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Tea for Two
"This is my kitchen," Fern said, regaining her composure as she stepped toward him.
Cliff kept his focus on his work and spoke quietly. "It's not. But it could be. Again."
"Why did you kiss me?" she demanded.
"Me?" His head shot up. He sounded taken aback. "As I recall, you kissed me firstβ"
She inhaled sharply. "No, mister! You were the one who got near me and don't think I missed that look in your eyesβ"
Read on ao3: After the kiss.
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Anyway I think Cliff's characterization is another example of how really good the writers are at developing characters via dialogue. Like we don't have his backstory, but there's so much to be inferred about why he's doing this job from his motivations. It's not even necessarily that he feels a moral responsibility to the greater good, but more than that - his personal sense of right and wrong drives him. In his argument with Fern at the end, it's "I felt like a fraud." And beyond that too, you still have him letting Fern & co. go, so it's like there are still things that outweigh the job for him. Namely the right thing to him there is to protect Fern. It speaks to the show as a whole that it's often the why that's more important than the how. For him especially, here's all your setup for the choices he makes in episode 9. (βΉοΈ)
What if Tessa's "I jump for love" is jumping for Elliot?? Like, if something happens in the 20s, and she has to be there to save his life. And yes, of course, if she doesn't jump in the first place - he would never be there. But what has happened will always happen. And also what if Alice ends up knowing that's why/what she does. Alice might even be at the pond with baby Elliot when Tessa and Griffin leave, knowing that in seconds she'll arrive with Elliot and Kat to take him to Del and Colton.
So ALICE is the one ripped out of the photo?!
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Cliff telling Fern he wants to make her feel safe in the promo. I feel so ill.
And I've since remembered Fern says this to Kat in 4x07:
"At this point in life, all I want is a fellow to rely on. I used to feel so safe here. Surrounded by family. Now, I'm alone, haunted by memories."
Fern is just so character to me in a way I don't think you often get of a female character who isn't one of the leads. Like for as much as she's been on screen, there's so much that can be inferred. Moving into town, pursuing acting, making her life feel bigger when she's been surrounded by so much loss - losing her parents and brother. The last of her family but she still must know she won't be forever because the pond exists. Knowing that she won't be able to abandon the house forever, but how long until that fate catches up to her. And of all the characters we've met, she's the one who has no interest in time traveling and returning to the past. Which is interesting too because that's the draw for everyone else - going back in time to be with their lost loved ones - Colton, especially, for Kat and Alice. But if she's made it this far on her own - maybe she's afraid to sink back in and be reminded of all that she's moved past.
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I was just thinking about this but reason #483 that you can tell the way home's showrunners are women is that the vast majority of the female characters in the show are mothers, but that is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of any of them. And that's despite mother/daughter relationships (and /son depending), being so critical to the show as a whole.
"Not if you're being kept in the dark, and you are!" (Cliff 4x07) -> "You lied to protect someone else, and to keep me completely in the dark." (Cliff 4x08)
Cliff is upset in 4x07 that Grayson is using Fern as a pawn, setting precedent for how he feels in 4x08 when Fern does the same to him, hiding her knowledge of and involvement in the job.
"I'll be damned if I'm gonna see you get hurt in all this." (Cliff 4x07) -> "I lied to protect you, to keep you safe!" (Cliff 4x08)
Fern insists that she's not the only villain. Cliff lied too about getting an award out of town so he'd be there to bust the bootleggers. But following how her safety was his concern in 4x07, that's why he lied in 4x08.
"You're the only light in this crooked town." (Cliff 4x07) -> "You barely know me!" (Fern 4x07) -> "You saw me the way I have always wanted to see myself." (Fern 4x08)
Cliff sees Fern as sweet, the light in a town that's all wrong. She insists he doesn't know her, but in the next episode - she acknowledges that's how she wants to see herself. But of course that's hard after all her loss, running from her past, turning to performance - an act - to hide how she really feels.
"Kissing you, the way I felt, that was real. But I can't stay knowing it wasn't real for you." (Cliff 4x08) -> "For the first time in my sad little life I am not acting, I swear!" (Fern 4x08)
First, incredible honesty on Cliff's behalf. He gets nervous and embarrased around Fern when she's outright flirting, but when it counts, he always shows up.
Then specifically for Fern to say she's not acting - it's confirmation for him that it wasn't a performance. Fitting both because she's a performer, but also for how their relationship started - all banter and wit to hide behind. But he saw through to her, and she made new memories with him - good memories in a place she was only haunted by the past. Able to reframe the bad, she could move toward healing. In the process, she fell in love with him too.
It's probably a good thing I didn't know how to gif when Nancy Drew was airing
"It's okay. It's okay."
β Elliot & Kat in THE WAY HOME | 4.08
Evan Williams as Elliot Augustine
β THE WAY HOME | 4.08
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"I'm getting your new roommate settled. You remember him? From the circus?"
β THE WAY HOME | 4.08
"Because if we decide which laws we want to follow and which ones we don't, what kind of world are we going to leave behind?"
β THE WAY HOME | 4.08
