‘The Way Home’ Recap: ‘How to Save a Life’

3/4/2024

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Evan Williams, Sadie Lalamme-Snow, and Chyler Leigh as Elliot Augustine, Alice ‘Ali’ Dhawan, and Katherine ‘Kat’ Landry Dhawan in Episode 206 of ‘The Way Home’ – ‘How to Save a Life’. (Photo Courtesy of Peter Stranks/Hallmark Media.) ©2024 Hallmark Media

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 206 of ‘The Way Home’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.

Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve talked at great length about how the Hallmark Channel series, The Way Home, has offered up some of the best explorations regarding the healing journey we go on when we suffer through trauma and loss to ever hit the airwaves. Simply because it is presenting such lessons in a very raw and compelling manner, one grounded in cautionary moments and causality and that is indeed helping us to learn the importance of dealing with our respective pains and emotional aches. But of course… to truly hammer home why that needs to happen, we need examples of what kind of consequences await, and that’s why this week’s episode of the show is quite important in nature. For ‘How to Save a Life’ showcases just that, and it accomplished such a feat by way to two key storylines.

One of which, involved Del. For she received a phone call from the authorities that they might have found Jacob’s remains in a body of water. Which we knew to be false, but since Del has been in the dark about Jacob’s real whereabouts, she held to the moment and felt the past wash over her. All by pondering upon the many phone calls she received in that vein throughout the years, and how they hurt and tortured her soul and well… since Del hasn’t quite put all her pain to bed, those memoires and sorrowful hope stuck around until she got the news that Jacob wasn’t the person they found. All of which spoke to how the past lingers when we don’t resolve it, and how it finds new ways to create pain when the wound isn’t healed and re-opened and that made for one powerful and moving storyline/lesson.

But there was mention of two plot threads related to the lesson in this tale, and the other one came about via Kat. Who made some significant discoveries in the past. Such as the fact that it wasn’t the British that hauled Jacob away for violating the law, but Cyrus Goodwin’s lackeys at his behest. To settle old scores and to cause all kinds of trouble, and well… that meant Kat had to dedicate time and resources and trust into helping him escape Cryus’ home. Which brought about a harrowing and intense sequence that saw Kat, Susanna and Thomas run roughshod through the Goodwin estate to indeed free a battered and bruised Jacob before Kat returned home. Which at first glance, doesn’t seem like a plot thread grounded deeply in consequences for not dealing with our trauma.

However, the consequences were there. For buried beneath Kat’s bravery and brilliance, were little moments that spoke to those painful consequences. For instance, the paper was suffering back in present day, because Kat was spending all of her time in the past, neglecting her duties and that prompted Elliot and Alice to step in to keep the paper alive and of course… it was up to Alice to support Del in her time of need. Because Kat was scaring Cyrus in the past while Del tried to smooth over the ache in her chest and all of that spoke to the reality that when we obsess about the past and our pain and focus only upon, we do damage to our personal lives. We lose sight of what needs to be a priority, and we potentially hurt others along the way. Ergo, we have to be present in the moment, we have to reconcile and heal, or real pain comes into play.

All of which made, for another brilliant episode from this story. Since it used a wonderfully written script to draw us in and thrill us with adventure and hope, to provide us with subtext and truth regarding what we become when we are obsessed with our pain instead of obsessed with living. Giving rise to an incredible tale that made it clear that Kat is flirting with real emotional danger here and may need some hard lessons to understand the err of her ways. Which is hyper realistic and adds to the core depth of this story, and now that we’ve reached the end of this stunning lesson, it will be interesting to see what lies ahead now that we know where Kat is firmly planted, emotionally. Until next time.

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