- Previously, on The Way Home...
(chuckles) - It's a really pretty song.
- I wrote it for this one.
- That's where my husband died, in a car accident.
- There was no other woman.
Dad spent all the money
on a private investigator.
Dad didn't have an affair, Mom.
- There was another woman.
She showed up crying to your father's funeral.
I didn't think that my heart could hurt any more,
but your father proved me wrong.
- Crazy moon tonight, eh?
(indistinct chatter)
Hey.
Be with me.
- I'm sorry. Honestly,
I don't know what I'd do without your visits.
It's so bad at home.
- Come to Minneapolis, after graduation.
- Really? Are you serious?
- Yes.
We're in love, right?
I want you, with me. Always.
(sirens wailing)
Let's get you home before curfew.
I wouldn't want to get on Del and Colton's bad side,
right before I whisk you away.
(laughs)
(radio playing)
- Jacob, maybe they found him!
El! What's going on? Is it Jake?
- I don't know. I was in the loft,
looking for the Snow Moon, and a cop just pulled up
and went inside.
- What's going on?
- I'm afraid there's been an accident.
Early this evening, we received a call that a truck
went off the road.
(muffled voice): I'm so sorry, but the driver didn't survive.
(gasping)
- Dad?
(sighs)
- Morning!
- Hey!
- What's with the bag?
- Well, I have decided that I need to take a weekend,
just go clear my head, and pull myself together a bit.
So, there is a, um, there is a spa one town over,
that I've...
What?
Look, I know that look, okay? You think that
I'm being selfish, but I'm sorry--
- No! Honestly.
I'm relieved. You and Del have been avoiding each other
for days, and I'm tired of being your go-between.
- It's complicated. Okay, some things were said
that I don't necessarily agree with, and/or accept.
- You two are way too similar.
(door opens and closes)
- What's up with the bag?
- Mom's going to the spa.
So, looks like it'll just be
us two for the weekend.
- Bye kiddo. - Bye.
- Now, wait a minute, Katherine!
- Oh, so you're talking to me now?
- You know what? Never mind.
Alice and I will have a wonderful weekend together,
won't we?
You go do your me time.
I think it'll give us all a good break.
- Yeah. And hopefully, some clarity.
(enchanting music)
- Well, hi!
Okay. I have to ask about that bag.
- Oh yes. That. Um...
I was thinking, maybe I could stay the weekend.
- Great! We're-we're actually doing this.
- Yeah, yeah we are.
Um, but maybe just like a little time travel on the side.
Even physical proof wasn't enough for Mom!
She still maintains that Dad had an affair.
You don't remember some strange woman at the funeral, do you?
- No.
But we weren't exactly aware of much that day.
If Del says she saw her... - No, no, no.
I will not accept that until I see it
with my own eyes.
I have to go back.
I don't, I don't care how many trips it takes.
We have the entire weekend.
(scoffing) I have to figure out
who Dad was, in the time that I have left with him.
Because...
we both know what's coming.
- Okay.
(birds chirping)
- You're heading out already?
- Train leaves in an hour, Dad.
Am I ever gonna get another weekend with my kid?
- I'll be here the weekend after next.
Brady is visiting me then.
- Not exactly what I meant, but... I'll take it.
- You could come ride with us to the station.
- I'd love to, it's just, I got a ton of stuff here to do.
- Bye.
Hey, kiddo!
(engine starting)
I'll miss you.
Ah, keys.
(eerie music)
(music playing softly)
- Face it, Elliot. We both know what everyone is saying
about Dad's accident.
It was a clear night, a straight road.
There was no reason for it to happen, unless...
- Kat. Stop. He wouldn't.
Ever.
- I'm leaving, El.
The University of Minnesota takes late applications.
They have a great journalism program.
- What about your mom?
- My mom doesn't see me anymore.
I'm sorry, I just...
I have to get away from here and all of the questions.
- Hope I passed. That lab was brutal.
- Um, right.
No comment.
What are you doing here?
- Del had to run some errands.
And she's my unofficial guardian
while Mom's peaced out for the weekend.
- Oh, and where is your Mom?
- She's at some spa, somewhere.
She needed a dose of chill,
and I needed a little less drama.
The last couple trips to the past have been... rough.
And it's only gonna get worse.
With Colton, I mean.
- No way to avoid it, I'm afraid.
- For the first time, it's like...
I don't want to go back.
- Not even say a proper goodbye?
- Well, I just...
I want to remember the good about Colton.
I don't want to be hunted by the bad, like Mom and Del.
- I don't think I give you enough credit.
You can be very wise when you want to be.
Just not on this lab, apparently.
(clears throat) My final two cents?
I know you don't really want to go back,
and I don't blame you.
I just wanna make sure you don't regret anything either.
Hey, kids. - Hey.
- Hey! - Haven't seen you in a while.
- Yeah.
- Babe, tell her about the gig.
- What gig? What's going on?
- You know how the new owner of the Roxy
is doing a big opening night thing?
- Uh-huh. - Well, she needed a caterer...
- So Spencer applied,
and he got it! His first solo catering job!
- That's amazing, congratulations!
You must be so happy.
- Okay, so, tell me what you're thinking about the menu!
- I don't know, we gotta plan!
(chuckling)
(engine stops)
(suspenseful music)
- Hey. Come on in.
(breathing heavily)
- Hey.
Are you coming in to join us?
Hang on a second.
We've met before.
Were you in my yard?
- Yes. I was.
I'm so sorry. I just... I got lost.
I moved nearby recently.
- We're about to start, so, come on, join us. Welcome.
Everyone, we have a new addition
to our grief support group.
Please, introduce yourself,
and maybe tell us a little bit
about why you've come to join us.
- Um... (clears throat)
My name is, uh, Rose,
and I'm here because...
I lost a loved one.
- It looked like you were having a good time with your friends
when I picked you at the Point.
I hoped I didn't take you away from them too soon.
- Oh no. It's okay.
Um, they won't miss me,
they're not really my friends, Del.
I want them to be, but I just haven't given them the chance.
My life's been somewhere else since I've been here.
Just too focused on what was,
and not what is.
If that makes sense.
- Yeah, it does.
I think we are both a bit stuck in the past.
- Yeah. You can say that.
- Hey!
I have something I want to show you.
Come with me.
- Things reminded me of John, but...
I had Carol's voice in my head:
"Take the sad and make it grateful."
- I'm so proud of you.
Does anyone else feel like sharing today?
Colton?
- Uh...
As you all know, uh...
The police called off the search for Jacob,
and, uh,
the private investigator I just hired has done the same.
Everybody's...
given up.
I don't know if I can.
I don't know if I'm strong enough.
My wife is the strong one. I mean, she's a rock,
she is...
She's my rock. And...
I don't know how to be a husband anymore.
Or a dad.
My son's gone...
and so am I.
- It may be sinkhole, but...
It sure is beautiful.
It's its own little world.
And you see that ice,
the pond is always the first place
to tell me when winter is coming.
The seasons change, whether we like it or not.
So, I say, we take a cue from mother nature,
and evolve right along with her.
- Yeah.
- Say goodbye to the past,
focus on what is.
- The pond,
it freezes over in the winter, completely?
- Usually, yeah.
(sighs)
(indistinct chatter)
- First session's always the hardest.
But you found the courage to be here, Rose,
and that's a huge first step.
This is our contact info,
and a schedule of our meetings.
And you're welcome anytime.
- Thank you, I-I really appreciate that.
- And, I should be thanking Colton,
for bringing us a... a new recruit.
- I can't take any of the credit.
Rose found her own way here.
But I could help you get back home,
and give you a drive back to Port Haven.
- That would be great!
(rock music)
- We're about at the road to my farm,
where can I drop you?
- Oh. Um, anywhere along here.
- Oh, don't be silly. I'd feel better
about taking you right to your door.
- No, no, no. It's... It's fine.
Um, you know, I'm trying to keep
this support group thing
secret from the rest of the family, yeah.
- Ah. Yeah, I know that.
Okay.
Well, if you need a ride, um, next week to the group,
you know where to find me.
I know, it may have not sounded like it today...
but it does help.
- I'm so glad.
And, uh, thank you!
- Yeah.
Oh, you're just gonna have to...
You got it.
(laughs)
- Bye!
(door closes)
(birds calls)
(sinister music)
- So, Colton wasn't having an affair,
he was secretly going to therapy.
- It's unbelievable, right?
- What's unbelievable is that you sat in
on said therapy, fully visible!
- No, Dad, he didn't recognize me, okay?
And I finally got to hear how he really felt.
I mean, he didn't feel like he could talk to me back then,
but it's like he's talking to me now.
- I think you're playing a dangerous game.
Not only in terms of the space-time continuum,
but put that aside.
Befriending your dad when you know
what's about to happen to him? - What is so wrong with me
wanting to spend as much time with him as I can,
before it happens? - Kat...
- I need to find answers.
- You got answers.
There was no affair. - I'm...
I'm talking about the accident.
- What?
- Maybe I can finally find out what happened.
- Kat... - I mean, no, listen.
I-I refuse to accept that it was intentional.
And from everything that I've heard and seen
from Dad so far...
I am more confident than ever
that those terrible rumours were wrong.
- Alice told me she's ready to say goodbye to the past.
So she'd rather remember the good than witness the bad.
- When did she tell you that?
- I'm just saying,
she's not wrong.
There's a better way to find answers
than forcing yourself to live through a family tragedy
for the second time.
There has to be.
(knocking at door)
- Alice! You're freezing.
- Where's your coat, sweetheart?
- I, um,
I wasn't thinking, sorry.
It's, it's really good to see you.
- You too. But Kat's not here this weekend,
she's up visiting Brady again.
- Why don't you go upstairs, and get a towel,
dry your hair off?
- Yeah, thanks.
(melancholic music)
(sighs)
- All dry now?
- Yeah.
If it isn't too much trouble,
do you think that we could play song you taught me?
I think I know the chords, but...
I would love a refresher.
- Oh, uh...
I haven't played that song in a while.
In fact, I haven't played...
much of anything lately.
But yeah, let's do it.
* Love your eyes, how they give me a reason *
* How they change in the light *
* Hope you know you're everything I wanted *
* In my whole life *
That's good!
* You're the reason this garden is growing *
* You keep us calm like a night *
* You shine like a passage on the water *
* In the moonlight *
* In your eyes *
* There's a horizon *
* So I can find my way back home *
* And you just know *
* When you find it *
* Then you'll never be alone **
(soft music)
(music stops)
Those words were written in a better time.
But they still hold the truth.
You, have talent, Alice.
Keep it up.
Once a singer, always a singer.
- I will.
I promise.
(crying)
I uh, I-I can't stay.
I didn't realize what time it is.
Goodbye, Colton.
- Goodbye, Alice.
- Okay, nice and tight, my darlings.
All tucked in for the winter.
(crying)
Alice?
What's wrong, honey?
What's wrong, sweetheart?
Oh!
(sobbing)
Oh, dear. What happened?
- I'm so glad you're still here.
- Oh, sweetie, of course.
- Elliot! Here for dinner?
- Hoping to get it to go, for two.
- For two, huh?
(chuckles) Well, it's about time.
Let me get you a menu.
(clears throat)
There you go.
(muffled laughter)
- A toast!
To the class of 2000.
- I cannot believe we made it, people!
- Yeah. I just wish Alice was here.
- That makes two of us.
- I still can't believe that she just
up and disappeared,
after everything.
- When do you go?
- Brady comes to pick me up this weekend.
Mom still hasn't spoken to me
since I told her I was going.
And, without Jake and my Dad,
you're the only friendly face to see me off.
Be there, El, when I leave.
- Kat, I...
I would do anything for you. Always.
- So, what'll it be?
- Yeah, actually, I will... be right back.
Hello?
Hi! Sorry.
I know it's closing time,
but can I take a really fast look in the archives?
- You're welcome to explore, but you better make it quick.
- Absolutely.
I know it's getting late.
- No, I'm leaving town.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Where you head to?
- Marrakesh.
I found an, uh, an incredible riad
in the central medina.
Yeah, it'll do me good.
I don't think I'll be missed around here much.
- I needed a girls' night, Del.
Thank you, it's perfect.
- Look, I, uh, I know I'm not very good at this.
But if you'd like to talk, I'll do the best I can.
- Yeah. Well...
I don't know. I guess...
I get why you put everything in the basement,
and why you don't talk about the past.
It's harder to face it
and say your goodbyes to it.
- You know, I think we both need to...
stop worrying so much about the past.
I mean, it is over, how scary can it be?
Let's focus on who we are now,
and I, for one, just think you are wonderful,
Alice.
I love you sweetie, I do.
I just love you.
- I love you too, Del.
Grandma?
- Oh.
Oh. (laughs)
Well, that felt good.
You have no idea
how long I've waited to hear that.
Oh!
- The pond wouldn't let me go.
I tried, all day.
But it just didn't... didn't work.
This never happened before.
- It has happened, to Alice.
It just means it wasn't the right time.
- What if it was the last time?
- We will find your answers some other way.
I promise.
- I trust you.
- Good.
- I took your hand,
the night that Dad died.
Brady, he was right there,
but I took your hand
because you were the one that I needed.
And I still do.
- I need you too.
I always have.
- I should have kept holding your hand
and just... never let go.
- Well...
you weren't thinking clearly that night.
How could you have?
I mean...
how can you even be seeing clearly now?
- You have to trust me, too.
I have never...
seen more clearly.
(soft piano music)
(tense music)
(panting)
- I was wondering if you were gonna make it.
- Really? - Sorry, you're not the only one
keeping this a secret from their family.
I want to tell them, but...
- You should.
I know that they would understand.
- Yeah.
Maybe.
Well, should we get going?
Weekly session, you need a ride.
- Yes, yes, that is definitely why I am here.
- Had that dream again, about Jacob.
I hear him crying out for me in the root cellar.
So, I race down the stairs, and the room is filling
with water. The waves are crashing against the walls,
and rising up the stairs to drown me.
And I wake up in the same damn basement.
I just wish I could wake up beside my wife again.
In our room.
I love her so much.
It's just not working.
And we're trying to protect...
our daughter from it.
And I know how...
abandoned...
and blamed she feels for what happened.
And it kills me.
God, I wish...
I wish you could all meet my daughter.
She is everything...
I wish I could be.
Everything that Del already is,
maybe more.
Rose, here, has...
has encouraged me to tell Del and Kat about our group,
and... and I think I will.
Maybe that's the way back home.
You know, just...
talking to the ones you love,
because if I could just get five more minutes with Jacob...
(crying) ...I would tell him everything.
Yeah, you know, that's all I want.
Just five more minutes.
(exhales shakily)
- I wish I could open up like you did.
- Don't feel bad.
You know, talking about this stuff, it...
Well, it takes time.
- Yeah, it does take time.
I... (clears throat)
I lost my dad
in an accident.
And, uh, I wish I knew what happened or why.
But I don't.
And suddenly, you know, this person...
that I depended on most...
was just...
gone.
It ruined my family.
Broke everybody that was left behind
into a million pieces.
- I'm so sorry to hear that.
You know, for what it's worth, I keep trying to tell myself.
This mess and loss,
God, it's a...
It's a weight,
it's a weight that we all carry.
And, uh,
it's gotta make you stronger, right?
I mean, it has to.
- Yeah.
And I think it did.
You know, it led me down a path
that gave me my greatest gift.
It's...
I...
I have a daughter.
- I'm so glad to hear it.
Remember...
our future...
is stronger than our past,
it's our legacy.
- Yeah.
(soft music)
- April, May.
Where the hell's February, Byron?
Hey!
It's nice seeing you smile like that.
- Well, to hear Dad say those words today,
it's everything that I've wanted to hear.
I just... it feels like such a relief.
- You've had some amazing extra moments.
- And to be in his truck,
it was like I was a kid again.
And he was just driving me home.
- What's that?
- The lady from the group gave me this.
- You brought that back from 2000?
I didn't even know that was possible.
Can I see that?
- Yeah, but look.
Dad went to sessions on Tuesdays,
but she also held one on Thursday night.
Dad's crash was on a Thursday night!
And-and, I know the drive home from the group,
it went right past that pole.
So, Dad was driving home from a session
the night of the crash.
So...
If the pond can take me back the way that it did,
then I could be there at the next session.
I can be in the car with him
to stop it from happening.
- No. No, Kat. Are we really back here?
Okay, okay, first of all,
when has the pond ever been that predictable?
And if it is, and you're in the car,
what if something happens to both of you?
Kat, listen to me.
What happened will always happen!
- But what if you are wrong?
- Look at Jacob.
You did research, you found him,
you brought him home, you saw him go inside.
You did everything right, and it still didn't work!
- This is different.
No, it has to be!
- I can't keep doing this, Kat.
I can't...
keep talking about the past.
I told you I needed you. I need you here, now,
in the present.
Why can't we ever be more than the past?
- Because you're the only one who knows what it felt like.
- Well, we're not those kids anymore.
I want to talk about our future.
Or even just a future.
I need to be more to you than what I was!
(knocking)
- Mom!
(door opens and closes)
You lied to me! Both of you.
And, you're going back, aren't you? You just...
You're trying to change things?
Why are you helping her? We both know this is pointless!
- Alice, this is my choice.
- Mom, please, just walk away
from all of this and come home,
and be with me, here, now.
I promise, this is more important.
(sighs)
(upbeat music playing)
- Where did you find this?
- It was downstairs, in Dad's stuff.
And I called that woman, on the card.
And it's true.
Dad was going to sessions.
Therapy.
- I don't need my reporter daughter
to keep chasing this story.
- Dad was trying to heal, Mom.
For you.
- If that's true, I'm glad.
But you know, it's time I do some healing of my own.
I keep thinking about poor Danny Sawyer.
Frozen in time, over something terrible that happened
so long ago.
But I've been just as frozen.
Until...
you and Alice came home
and forced me to face the past.
Opening up the boxes.
Accept it.
- I just want you to accept the right version of the past.
- I promise I'll try.
- That's all I can ask.
For both of us.
Okay, I'm gonna head to bed. What about you?
- I think I'll stay up for a while,
listening to this music.
- Okay.
* Be mine *
(sighs)
* Be mine *
* For the rest of my life **
- Delly.
Dance with me.
- What's gotten into you?
You haven't listened to a record in such a long time.
- I want to win you back, Delly,
I want to win it all back.
I know I've made mistakes.
But... you're my home.
You're my home, Delly. You always have been,
and you always will be.
I've gotta go. - What?
- I'm sorry. - Why?
- Tomorrow,
you and me, we're gonna sit at that table,
and I'm going to tell you everything.
We can get this back, Delly.
Just give me until tomorrow.
Oh, and hey!
Don't forget about the Snow Moon tonight.
I hear it's gonna be a real beauty.
(ominous music)
- Col...
- Hey.
Good night, kiddo.
- Mom,
do you think that you could sleep in here tonight?
Like we used to?
- I miss that too.
As teenagers, our sleepovers.
- I miss you now.
I miss my mom.
- Oh, yes!
Yes, the Landry Eiderdowns.
- I actually underlined this for you.
It was a message, and, maybe a goodbye.
- "It's no use, going back to yesterday
because I was a different person then."
I should have known.
(chuckles)
(sighs)
Come here, baby.
- I wish I could just jump back into the pond
and go back to the start.
I really wish things could be different.
- I know.
I do too.
(tense music)
(breathing heavily)
What?
No.
No, no, no, no.
(suspenseful music)
(panting)
Okay.
(exhales deeply)
- "Neighbouring farmer was the first to report the crash.
First Response...
Witness claimed to have seen two women
running through the woods."
Two wom...
- Mom!
- Alice! What, what are you doing here?
- Mom, you can't be here! Okay, you can't see this!
- It's not going to happen, okay?
I can stop this.
But you have to go and let me.
Just let me fix things.
- Mom, you can't! It's not gonna work, okay?
It's just not. It's not gonna happen.
- It's not going to happen, Alice,
because we're here now!
Alice!
(inaudible)
(low pulsating)
- No, no.
Hey!
It's okay, hey.
I got you.
It's gonna be okay, you're okay, you're okay,
you're okay, you're okay.
(breathing heavily)
Daddy, it's okay. I'm here, Daddy.
I love you
and I always will and you're gonna be okay.
Do you hear me?
- Hey, kiddo.
I love you too.
My Katherine.
- What?
What?
Daddy?
(sobbing)
(distant sirens wailing)
- Mom.
Mom, we have to go. We can't get caught here, okay?
Mom, are you listing to me?
Give me your hand. Come on, Mom.
* I've been a prodigal daughter *
* A lamb to the slaughter *
* Baptize me twice *
* Drown in holy water *
* Virgin Mary for sale *
* Looked like me, so I bought her *
* Hands raised to the clouds *
* But I never found water *
(sirens blaring)
* Ooh, ooh, ooh *
* Looking for, looking for water *
* Ooh, ooh, ooh *
* Looking for, looking for water *
* Looking for, looking for water **
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