‘The Way Home’ Team Talks Latest Casey Clue & Del’s Struggle With Colton Time Travel Reveal
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 Episode 4 “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song.”]
Well, it’s really looking like Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) might be right about Casey (Vaughan Murrae), Kat’s (Chyler Leigh) intern she thinks is from the future. (Her first clue: She saw them wearing Kat’s engagement ring on a necklace.) They said they’re a Goodwin, but Alice meets Max Goodwin in the latest Way Home episode, and he says he doesn’t have a sibling with that name.
“Casey is an enigma wrapped in a mystery…” executive producer Alexandra Clarke jokes to TV Insider. “The ripple effect of their presence or lack thereof is going to be felt this season, for sure. And Alice and her theories is a really exciting road to go down.”
Adds executive producer Heather Conkie, “Everything has been about the past and now all of a sudden the characters are all switching a little bit because Alice is about her future and Del [Andie MacDowell] is about what happened in ‘74 and maybe certain things that she doesn’t love people to know. And now here’s Alice [time-traveling to that year and] witnessing everything that happened from a totally different point of view [with Devin Cecchetto’s Evelyn]. And then we have Kat who thinks her present is the only thing left because all her projects have come to fruition. I guess there’s a little bit of Casey and all of those scenarios.”
Alice definitely does think she’s right about Casey being from the future at this point, confirms Laflamme-Snow. “Right before she meets Max, she’s fine to just wait until her next interaction with Casey. She’s trying to just live in the present and listen to her mom,” she says but cautions, “We don’t know much about Max. We don’t know how trustworthy he is. We don’t know if he’s messing with her, if he has all the context. So in a way, it’s a little bit, ‘What does he know?'”
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She also knows that Alice can be “intense” and “ask too many questions.” And because of who she is, she feels like she just keeps getting confirmation of her theory. “But I don’t know that, if she really picks it apart, her logic holds up,” Laflamme-Snow admits. “That’s interesting for the audience, is that you kind of go through that struggle with Alice because as things are revealed, there’s lots of things that sort of undercut that and say, ‘Okay, we’re back to square one now. Now how do we know if this is real or not?'”
The EPs can’t say much about Alice and Casey’s next interaction. “For Alice, it’s going to be more about the figment of Casey versus the real Casey, for a little while at least,” teases Clarke. “I think that’s even more intimidating and more mysterious than the actual person. In the end, at least in Alice’s mind, they might start to become a bit bigger than they even really are.” Adds Conkie, this mystery is a “bit of an obsession” for her.
Elsewhere in this episode, Del now has to deal with the fact that it’s even harder to deny that her late husband Colton (Jefferson Brown) was time traveling; his sweater from 1999 is found near the pond.
“It’s really hard for her because she felt she knew this person inside and out, that she knew everything about this person. This was her best friend, this was her everything,” says MacDowell. “So I think it is really hard to imagine that he had a life that she didn’t know anything about.”
Conkie teases that “it screws her up a bit.”
Clarke says it’s just one more thing that makes Del realize she’s not okay: “I think she has her son back, which is the thing she’s always wanted. But in having her son back and her daughter continuing to time travel and Alice is continuing to time travel, it’s just going to open up a world that maybe she didn’t want to know about. There is some sort of thing of ignorance is bliss and do you want to be in on everything?”
She continues, “Her journey this year is really about the past and questioning that because all of a sudden now there’s other points of view of memories that she has held very close to her heart about Colton because they’re all she has left of him and now all of a sudden here’s Alice saying, ‘Well, I remember it this way,’ and I think it’s a really tough journey for Del. It’s going to be a lot of reflection and a lot of questioning and a lot of doubt and wondering why the man you thought you could trust, at least for the better part of their marriage, might have actually been lying from the very beginning. It’s a hard reality to face.”
Clarke praises MacDowell’s work on this storyline with that. “Things are going to come to a head, and of course, it’s not going to be an easy road, but hopefully it’s ultimately a redemptive one,” she adds.
Will her arc include wanting to time travel like the other members of her family? Kat’s boyfriend, Elliot (Evan Williams), even has, too. “Del is a very practical woman. I think what’s amazing about her and her character is she doesn’t romanticize a lot. She doesn’t romanticize much except her own relationship with Colton actually. Everything else is very matter-of-fact. And I think, as a result, that’s sort of how she treats the pond, but she’s also a doer. So there is that,” Clarke allows, but she can’t say more.
What’s your theory about Casey? Let us know in the comments section below.
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I think Casey is from the future. I also think this is the best show ever. I can't wait to watch it every Friday night
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I think Casey comes from the future and may be Alice's daughter, because the ring belonged to her.
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Too many ghosts in this episode. I think Del is pregnant when meets Colton. Who is the child and who was the dad? The preview shows Elliott with a ring. I’d hate if Kat dumps Elliott again. His character has had it the worse!
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I’m in the belief that Casey is a Goodwin from the future. I’m thinking she is the daughter of Alice and Max Goodwin!
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I said this from the first glimpse we had of a couple putting the baby in the pond. She had her ring. See said she is a Goodwin. Alice was an obvious silhouette. I just kept waiting for a young Goodwin guy to show up. Hello Max.
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I completely agree!!!!
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I do believe Casey is a time traveler. Alice sees it from the future but for Casey, it's the past. The pond doesn't take you were you want to go, it takes you where you need to go. Casey went back to categorize things for Kat. This leads Kat to saving the lake in '65.
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I believe Casey is a time traveler. She’s very mysterious and not only eager to work with Kat but had to make sure it would happen.
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Casey is from the future? Wow amazing?
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I also think Del is pregnant with kat when she meets Colton. If not kat she is pregnant with a child
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kat was pregnant with Alice when she went home to see her mom but ended up getting mad at her
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I do not think casey is a time traveler at least not yet. I think the ring could mean it just look similar. If that ring belong to Kat then when the ring was thrown in the pond perhaps when Kat went back to Jacob the ring was on her someone. Then perhaps it was found in the year Jacob was there.
Perhaps was past down and later sold.
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I think that’s a stretch. The best and easiest explanation is also the most plausible one. Casey is related to Kat, possibly her future daughter. She’s wearing a family ring or heirloom. Those are usually passed on through family generations. I just wonder how this is all going to come together.
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It's obvious that Casey is the daughter of Alice
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Casey Goodwin (if that's really their name) said they were Lewis's second cousin so that also means Max (Lewis's son) would also be Casey's cousin. I don't think Casey is Max and Alice's child.
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Actually, it’s Suzanna who painted that portrait of Kat, not Thomas - whom I think you’re referring to when you mention “the gentleman from Jacobs time”. Suzanna it seems had deep feelings for Kat…which during that time period was unheard of (if not dangerous) for two females to be in a relationship.
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Casey is from the future but unsure if she is Alice's daughter or not. What if Alice gave the ring to a young Evelyn as a sign or their friendship or maybe Alice lost the ring when she went back to the 1970's and a younger Evelyn found it and kept it to give to Alice and then never saw her again. And it became special to Evelyn because of her friendship with Alice.
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Why does Del have a relationship with the man next door? He seems like he is hiding something as he suddenly had to leave to go see his grandkids whom he never mentioned before.
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I rewatched the episodes to be more clear on details. I have a feeling Sam whom Del is courting is probably a time traveler too. The great grandmother that Kat visited with, mentioned she had two grandsons and Colton being one of them whom she thought may have traveled through the pond. She even mentioned her son....and how her daughter-in-law took good care of the farm. Could it be that Sam is Colton's brother or could he be his father? There are many twists on this story.
ALSO Casey I believe has something to do with the gentleman ( from Jacobs time)who loves Kat because he did paint a portrait of her. I belive Kat's ring may have fallen off and he held onto it for generations to come until Casey decided to research the pond also. After all he too knew about the pond. I have to wonder where the writers are going with this mystery. I love these episodes. I was disappointed how they did not show season 2 for the marathon when they advertised it. I do not understand what happened there.
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