[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 finale “If You Could Read My Mind.”]
With all of the reveals that we did get in The Manner Dwelling Season 3 finale, there’s nonetheless a serious one we’ve wanted for the reason that earlier finale left up within the air: Who Is Casey?
Vaughan Murrae’s character is a time traveler — they’re now not hiding that — however they disclose to Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) within the Season 3 finale that they aren’t her child from the long run with Max Goodwin (Dale Whibley). Under, govt producers (and mom and daughter) Heather Conkie and Alexandra Clarke clarify why Casey’s id stays a thriller and reply different burning questions whereas looking forward to Season 4. (Learn half 1 of our deep dive into the finale with the EPs right here.)
Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) left, however Sam (Rob Stewart) tells Del (Andie MacDowell) it’s going to be okay. So initially, are you able to say if Jacob went again to the 1800s? Something about the place/when he’s?
Alexandra Clarke: Probably not.
Heather Conkie: What we beloved in regards to the Sam scene is when you recall, he’s in precisely the identical place that Elliot [Evan Williams] stood by the pond ultimately of our pilot episode, and he says the exact same phrases, so it was extra to unfold thriller about Sam in that second.
How lengthy have you ever recognized that Sam is aware of in regards to the pond? Was that from the introduction of the character?
Clarke: Once we’re introducing somebody into our world, we all know the total arc of them all through as a result of look, we’re a present that’s 41 minutes and 57 seconds lengthy. Once we introduce a brand new character that’s going to take up time on display screen, we’re very purposeful in why and the explanations behind it, and Sam is not any totally different. I imply, we positively have the concepts for who he’s, how he’s concerned, and we’re trying ahead to sharing a little bit bit extra about that.
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I feel the actual fact that we took the time to place him in the identical place, to have him say the identical phrases as Elliot stated to Kat [Chyler Leigh] when she was so fearful about the place Alice had disappeared to in our very first episode and getting so indignant at him for being so certain that she’d come again, the truth that we’ve carried out that once more with Sam, I feel in and of itself ought to inform followers one thing about who he’s.
Yeah, I’m considering a confidant of Casey’s — they did go to him for assist. Ought to we be questioning if he’s a time traveler, too? That will actually complicate issues due to his and Del’s relationship…
Clarke: I feel all of these potentialities are very legitimate for Sam. He’s obtained a couple of methods up his sleeve, that’s for certain.
Casey’s not hiding they’re a time traveler. Why have them speak to Jacob?
Clarke: We have been fascinated by that pairing. I feel it felt like in a bizarre method, by the top of our season, Casey was solely type of developing towards Alice and Kat and we’d by no means really had them come face-to-face with yet one more time traveler. And Jacob, we’d realized, had actually solely in all probability heard about Casey via the tales the others are telling. So it was actually enjoyable to have them come head to head. And actually it’s as a result of this thriller that we’d seeded even in Season 2 of Casey being employed as an intern and going via these containers and whereas they discovered one thing really actually, actually attention-grabbing, however by no means obtained an opportunity to inform Kat about it due to the pond and also you skip ahead in time while you’re gone. However in the end, the factor that they discovered was about serving to Jacob, and so it was very nice to have a second the place they really in individual may assist him versus doing it via Alice or doing it via Kat. As a result of on the finish of the day, that is, as Jacob even says, his salvation, discovering this can. So it was good to have that be an earned second between the one needing the saving and the one with the ability to save versus doing it via third events.
Casey then tells Alice that Alice isn’t their mother, however doesn’t reply about being a Landry and a Goodwin. What are you able to say about their id? As a result of there’s nonetheless the matter of them having Kat’s ring…
Conkie: Yep.
Clarke: I feel we realized early on that there was a method we may of reveal all about Casey in our Episode 10, however we held again as a result of it’s such a stunning reveal and we didn’t need it to only be yet one more reveal on this episode of reveals. There’s a lot extra story to inform with Casey. Casey is probably the most mercurial, unimaginable character. I really like the Casey character and Vaughan Murrae performs them so completely, they usually actually might be anybody is one of the best half. They’ve obtained a little bit little bit of Goodwin, they’ve obtained a little bit little bit of Augustine, they’ve obtained a little bit little bit of Landry. And I feel it’s beautiful to see the viewers proceed to guess at who they really are. The reply shall be shared, in fact it should. However I feel there’s extra story to inform and there’s extra story to earn us that reveal relatively than simply type of throw it away. It’s too massive and essential a reveal to only throw away in a fast scene in a finale episode. So I’ll say that they’re telling the reality about not being Alice’s child.
Casey additionally advised Jacob that the need will assist cease Dell’s letters. What did they imply by that?
Clarke: It reveals that they learn about these letters. And in order that’s a clue as nicely to perhaps who they is likely to be.
What are you able to say in regards to the id of who’s been sending these letters?
Clarke: All shall be revealed is what we will say. [Laughs]
Then there’s Fern (Jill Frappier), who continues to be this very mysterious character. We obtained that interplay between Fern and Kat, and clearly their conversations are removed from over. What are you able to say about after they’re going to be seeing one another once more? Is that music about ’65 a clue to after they see one another once more or is that one thing else?
Clarke: I feel something Fern says is a clue about her and her relationship to this household. Jill Frappier, who performs Fern, all of us fell in love along with her from the second she set foot on set, and I’m so glad the viewers has carried out the identical. I really like that they love her. I imply, I’ve seen fan artwork, it’s simply fabulous. And she or he’s so flattered as nicely. She’s so excited. Sure, there’s actually extra to inform with Fern, for certain. I feel she’s such an enchanting character, and that, I feel, is what we will say.
How does Alice discovering out that Casey isn’t her and Max’s youngster now issue into how she feels about him? She was fearful that that was influencing her earlier than, however now to search out out that Casey’s not their child will even perhaps affect her. Then there’s the Noah (Alexander Eling) of it…
Clarke: It’s a extremely nice query, and it’s one which we’re asking ourselves proper now. We go away all three girls on a brand new sense of freedom on the finish of Season 3. A method we all the time like to speak about our three primary gals within the writers’ room is every one type of representing the previous, the current, and the long run inside a season. And this season we actually checked out it as Del questioning what she remembered in regards to the previous on account of Alice being there and type of interfering with all of that. It was Kat actually questioning the place she was within the current now that she introduced Jacob residence, she’d printed Susanna’s e book, what the heck do I do now? It was a concentrate on the connection with Elliot for certain. And Alice was type of questioning her future and never solely as a result of she’s about to enter her final yr of highschool and also you’ve obtained Brady [Al Mukadam] saying five-year plan, five-year plan, but additionally due to the information, or at the least the idea, that Casey was her child.
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And now that I feel quite a lot of questions have been answered for these girls with reference to these three — previous, current, way forward for all of it — they’re all type of in a second of pure freedom going into subsequent season the place it seems like their life is their very own, and Alice is not any exception. We’re going to be going into her finish of highschool expertise in Season 4, and there’s a number of questions that come together with that, none of that are associated to a pond. So on the finish of the day, she’s nonetheless a youngster dwelling in 2025 and needing to go to college if she desires to and all that stuff. So I feel aside from it being a time traveler, she has quite a lot of life inquiries to ask herself.
Is Del going to wish to time journey once more or has she gotten what she wanted? It seems like she’s the one one who will be like, “ what? As soon as was it.”
Clarke: It does. Yeah, she’s very — I feel even Nick [Kerry James] says it, a no-nonsense girl. I feel the Del of all of it with reference to time journey shall be an attention-grabbing factor to discover in Season 4 — when she desires to go, why she desires. I really feel like it doesn’t matter what, she is going to all the time have a really — she’s by no means going to be like Kat, the place it’s like, nicely, get up and really feel like leaping within the pond. It is going to by no means be that. If and when she does time journey once more, will probably be for an excellent motive, nicely thought out. Kat leads along with her coronary heart. I feel Del leads with head and coronary heart mixed in a really equal, beautiful method. So it should by no means be impulsive, I assume, is the underside line.
Conkie: Will probably be for a rattling good motive.
So what are you able to tease about Season 4?
Clarke: It is going to reply questions. That’s such a weak reply. I’m sorry.
Conkie: I do know. Nicely, it should reply the questions that we ran out of time to reply.
Clarke: I feel will probably be like every of our different seasons if we do it proper, which is answering quite a lot of lingering issues, but additionally asking quite a lot of new attention-grabbing questions, introducing quite a lot of new type of compelling mysteries. The pond’s going to pond, and we’re excited to see the place it takes our forged this yr for certain. As a result of as I stated, I feel they’re all ranging from a extremely new contemporary perspective off the highest that we’ve by no means actually had earlier than: that sense of freedom, that sense of chance and that sense of closure. So I feel that in and of itself is a extremely thrilling factor.
Conkie: Something goes.
Are there any questions that you would be able to say will certainly be answered in Season 4?
Clarke: I don’t wish to be beholden to something. I feel we will safely say that the Casey of all of it — their id, their story — the curtain shall be pulled again on that in a much bigger method subsequent season for certain. I feel the opposite lingering questions on Sam or the letters or all of the issues we let hold on the finish of this yr, they are going to be addressed, no query about it. We’re very conscious of the questions we left unanswered on the finish of Season 3 going into Season 4, and I hope that our viewers belief us sufficient to know that we are going to one hundred pc handle ’em all.
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