FROM – Season 3 Episode 10 – (speculative recap) ⁓

Ethan (Simon Webster) worries that he will forget what his late brother Thomas was like. Julie (Hannah Cheramy) says she must tell him something. “When we went to those ruins, when I walked inside, I didn’t just have a dream,” she explains. “I think I went somewhere. I don’t know how, but when we went to the ruins, somehow I was in a chamber and I saw me and Randall and Marielle chained to the wall. We were screaming. I think that’s where we were when we couldn’t wake up. But then I left the chamber and I went into the tunnels. I heard Mom’s voice, and she was talking to Victor…I think I was actually there, like I somehow went back to that night.”

She fails to mention that it was she who threw the rope to Boyd so he could climb out of the rock chimney in “Strangers in a Strange Land” (Episode 2.1).

“You’re a storywalker,” Ethan tells her, “someone who can visit chapters of the story that already happened.” Julie asks if she can go back to the ruins and repeat what happened. When Ethan says maybe, she continues: “Well, if this is real, it means I can change things. I can save Tian Chen. Maybe I could even save Thomas.”

Ethan seems to ponder the matter. “It doesn’t work like that,” he concludes, sounding a litle bit like a dungeon master. “You can visit the chapters, but you can’t change them. No one can change a story once it’s been told.”

Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno) ‘fell down’. We get no further details on that. It’s worth noting that Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perrineau) has Parkinson’s Disease. Tabitha tells Jim (Eion Bailey) that when she hugged Victor (Scott McCord) in the root cellar (episode 3.9) she felt that Miranda (Victor’s mother) was with her. “I could feel her in that room,” she says. Jim doesn’t how to deal with this, so he visits Jade (David Alpay) and asks for help.

After Jim suggests a musical approach, Jade deciphers the tune represented by the numbers on the bottle tree notes. Jim, Jade, and Tabitha get the violin that belonged to Victor’s mother and go to the bottle tree where Jade plays the tune.

The children arrive. They approach through the woods, saying “angkhooey”. Tabitha and Victor almost immediately realize that the word means “remember”. (The language in which “angkhooey” means remember is unknown. In Gujerati, “Ang Koo Ee” means “organ loss.”) Tabitha comes to believe that she is either a reincarnation of Miranda, or is somehow possessed by her. She explains that one of the children she was trying to save belonged to Miranda and Jade (who, it turns out, is similarly reincarnated as Christopher). If this is a delusion, it is a folie à deux, because Jade shares it.

Everyone else is looking for Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori). After Ellis (Corteon Moore) suggests that Elgin (Nathan D Simmons) knows where Fatima is, Boyd decides to torture the information out of the boy. When Acosta (Samantha Brown) and the ghost of Father Khatri (Shatarget=”_blank”wn Majumder) stop him from doing this, Sarah (Avery Konrad) takes over the role of torturer, and Boyd’s missing daughter-in-law is located, but not before she gives birth to what develops into a fully adult version of Smiley (James McGuire), the night creature that Boyd killed in “Pas de deux” (episode 2.6).

Boyd sees Smiley emerge from his chrysalis. We learn that the night creatures sacrificed their children so that they could live forever, which might or might not be literally true. Before being tortured, Elgin told Boyd that Fatima’s pregnancy was a good thing, and that after she gave birth they could all go home. There is no indication he was right about that, but the night creatures seem happy to have Smiley back.

Regarding the torture, Boyd can scarcely arrest Sarah for doing what he meant to do himself. Boyd still hasn’t told everyone that Fatima killed Tillie.

Jim goes for a walk in the woods to give Tabitha some space and to figure things out. Julie finds him at the wreck of their old camper. She has Douglas E Hughes) shows up. “That was a hell of a song,” he says. “That Jade sure can play.” He brushes off Julie’s attempts to pull him off her father (without harming her), and rips Jim’s throat out.

It is just possible that this version of Julie is trying to change a part of the story that has not yet been told.

The Man in the Yellow Suit brings to mind a character (who was called exactly that) in the 2002 film TUCK EVERLASTING. That yellow suited guy was searching for the Tuck family, and also was looking for Winnie Foster, a 15-year-old girl traveling with the Tucks, because she had information about a spring with water that makes those who drink it immortal. When he finds the Tucks, he shoots one of them in the chest (not fatally) and tries to bully them into revealing the spring’s location.

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