The first half of the 2-episode series finale, AKA episode 12 of 13. Caveat up front: I watched both episodes back-to-back, so there may be some blending of what actually happened at the end of one/beginning of the next, but everything that happened will be in one of the two recaps….
So, after the tragic deaths of Cal and Chloe (tragic for the viewers, too, since they were two of the most sympathetic characters, if not the most), we have everyone in the woods except Trish and Jimmy, who are at the car on top of the tunnel entrance, and Shae and Madison, who are developing conspiracy theories in the sheriff’s attic.
The Practical Groomsman and Captain Obvious are sneaking around through the woods. Practical Groomsman suggests they split up, to have a better chance of finding Wakefield. Captain Obvious points out this plan is likely to get them both killed, and I started rethinking Sully’s nickname. But when they split up and Wakefield jumps out at Captain Obvious, Practical Groomsman is there to say “oh hell no,” and put a gun in his face. Game, set, match bro. His nickname stands.
Practical is ready to shoot Wakefield, but when Henry and Abby come up, he lets Abby decide. She can’t shoot him–and Henry encourages her not to, “you’re not a killer, Abby”–so they tie him with belts and march him to jail.
Jimmy wakes up Trish to tell her he saw a boat and they need to get the flares up on the cliff. When they get back up there, no boat is in sight. Trish gets suspicious, as do we, since we know Jimmy has a shady past. Plus there is a suspicious moment when Jimmy watches Trish get closer and closer to the cliff, and we wondered if it was an “a little bit closer to the edge, my love,” look.
Once they reach the jail and Henry locks Wakefield in, he goes to get Trish and Jimmy while Abby goes to collect Madison and Shae.
Henry finds them gone from the car and starts freaking out. He gets back to the sheriff’s office about when Abby, Shae, and Madison do. While the grown-ups are discussing what to do about finding Trish and Jimmy, Madison sneaks in to see Wakefield, since he was pretty much her BFF, and why the hell after everything that’s happened is her mother not keeping a better eye on her than this?! After a minute she comes out to tell Abby that Wakefield wants to talk to her.
Abby goes in, and Wakefield doesn’t really have much to say. He’s not really even bothering to taunt her until she pushes him into telling her why–because her mother stole his family from him. She threw his child away like trash, and that was something Wakefield could never get back.
While Abby’s in the other room, Shae tells everyone about the file on Jimmy–he was arrested a few times and a murder suspect in Seattle. They all immediately fall back into how he must be Wakefield’s kid, with all his miraculous survivals and reappearances at opportune moments.
Jimmy comes in to say Trish fell and they have to help her now. Henry thinks Jimmy pushed her. Abby and Practical Groomsman go with Jimmy and Henry to look for Trish. No body is at the bottom of the cliff, and Henry puts the shotgun in Jimmy’s face (and Abby’s since she’s in front of him, still clueless about her dad’s file on Jimmy) when Trish calls to them.
She fell, she explains. She slipped. Nothing suspicious there. But good news–she found a boathouse with a working radio! They go to it, and Jimmy is trying to find the frequency and jiggle the antennae into place when Practical Groomsman is all “dude, get your hands off it.” Practical to the core. Finally they get through to the Coast Guard and call for help. ETA no more than 4 hours.
Practical Groomsman stays with the radio, since the Coast Guard said to stay close for further instructions. Henry and Trish go back to the Candlewick to get her some clothes–since Wakefield’s in jail and all, it’s safe now.
Abby and Jimmy head back to the station, and on the way Jimmy has a confession. He was really angry when she left, and got into a few fights. Hence the nights in jail. Went to Seattle and was working on the docks when someone was murdered in the area. No one knew him and he was sleeping in his car, hence the murder suspicion–but he was quickly cleared. This was just the backstory. His confession is that he had sworn to break her heart worse than she broke his the next time he saw her. But when she stepped off the boat all the anger disappeared, he says, and all he felt was love. They fall into each other’s arms.
Back at the jail, Captain Obvious offers Madison her pick of the bare foodstuffs. She says she’s not that hungry, because someone brought her and Wakefield food while they were in the tunnels. (Remember this was just last night). Someone…brought them food? She has no further information-just heard the footsteps, but no voice to say if it was either a man or a woman.
But now they know Wakefield has an accomplice, and are convinced it’s Jimmy, since he would know the island well enough and has that suspicious past and those miraculous saves and all.
Meanwhile, in the cell, Wakefield worms out of his belt cuffs (and seriously? They didn’t bother to put real handcuffs on him?) and then somehow opens the lock on his cell door. He walks into the office and starts strangling Captain Obvious. The Captain tries to fight him off long enough for Madison and Shae to escape, but gets an eye full of a spikey paperweight for his trouble. Bye-bye, Captain Obvious….
Madison and Shae find Jimmy and Abby in the woods; they tell them where the boat house is and to go meet Practical Groomsman there. Shae and Madison go, and Jimmy and Abby then head for the Candlewick to warn Henry and Trish.
Back at the Candlewick, Trish has poetically put on her wedding gown after a therapeutic shower. She and Henry are cuddling when someone knocks on the door. No one is there, so Henry goes out to investigate. While he’s gone, Wakefield busts through the front door. Trish manages to get the bathroom door locked, and apparently it was much more solid than the front door, because Wakefield needs several kicks to knock it off its hinges (the front door came off with one). Trish has enough time to go out the window and start tearing through the woods.
She runs into Henry, and starts sobbing that Wakefield is out.
“I know,” Henry says. “I put him in the cell, and I passed him the key.”
“What?” Trish is confused and horrified by this.
“I’m Wakefield’s son,” Henry explains.
“You killed Daddy?” It’s when she makes this connection that Trish starts to look kind of mad to still be that close to him.
“Yes,” Henry says, and, still holding her gently, stabs her. “It’s not fair,” he keeps whispering as he holds her and then lays her body on the ground–to her, or to himself?
So…wait. Henry’s the accomplice? It makes sense, I mean of the wedding party it could only have been someone who knew the island really well, and now Wakefield’s amazing powers of being everywhere instantaneously make a little more sense. But–why? That part of the big reveal in the last episode….
