HallmarkA leopard can’t change its spots, and Elliot can’t change the habit of a lifetime. I’m convinced he’s lying about his family’s secrets, and we’ve already seen proof in The Way Home.
Port Haven is at its best when Del, Kat, and Alice are the stars of our show. Our time travel plots start and end with them, and they can’t help being nosey about the past. But then there’s Elliot, clinging onto the Landry family for dear life, fully believing they’re the only solid foundation he truly has.
An Augustine by blood, Elliot only has fragments of his life together – past and present. He’s finally managed to lock Kat down, with dad Vic randomly popping into his life with explosive news (more on that later). If you google him and The Way Home, this is what comes up: “He is known to lie and withhold information from his loved ones, particularly Kat, believing he knows what’s best, though these actions often create problems.”
Here is an underlying problem we all should have confronted long ago: no matter how endearing he is or how much we’re rooting for him and Kat, Elliot is a full-blown liar. His time to shine will be in Season 4, but I don’t think we can trust a word that comes out of his mouth. In fact, Elliot’s already shown us why not.
We never saw Jacob take Elliot to the pond in The Way Home
HallmarkLet’s be honest with ourselves: Elliot has been lying about different things from the jump. He lied about Alice being a time traveler, he lied about kissing his ex-wife Emma, and he’s lied about meeting up with Nick. He’s lied so much that fans were convinced he’d turn out to be the show’s villain over a year ago.
At best, he’s evasive. A team player when he needs to be for the sake of a greater good, he’s usually a cog in the machine rather than taking charge. That changed when Thomas came back into the picture in Season 3, and I think it revealed the truth we’ve so far missed.
If you’re not following, Thomas is Kat’s love interest in the 1800s. She’s essentially been stuck in a love triangle with him and Elliot, finally breaking things off for good in Episode 9.
Here’s what happened directly after Kat headed back to 1816 to help Elijah with the fire aftermath, finishing with Thomas at the same time. She cries outside the farm and Elliot arrives, kissing her passionately. He explains Jacob brought him to 1816, who has already gone back to the present day.
Except… we never saw Jacob do any such thing. We’re merely believing what Elliot has told us. We saw Jacob in 1816 during the Landry Farm fire, but we never saw him again after. So humor me here – shouldn’t we assume Elliot is lying here too?
HallmarkIf I’m right, this changes everything about the Season 3 finale and the show altogether. If Jacob didn’t take Elliot to the pond, Elliot is actually a Landry himself (only Landrys are able to time travel, remember). Not only would this explain what’s going on with Elliot’s mom, but it basically means everything we know about Elliot so far can’t be taken at face value.
Let’s deal with Elliot’s mom first. She’s still a stranger to us, briefly meeting Alice in the 1974 timeline. Through a letter Vic sent to Elliot at the end of Season 3, we learn she didn’t abandon Elliot, but left him to travel in time with an as-yet-unknown Landry man. Or, she could be taking someone else, meaning she’s a Landry instead.
Elliot would therefore be able to travel on his own if this holds up. But it also deepens his reputation of being a liar. Everything he’s claimed to learn, discover, and be shocked by would all be things he’s already known, already explored. Don’t forget he mirrored Sam’s ominous Season 3 ending back in Season 1, surveying the pond and vaguely claiming to know more about it.
My opinion? We need to watch him like a hawk in The Way Home Season 4. I don’t trust him as far as I could throw him, and I’m a girl who routinely fights for her life in pilates class. We know he’s linked to something much bigger than he is… I just don’t think Elliot’s being completely honest about what that actually is.
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