This flashback is terrible – it’s a recap of everything
and just draws attention to how flimsy things are. Yes I’m grumpy
Audrey and Nathan are all couply and Nathan even tries to
be cure about coffee burns and keeps his shirt off to remind us he can at least
come almost close to being about half as sexy as Duke. Of course it can’t last
and angsty Nathan is soon there telling her he has to go to the Void to get the
McGuffin to make the new barn work. Just as soon as Duke gets back with Hayley
Which he does. After taking waaaay too much time to mope
and navel gaze the arsehole has finally returned to actually help (it’s a good
thing he’s hot. Though more shirtlessness may prompt forgiveness).
Back to Audrey and Nathan being mopey and romantic and
experiencing shortages in the cut off Haven. She also suggests that she should
go to the void since the void squishes humans and she isn’t – but Nathan says
no for reasons. Duke finally arrives and is greeted with a hug rather than
being shunned and hit with axes
Audrey, at least, is duly pissed with him. Duke warns
Nathan about his super cryptic vision of dystopian awfulness caused by Nathan
going into the void.
We’re believing in visions now? The fact he mentions “croatoan” which Duke
has never heard of tells them it’s true – but Nathan still has to go. Only this
time he has to come back
They brief Hayley about what they need and she’s pretty
calm about the whole thing – I mean accepting the ability to walk through walls
and completely forgetting a town means she’s pretty mellow about any revelations
now. Hayley also uses insight from her mother top realise she can actually hold
a Thinny open – rather than just briefly open it, so we have a key to getting
Nathan back.
So Nathan ends up in the void which looks like a lot of
caves and a spooky forest. And it’s all green lit so we know it’s spooky. Nathan
falls in a pit and meets… William. Well that’s Nathan thoroughly screwed – especially
when
William reveals that machines with moving parts – like guns – don’t work.
Nathan quickly lies to convince William to help him find
the old barn to save “Mara’s” life (honest). William seems to believe that
because Croatoan could destroy the whole world.
Nathan finds the controller – and then someone who looks
like Mara/Audrey appears albeit with a whole lot of bleach and a Lord of the Rings
dress and an echo-reverb voice
Uh-uh, no good comes from an echo-reverb voice
Ghostly Mara tells them that only the right person can
use the controller or it will be destroyed – which means answering her
questions on the barn. William gets it wrong while Nathan, of course, gets it
right explaining the purpose of the barn in help Mara be redeemed. That makes
Nathan the right person.”
But William has twigged that Nathan refers to Mara in the past tense. William isnot impressed and chases Nathan as he runs for the Thinny.
Audrey and Duke have their show down, with Duke pissed
that they’re using Hayley because he doesn’t rate her decision making (great –
please offer a plan B. Yes? No?) And Audrey much more justifiably pissed because
of Duke’s abandonment of the town. Duke objects and whines that people always
need him and Audrey snaps back. Duke is horrified at the idea of m using Hayley….
For… reasons? Audrey is officially done with him.
And Lisa with blow-things-up-if-I-touch-things Trouble
bursts in, blaming Duke for her newly Troubled status – though Duke is immune
to Troubles so she doesn’t get to explode him. Directly – instead she decides
to blow stuff around him to kill him with shrapnel
She rants about all the people he Troubled with the
explosion as she also tells him about how terrible Haven has become now under
the fog. She then decides to tell him about all the bad things he’s done. She
recaps all the terrible things Duke missed while Duke tries to justify all his
crap.
Luckily for them, Audrey comes in to talk her down and
convince her Duke is a good person and show off Hayley and her void opening
power. She completely reverses all the bad (and justified stuff) she said about
Duke.
Nathan struggles at the portal which Hayley can’t keep
open – because she doesn’t want rid of the Troubles. She loves her shiny super
power. Audrey has to convince her that Troubles are totally Troubling and not
happy and fun. She fails and Hayley drops the ring and runs off, leaving the
Thinny closed.
This causes a rock fall and Nathan and William trapped
Dave is restrained in the police station with Vince
visiting him and determined to save him from any “justice” against him for the
murders of Croatoan. He picks up Charlotte’s research and starts looking for a
way to destroy the link between Dave and Croatoan – Dwight helps.
As they read more and more records and Dwight raises the
possibility that killing Dave may be the only way. Vince pulls out an epic
speech about how both he and Dave have been saving Haven since before Dwight
was born so, yes, if Vince thinks killing Dave is the only way then Vince
himself will kill him.
I’ve always liked the Teagues
They come up with a plan – a Trouble that will split Dave
in two in the same way that Audrey and Mara were split. That was the plan –
except Dave goes all Croatoan and kills the guy. Oops. He only stops when he
almost turns on Vince.
Dave is tied up – and Vince and Dwight realise that
Croatoan can sense what Dave senses. And that while that means they can’t say
anything to Dave, it means Dave can take Croatoan on one-on-one in his mind.
Y’know I kind of expected the void to be more… voidy? Not
just rocks and forest.
Ok, the whole “I’m on a friend when you need me” trope I annoying
and in most shows I’d celebrate Duke calling it out. But it’s not like Audrey
is working for the greater glory of Audrey here. Her motivations are nearly always
selfless and for the greater good. Him whining about Audrey needing him sounds
a lot like “damn you for asking my help to save the whole town!”
Also could someone actually explain to me why using
Hayley’ trouble like this is such a terribad thing? Why is Duke so against it?
There really really really needed to be a better word for
Thinnies
On the flip side, someone really needs to tell people
that Duke didn’t Trouble people – Mara did using Duke as a storage device. All
this blaming Duke does is create more boring angst. And with him being angsty
and Nathan being boring it just makes me like William more.
Hayley running off... I don't know if it's fatigue or simply knowing this is the last season but this just felt like they're drawing it out to get a few more episodes out of it. I'll lay odds they catch up with Hayley and someone (probably Duke) convinces her to do the right thing and loooo Nathan will be saved
Or maybe she'll just realise that, without Duke, she can't leave Haven anyway
