The Full Moon, Em and May
REVIVAL – Episode 108 – A Rose and a Thorn – (limited spoilers) ⁓
Rose and May
Rose Blackdeer (Leenah Robinson) and May Tao (Katherine King So) were in love and planned to run away together. Rose’s father Jesse (Brandon Oakes) didn’t like that idea, because Rose’s mother left her land which, if Rose took up residence elsewhere, would become property of the government. As she waited at a bus stop, Rose was knocked out, kidnapped, and eventually killed. Jesse was framed for the murder, but Dana (Melanie Scrofano) knew he didn’t do it and allowed him to escape.
May found proof that Deputy Brent (Mark Little) planted the evidence that led to Jesse’s arrest. She tracked Jesse down in Thunder Bay, Ontario and tells him that, so Jesse goes back to Wasau to sort things and almost immediately is shot dead by Deputy Brent. It is 18 December, Revival Day.
Patty Cypress
Shortly before Rose’s disappearance, Em told her mother Patty (Lara Jean Chorostecki) she planned to go to college some distance from Wasau. Her mother was supportive, but Em suspected her father would not be. Patty called Em her “little miracle”.
Em’s mother died in a car accident exactly two years prior to Revival Day, and Rose disappeared shortly before Patty died.
Em (Romy Weltman) tells her sister “Remember how Mom had this thing abut the water being special? She was right. That is where Ibrahim took me and the water…healed me,” May says one of Em’s old pill bottles was found at the ‘sacred place’ (apparently the spot on Moore Creek where Em died) as were earrings belonging to Rose.
Darlene Schultz (Nikki Payne)
Deputy Brent planted the evidence against Jesse so he could pay off his mother’s hospital bills.
Patty had cancer, and Aaron’s wife Nithiya (Gia Sandhu) has cancer. Deputy Brent sent Aaron a text around the time Rose went missing. The text said, simply, “dark blue cutlass supreme”.
Em remembers that the person who killed her was wearing an animal mask and had a symbol carved in his chest. Aaron, she says, had no such symbol carved there.
Rose corresponded with someone she called ‘Bear’ who turned out to b e Blaine Able (Steven Ogg). Their relationship was platonic
Dana with the pill bottle found at the ‘sacred place’
Jesse visits Blaine, who is asleep, and notices a light coming from the garage, and releases the ‘angel’ held captive there. Then Jesse notices a dark blue cutlass supreme sitting in Blaine’s junkyard. Rose’s body is in the trunk, wrapped in a blanket. Jesse carries the body home. Then he indicates that it’s time for him to go, and meets a creature much like the one Jordan encountered, and, like Jordan in Episode Six, he vanishes. Jesse’s creature may or may not have been the same one he released from Blaine’s garage. Blaine is upset at losing his captive creature, and claims to know nothing about the body in the car.
May reads Em’s poem
Meanwhile, the moon is full as May reads some of Em’s poetry while “Throw Me a Line” by Haevn plays in the background.
EM: “You really loved her, huh?”
MAY: “I really did. You ever had anyone like that?”
EM: “Yeah. Yeah, maybe.”
Em calls Rhodey (Kaleb Horn) and discovers he has escaped. They arrange to meet, but it doesn’t turn out well.
Em’s poem
Every path finds its edge.
Silent crossing over dark
We mistake the silence for peace
Forget that longing can echo louder than rage.
And the path we choose, a pit.
A stream, an icy river
Is sometimes a return to what we were,
to what we left behind.
We cross, dimly aware of the depths beneath
but these quiet bridges carry us
beyond the dark.
Still, something yearns beneath the ice,
a voice not spoken, but known.
It pulls, not with force,
but with a promise.
But what was lost still waits.
Like a memory of warmth
in a body grown cold.
Unaware, we pass
over shadows waiting below
on an icy river.