“Unlocking Secrets: How Colton’s Perspective in The Way Home Season 3 Finale Redefines Everything We Thought We Knew!”
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As we dive into the latest episode of Hallmark’s beloved series, “The Way Home,” it’s hard not to wonder: why do we sometimes make time travel seem more complicated than it is? After all, with a critic’s rating of 4.5 out of 5, you’d think we’d all grasp the concept of non-linear pairings better than we do! In the much-anticipated Season 3, Episode 10, we’re finally treated to some emotional revelations, particularly involving Colton Landry, as he revisits pivotal moments in his life. It’s like watching a friend put together a jigsaw puzzle—except this one has pieces from different decades, and somehow there’s a pond involved that’s more magical than a cat video on the internet! So buckle up, because the emotional rollercoaster ride is about to begin. Did you ever think time travel would be this complicated? LEARN MORE
If you’ve been floating around the internet reading theories about this Hallmark series, you know people have made it much harder to understand than necessary.
The Way Home Season 3 Episode 10 (click the link for a scene-by-scene recap of the episode) brings Colton Landry back to the table, giving us plenty of answers to long-lingering questions.
His understanding of time travel was the key to much of what occurred in the series so far, and the concept of non-linear time travel is the lynchpin tying it all together.
We’ve heard that the cast and crew were in tears reading the finale for a while now, and now we know why. As crucial as Jacob’s disappearance was to the show, so was Colton’s death, and to understand this story, we needed to know what he knew.
And now we do.
Before his death, Colton was able to put all of the pieces together, from his early life through his impending death, which was foretold to him by his granddaughter, not with words, but with teary eyes as she cried into his shoulder.
Time travel isn’t linear, which is hard to understand. You don’t go back to March 1999 and then back to April 1999, etc. You pop in just where the pond wants you to go.
During The Way Home Season 1, that didn’t seem possible. Kat wanted to return and fix the wrongs she created by being there, but the pond wouldn’t let her.
It seemed logical that once you went back, you couldn’t go back to before the time where you had already been. Or something like that.
Did I say logical? The way this story unfolds has been anything but logical, but it has been magical.
Finally, stepping into Colton’s shoes as we first met him in 1999 was so emotional. Every time he put another piece into the puzzle, a swell of music made it impossible to tamp down the accompanying tears.
Alice going back to play MASH with Kat and Elliot set the whole thing into motion. Alice had to be armed with all of her other time travel adventures to talk with Alice at the pond. Playing MASH was earlier in Kat and Elliot’s friendship with her, but later in hers with them.
Colton recognized Alice from 1974. Of course he did. She was so important to his love story with Delilah, and she was there during some of the most cherished times of his life.
And when she originally traveled to 1999, he wasn’t indifferent to her presence. He didn’t let on because she had already told him not to, in this twist of fate unknown to us before.
He recognized her as unique and special and even understood that Kat’s love of the Alice in Wonderland books could be related to Alice’s presence. He had the benefit of knowing her when he was younger, but he wasn’t ready to throw caution to the wind, either.
But when he saw her at the pond, he knew — she was a time traveler. He even wondered why she lied to him all those years ago.
But this isn’t the Alice he gets to know later, so she tells him not to question the Alice he will be getting to know because that Alice will be brand new to time travel.
It finally makes sense why, after the two of them being so close in 1974, he never spoke about it with her that we could see. In her linear fashion, we see the story through Alice’s eyes in 2023-25.
Later, after Jacob went missing, Evelyn offered him financial assistance. He didn’t want it, but visiting his old friend reunited him with the “My Katherine” portrait hanging over her fireplace. When he saw that, the remaining puzzle pieces fell into place.
He recalled his friend Rose, who looked exactly like the woman in the painting. He remembered seeing her in 1816 and how she thanked him for saving her brother. If that was her brother, it was his Katherine and his Jacob.
He was much more brazen when he found Alice at the pond again. He was so excited to share with someone who understood what he remembered, and he even asked her if she was his granddaughter.
That scene was incredibly moving, and that it ended with his understanding of his impending death made his story all the more urgent.
When Alice told him Jacob would return, Colton thought he’d see his boy again, but Alice couldn’t hide the truth in her eyes. Alice desperately wanted to tell him everything to see if she could stop it, but he knew that the path they were traveling led to her, and he wouldn’t change it for the world.
He took solace in the fact he got to know her out of her time and even made music with her in two different time periods.
And if Del was still upset that he never told her, she now knows that he made one last trip on the last day of his life to find Rose, his Katherine, so that they could talk again before she left and he lost his life.
He couldn’t have known he’d never get the chance to tell Del the truth, but I’d venture to guess that when he died in Kat’s arms, he knew that someday, Del would learn the truth.
That time was now.
Alice needed her grandmother to believe what she knew — that Colton had given up nothing for her. He chose Delilah, and music would have been his way of getting her back if she hadn’t returned on her own.
Learning that gave Del the courage to take her girls’ hands and jump into the past herself. She got to see her Colton again on the greatest day of her life — the day they married.
Colton, too, got to see his son again, solidifying an internet theory that the Colton we have seen on and off was not the same Colton we knew from 1999.
He was traveling, too, and when he took Jacob’s face in his hands and told him he would always love him no matter what happened, it was a future Colton seeing his son one last time.
Although not solved, KC’s mystery has been enhanced. KC is from the future but is not Alice and Max’s child.
KC did discover Susana’s will, in which she left everything to the Landrys, and hoped to share it with Kat during The Way Home Season 2, but Kat took off to 1914 to save Jacob before KC had the chance.
Putting it in the folder made sense until the pond had its way with KC’s time travel. KC apparently met Sam as an attorney to answer questions about the will and whether it could be used to stop Lewis.
KC blackmailed Lewis just as KC expects Jacob to do the same with him now over his mistakes at the vineyard.
KC also said that the letters Del has been receiving should stop now that the will has been recovered. But who is KC, exactly? We still don’t know, and it’s my guess that it will come to light through yet another non-linear progression in this time-travel tale.
Jacob has to come to grips with his pain, and he’s decided to do it somewhere else.
When he learned Susana had left them the farm, he took off again, which began another mystery. Internet sleuths have wondered if the boy jumping in the pond after leaving the baby in the basket could have been Jacob, and now I’m wondering that, too.
If Jacob had jumped and traveled back to 1975, he could have ensured Elliot’s safety before taking Elliot’s mom into the pond. It’s worth exploring, anyway.
Yes, the TS Eliot-quoting girl Alice met on The Way Home Season 3 Episode 9 was more likely than not Elliot’s mom. When she left Elliot, she time-traveled with a Landry — determining which Landry is now part of the puzzle.
And just who is Sam? All we know is that he is likely to be a time traveler. When Del was worried that Jacob left to save his family more pain, Sam told Del it would all be fine.
How does he know? He just does, is what he told her — while standing next to the pond.
It seems he has been to our future before. Given what we know now, it would mean he comes from the future, but the funny thing about time travel is that someone in the future could be from our present but be unknown to us when they visit us in the past.
He could also wind up being Colton’s brother, but if Jacob didn’t jump with Elliot’s mother, it could have been Colton’s brother who did, and that would have taken him to the past, so he couldn’t have seen our future yet.
Unless. There is always an unless.
What did restoring the pendulum swinging from past to future on the clock mean for the rules of the show?
Did they change? Does restoring that pendulum restore balance in that both the past and the future are open for travel?
Since the clock was put in the wall in the 1920s, the future wouldn’t be open to those in the past, but if that’s how it works, then it doesn’t mean that someone from then didn’t come forward before it was incapacitated. Just an idea!
The clock came from the future, as the TS Eliot poem Burnt Norton wasn’t published until at least a decade later. But I don’t expect it to introduce traveling to the future.
It might open the exploration of how memory and experience shape reality, suggesting that what the time travelers learn in the past affects the present more than any physical change.
According to my research, Burnt Norton also describes a timeless garden where the past lingers, untouched yet deeply present. If the show introduces a place or moment where time “stands still,” it could be a liminal space outside the normal rules of time travel — a location where all moments coexist.
Could that be where the series is headed, or is that what the pond represents?
Frankly, I have no idea, but with the story coming together so beautifully in The Way Home Season 3 finale, I have no doubt that the writers know where they are taking us.
Referencing the poem definitely works for Kat and Elliot, who had to visit the past to understand what they meant to each other.
Finally, they realize their expectations and ideals overpowered their real-life relationship, and they’re ready to let go of the past to embrace their future.
If there is any theme for The Way Home, that is it. I don’t believe there will be any real villains, only people in various phases of their existence trying to figure things out.
Even Cyrus Goodwin rightly placed his future in Susana’s hands, giving her full autonomy to do with Lingermore what she felt best. That says a lot about who he became after being such an awful man for far too long. In the end, he was someone that, in a cockeyed way, the Goodwins could be proud of.
If that miracle came to light, who knows what else lies ahead?
OK. I know this was one long, rambling exploration of the episode, and much is still left unsaid, but it’s your turn. Hit the comments and tell me what you took away from the finale and where you hope The Way Home Season 4 takes us next!
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