The Way Home Dives Into Colton’s Time-Traveling Past — Plus, Two Big Couple Developments
Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Way Home Season 3, Episode 8. Proceed at your own risk!
We’re nearing the end of The Way Home’s third season, so the twists and reveals are coming fast and furiously now. And if you’re feeling like you need a Carrie Mathison-style board (and possibly a Tylenol) after this Friday’s antepenultimate episode, we don’t blame you.
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Surprisingly, the hour did not follow-up on last week’s cliffhanger, in which Casey Goodwin jumped into the pond, implying that they’re a time-traveler from the future. But we did get plenty of other shocking pond action, beginning with a confused teenage Colton landing in 1814. When he stumbled onto the Landry farm with no idea of where/when he was — this must be his first time doing the time-hop — Elijah welcomed the water-logged stranger in a nice parallel to how adult Colton would one day welcome in a time-traveling Elliot.
Before Colton prepared to leave for home, he urged Jacob to plant potatoes and rye instead of his usual crop. He couldn’t explain how he knew that the wheat and corn would die, but pleaded for Jacob to trust him.
“Why do I feel we’ve met before?” Jacob asked curiously, to which Colton replied, “Because we’re cut from the same cloth.” Oh, Colton, if you only knew then how true that statement is!
And that wasn’t the only time Colton visited the past: He also showed up in 1816 as the villagers stormed the Landry farm. Cyrus riled them up to believe that the Landrys made a deal with the devil, which must be why their farm is prosperous during the cursed winter. When the townspeople set fire to the farm, Jacob ran inside to save Elijah and Susanna, but he ended up getting stuck — until Colton came to his rescue, much to Kat and Jacob’s shock and confusion.
“This is all my fault,” Colton declared before hightailing it back to the pond. He jumped in the water and surfaced back in 1974, when Alice found him coming out of the pond at the end of Episode 2. But from the frustrated way he kept going back under, it seemed like this was not when he hoped to end up. So take all those crumbs and hit the comments with your theories!
Del, meanwhile, was plagued with the question of why Colton kept the truth from her. It was Elliot, coming off his breakup with Kat, who offered Del some comfort during a heartfelt conversation: Maybe the truth is overrated, especially when unloading it on the person you love is asking them to shoulder your burden, Elliot suggested. Everybody has their reasons for keeping secrets, just as he did for decades about the pond and Alice. After that, Del confronted Colton’s “ghost” about why he didn’t have faith in her to help shoulder his burdens. She added that she has faith her girls will find the answers he can’t give her.
As for that aforementioned breakup, Kat confessed to Elliot that she and Thomas kissed. She wanted to show him the same honesty that he showed her about Emma, but Elliot wondered if she was just trying to even the score.
“Something is broken here, and I don’t know we how to fix it. And I just wish that we didn’t have to try so hard to make this work,” Kat said.
“Maybe that’s our answer then,” Elliot replied, walking away.
And Kat wasn’t the only Landry splitting up with her boyfriend: Alice also broke things off with Noah because she was too preoccupied with her possible future. Instead of living in the present moment, she couldn’t let go of the idea that Casey might be her child with Max Goodwin, who kept popping up in Alice’s world, first to study for a test, then taking over the food truck when a broken-hearted Noah left town to clear his head.
The Way Home fans, what did you think of the episode? Hit the comments!
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