Cast:
- Jaimie Alexander ... Jessi XX
- Magda Apanowicz ... Andy Jensen
- Jean-Luc Bilodeau ... Josh Trager
- Leah Cairns ... Emily Hollander
- Martin Cummins ... Brian Taylor
- Matt Dallas ... Kyle
- Nicholas Lea ... Tom Foss
- Marguerite MacIntyre ... Nicole Trager
- April Matson ... Lori Trager
- Chris Olivero ... Declan McDonough
- J. Eddie Peck ... Adam Baylin
- Kirsten Prout ... Amanda
Official Summary:
Kyle and Jessi explore an old, washed out road and stumble upon an abandoned cabin. To get in a secret room, Kyle calls Amanda and asks her to play a melody which unlocks the door. Inside, they find Adam Baylin in some sort of coma. Kyle tries to communicate with him and asks Jessi to help him. After some prodding by Kyle, she helps him long enough for Baylin to say "Stop, Kyle, she’s betrayed you." Scared, Jessi runs away. Kyle runs after her and they fight, but in the end, Jessi takes her leap of faith.
Key Moments:
Jessi and Kyle visit a diner where Adam and his girlfriend (who looks like Jessi) used to go long ago, where they meet an old man who confuses Kyle and Jessi with their older counterparts. (Oddly, they don’t ask him any questions about Adam or the woman, even though they’re both trying to find out about their past.) Jessi struggles with her preconditioning, trying to warn Kyle that she can’t be trusted while trying to force herself to be worthy of his faith in her; ultimately she can’t control her training and commits suicide, knowing Kyle will be safer if she’s not in his life.
Cute Trager Family Drama of the Week:
After they scrounge together all of the clues they have about Kyle (even raiding Josh’s "Kyle file" [!]) Nicole and Stephen start associating various deaths with Kyle. In their confusion they start wondering "what we really know about Kyle," which rings more desperately false than any other moment in the series – especially coming from Nicole, given her sensitivities to Kyle and awareness of his heroism. Fortunately Josh’s emphatic "We know who he is – he’s our brother, he’s your son" redeems beautifully an otherwise hopelessly contrived moment.
Biggest Mystery:
Okay, I’ll go ahead and pick the obvious one:
What the heck is Adam Baylin, who was not only dead but cremated as far as we knew, doing in a coma in an abandoned cabin at the end of a washed out road in the middle of the woods? Did he not really die? Is this one a clone? And who’s taking care of him? (Close second: why does the waitress act so suspiciously when she tells Kyle and Jessi not to follow old Route 2? She sounds like an
X Files character who saw something behind the woodshed up there that she doesn’t like to think about.)
Bottom Line: Worth Watching?:
This was billed as a season finale, but this was
not a season finale. Aside from the false moment mentioned above, the main problem is that the episode just ... ends. The uneven pacing drags until the last fifteen minutes, then rushes pell-mell to the finish line. The unresolved issues, especially involving Emily, Foss, and Baylin, aren’t set up as cliffhangers; instead they feel like loose ends that the plot didn’t have time to treat properly. If this were all going to be resolved next week it would be less annoying, but the balance of season 2 won’t be airing until next year.
