Dave has more scary dreams – a vision warning him of a
woman being attacked.
So he and Vince go to check it out… alone. C’mon guys you
have more brains than this. They find no killer – but thy do find the woman
alive. Unfortunately, like everyone else exposed to void-beasties, she doesn’t
remember a thing. Dwight hopes Gloria will be able to do something
She can’t use her lab because of a random Trouble. Goria
is always awesome. She can’t restore memories –but she can test if people have
lost time. They realise they all have, that day – the beastie has been around.
Now Charlotte and Dwight are all couply and romantic (and
clearly just woke up together) – and Dwight address the whole immortality thing
when she raises the idea of them living “happily ever after.” So she’ll still
look like this and he will lose that impressive torso (thank you Haven by the way).
She and Audrey go to the massive stack of Aether which
they have to control/convert together. Charlotte’s plan is create a new
non-killy barn.
There’s a random man ranting about horsemen of the
apocalypse. In any other town that would just be random ranting guy – in Haven it means a man being trampled to
death by invisible horses, of course.
Later Dwight and Nathan find another body who looks
burned and pummelled. Both dead men had roman numeral tattoos – but different
numbers. The body helpfully has a list of names attached which may take a while
to look up because Haven no longer
has phone lines or internet or computers.
Dwight has a random bruise which Nathan turns into a sex
joke which then goes into the deepe end of talking about dating immortals. And
Nathan gets a Roman Numeral X while Dwight gets VII. Not a good sign.
Charlotte and Audrey, working with the Aether, get their
own numbers VIII (Chalotte coming with a lot of fatigue) and II (Audrey can’t
see). Dwight realises this is just a bit too targeted – though Audrey and
Charlotte have to continually push to keep working on the Aether despite both
being incapacitated. They also have doubts about their skill to control the
Aether since Mara learned all her skills from her dad – which is a nice
exposition lead in to daddy being all dangerous and obsessed with his research
which got him banished.
Nathan and Dwight find the list of names belongs to tarot
cards readers and go interview a card reader, Lainey. They find the deaths are
linked to the pictures on numbered cards, and both the dead men are customers
for her. But Lainey protests she didn’t draw cards for them – though the four
cards for Dwight, Nathan, Audrey and Charlotte are all laid out. She protests
she never drew those cards, she doesn’t remember doing it – which points to the
void beasty.
They catch up with Charlotte and Audrey and this is the
first time Charlotte hears about the void beastie. She tells them “Croatoan” is
the name of a monster. And she thinks it killed her Audrey’s daddy. They guess
he’s hunting Troubled people and taking the Troubles. They do have a solution –
the new Barn will send all void-stuff (aether and Croatoan) back to the void.
Which is why Croatoan is targeting them.
As Dwight starts to die from his card, Nathan flails
around and randomly decides the only way to save him is for Lainey to finish
his reading (they don’t know how to turn her Trouble off – and her Trouble
might be like Dwight and Nathan’s). The next card is the Devil with more
downsides but he’s alive. So hey let’s draw more cards for Audrey and
Charlotte! Such a good plan! Both feel better and can work on the Aether before
the new cards kick in. They also have a breakthrough on how to control the
Aether – it has to be desperate emotion. Focusing on what they’ll lose to the
Troubles they control and condense the huge cloud into one form.
Charlotte is worried about drawing “the Lovers” card and
stays with the chained up Dwight while Audrey goes to hide the Aether. Then Charlotte
runs off on her own, much to Dwight’s confusion.
Audrey begins to fade out of existence thanks to her new
card.
Nathan has a better idea – re-deal for all of them,
rather than following Croatoan’s question, they can follow one Nathan’s. Good
plan. Nathan asks the question “what fate did we earn”? Ok that’s a shitty
vague question!
This gets them the “judgement” card which Lainey says,
since their cause is just, means they can overcome any obstacle. Everyone has
their curses removed
Except Charlotte – who left her ring behind with Dwight.
Because the Lovers has brought her ex-husband back to her – Croatoan. He
demands the Aether and she tries to stab him
Audrey arrives and finds Charlotte, dying. Charlotte tells Audrey that her daddy is Croatoan and furious about Mara
Duke and Seth are looking for someone who can heal Duke’s
many Troubles, following clues to someone who claim they can suck black goo out
of someone. They find Sam who claims he has the curse, the burden, of being
able to “draw the Darkness from others.” Maybe he’s a Troubled person. But, as
Duke sees very easily, it’s all just a scam (Duke is experienced with scams). Still
the scam contains enough knowledge of the Troubles to make Duke ask questions
and learn about a man who told him that 500 years ago a demon couple came
causing curses with Aether - again, far too on the mark to ignore.
So time to find the old guy – who is dead with the symbol of the void on his grave. While moping, a man appears with answers
I can’t even begin to describe how little I care about
Duke’s little vision quest. Especially after the action happening in Haven.
Because a lot is happening after so many season we’re now
finally rushing into some answers and revelations and a real sense that something
is actually going to change and get done.
I do think there was a bit less of the whole apocalyptic
feel to this episode, which is a shame. I liked the gathering dark and panic
that had been drawn on the last few episodes. I can’t imagine people who had
lived through that would just stand and stare while a man ranted on about the
horses of the apocalypse coming.
