‘Keeping Faith’ Recap: ‘Episode 6’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Six of ‘Keeping Faith’.

When we last settled in to discuss the magnificent AcornTV series, Keeping Faith; we made mention of the possibility that Faith Howells was about to deal with some incredibly dark times. After all, DI Williams was trying to figure out how to pin a murder charge on Faith, and of course, external pressures were growing behind the scenes thanks to the Reardon and Glynn crime families. Leaving all of us to wonder just how long before Faith’s world came crashing down around her, burying her in more strife and trouble and heartache and well, it turns out that we didn’t have to wait all that long to get that particular answer.
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For the next episode of this tale, sees everything begin to crumble around her, primarily thanks to DI Williams. Because at long last, Evan’s car was found by the docks, and it was of course abandoned and broken and well, the lack of any emotion on Faith’s part in regard to this discovery, and the fact that Evan was still missing, motivated Williams to try something drastic. Because she was convinced that Faith killed her husband and figured perhaps a little old school pressure might get her to confess to said murder. Which means that poor Faith spent a little time in the slammer, as Williams tried her best to sweat her. But alas, there was no confession to pull out of Faith’s soul, since she did nothing wrong, allowing for her to return home to a devastating surprise.

Because while Faith was in jail, Williams made a phone call to Child Protective Services, so that they could properly care for the kids since she made it seem as though the kids were living in the home of a twisted criminal mastermind. And this is an act that damn near broke Faith, since we all know how much she loves her kids. But rather than let Williams win, she acted quick and did everything within her power to get her little ones back home… and sadly, she failed in her mission. Because CPS was made aware of her friendship with Steve Baldini, and to complicate matters further… Arthur poking about and likely spying on the behalf of the Reardon family, only emboldened CPS to keep the children at a secure location and well, that motivated Faith to go to the extreme in order to find her husband.

Because his return would make it clear that she was no murderer and that led her back to Doctor Alpay. For only she seemed to know where Evan snuck off to and that gave Faith quite the idea to get the truth out of her. In that, perhaps the time had come to play the good doctor’s game and use a little deception to get ahead in this mess and after a few hours of work in the office… Faith was able to ‘produce’ the money that Alpay wanted off of her printer. And by meeting her under the cover of night to hand off the fake cash, Alpay would be clueless about the deception and give Faith the details, and what’s amazing is that this plan almost worked. But thanks to Arthur’s bumbling attempts to photograph the doc, Faith was unable to uncover Evan’s whereabouts and courtesy of DI Williams… she’ll never get that information from Doctor Alpay.

Because DI Williams followed Faith into the night and when Alpay was rushing back home, out of the worry her cover had been blown… she ran into the detective, or rather, the detective’s car; and crashed and died in a subsequent explosion. But not all hope was lost in that moment, since Faith was able to observe that Williams was hovering about the accident site and well, if she can use the outcome of that to her advantage, since the detective wasn’t doing much to help; she might be able to get the police to back off. But while we wait to see if Faith can pull that off, we can bask in the wonder of one intense tale. Because this one just kept sending big moments our way, and when it wasn’t putting the viewer on the edge of their seats, it was breaking their hearts. Since so many good people basically turned their backs on Faith in this tale, leaving her with only a handful to trust and that hurts because for a time there, it seemed as though everyone was rallying around her. But in the end, it will be those chosen few that lift her up and help her along as she undoubtedly prepares for her biggest fight to date, one that will revolve around bringing her babies, home. Until next time.  

Series 1 and 2 of ‘Keeping Faith’ are available to stream right now on AcornTV. Series 3 premieres on April 12, 2021.

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