Jacob’s Reunion & Kat’s Thriller

With a present so filled with twists and turns like The Means Residence, it’s no secret that followers have been on the fringe of their seats to see what occurs in season 3. However, fortunately, the long-awaited season premiered on Friday, Jan. 3 on Hallmark (and Jan. 4 on Hallmark+) and it’s answered some cliffhangers, and solely added to the mysteries.

To get us began, season 3 began proper the place season 2 left off: with grownup Jacob (Spencer MacPherson) returning to his dwelling within the current with Kat’s (Chyler Leigh) assist.

“Mother?” Jacob says and he walks within the door and acknowledges his childhood dwelling. “Jacob is that you just?” his mother Del (Andie MacDowell) says with tears in her eyes. “How is it attainable?”

Understanding how a lot Del suffered with Jacob’s absence and Colton’s (Jefferson Brown) dying, it’s protected to say followers have been rooting for this second because the starting. Del wants a bit of excellent information for a change, proper?

Now that Jacob is again, it additionally signifies that Kat and Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) can’t cover the pond’s time-traveling skills from Del any longer. “The pond isn’t simply the pond,” Kat tells her mother, passing him his handwritten life story from Elijah (Stuart Hughes), “That is Jacob’s story.”

Whereas Del and Jacob are having their long-awaited reunion, Kat runs over to seek out Elliot (Evan Williams). Whereas asserting Jacob’s return, she lets it slip that her love curiosity within the 1800s, Thomas Coyle (Kris Holden-Reid), faked his personal dying. In fact, Elliot’s a little bit shaken by the information – however Kat rapidly swoops in. “I select you,” she says, taking him in her arms. “I select right here and now.” It’s like every little thing followers have all the time needed for them!

One other candy second occurs when Elliot barges into the Landry dwelling and hugs Jacob. “Oh I see,” Jacob jokes as Kat offers him a kiss on the cheek. “Took you lengthy sufficient.” Jacob, we couldn’t agree extra!

In a while, whereas Del and Kat are taking a breather on the porch, Del admits she’s nonetheless having a tough time wrapping her head round on a regular basis journey. “Why didn’t you inform me Katherine? Why didn’t you let me in?” she asks her daughter. “As a result of I didn’t need to damage you much more if I couldn’t convey him dwelling,” she responds.

A scene later, Elliot and the Landrys sit down collectively and provide you with a plan for tips on how to inform the world about Jacob’s return. Their answer is to lie and say that Jacob left, was discovered by an “off-the-grid” household and was solely informed the reality by one of many mum or dad’s deathbeds.

Then, as stunning as it’s, we acquired a “9 months later” time soar.

9 months later, not solely are Kat and Elliot nonetheless collectively (yay!) however they’re as cute as could be earlier than Kat heads to work. There, she unwraps the novel Susanna Augustine (Watson Rose) had written concerning the founding of Port Haven. “Your title in print, lastly,” she says.

Again within the Landry dwelling, Del will get some menacing mail. “Your lie is thought,” the letter reads. “Time will inform.”

“You gotta inform somebody Delly, the police,” her imaginative and prescient of Colton says after she opens it. “What would I say?” she responds. “As a result of whoever is sending these is true. We’re a lie. There are holes and somebody’s poking at them.”

One other main plot level in episode one is about whether or not Colton may time journey or not. Whereas poking round Alice’s room, Kat uncovers a secret message in one among her dad’s books. “No curse is on the water,” it reads. “Consider in magic. Come to the pond.”

“If Colton had identified concerning the pond all that point, he would’ve mentioned one thing,” Elliot says as he and Kat brainstorm.

Because the episode goes on, Jacob can be riddled with moments the place Colton tells him to not enter the pond and that he loves Jacob “it doesn’t matter what occurs and it doesn’t matter what will occur.” “By no means come right here, do you hear me?” he informed younger Jacob concerning the pond. “I feel Dad knew one thing concerning the pond,” Jacob tells Kat afterward.

Additionally on this episode, Kat returns to the 1800s on a mission to let Elijah and Susanna know the way Jacob is doing. “Please heed what I say: you have to go, now,” Susanna angrily says in return. “You coming again right here, it wants to finish.”

Startled on the reception, Kat heads again to the pond, solely to be met by Thomas himself. “You made me really feel issues for you that day, actual issues,” she tells him. “You have been simply mendacity all the time? You knew you weren’t gonna die?”

Then, as viewers may’ve guessed, Thomas goes in and kisses her. Fortunately, Kat rapidly turns him down. “That is inconceivable, you’re inconceivable,” she says. “No matter that is, it’s over.”

To wrap issues up, the episode left us with some intriguing cliffhangers. Kat goes to hearken to an previous recording of her father solely to listen to Alice singing alongside him. “Sure, that’s Alice,” Elliot says, equally as confused. “Singing along with your dad in a tune he recorded within the Seventies.”

Within the meantime, Alice follows somebody she noticed operating to the pond, and he or she’s pushed proper in.

Some mysteries are getting clearer, and a few are solely starting! Discuss beginning the season with a bang!

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