- Previously on "The Way Home".
- What did you want me to see? What was so important?
- I have so many dreams that I want to chase.
You do too. Don't let anybody stop you.
- Playing MASH with Elliot.
- That never happened. - Yet.
- Goodwin burnt my father's house down.
I need to see him suffer!
- Get in that truck! And you drive!
- Colton only time traveled twice and just as a teenager.
- The fact is he did time travel.
- Alice, please stop. Just...
Come back.
(♪ The Scientist (Acoustic) by Beth)
♪ Come up to meet you
♪ Tell you I'm sorry
♪ Don't know how lovely
♪ You are
(grunts)
♪ I had to find you
Tell you I need you ♪
(coughs)
♪ Tell you I set you apart
- I'm Katherine Landry,
but everyone just calls me Kat.
♪ Tell me your secrets Ask me your questions ♪
- Is that?
Is he?
- Yeah, my dad.
- Who we got here?
- Alice. It's so nice to meet you.
- It's nice to meet you too, Alice. What happened to you?
- I found her in the pond.
Swimming.
C'mon.
♪ Nobody said it was easy
♪ No one ever said it would be so hard ♪
- I found her in the pond.
♪ Oh, take me back to the start ♪
- So Alice, what brings you
and your family to Port Haven, then?
- It's just me and my mom.
- Are you here with a bunch of family?
- No, uh. I'm just with my mom.
♪ Summer breeze makes me feel fine ♪
♪ Blowing through the jasmine in my mind ♪
- Hey, you got talent, Alice.
Maybe we can sing together sometime.
- Yeah, I bet we will. Sometime.
♪ And I know I'm right
♪ For the first time in my life ♪
♪ That's why I'll tell you
♪ You better be home soon ♪
- Sorry, I--
- No, never apologize for talent.
(knocking on door)
Hey, your mom and I are going to turn in.
- Okay.
- But that Alice girl,
she's seems interesting, huh?
Kind of unique?
- It sucks I'm going away for camp, though.
Bet we would've had a fun summer together.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you would've.
How many times can you read that?
- It's my favourite.
And I love that it used to be yours.
But, kind of weird, huh?
Her name's Alice. Just like the story.
- Right.
Um, I guess sometimes,
truth really is stranger than fiction.
♪ Oh take me back to the start ♪
(Del): Jacob, Katherine, come join us.
Sam has kindly offered us legal advice,
and I'm sure he bills by the hour.
- Really, Del, it's no trouble.
- Lewis Goodwin wants to press charges against Jacob
for attempted arson and trespassing.
- But he didn't actually do anything.
- Well, sadly, that doesn't matter.
Intention was there, caught in that damn security camera.
It's not as bad as actually committing the crime,
but attempted anything is...
well, it's never good on a permanent record.
- I can't be here right now.
- Jacob! We need to deal with this mess.
- Yes! A mess that I made,
so just let me deal with the consequences.
- Mom? Is it okay if I head out for a bit?
- Yes. Yes, I, I think I will get some air as well.
- I had a feeling I'd find you here.
Gonna give this a try?
- I just the pond takes me where I wanna go
and not where I need to go.
- Well, there's only one way of finding out.
- Say hi to our teenage selves.
- Hey, I um. I'd really like to talk.
- We will. But Jacob needs you right now.
- Yeah. Life, huh?
It gets in the way.
- Alice! Hey!
- Hi!
Hi!
- Hey, whoa! Hi to you, too!
- I missed you guys so much.
- We just hung out, like two days ago.
- Uh, right yeah.
It's just that things are such a bummer at home lately,
I-I just, I really needed this.
To be here with you.
- Well, then we have just the project to cheer you up.
- One, two, three, four, five.
Okay, your future husband is David Boreanaz.
- Ugh! Why couldn't it have been Scott Speedman?
I'm so Team Ben.
- Wait, this was your big project?
- What?
I wanna know what my future holds.
Especially before I go away to camp.
And MASH can be eerily accurate.
- Well, it could if you actually picked guys you know
for the marriage category like you're supposed to.
- I don't wanna marry any guys I know.
Besides, it's like you said at dinner the other night.
You never know who I'll meet this summer, right?
- It's not gonna be Scott Speedman.
- Fine. I'll do my own future, then.
Scooch.
I'm getting another notebook.
- Oh wait.
Uh, it's fine.
That's your going away to camp gift.
It's a CD mix that I burned for you.
- It's all our songs, El!
"All For You", "Closing Time".
I'll have this forever.
Alright, do my fortune.
- Alright.
Kids.
One, two, three, four, five.
Looks like you're gonna have one kid.
- Well, she'd better be a girl.
I'd really like that.
- I wish we could stay this way forever.
I may act like I've known you guys for a long time,
but that's just cause how I feel.
Have always felt.
You two are my best friends.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, we've only known each other such a short time,
but I absolutely feel the same way.
How about you, El?
- I definitely know Alice isn't someone I'm ever gonna forget.
(music swells)
- I've let everyone down.
I should have stayed with you in 1816.
You rebuilt my family's home,
while I was here tearing things down again.
- You wanna rebuild?
Figure these out.
- Oh, so these were just hidden inside?
- Mm-hmm. - It's curious.
- Wait a sec. Hold on.
"Time past and time future.
And in between is the still point of now.
Find me there."
- Huh. I think it's a pendulum.
- Well, that would certainly make sense with the description.
One side is past, the other, future.
And in between,
the apex stands still.
In the now. The pendulum swings.
- That's how I feel.
Swinging between the past and the present.
Pushed and pulled.
How do I get to the still point of now?
- So you are you I think you are.
You're the same Alice from 1974.
You're a time traveler.
- How did you,
I didn't think that you recognized me here.
- Why'd you deny it?
When I asked you all those years ago.
- I thought it would be easier.
- Alice, I have so many questions.
- You can't ask them. At least, not in this time.
- I don't understand, why?
- Because the Alice that you'll get to know in 1999
is a different Alice.
She's me, but an earlier me.
And she hasn't lived those visits to 1974 yet.
Time travel is brand new to her,
so she won't know anything
about anything.
So there are some things
that you might wanna ask her someday,
but she won't have the answers that you need.
Okay? So don't ask her.
Even if you really, really want to.
- So why are you here?
I mean, the pond takes you places for a reason.
- I think we're looking at the reason.
This conversation.
- No, please.
Tell me something more.
- Those visits to 74,
with you and Evelyn,
were special.
And magic.
And so groovy.
(laughter)
I'll never forget them.
Promise.
(sighs)
- So Colton always knew you were a time traveller.
When will it end? All the secrets.
- Grandma, there must be a reason.
- I know he loved me.
But there had to be resentment there.
- What are you talking about, Mom?
- The truth is Colton had to give up on his dreams,
his music, to be with me.
I left him no choice.
- Colton would always choose you over music.
Over anything.
And he said that when we recorded the demo.
- I'm gonna go clean out the rest of Colton's things.
It's past time.
(soft music)
- Dear Son,
starting fresh with no regrets.
Never should have taken it,
but I took so much more.
- Hey. You alright?
- Oh. My dad, um...
It seems his fiancée made him reconsider.
And he sent the ring back.
- That's good news, isn't it?
- That's not the only thing of my mom's he sent.
This letter.
My mom left it behind when she walked out on us.
I didn't even know there was one.
Dad never told me.
(clears throat)
Any updates on the Lewis front?
- No news on whether he'll press charges.
I suppose I won't know until the police are at the door.
You know, I should take a cue from Vic.
In the meantime,
make apologies where they're due.
- Do I wanna know?
- I've done this in the basement.
I was hoping there'd be some tapes with it,
but Monica said that she threw them all out, so.
Guess that's that.
- You know there is this thing called Spotify.
(laughter)
Look.
About last night, the kiss?
Not gonna lie, I didn't hate it.
- Oh, well gee. Thanks.
- No, no, no. That's, that's not what I...
Obviously, I didn't hate it,
but also there's Noah, right?
- Yeah. Things are complicated.
- Yeah. That's what I thought.
- Max.
I didn't hate that kiss either.
- Danny. Listen to me, if anyone deserves an explanation
for what happened at that vineyard, it is you.
Not Lewis.
- You used my code, Jake.
- I know, and I'm, I'm so sorry. I just--
- You threw me under the bus.
I just don't get it, is all.
Arson? Why do it?
And bring Del and your whole family
into that kind of trouble?
- Because I ruin things.
Danny, I ruin things and I ruin people.
I mean, look at what I did to you when I disappeared.
When I came back, I put that on you, Danny,
and it wasn't the full story, it wasn't the truth.
- What do you mean, it wasn't the truth?
- Only that you did nothing wrong.
- I think we're done here, Jake.
- I wouldn't want to be around me either.
It's probably for the best.
- Hey!
- Hey.
- This isn't all Dad's.
- Yeah.
Mom was gonna take it all to the dump,
but I couldn't bear to let her throw it away.
I mean, not yet.
Ooh, what's this?
Hmm.
Aww, looks like Jasper played DJ at Mom and Dad's wedding.
- Oh my God, Mom. - What?
- You found it!
- What did I find?
- Colton's demo!
- Grandma, you have to come quick!
(Colton on tape): Del is the dream.
She's all I'll ever need to be happy.
And if I can make something of myself with my music,
maybe I'll have a real shot with her, you know?
And hopefully get another chane to play her this song.
(tape clicks off)
- See, Grandma?
Colton never felt like he was giving up on a dream
to be with you because you were the dream.
(Del sighs)
(guitar music)
♪ You shine like a passage on the water ♪
♪ In the moonlight ♪
- Take me to see him. Please, Katherine.
- What? What do you mean?
- The pond. I want to go.
♪ When you find it
♪ Then you'll never let it go
(coughing)
- Mom, get up on the rocks!
- What happened?
Katherine? Did it work?
Alice?
Wait, where's Alice?
- She was right with us. Alice?
- Mom?
Grandma?
Where are you?
- Alice!
Jacob fell in the pond, didn't he?
- Dad!
(heavy breathing)
(dramatic music)
(knocking on door)
- Well.
Sir Lancelot returns to the castle.
- I can't accept your money, Evelyn.
- You Landrys and your pride.
I came home to hear that the police called off the search.
I figured you'd taken matters into your own hands.
I wanted to help.
How much have you spent so far, Cole?
I know it won't ever be enough.
Not until you find him.
- Seems you still know me better than most.
Even after all these years.
- Look. If you won't accept my money,
will you at least accept a drink?
For old time's sake?
You remember?
The portrait we found in the attic that summer.
I still think she's the one
who saved us at the pond in 65.
The White Witch.
- You think you saw this woman in 65?
- My Katherine. Like your daughter, right?
- My daughter.
- 1814.
I've always wondered who the real Katherine was back then.
- Thank you for saving my brother.
- Your brother?
Jacob!
- Cole? Are you alright?
- It's the pond. It was the pond!
- Alice!
Jacob fell in the pond, didn't he?
- Wait, what?
How did you know that?
- The portrait. My Katherine.
She was in 1814, 1816,
1965 and she's here now in 2000.
My daughter, she's a time traveler.
And Jacob, I met him too.
- Wait. You know who Mom really is?
- Alice.
Are you my granddaughter?
(sobbing)
- Oh my God, Katherine.
We're at my wedding.
In 1975.
This is too much.
- Mom, are you okay? Do you want to go back?
- Absolutely not! We're staying.
- Why keep the pond a secret?
- What I told you in 1974 is true,
it never worked for me again.
So telling Del,
what good would it do?
You know, some secrets are a burden, Alice.
Meant just to be carried.
And the kids, well, it didn't work for them either.
I thought it was because of what I had done.
Jacob even went in.
We were camping.
- Jacob?
- I woke up in the morning, and...
- Jacob? Where are you?
- He was gone.
- Jacob. Jacob!
Jacob, get out of there.
Okay.
Are you okay?
- I'm fine, Dad. I've done it before.
- Never come here again. Do you understand?
- But, the night that Jacob disappeared.
- He was miles away from here.
No one saw him leave the carnival.
His stuffed dog...
they found it in the ocean.
I never thought...
Why would I?
I made a terrible mistake.
I know you shouldn't tell someone their future,
but I need to know.
Does my, does my boy ever come home?
- When am I, right now?
- It's uh, February 2000.
A snow moon tonight.
- Jacob will come home, Colton.
- I get to see my boy again.
(sobbing)
- I lost my dad.
But it led me down a path
that gave me my greatest gift.
I have a daughter.
- I see.
(sobbing)
Hey, it's okay. It's okay, Alice.
My Grandma Fern was right.
This pond is a curse.
But it's a gift, too.
Look what it's given me.
A chance to play music with my granddaughter.
In two eras.
Oh, I'll never forget it.
Keep singing, okay?
- No!
No, cause what if what happens doesn't always have to happen?
- No, no.
- What if I can just tell you everything
and then we can stop what's gonna--
- Shhh, it's okay, it's okay. This road we're on.
It leads to you.
So...
I need you to jump.
- No, please. Wait, I can't!
- It's okay. It's okay.
If I can't know you in your time,
at least I got to know you in mine.
(sobbing)
Just, hey uh, tell Jacob,
tell him I love him.
And I love you too, Alice.
- I love you too, Grandpa.
(sobbing)
- Okay.
(music swells)
(splashing)
(dramatic music)
Please.
Please take me to my boy.
(heavy breathing)
(panting and sobbing)
(soft music)
(door closing)
- Keep an eye on your brother.
I gotta head in to the hardware store.
- Dad! I have to focus.
- Focus on keeping Jake away from all those fireworks
I got for tonight.
- It's the summer kickoff.
- Pow!
- Jacob.
Jacob?
Hey buddy.
Hey uh. Listen, I need to tell you something, okay?
Please, whatever you do,
just, just remember that I love you, kiddo.
Okay? No matter what happens.
No matter what...
will happen.
(dramatic music)
♪ Girl you just don't realize
♪ What you do to me
♪ What you do to me ♪
♪ When you hold me ♪
- Alright kids, let's help our host clean up. Come on.
- No, no, no. This is all me, Del.
(indistinct chatter and music)
- Uh, hey you guys? I will be right back.
- No. Elliot, stop.
(suspenseful music)
- Who's there?
Hello?
(suspenseful music)
Mom, call me. Okay? You have to come down to the pond.
I-I-I found something.
There's someone other than us who is using the pond.
Someone else is time traveling,
and I saw them in the field.
(screaming)
(knocking on door)
- Uh, hi. Casey Goodwin.
What?
Aren't you Landrys used to time travelers at your door?
- So it's true
that you are what Alice says you are.
- Well, I can't really deny it anymore,
considering she kind of caught me red-handed.
Is Kat home?
I need to talk to her about something important.
If it's the right time.
- What right time do you think it is?
- A time where I'm not the only one
who's just been caught red-handed.
Maybe you're the one I'm supposed to show.
(metal door opening)
I kind of broke in a while back and hid this here
after I used it against Lewis last year.
And now you can use it too.
- This is Susanna's will.
- Yeah. The real one.
I found it in Evelyn's boxes while I was interning.
Cyrus gave Susanna the power to leave Lingermore
to whoever she wanted.
But after she died, Cyrus's sons changed her will.
I wanted to show Kat at Founder's Day,
but she went to rescue you in 1814, so--
- Yes, that's right. How do you know that?
- So I put it in a folder, marked Important.
Thought I'd show Kat next trip,
but then the pond did it's thing,
and when I jumped again,
a whole whack of time had passed and suddenly,
Alice is telling me the Goodwins bought your land.
That lawyer, Sam?
I never showed him this, but he said old documents
could still be legit.
So, I took the will and blackmailed Lewis.
Said if he didn't give your land back, I'd publish it.
Sam was right.
The threat of a court battle sent him running.
This will keep Lewis off your back.
And it'll also help stop Del's letters.
- Sorry, what letters? - Um, those letters.
Fine print, you should really read that.
- Wait, this says that Susanna left Lingermore to us.
She left it to the Landrys.
(Del): Cole, oh God. Look at him.
- The rain is stopping.
It's gonna be a perfect evening, Cole.
- Yeah, we definitely have some horseshoes.
It's what Rick would've said.
- He's here in spirit. I know. - Yeah.
It's seems like Evie will be too.
Got this in the mail yesterday from Paris.
You know, I expected my brother to be a no-show.
But Evie? I figured she'd come home.
Be here for me.
Marrying Del, this is the most important day of my life.
I think Evelyn knows that.
Here. To the happy couple.
- What?
(laughter)
Wow.
- That tape is like a fly in amber.
Capturing a moment in time.
I think it was a pretty important one.
- Oh, I'm gonna get closer.
- Mom, stay hidden!
- I don't recall you on the guestlist, Kitty.
- Fern. Hi! Um, and it's Kat, you know.
- Of course I know that.
You just always liked the nickname before.
- Before? When have we met before this?
- Well, if you don't know the answer, Kitty,
then it hasn't happened yet!
Something to look forward to, I think.
65, there they thrive.
65 in 25, hmm?
- We can't keep meeting like this.
- Alright. No more dodging, I know the truth.
I'm your mom and Max Goodwin's your dad.
Wait. I'm not your mom?
- No.
- Wait, hold on.
But you are a Landry, right? And also a Goodwin?
- I don't wanna break any more rules.
- Thank you.
Maybe it's okay to talk about what's to come sometimes.
- Good luck, Alice.
(♪ The Elevator by Lizzy Alpine)
♪ It wasn't slow it happened fast ♪
♪ And suddenly the only thing I saw was you ♪
♪ Mmm-mmm
♪ I didn't the half of it
♪ And suddenly I had everything to lose ♪
♪ mmm-mmm
♪ Can we stay like this forever ♪
♪ Can we be here in this room till we die ♪
♪ I think we can make it
♪ I hope that I'm right ♪
(cheering)
- It's exactly how I remembered it.
- So, you pushed yourself?
- I guess someone had to start my adventure.
And turns out it was me.
(laughter)
- The pond never ceases to amaze me.
Hey. Listen, has Mom ever said anything
about any letters she's gotten?
- Uh, no, I don't think so.
(door closing)
So, you really did it, Grandma?
- Yes, I did. Oh, it was magical.
- I'm glad the past treated you well.
I think the present will too.
- What's this?
- My salvation.
- Wait.
Susanna left Lingermore to us?
- I have news too, about Colton.
The day he died, he knew who we all really were,
and he knew where Jacob ended up.
- Tomorrow.
You and me, we're gonna sit at that table
and I'm going to tell you everything.
Just give me till tomorrow.
- Ohh.
Colton was gonna tell me everything
if he hadn't left that night.
- Then why did he go?
Why did he get in that truck?
- I was just wondering if um,
Rose had signed up for group tonight?
I see. Well, I, I'll be there.
I just didn't know how much time there is left...
to talk to her.
(Kat): Oh my God, he was looking for me.
(screams)
- You're okay. You're okay.
I'm here, Daddy, I love you.
- Hey kiddo.
I love you too.
My Katherine.
- He tried to tell me.
He knew who I was.
He knew.
And he still loved me.
(sobbing)
- El?
- Hey, what's going on?
- I love you. I want to try again.
- I'm messed up, Kat.
My dad. My whole childhood was so dark.
But you, your family.
You were the light. You were so perfect.
But I put you on a pedestal you couldn't possibly live up to.
I've been in love with the idea of you.
- So what you felt wasn't real?
- No, it was real.
But it was so damn unfair to you.
Because you tried to show me the real you every day
and I just, I refused to see it.
You are incredible. You're brave.
You take risks for the ones you love.
And I saw that woman in 1816, that's you.
That's the woman I'm in love with.
Or want to be,
if she'll have me.
- I'm messed up too, El.
I mean, I haven't loved you in the right way either.
I've let my past affect us,
and I don't mean Brady or Thomas,
I mean our friendship.
And how it was.
I always just assumed that you were gonna be there
because you always were.
I take you for granted.
But your love,
how you love me,
is such a gift, El.
- So let's just love each other as we are.
My dad gave it back to me.
- Are you?
- I will.
I will find the perfect moment.
- I know it's gonna be perfect.
Because this ring,
that's Susanna's!
♪ Let the water bring you back to me ♪
♪ Wish for this wish To come true ♪
♪ Let the water bring ♪
(phone notification)
- Hi!
I was up taking my morning walk and I heard you singing.
It makes me so happy.
- I think I'm gonna do more of it.
Colton never gave up on his dream.
You were his. And music is mine.
So, I think I'm gonna keep dreaming a little bit longer.
(somber music)
(door closes)
- "I don't want to put my family in danger,
maybe these letters will stop if I disappear."
Oh God, Jacob. No!
(cellphone ringing)
Jacob?
(Sam): No, it's Sam, are you okay?
- Oh, no Sam. I am not okay. Jacob is gone.
- Well, it's going to be okay, Del.
Honestly. I promise.
- And how do you know that, Sam?
- I just do.
- "Little one," Mom wrote it to me, not Dad.
"In time, I hope you understand
that leaving was the only choice.
But while love is itself unmoving,
it is the cause and end of all movement.
I move for love, I jump for love, I leave for love.
It is impossible to say just what I mean, except I'm sorry.
But go, go, go, said the bird. And I must follow.
Go, go, go, said the bird.
I know those words.
It's from a TS Eliot poem.
- Mom? - Yeah, in here.
Wait, so why TS Eliot? What does it mean?
- He was my namesake. My mom was obsessed with him.
According to my dad. - TS Eliot?
- It's a quote. From my favourite poet...
TS Elliot, I think I met your mom.
- What? - Where?
- In 1974.
- The clock inscription. It's from the same poem.
Burnt Norton, published in 1936.
But, no, that doesn't make any sense.
- Why? - The wall.
It went up in the 1920s.
How did a clock get in there,
inscribed with a poem that wasn't written yet?
I move for love, I jump for love.
- What if your dad was wrong?
And your mom isn't really gone, she just--
- Jumped and time traveled.
- But there's only one way she could've done that.
- She had to go with a Landry.
(orchestral music)
(knocking on door)
(baby crying)
- Shh, Katherine.
- Look.
- Oh no. Poor Elliot.
(dramatic music)
(theme music)
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