The Way Home Season 3, Ep. 3 Recap: Del Comes Clean & Elliot Hashes It Out With His Dad

Just like with every episode of The Way Home, there’s a lot to unpack from episode 3. After all, episode 2 ended on quite a cliffhanger last week with Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) finding teen Colton (Jordan Doww) venturing out in the pond. Was he time-traveling? Well, that’s where episode three started out.

Taking off right where episode two ended, Alice tries to play it cool with Colton and not show that she knows about the pond. “How did you know to find me here?” Colton asks Alice, to which she just explains she’s been looking for him all over. As it turns out, Colton bolted from his best friend Rick’s funeral and went straight to the pond.

But, before we start thinking that he must know about its time-traveling powers, think again. “I wasn’t thinking straight,” Colton says, looking back at the pond. Was he trying to time travel and failed? Does he not know yet?

In the next scene, we’re thrust into another unfinished drama from episode two when Elliot (Evan Williams) caught his dad Vic (James Gallanders) trying to steal the Augustine family ring. “Calm down? I just caught my own father trying to steal from me,” Elliot accuses. “That ring is mine,” he replies. “And you weren’t using it, not according to your ex-wife.” “You haven’t changed at all,” Elliot says and he storms back to his house.

Knowing how little we know about Elliot’s ex-wife Emma, it sure is interesting to hear from her. Could she be coming back into the picture?

Heading back to 1974, Alice and Colton find teen Del (Julia Tomasone) sharing her condolences with young Vic (Grayson Gallanders). “Where I come from, food is the best way to show you care,” she says. By the time she leaves, Vic spots them in the bushes. “I hate you, Colton Landry!” Vic screams. “You should’ve been there, it should’ve been you instead!” We finally know where his anger towards the Landrys started!

From one Vic to another, we get back to adult Vic’s fight with his son. “The Landrys have always loved to use us Augustines, there’s no way my ring is going to one of them,” Vic says.

Then, we finally get some backstory on Elliot’s mom. While Vic says she left after “all of two minutes,” Elliot defended his mom. “Of course she left, who would stay with you by choice?” he asks. “You made my life miserable for too long, but this is my house now and you can use the money I paid you for it and buy your bride a ring. Now pack your things and get out.” Elliot, we’re impressed!

Back in 74, Colton and Alice join more of Rick’s friends at Coyle’s. In one moment, Colton goes to the jukebox and plays “Oh Very Young” by Cat Stevens. “This is for Rick,” he says. “He’d want us to keep dreaming big, life is too short not to.”

As Colton and Evelyn (Devin Cecchetto) embrace each other as they sing, Rick’s family drives past with his casket and they run to watch. Through tears, they see young Vic in his brother’s jersey with a sling and a black eye. It’s a true origin story, if you will.

In the next scene, Elliot and Kat meet at the clubhouse for some time alone. But after noticing that the radio is not playing their music and that the empty wine bottle isn’t theirs, they someone might be keeping a secret. Is Del (Andie MacDowell) and Sam’s (Rob Stweart) relationship out of the bag? We surely think so!

Flashback to the 70s, an emotional Evelyn reveals her romantic feelings towards Colton. “I have loved him since forever, he doesn’t think of me the same way,” she tells Alice. “What i am supposed to do? Tell him? Rick is gone, life is really short. If there’s magic to be had, we can’t let it just pass us by.”

While she’s being supportive, Alice is clearly in a moral dilemma. She either encourages her friend to find love and risks her own family from ever existing, or betrays her friend and lets Colton find his way into Del’s heart. We wouldn’t know what to do either…

In the next scene, Kat, Elliot, Del, Alice and Jacob (Spencer MacPherson) join around the dinner table. “I’ve been saying Sam, for quite a while now” she declares. “So how long have you guys been sneaking outside in the clubhouse?” Kat then jokes. “I think what she means to say is we’re all happy for you, Del.”

And, in the spirit of announcements, Kat announces she’s moving in with Elliot. And while Alice was cool with it when she first heard, Del is the one who’s surprised by the news. “I just don’t see how you can abandon your daughter right now,” Del accuses after everyone but she and Kat leave.

Out on the porch, Elliot and Jacob share one of the show’s funniest scenes. “Well, as man of the house, the only approval you should be seeking is mine,” Jacob tells Elliot in a serious tone. “Where I come from, there are certain expectations if you ask for my sister’s hand,” he adds.

To that, Elliot’s all but speechless. “I’m sorry,” Jacob then says laughing. “Just a little time travel humor there, you should’ve seen your face!” Who knew Jacob was funny like that?

Up in her room, Alice and Kat continue putting puzzle pieces together as they join the secret messages in the two books Colton gave to Evelyn. “To Evie,” it reads. “No curse is on you if you stay. The water did save, I believe it now. There is magic at home. Come back to me and to the pond. Love, Cole.”

“So they both knew about the pond,” Kat says. “Were they travelers too?”

During the farmer’s market the next day, reunions happened left and right. While Del made up with her estranged friend Rita (Marnie McPhail), Alice reunited with her previous love interest Noah (Alexander Eling).

Then, Del tried to get through with Vic. “Delilah Landry, still thinking food can fix everything,” he says, referring back to the day after Rick’s passing. “Well thanks, I don’t want any more of your family’s pity or your dry biscuits.”

“Okay, I’m done being polite,” Del says in return. “Leave my family alone, you ruined my chance to make amends with my daughter all those years ago and you have failed over and over again to be the father Elliot deserves. But despite that, he’s turned into one of the finest young men that I have ever known.”

“If you ever say a disparaging word against him, you’ll be sorry,” she continues. “Eat my dry biscuits!” Talk about a mic-drop moment!

Back in 1974, Kat returns to the pond to find some answers about her father. After stepping out of it, she runs into the illusive Grandma Fern, Colton’s grandma.

As they sit down for tea, Fern talks about how nice it is to see someone using the pond again. But before Kat can get more information, Fern responds with a sort of riddle. “If you want the right answers, you should ask the right questions,” she says, before retreating to her room.

In the present, Elliot has a heart-to-heart with his dad. “I spent my entire life in his shadow,” Vic says of his older brother. “Rick was the golden boy, I was the lesser sequel. After he died it only got worse, my parents made it clear that they’d wish it had been the other way around. It probably should have.”

“The night we crashed, I was bugging Rick, being a pain, you know like always,” he remembers, getting teary-eyed. “He turned around to sock me one, he lost control on a bend. Anyway, the past is the past.”

“Look, there’s a lot that I didn’t do right, I know that, but it’s a little too late to fix it now,” Vic tells his son. By the end, he agrees to not take the family ring. “You keep it,” he says. “You should be the one to carry on the family legacy.”

At the end of the episode, another wholesome happens, this time between Alice and Noah. “I never stopped thinking about you, Alice,” he tells her. “And I was hoping you were crazy enough to give me another chance.”

Then, just like the viewers have been rooting for, they kiss. “I don’t magic to pass me by either,” she says.

In the last scene, The Way Home gave us another major cliffhanger. At the paper, Kat and Alice come together to find out what Grandma Fern’s song, that went “65 thought they died, 65 still alive,” was all about. Looking through the files her former intern Casey has organized she finds a crucial piece of the puzzle: a poster about a town vote to fill in the Landry pond.

So what does this mean for Colton’s time traveling? Was the pond almost filled because of him?

Hopefully we’ll get some answers next week! The Way Home premieres every Friday at 9 pm ET, or Saturdays on Hallmark+. Happy watching!

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