Beyond – The Man in the Yellow Jacket

By starrymag | January 23, 2017

By: Colton Newman

 

 

In episode four titled The Man in the Yellow Jacket, Jeff (Jeff Pierre) and Holden (Burkely Duffield) team up to investigate the disappearance of Kevin. While the two of them work on that more family secrets are exposed, Holden’s brother Luke (Jonathan Whitesell) falls back into old habits as he heads back to college.

 

Jeff is seen in an office in what appears to be a military base. As Jeff and his boss talk in his office, Jeff let’s his Major know that he will have to leave his job and return home. His boss reluctantly ok’s his choice (but not before trying to convince otherwise) and he gets up to retrieve some papers for Jeff to fill out before he is allowed to leave. As the Major leaves the office, Jeff’s attention is grabbed by a TV. There’s is a news broadcast talking about Holden waking up from his twelve-year coma. As Jeff listens and takes in the news, he jumps up from his chair in shock. He now has two reasons to return home, to reconnect with his brother Kevin and to see Holden.

 

In the present day, Holden is slowly waking up in strange cabin. Holden attempts to put together his new surroundings as he hears and sees Jeff. Jeff calmly lets Holden know that while he was asleep he seemed to be acting strange. Holden ignores this as he is playing it cool as he continues to look around the cabin. Over in the corner of the cabin, Holden spots a wooden rifle; Jeff takes note that Holden will probably make a move for it. As both of them jump to grab the gun, Jeff makes it to the rifle first and shows Holden that the gun is in fact empty and useless anyways. Jeff lets Holden know that all he wants to do is talk to Holden about his brother Kevin. Jeff moves toward Holden and he hands him a picture of a car (the picture was taken off a security camera). What is more interesting is that the man driving the car is in fact the Yellow Jacket Man (Peter Kelamis). As Holden sees the man’s face he is taken back to the night in the bar parking lot. He seems to get flustered by the memory and storms out of the cabin. Jeff does not give chase.

 

Holden, knowing no one but Willa (Dilan Gwyn) understands what he is going through, runs to her apartment and starts to have what appears to be a small panic attack. Willa attempts to calm Holden down by letting him know that he may be suffering from PTSD. She explains that this is a typical response to having repressed memories of the Realm. She then begins to train Holden how to breathe and slow is body down so that his panic attacks will pass. She breaks the pleasant mood when she asks Holden if he would like to continue to relive his past memories. To Holden’s disgust he leaves Willa and tells her he never wants to feel that way again (this meaning last time he was in the Realm he was attacked and woke up in shock).

 

After Holden leaves, Willa gets a text that leaves her rushing to Arthur’s (Alex Diakun) side. An assistant explains that Arthur’s vital signs started to fall and then he stopped communicating with them. Willa seems to know that Arthur is in a drift (it has not yet explained what this is). She continues to stay by his side.

 

Holden is helping his mother Diane (Romy Rosemont) put away groceries from the store as she brings up that he ran out of the high school equivalency test. To this Holden shrugs it off by saying “…no one likes tests.” Holden is feeling a bit corned by his mother and in retaliation asks Diane about her “boyfriend” Pastor Ian (Chad Willett). Diane more or less copies Holden by shrugging off the question and tells him that Ian is just a friend who been helping out with the family (ya right!).

 

Holden is now up in his bedroom rehearsing what to say to Jamie (Emilija Baranac) for when he calls and leaves her a message (it sounds as painfully awkward as is). He gives up and just calls Jamie with plans to wing it. To his surprise Jamie actually answers her phone seeming a bit confused. She points out to Holden that calling people in not really the thing to do nowadays (ya, Holden stop being such a dad). He casually asks Jamie out for dinner to which she pauses to think if this awkward fella is worth all the cringes or not, but she eventually comes around and agrees to go on another date. Holden is beyond happy; he shoots his arms in to the air and falls back on to his bed reveled about the outcome of his call.

 

Out front of Holden’s house his father Tom (Michael McGrady) is working on Holden’s old motorbike. Diane approaches Tom to ask what he is up to, but as soon as what seems like the beginning of a meaningful conversation a car starts to pull into their drive way. The slick looking ride is owned by Jeff who sees Tom approaching and already knows he’s not welcome there. Holden rushes up as Tom is yelling at Jeff to scram. Holden lets his father know that Jeff is only there to apologize to him. Tom walks off still suspicious of Jeff being there. Jeff, in a hushed voice, lets Holden know that he needs his help to find Kevin because of Holden’s previous run in with the Man in the Yellow Jacket, who was last seen following Kevin.

 

Holden and Jeff pull up to a seemingly nice neighborhood. Holden still has no idea what they are there to do until Jeff lets him in on the fact that they are outside of the house where the Yellow Jacket man lives. Jeff plans to wait until he and his family leave before Holden and him can break in to get a look around. Holden seems very unsure of what he is about to do.

 

Luke is seen back in his college dorm room with what appears to be his girlfriend from the party that he took Holden to. Luke is talking with his dad and appears to be annoyed at the conversation. He hangs up and complains that everyone is always talking about Holden. As Luke and his girlfriend begin to kiss, he reaches over to his retrieve something from is night stand. Luke’s hands fish about for a second before he finds what he was looking for, he pulls out a large bag full of pills and medicine bottles. He and his girlfriend begin picking out ones to take.

 

Back at the house Holden and Jeff are staking out they see the Yellow Jacket Man and his family get into cars and leave. Jeff let’s Holden know that this is their chance to get in there and check things out. Jeff picks the lock to the front door. He hears a click and Holden and Jeff slip into the house. Once inside they are confronted by the likes of a vicious “purse dog.” They casually bypass the dog as Jeff tells Holden to go and look around for anything interesting while he goes and bugs the house with microphones. Holden is downstairs aimlessly taking pictures of letters and family picture when Jeff comes to join him just as Holden moves a magazine to discover the Yellow Jacket Man has left his cell phone at home. Jeff begins to copy the cell phone information over to his own phone. While the phone is loading, Jeff and Holden go to look in the backyard shed. Holden and Jeff look around the shed for a bit and are about to leave when Holden find the leftovers of the zip tie that held Kevin to the poll. Holden and Jeff both know what that means, Kevin was there. Holden and Jeff go back to the house where Jeff finishes up copying the Yellow Jacket Man’s phone right when he hears someone pull up to the house. Jeff exits through the back door, but Holden gets stuck upstairs with the dog. The Yellow Jacket Man opens the front door sensing something is off when his dog doesn’t come when he’s called. Holden tries to get the dog out of the room he is hiding in, but to no success. The Man in the Yellow Jacket begins to walk upstairs to investigate where his dog is. Holden hears the man coming and decides to jump out of the back window, leaving it open. As the Yellow Jacket Man opens the door to find no one but his dog in the room, he looks to see the open window and he knows someone was there.

 

Back in the cabin where Holden woke up he and Jeff are now trying to listen into the bugs that they planted around the Yellow Jacket Mans house. As Holden is reviewing the pictures he took, he comes across a letter with an ominous logo on the corner of it. He shows Jeff and Jeff begins to search for what the logo belongs to. Jeff pulls up a site with a cryptic message on its computer. Neither Jeff nor Holden quite know what it means yet.

 

The next morning Holden wakes up in his own bed. He lays there for a bit, but soon hears voices downstairs. Confused, Holden gets up to see who it is, but to his shock he sees the Man in the Yellow Jacket sitting in his home. He is talking to Diane at the dinning room table. Diane catches site of Holden the Man in the Yellow jacket turns to see what she is looking at and introduce himself as David. The phone is heard ringing in another room so Diane jumps up to get it leaving Holden and David alone. As a passive aggressive conversation between the two strikes up, Holden seems to cut it short by telling David to leave. Not looking to cause too many problems right now, David gets up to leave. But right as David is leaving he turns around and hands Holden a handful of “bugs” that he collected from inside his house.

 

Angered by the fact that David had entered his home, he heads over to Willa’s place. As he barges in on her, he doesn’t waste any time to ask how he can use his “powers” against people. Holden and Willa start to argue about this topic, but it is soon interrupted by a phone call Holden gets. Holden answers the phone and all the life in him seems to drain away.

 

In the city morgue a body lies on a metal table. Jeff stands over the body and nods to the assistant. The body is Kevin.

 

The first suspect is taken in to be questioned by the police for the murder of Kevin. It is “David” The Man in the Yellow Jacket. He slyly talks his way out of being the prime suspect. The officer who has just questioned him walks “David” out of the station just as Holden pulls up on his motorbike. “David” starts to drive off and Holden pursues him. Holden cuts off the Man in the Yellow Jacket, forcing him to get out of his car. Holden then jumps off his bike to confront Kevin’s murder. As Holden goes into a blind rage, he attacks the Yellow Jacket Man and beat him to a bloody pulp. He is barely alive.

 

Holden fleas the scene realizing what he has just done. With tensions still being tight with Willa, he heads to the next person he can trust – Luke.