My TV Musings

This show has turned out to be much more interesting and exciting than I had expected. And this particular episode turns the tide for Dan and his family.

Dan recently was able to assist the cops by catching a real estate developer, Aeden Bennett, who was a kidnapper of young girls. Well, he’s now out of prison and finds Dan alone at home. He shoots Dan in the shoulder and Dan somehow gets away. At first it looks like he crawled out of the house and into a treehouse but it turns out he time travelled to 1980 into the treehouse of a 10-year-old boy, whom apparently he is meant to help.

In the present, Aeden wanders through Dan’s house looking for him and decides to set a trap for Katie, Dan’s wife, to get her back to the house.

Back in 1980, Dan breaks into the house and finds this boy locked into a room in the house. The kid is scared his dad will kill him if he goes with Dan or even calls an ambulance for him when his wound starts bleeding again. The dad, a cop, comes home while Dan is hiding in the closet and relocks the kid away, running off when he gets a call on his radio. Dan is still unable to convince the kid to leave with him. In Dan’s attempt to call Child Services, he sees mail that is addressed to The Parents of Aeden Bennett, and he realizes that this kid is the man who shot him. He storms into the kid’s room and scares the hell out of him, yelling about how he kidnapped girls and how evil he turned out to be. The kid asks if Dan thinks things can change for him and Dan gives him some hope if only Aeden would leave the house with him. Aeden is reluctant and that’s when Livia shows up and calls an ambulance for Dan, saving him, if not the child.

On the way to the hospital, both Livia and Dan time travel away from 1980 and end up separated in present day San Francisco. Livia sees Jack, Dan’s brother, at the newspaper offices and Jack becomes a believer about time travel and agrees to help her find Dan. Livia then disappears. Jack finds Dan in a hospital and takes him home.

Dan enters the house first, talking Aeden into letting Katie go, then tells Aeden that he needs to tell the cops the whole story about his upbringing in order to avoid lethal injection. “Or,” he says, “my brother Jack will shoot you.” Aeden turns around and sees Jack with a gun aimed straight at him. After a little more discussion, during which Dan tells Aeden that he is, indeed, the man Aeden met when he was 10, Aeden puts his gun down and Jack takes him outside to the cops waiting.

So now Jack believes and should be able to help Dan in the future. Another twist was that the FBI agent, looking into the money issues Dan had previously, turned out to be a rogue agent and, when he showed up at Dan’s house before Dan arrived, Aeden killed him. So no more FBI problems either!

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