lot of those storylines still. Like, were we gonna find all this out anyway in season four? If they got to go to season five, or maybe it would have been drawn out, which would have been lovely. But, you know, they did do a great job at um closing some questions. Right. Some questions still remain, of course, but um, yeah. So then we go back to present day. Del and Elliot are at um, is it Del and Elliot?

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Yeah, it's Elliot's house.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

Yes, Del and Elliot are at Elliot's house. And Elliot is upset because he thinks he believes he has led his mom to her death.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Right. And it's his fault. Why do I have to go find her? You know, and Del's like, you know, things happened because of her, because of her choices, you know. We always wish for more time. And then Jacob has jumped.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Right. But Del tells Elliot that wasn't it worth having that moment much with her, even though you're blaming yourself or and the pawn. But the pond gave you that brief moment that you would have never had. So at least you had that. But yes, Jacob now jumps back.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

And now Jacob jumps back.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Ooh, man.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

So now this is where it's really good because I was not expecting

1820 Jacob Finds Closure With Elijah

SPEAKER_03 26:23

this. Nope. This I was not expecting, and I don't think it was in the preview. So we go to 1820.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

The 1820.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

And Jacob sees Thomas.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

That's right. February of 1820. Jacob sees Thomas and Susanna outside of that's the Landry house, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

And Elijah comes out of the house, and it's just such a cool moment. And I just Thomas is so good in that his banter, you know. I love that they have him be kind of witty and funny.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

You know, and then um Jacob and Elijah have dinner, just the two of them.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

And Jacob tells Elijah the same thing. Kind of he was he was telling Del that he feels trapped. He feels he hates the pond.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

And Elijah's like, you know, the pond is not his your prison. Right. Yeah, it's not your cage, it's not your prison. It's it's you. You know, you're like when your yeah, you have your family everywhere for all time. And I thought that was so good too.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

And it's just what you know, Jacob needed to hear, even though he'd heard it from Dell, you know, you gotta hear it from someone else. But no, it was it was really good. I I was so glad that they went back to that time period. I thought that was great. And I wasn't expecting it.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

So nope, it was a great little nugget. And so then we go back to 84. Griffin is putting the infamous letter that uh he wants people to think it was Tessa that wrote it, saying that you know she's not gonna make it. And he also gives back the ring that's for Elliot that Tessa gives him to give to to give to Elliot. And Alice asks if he what he was doing there, and that's what he was doing. He was putting that back because the pond wouldn't let him go back to get him.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

Right. He's yeah, doesn't he say he tried?

SPEAKER_00 28:18

He tried and tried and tried, and the pond just wasn't about one gonna have it. So he tells her, um, you know, he he had been trying for weeks, and that Fern had given him the ring before he left to give to Elliot.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

Fern or Tessa?

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Tessa.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Tesla had given him the ring, right? I know, I know.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Tesla, yes. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

Right, and that was 84. 84 and then um we go back to 1820, yeah, and uh Thomas is like, what's this talk of courting to to Elliot? I thought it was so cute. And Susanna, Susanna's really actually happy that Jacob is dating a good one because she feels like that the feud is over. She's like, Oh, good. You mean in the future we're not always fighting, yeah fighting each other. The families aren't always fighting each other. And you know, Jacob thanks Susanna for taking such good care of his family, and then he tells Thomas that he's grateful to him too for his friendship and sage advice, and you know, and and Thomas is like, you know, I've had dreams of you and Catherine too, because I think Jacob mentioned something about having a dream, he's been dreaming about Thomas. And Thomas says, I've had dreams about you and Catherine too. Well, mostly Catherine. And then he says, In your time sitting together on the porch, sun setting on our blue house.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

And Jacob's like, he starts to walk away, and then he's like, I never told you our house was blue.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

No.

SPEAKER_03 29:59

So and then Thomas says, What does he say? The universe works in mysterious ways.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

As I say, the universe works in mysterious ways.

SPEAKER_03 30:08

So how does Thomas know it's blue? Is the million dollar questions.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

Questions, questions.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

Maybe, maybe when they dream they do cross planes or or time periods and connect with that person in that time.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

But yeah, I mean, mm.

SPEAKER_03 30:28

But I'm Well, that's a good point though, because he's like, I never told you our house was blue, but maybe because you can't travel into the future.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

Right.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

Right. But so is Thomas someone from the future that has traveled back.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

And got stuck. But or decided to stay because he didn't want to go back.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

And then jumped and only got as far as 1820.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I thought there was one episode that he did jump, but I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

And got to the future?

SPEAKER_00 30:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

Well, we haven't watched those seasons in a while. And so because I think I think Kat saw him, but maybe it was I I don't know. I don't even want to guess because I'd have to rewatch whatever season that was.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

Well, Tandy Ponders out there. No. Yeah. Leave his comment. Leave his comment.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

So how how does he know it's blue? Okay. So then we get back to present day, and Jacob is looking at the Landry book and just the transition from that from him being in the 1800s to now he's looking at the book and he looks at the date of death of Elijah, and it was probably right around the time that he was there, right after. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Yeah.

Truces, The Film’s Chain, And Family Healing

SPEAKER_03 31:35

You know, and he's and he's kind of smiling because he's just appreciating, I think, the fact that the pawn did take him there. So he could have that sort of closure, that last moment with Jacob. And then Abby walks in and Jacob apologizes to her. And he's just like he's so grateful that she's there. And she asks him about the will. And you know, he says he's done being angry, finally, and he won't take her for granted. And he asks her to stay, and they do a little smoochy smoochy, kissy, kissy, and there's dramatic music. And then she asks about the book.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Yes. And then we cut to the 20s again.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Bern and Kat are walking up to the pond. Bern tells Kat, you know, she'll be strong here, and she'll be strong there. Because she's still not sure. Uh a cat's still not sure what she's gonna jump into.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Um, and uh she said, I'll see you in my dreams. And then she walks away and she starts singing that that song that song jumps into the pond.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

Well, she says, Fern also says the only way out is through.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

And I thought that that was really good too, because that is so true. Sometimes that's the only thing you can do. You just gotta get through it. You gotta do it and get through it. And then Fern says she wants to meet Alice, and then she says she has her kitty cat, and then she says I'll be her chess irreat. Oh, maybe this is where she says I'll be her chess ir cat. Okay, she doesn't say it earlier. Yeah, yeah. Oh that was uh just another great 20 scene that I want more of, you know.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

And then and then we get Alice gets uh ready to jump when Fern in 1984 walks up and asks, jumping down the rabbit hole, Alice. And Alice turns to talk to Fern, and this is where you find out that Fern knew all along about Alice. So oh, such a good scene.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

It really, really was.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

I thought it was interesting because Alice had said something. Um, what was it? She knows Alice and Kat are not the one, but they are heroes just the same.

SPEAKER_03 34:03

Um, and she's well Alice, Alice asked Fern why she said what she said to Tessa at the party.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Right.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Like you're gonna kill Elliot, knowing that Tessa was gonna jump. And Fern's like, it's the truth. It's you know, and then Alice says, Elliot didn't die, and Fern is kind of like, huh.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

And then that's when she tells Alice that she and her mom are heroes and says she's always known who she is. Yeah, her great-great-granddaughter, her great-great-grandda, which I thought was so cool too. And then and then she's singing, See You in My Dreams as she's walking away, just like she did when she left Kat in 1926.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Right. And Alice says something about being gone, and then Fern says, No one is really gone when it comes to the pond. Yes, I thought that was very profound because it's true. You're not dead if you jump, you might go to a period before all that happens. So you'll always be able to see them. Yep. That's crazy, man. That's some good writing right there.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

I know it's so good. It's like, is anyone ever really gone?

SPEAKER_00 35:04

Yeah. Oh my gosh. And then we're back with Elliot, right?

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

And he uh goes and moves the hands on the clock that's sitting on his fire mantle till 1111.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Fire mantle, fireplace mantle.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

I mean, fire, fireplace mantle.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

Well, Kat has walked in and they kiss, right? Because she's now back in the present day.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Right. Well, she walks in after he puts it till 1111.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

She walks in and says, 1111, make a wish.

SPEAKER_03 35:34

Oh, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

And that's when they run into each other's arm. You know what I mean? And then they kiss. Because she finds out he's alive.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

He's alive.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Yes. And then the next scene, it's Alice, Elliot, Del, Kat. Del and Kat walk into the coffee shop. Kat convinces into the coffee shop. Wait a minute. Well, hold on.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

Wait, Del, please. They're at the Landry Kitchen table.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

Yes. And well, you explain that one.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

Okay, okay. Kat has the film from Monica. Right. And Elliot mentions that he gave the film to Evelyn because like in the what 2000s? Because it was in a box of things in his basement.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

And then we learn they figure out that Tessa is doesn't Alice say Tessa took the film? Is that where she says it? Right. Yeah. Tessa took the film from Coils.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

So then how did the film so Tessa had the film at her house then?

SPEAKER_02 36:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

And then Elliot finds it much later in the 2000s and then gives it to Evelyn because she was so fond of those times and she always talked about those times.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Right. So now they've kind of figured out the um what's it the chain of command of the film.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

The chain, the chaining, yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:57

Chain of whatever. Of custody. Chain of custody of the film. Chain of command. Chain of custody.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

That's so funny. And then we get Jacob goes to Lewis's uh Goodwin's house.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Speaking of Evelyn, right? And lives.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

That's another good scene. Yes. Because this is where they bury the hatchet, and Elliot explains to Lewis that he doesn't he doesn't he loves Abby, his daughter. He wants to marry her, and he's not going to take his house from him, and he hands him the will.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

It says it's your house. It's not ours.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Which is so cool because he's like it's cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

And Abby sitting outside of the room just listening to it all and is smiling because Jacob is being such a good person.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

I know.

SPEAKER_00 37:49

And that her dad actually, you know, was like, You're right, let's call a truce. So that was a real good scene. And then you just got a picture of Cyrus up on the wall.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

Yeah, well, he was not so nice. This the old Cyrus was not a nice man.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

He was not.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

Um, but I think he says something like, Did you say this a home is not just a house, it's history, yeah, it's memories, you know, and that's just so cool because I mean you think about all the people, you know, walk them out. That's it we know, but you know people would be greedy and be like, It's mine. You know?

SPEAKER_02 38:22

Well, true.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

But then you're taking the home. I mean, that's that's their family history for all of this time. So that was and you gotta wonder why you know, you gotta think about it too. Grayson never got rid of the will.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

No.

SPEAKER_03 38:36

He kept it.

SPEAKER_01 38:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

You know, he never destroyed it, which he could have easily done, and then no one would know.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

Right? So just props to Grayson. Some more props to Grayson. He's really good as Grayson too, and I can't think of the actor's name, but yeah. He was really good.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

Yeah, he was.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

So then um so then Kat tells Alice that Fern knew about Jacob. Um, but somewhere there's a disconnect because the story never filtered down, and and Kat is really trying to figure out what happened.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Like, why wasn't she told about all this?

SPEAKER_03 39:14

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

So that was it, that was a pretty good scene too.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

And then um something about Colton also played a key role as the time travel. He visited the 1840 era and to warn the landry to plant the crops and remember that? Well, he's like, you need to plant these crops during this time.

SPEAKER_03 39:37

Yeah, that was Colton, right?

SPEAKER_00 39:39

Yeah. Is that what you said? Yeah, the crops such as potatoes and rye to help them to suff survive the um the upcoming years that follow that plague plagued that area.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

So I always thought he was the one, but that that's not true. You always thought Colton was like, Colton was the one that Fern had been talking about.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Because I couldn't remember what Colton did when he did go back, but it was explained that he he uh Well, I guess it was him that saved the family, no?

SPEAKER_02 40:14

No. No, it was Jacob.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Oh no, they were talking about Jacob. The the story that Fern got was about Jacob. Okay, okay, right. I can't keep all of it straight. I know. All right, so then let's talk about Max showing up.

SPEAKER_00 40:31

Ooh, Max.

SPEAKER_03 40:32

You want to take that?

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Max and Alice. So Max asks, who wrote this or who is the song about, right? Because Alice wrote this song and then she texted it to him. And she's like, Well, it's not about you, but it's about something that I want. And um and Max is kind of like, Well, it's not gonna be Noah, and he ends up, he leaves, which is interesting because all the things that he has done to Alice, I thought, hmm, please don't get with him. He said, I thought, but as he walks away or drives away, Alice turns to walk down the driveway, and out pops Nick from behind the boat, or he's on top of the boat.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Oh, I know. So funny.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

I can't remember what Alice says, but she says something to the she says, How do you manage to witness all of my awkward moments of my love life?

SPEAKER_03 41:24

Or something like that. And Nick is like just lucky, I guess. I love his character. He's so good, too. There are just so many the way they, you know, envelop their characters was so good. Now, Grayson was played by Gabriel Hogan.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

And Nick, I'm still Nick is Carrie James. Yeah, and they are so good in their roles in this. Yes. Sorry, but I digress.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

Yeah, because Nick tells her he hopes she finds her love in her time period. And he's like, maybe you should focus on that.

SPEAKER_03 42:00

Yes, yes. And then um, and then Alice, I guess, jumped again.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Yes, she jumped. Right again.

SPEAKER_03 42:09

She goes into the it's probably 2020 something. No, I don't know exactly.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

No, it's it's when she goes to Evelyn, so it's 2000s now.

Evelyn’s Reveal And The Spliced Film

SPEAKER_03 42:18

Well, right, 2020, but did you say uh I said 2020 something, like 2000.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

I'm sorry. For some reason I thought I heard 18 something. I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

I don't know, I don't know for sure what year. I I don't remember what year um they said Evelyn died or if they did. I just know like when the series started, right? She was already passed away or she passed away during second the season, right? Or during the second season, not the actress, but the character.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

Right.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Evelyn. Right. That's when we find out about her. But um, so Alice walks into Lingamore, and this is another scene that is just so brilliantly written done, so well executed, so well written, so well shot, so well acted. I just so Alex walks in and someone's in a wheelchair and she's in the movie room, right? And we have this this movie room has come back time and time again in different eras, right? Yeah. And someone's in a wheelchair, they're watching the coils movie, and it's Evelyn who is in her 60s. Yeah. Or whatever then, and she realizes that um Alice, she says, you know, you were Colton's granddaughter all of that time.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

And she shows, she starts to show Kat some of the memorabilia that she's that she's kept, right? She shows Kat. Oh no, it's it's a picture of Kat in the present day.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Right.

SPEAKER_03 43:44

Or that or right before she died, not present day, but close to it, right? Right. Of Kat in the paper. And sh she's like, She's my Catherine too.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Right.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

And she goes on to say that she found all of these things in her mother's things when her mother passed away in two. 2000, she found a mysterious will. And of course, that's Susanna's will. You know, a drawing of Jacob and Colton, but it's from she said like 1814.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

Something like that. Like that.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

Um, and she wanted to ask Colton about it, but Colton died before she could ask him. And she found a picture of Alice from the costume party at Lingamore in 2007, something, right? Or around 2007. And Evelyn's a little bit like, you know, the world shut me out. Like I didn't shut myself out. The world shut me out. Like everyone knew magic existed and no one told me.

SPEAKER_02 44:42

Right.

SPEAKER_03 44:42

No one told. And she was the one who like wholeheartedly believed in all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

Right. The tarot card.

SPEAKER_00 44:50

Ironics. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:51

Yeah. And so you kind of you really feel for Evelyn in that moment because, you know, if only someone had told her, it would have changed everything because she knew something was up, but no one was telling her.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

Right.

SPEAKER_03 45:04

Things were changing. People were changing. And it just, I don't know, you feel so badly for her in that. Well, I did anyway, in that moment, because she now everything has come full circle and she realizes what was going on. And and she could have participated in it, not jumped necessarily, but just been aware and you know, know knew what was going on. And and especially because she viewed Alice as her close friend.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

Right.

SPEAKER_03 45:32

You know?

SPEAKER_00 45:33

And Alice was apologizing and she said, you know what, you were there when I needed you most. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:41

And that's what matters. Yeah, she does come around and say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

And we found out she's the one that cuts them, splices them out of the um, out of the film.

SPEAKER_03 45:50

She splices the film and she says her grandfather, right?

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Taught her out.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

Her grandfather, Grayson Goodwin, taught her how to do that because he was into movies and he was into all that stuff, right?

SPEAKER_00 46:02

So And this is when she says everything counts down to something.

SPEAKER_03 46:08

Yes. We've heard that a few times.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Who else said that? Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

Uh Fern said it. Um Evelyn said it.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Alice says it to Griffin or to or to Tessa. She says it to somebody. Yes. In the in the like 79 slash 80 New Year's Eve thing, I think.

SPEAKER_01 46:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

Everything is a countdown to something. And Alice is crying and they hug and basically they're friends in any time period. Yeah. And I thought that was so good too.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

Just like Eli Elijah said.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

You have family everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

Yeah.

Del Jumps To 1999 For Colton

SPEAKER_00 46:48

So then we get um Casey walks into the Landry home and tells Del, You can't be mad at Sam. He, you know, he loves you and all this other stuff. And she's like, What? I already forgave Sam. What are you talking about? Oh, that was so funny. Because she was blaming herself because she shouldn't have said as much as she did.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:10

Um, but uh Del tells you she doesn't know why Casey jumps.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

Uh well Del says, Del says, I don't know what's holding me back.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

Right.

SPEAKER_03 47:20

Like something I'm I'm not angry with Sam. I I just I don't something's holding me back and I don't know what. And Casey's like light bulb moment.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

Yep. Let's go, girl. We got Stigiti up. And that's when she takes Del to go jump. And they end up in 1999, and Colton is walking up. So that's a famous period, right there, 1999.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

1999. Yeah. So Del Del sees Colton and he says Deli, which I thought was so cute. Oh my gosh. So so in that moment, I guess so he realizes in that moment that she has come back. Or she's time traveled. Is that well, right? Because she wouldn't be that age. Right. In that time. Okay, okay, I got it. I I was trying to reconcile that in my brain. It makes my brain hurt in a good way, the show.

unknown 48:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:17

So he sees her and he knows she has time traveled from the future, and he kind of what he tears up because he's like, I understand that um Jacob comes home.

SPEAKER_00 48:28

Right.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

Right.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

And then he wonders if he still loves him and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Remembers him, right? Or knows him. And she says, Yes, of course. And it's just, you know, this was the love of her life. You know, the one she had children with, the one she never really could not move on from in a bad way, but just it it was holding her back. It was keeping her stuck.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Right.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

You know, her love from him. And she really needed that moment of sort of like not approval.

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Right. But it was kind of approval and permission to move forward.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

Like he wants her to move forward.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Yeah, he wouldn't want her to stay stuck.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

I think that was that was a good scene.

Proposal Payoff And Love Across Timelines

SPEAKER_00 49:15

And then you get um Alice and Kat are walking out of the house, and Alice is telling her that Evelyn was the one who had spliced him out of the film. And that was so, so great of her. And Kat turns around, and down in the yard is Elliot.

SPEAKER_03 49:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

All smiles and giggles, and he's ready to do what he's ready to do.

SPEAKER_03 49:40

And he's made this cute little area with the outdoor lights and lanterns and stuff. And it looks really cute.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

It does look very good. And then that's when Alice comes back out of the house with a guitar and she sings her song.

SPEAKER_03 49:54

Her signature song. Yes. Or the one that she wrote and sent to Max. Sent to Max, yeah. It's called Almost Home.

SPEAKER_00 50:03

Something like, or I'm already home.

SPEAKER_03 50:05

Or already home. Sorry, not almost somewhere. Already already home. Yes, already home. And then Elliot, you know, basically says, you know, he learned what love is there on the Landry farm because the Landry's took him in and they helped him and protected him. And now he wants to do the same thing for her.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

And then he proposes, and the ring is Tessa's ring.

SPEAKER_00 50:28

Tessa's ring. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:29

Right. Tessa's ring. And of course she says yes. So we get the proposal. We get the yes. Alice is playing her song. And some of the words were, I traveled so far, but I was already home. Push me to be who I could be. And I just thought it's so, so good. I I mean, the writing, even of that song, because that's a new song, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

So good. So perfect for the moment. Sometimes we're always looking for something else, and it's right in front of you, right?

SPEAKER_00 50:58

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

Right at home.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

That is true. And then you get the Sam and Del are cleaning the horse stable. Del um finally sells Colton's boat to Nick.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

Yay, Nick. Is that um oh, I thought uh I thought we get one more 1999 where the song is playing You Hear Already Home, and Del is still in the scene with um Colton. Colton in their game. She says, My love, and he tells her that Alice came to see him. That's when he says Jake came home, and she tells him that their children are happy, and that's when he convinces her to be happy for him and move forward. Right. And then he asks her to dance.

SPEAKER_00 51:42

Yeah. And then they're kind of dancing too.

SPEAKER_03 51:45

While that song is going on. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 51:46

So that's another great back and forth.

SPEAKER_03 51:49

I wanted to just catch that up real quick because that's an important thing.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

Yeah, I kind of skipped it.

SPEAKER_03 51:53

Well, no, we had talked about it in the previous, we kind of lumped both of those in one. But okay, so then we go back to the present day, go on.

SPEAKER_00 51:59

And Del and Colton are, you know, she sells the boat to Nick, which Sam is like, oh, finally, you know. And um, Del tells Sam she's happy with them because she got closer with Colton. And Sam jokingly says, Casey told her a lot about the future. And Del's like, Don't you dare tell.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

Don't you tell? We told him, yeah, a lot about the future. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

I thought that was a cute little scene. Man.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

And then we have Max and Alice are talking, and Max apologizes to Alice. And Alice says that she and Noah are done. Alice admits that her song is about them. It's about him. And then he kisses her.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:43

And then Nick comes out from behind the boat. And she's like, This is getting ridiculous. I think he comes out after um Max drives away. Right. And then he says that Claire and him are going to make a lot of good memories on the boat. A regular Dell and Colton. He kind of compares him with Claire. And she's like, Am I ever going to meet Claire? And he says, I'm sure you will one day. And I'm like, Oh, is that a teaser? Because you know, all the fans are like, Is Claire Alice? Alice is Claire. No, that can't be. I mean, I hope they I don't think the writers would do that. Like, that would be oh, that would be a lot for my brain to take to take to tackle. But I just love the Nick character. And, you know, I would love to know where they were gonna go with that story, too.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:33

You know, I know they kind of want the viewers to fill in the blanks, but it's so hard, you know.

SPEAKER_02 53:37

It's very hard.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Because I'm not as creative as they are. No, not not even a quarter of its creative as well.

SPEAKER_00 53:44

So that was one thing left undone because I think when the this season first started, he said, I'll be back with with Claire. You'll be able to get Claire. But then he comes back and Claire's not there. So I think they couldn't close that particular book or chapter of the book. So maybe we will get something. Maybe Netflix will pick them up.

SPEAKER_03 54:06

So then we have Kat and

The Clock Message And Casey’s Reveal

SPEAKER_03 54:08

Elliot. They're at Elliot's house, and he realizes that Tessa hadn't bought the house yet.

SPEAKER_02 54:13

Right.

SPEAKER_03 54:14

As of New Year's Eve 1925. So she had to put the clock there afterwards. After 1926.

SPEAKER_00 54:24

The explosion.

SPEAKER_03 54:25

The explosion.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 54:27

So she put it there to tell him that she's still alive. And the inscription, what on the clock, or I don't know if it's in the note or on the clock, it says to make an end is to make a beginning.

SPEAKER_02 54:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

And they're always big on the beginning is the end, the end is the beginning. And of course, to make an end is to make a beginning is a T. S. Elliott quote. And it's, you know, the unity of the past, present, and future. And I'm like, now I really gotta think. Okay, so at the beginning, Fern when the Augustine brother comes in, he tells her that four of the five that went in came out, right? Or got out. But he doesn't say they're all dead.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Right. He said they're gone. They're gone. Which can mean anything. Anything. And apparently it means they're gone. They left. They were alive and they beat feet.

SPEAKER_03 55:19

Maybe. I don't know. The wording there, you know, it's a play on the wording. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:25

Well, we know Tessa lived because no one else put that clock in the wall.

SPEAKER_03 55:29

Right.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Except for her, which would have had to be afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

Oh boy. So then Jacob is talking to Alice, and he's wondering what kind of ring he should give to Abby. And Alice is like, here, give her this one. You know, and it's the ring.

SPEAKER_00 55:44

Yeah, they both have that flashback.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

Yeah, you talk about this part because you I think you're more familiar with so she she pulls out the ring and Elliot starts or Jacob starts.

SPEAKER_00 55:54

So when she pulls the ring out, you can see on her face she's remembering something, and so is Jacob. So when Alice first met Casey, she asked her, Where did you get that ring from that Casey was wearing on a necklace around her neck? And but you were never told. And then Jacob remembers seeing Casey for the first time and saw the ring around her neck too. And this is when he was like, Who are you? You know, how do you know our family so well? And then they both go, She's your daughter. How beautiful was that.

SPEAKER_03 56:28

He's like, Casey is his child, right?

SPEAKER_00 56:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:31

So we have more questions about Casey too. Like where time frame is. Because Casey, because Casey mentions they or them. Um Casey mentions that something they say something like before the change, before everything changes. So what is that about?

SPEAKER_02 56:56

We won't know.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

What is the everything changes part? Yeah. That's inquiring minds want to know. Netflix, looking at you again, Netflix. Yes. And if you're listening to this, you know, I'm looking at Netflix right now. Pick it up. We want a fifth season. I just want some of these answers.

SPEAKER_00 57:14

I know, right? So now we're in the future.

Wedding Visions And One Last Mystery

SPEAKER_00 57:19

Right?

SPEAKER_03 57:20

Now we're at the beginning of episode one of season four.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

Right. Where Del, Alice, and Kat were at the pond, and Kat was like, I wish he was here. So we're assuming she was talking about Golden. But Jacob and Abby are getting married in the woods. And this is a really nice scene.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 57:41

Um, and you have everybody. You have Sam, Del, Kat, Elliot, uh, Jacob, Abby, Lewis, Casey all to the side that no one can see. And I thought it was pretty interesting because it kind of reminded me of Star Wars in the Andor scene where Luke sees Obi-Wan and the ghost of all of his past. And this was the same. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:09

So that comparison, I'm sure, will work with a lot of people, but for me, it goes right over my head.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

So I just thought it was interesting that each one of the women saw their person.

SPEAKER_03 58:22

Well, and so did Jacob then.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

And so did Jacob, yes.

SPEAKER_03 58:25

So Jacob sees Elijah, Thomas, and Susanna. Kat sees Cliff and Fern. Alice sees Eli. Evelyn. Elimin. Okay. Alice sees Evelyn. And all three Landry women see Colton. Yes. Yeah. And then Casey. I'm not sure. Is Casey still there as a time jumper? Yes. Watching. Okay, okay. I wasn't sure. Okay. It's not like a vision like the other ones.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

Right.

SPEAKER_03 58:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 58:56

Yep. Kind of like Alice was when her mom or her grandmother and Colton got married.

SPEAKER_03 59:04

Oh, right. Right. She was off to the side. Right.

SPEAKER_00 59:07

Her and Kat, I think. Or maybe it was Kat got to see her mom getting married. So that was a really good scene.

SPEAKER_03 59:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 59:16

And then the final scene.

Final Jump And What We Still Need

SPEAKER_03 59:18

The final scene. Kat and Alice are at the pond's edge. Every ending is a new beginning.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

They hold hands. And they take the plunge.

SPEAKER_03 59:28

And they jump. And I saw where the the creators have said that they always knew the series would end this way. It was always going to end with Kat and Alice jumping, only this time we don't get to go with them.

SPEAKER_00 59:42

And it was a new beginning.

SPEAKER_03 59:44

Yes. And then the song that's playing during the wedding is called Somewhere Only We Know. Right. And part of the words are, This could be the end of everything, so why don't we go where only we know? And I was like, Oh, that's so good. It's so good. Well, that's all perfect. Perfection. I mean, the music everywhere, in all parts, and the songs that they chose throughout the series, so so good. I mean, oh, I'm gonna miss it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

You and I both. I mean, it was very well written, very well executed. Kudos to everybody associated with this series. Yes. I mean, music, photographies, the the just everything. Congratulations. You guys you guys deserve more.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

The way they did the underwater shots. Oh gosh. I mean, it's so so good.

Favorites, Ratings, And Farewell

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

So did you have a favorite moment in this episode?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:50

All of 'em. I the Fern scene with Cliff was my favorite.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Same.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:55

I mean, hands down for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:57

Any any scene she was in was just outstanding. Yep. Just outstanding. And um character of the week.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:08

I gotta say fern, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:10

I mean I mean, I think I think it'd be fair, you know, for me it would be just all of them just because of, you know, we saw so much resolution and it would really be the ser the the characters as a whole, right, you know, um, in this episode, because they all there are still some questions, but we got a lot of resolution and a lot of answers. And and I know, and it did feel like I know when we were watching it, it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know, and and I know they had to do that, and I know they wanted to give viewers, you know, what they wanted in terms of some answers. And, you know, like you said, we I would just love to see the 80s explored more. I'd love to see Grayson's story explored more. I'd love to see what Casey was talking about. Yes, we'd love to meet Claire. Yeah, what happens with Nick? Like, where does he get where's Griffin? Right, where is Griffin? You know, I mean, there's just there's so much more to explore, so many different eras still that could be explored. Oh um, you know, how does Fern manage with young um Colton and Griffin? No, no, not Colton and Griffin. I'm sorry, they're parents.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:26

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:27

Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:27

So Yeah, we we don't get that.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:30

Yeah. But and how does how does that person die? Her child, Fern's child, because now she's had a we know that she has a child that dies before her. You know, and um it's it's interesting, it would be interesting to see if she you know, she jumps in 1926, then further in the future does she jump, like after her child dies, does she jump so she could go? I there's just so much more story to explore. And um, I'm really hoping Netflix picks it up at least for one more season. That would be amazing. And yeah, what about you? Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:07

Um, one thing I wanted to mention is we did find out who the dark knight was. So when Tessa and Evelyn were sitting on the grass doing the tarot cards, she had told Tessa that some a tall dark knight will come into your life, and it was Griffin coming out of the water when Tessa was at the oh yes, I didn't even put that together.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:30

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:31

He was the one. So we forgot to mention it, but right than ever.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:36

No, that's all right. That's all right, that's true. That's true. I um there's just so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:42

So out of five jumps into this beautiful pond that we will no longer see, how many times will you jump?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:51

I'm jumping ten times out of five. I know the math ain't math in there. That's all right. No, it would be five. Five jumps. How about you?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:58

Me too, me too.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:59

Yeah, and the series as a whole would be five.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:02

Out of five. Totally, all the way every day. I hope that people, you know, I'm I would be curious to go back and re-watch it just to see. Right, you know, and I would encourage everybody to go watch it. Yes, start at the beginning, and then um maybe we'll get a fifth season. Maybe Netflix will pick it up for at least one season. I don't know. Like I said, there's a petition online. I can't think of the accounts that are running them right now, but um, they're trying. They're trying, they're really trying. And on my fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

unknown 1:04:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:34

All right. So is that a wrap?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:36

That's a wrap.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:37

That's a wrap for the way home, people.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:40

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:41

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SPEAKER_03 1:05:03

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SPEAKER_01 1:05:10

Cheers.