Jacob’s Reunion & Kat’s Thriller

With a present so filled with twists and turns like The Approach Residence, it’s no secret that followers had 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?”

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

Now that Jacob is again, it additionally implies that Kat and Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) can’t cover the pond’s time-traveling talents 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 demise. In fact, Elliot’s slightly shaken by the information – however Kat shortly swoops in. “I select you,” she says, taking him in her arms. “I select right here and now.” It’s like the whole lot followers have at all times 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 provides him a kiss on the cheek. “Took you lengthy sufficient.” Jacob, we couldn’t agree extra!

Afterward, 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 wish to harm you much more if I couldn’t carry him dwelling,” she responds.

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

Then, as shocking 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 may be earlier than Kat heads to work. There, she unwraps the novel Susanna Augustine (Watson Rose) had written in regards to the founding of Port Haven. “Your identify 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 correct. 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 might 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 recognized in regards to 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 also 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 instructed younger Jacob in regards to the pond. “I believe Dad knew one thing in regards to the pond,” Jacob tells Kat in a while.

Additionally on this episode, Kat returns to the 1800s on a mission to let Elijah and Susanna understand how Jacob is doing. “Please heed what I say: you could 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 had been simply mendacity all the time? You knew you weren’t gonna die?”

Then, as viewers might’ve guessed, Thomas goes in and kisses her. Fortunately, Kat shortly turns him down. “That is not possible, you’re not possible,” 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 together with your dad in a track he recorded within the Seventies.”

Within the meantime, Alice follows somebody she noticed operating to the pond, and she or he’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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