From a simmer to rapid boil, the antepenultimate episode of Hallmark’s The Way Home, “Lose Yourself”, exposes the shameful events that transpired at the Lingermore mansion almost twenty years earlier and how one frightful night still ripples and rocks everyone involved.
Later, Alligator | From the shore of Point Haven’s cove, Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) recounts the day he fell into the pond as he stares out into the ocean, eyes swollen with tears. Kat (Chyler Leigh) listens intently as her brother relays climbing out of the water after almost drowning. The forest that surrounded him then was unfamiliar and never-ending. He wandered the dense woods until Rebecca Landry found him, the woman he now refers to as “Mother”.
Jacob struggles to remember much from his life before landing in the late eighteenth century. “I don’t know what’s real anymore,” he tells Kat. Kat concludes that the trauma Jacob endured when he was ripped from his life has stripped Jacob of his memories.
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Susanna Augustine (Watson Rose) and Thomas Coyle (Chris Holden-Reid) arrive at the beach to take Jacob back to the lighthouse for hiding. Kat informs them that she must go back home as she’s been away for a few days at this point. As Jacob walks away from the shoreline, Kat brings back a goodbye phrase they often exchanged as children: “See you later, alligator.” Jacob stops in his tracks. After a lengthy pause, he turns to his sister – sadness weighing down his face. “Why didn’t you come for me sooner?” Jacob asks her.
More Than a Pipedream | Elenor Goodwin’s son makes a generous offer to Del (Andie MacDowell) to buy the Landry farm for his vineyard aspirations. Although the buy-out could easily resolve Del’s current conundrum with finding a source of income to keep the land, she can hardly fathom giving up on Colton’s (Jefferson Brown) desire to keep the property in the Landry family name and expand the land’s use for greater farming and ranching.
Sam Bishop (Rob Stewart) reads over the land proposal that Del had presented to Port Haven’s council. Del dreams to expand her program called Crops for Kindness in which students of the local high school can actively work her farmland. Crops for Kindness would thereby teach and encourage the next generation of Port Haven farmers, an important thread within the fabric of their costal town.
Finding Del’s farming program inspirational, he hands Del a signed check with the money needed to fulfill her desire to make Crops for Kindness’s growth come to fruition. Del is quick to reject his offer. Although Sam insists that he is not giving her a handout but that he wants to invest in a project that he believes in, Del firmly pushes back. Her firm rejection leads Sam to apologize for overstepping her boundaries.
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Schoolyard Scuffle | Alice (Saide Laflamme-Snow) finds herself in 2007 after being stonewalled for answers about the Lingermore antics. Now, first hand, Alice experiences the event that would cast a shadow on her mom’s generation for years to follow. The first misstep of the night was when Kat (Alex Hook) convinces Eliot (David Webster) to throw a small get-together at the Goodwin mansion. After Monica (Monique Jasmine Paul) sets the Facebook invitation to “public”, a large crowd infiltrates what was meant to be a Halloween kickback among close friends. Tensions burst the last bubble the moment Brady (Siddharth Sharma) crashes the party and demands Kat explain why she left their life in Minneapolis. Eliot tries to step in, but Brady has none of it. A schoolyard scuffle breaks out between Brady and Eliot, and the brawl ultimately lands Kat face down in the fountain with a bleeding head injury.
#Kalliot | Desperate for a night out, Nick (Kerry James) organizes Eliot (Evan Williams), Kat and Monica (Samora Smallwood) for small reunion. The childhood friends start the evening with a ghostly tour hosted by their friend Rita (Marnie McPhail) that takes them on forest trail dimly lit by handheld lanterns and concludes at the Port Haven lighthouse. Just as Kat and Eliot separate from the group and begin a heated exchange about Alice visiting Lingermore in 2007, Nick interrupts the quarrel with a suggestion that the foursome go back to Eliot’s for drinks. After all, the last time they were all in one place was… you guessed it – Lingermore, circa 2007.
What begins as a lighthearted dance party with espresso martinis, spirals into tension as Eliot’s liquid courage entices him to ask Kat about Thomas Coyle. Kat puts Eliot in his place, however, pointing out that he is never one to be transparent with her about what he wants and how he feels about her. Just as it appears the on-again-off-again couple is headed for disaster, Eliot throws hesitation out of the window and kisses Kat. The #Kalliot kiss is quickly extinguished, however, when Nick discovers Eliot’s journals detailing Alice’s time travels.
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