From – Thresholds

By: Mariah Thomas

Boyd (Harold Perrineau) is leading Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) to a shed in the wake of her accidentally killing Tillie (Deborah Grover). Fatima emotionally recounts what happened to Boyd and explains it as an inner rage taking over her body. He promises they will find a way to overcome what happened as she is family. Fatima breaks down when Boyd informs her they have to leave Tillie’s body in the greenhouse for somebody else to discover. Boyd leaves Fatima alone to deal with the inevitable chaos of the town once Tillie’s body is found and people notice Fatima is missing.

Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno), Jim (Eion Bailey), Jade (David Alpay) and Ethan (Simon Webster) return from the village. Jade immediately goes to the bar and encounters a drunk Henry (Robert Joy). Jim confronts Jade for taking Tabitha and Ethan into the woods and is angered thinking he is filling her head with nonsense. The pair argue. Jim’s point of view is looking out for his family. Jade’s is, they need to find a way home and Tabitha can make her own decisions. Henry asks Jim if he can give him some unsolicited advice. “Sometimes when your wife is talking you should shut up and listen.” Jim is so set on protecting her, he never truly listens. Having experience of his own wife having visions too he expresses he had listened more instead of trying to fix her. Jim tries to console Tabitha by telling her about the phone call he got from ’Thomas’. He tries to reason the town understands them and sets out to create things to torment them. Back at colony house, Tillie’s body is found in the shed. Everyone springs into action and Elgin’s (Nathan D. Simmons) camera takes another mysterious photo.

Julie (Hannah Cheramy) tries to convince Randall (AJ Simmons) to return to the place they both felt called to in the middle of the woods. Randall hesitates knowing the potential danger and tells her to stay away. Julie storms off. She returns home only to be shut out by her dad on the current madness of the town. She heads upstairs to check on Ethan. She ends up taking him to the place in the woods and makes him promise not to tell their parents. She tells Ethan about what she’s been experiencing since her ‘deep sleep’ experience. Ethan enjoyed creating stories prior to the town, so Julie relies on his creativity for advice. The two hold hands and walk into the stone ruins, but Julie is immediately transported back into the cave she was subconsciously stuck in before. She is overcome with fear. We then see her body convulsing on the ground as Ethan runs to get help.

Boyd and Ellis (Corteon Moore) discuss the best way to handle the situation. Ellis wants to tell the truth, but Boyd understands people won’t see it their way and demand punishment for Fatima. As the two approach the colony house, they see Tillie’s body has been found. The female officer points out the creatures wouldn’t use gardening shears to kill someone. Boyd attempts to remain calm as others put into action a plan to figure out what happened in the shed. Donna (Elizabeth Saunders) covers Tillie’s body and suggests the town’s outcast, Sara (Avery Konrad), may have done this. Boyd tries to divert the conversation knowing her innocence.

Sara is helping Victor (Scott McCord) work through his anger at himself for not being able to speak to Jasper. Sara rushes off to get Tabitha and Jim as Victor only wants help from Tabitha with her deeper knowledge. Victor instructs her to hold Jasper in hopes she can get him to talk. Victor scratches at his face, and Tabitha attempts to soothe him in a motherly way. Victor feels responsible for figuring out how to get everyone home since he has been there the longest. Tabitha has Victor tell her the story of Jasper.  Together Sara and Tabitha ask questions to help Victor remember the blanks in his story. He slowly remembers more.

Ellias goes to check on Fatima and the two have an emotional reunion. Fatima is filled with so much guilt and doesn’t believe she deserves kindness. She is set on believing something inside of her did this and will continue to take over. Ellias brought over some items of comfort for her before heading back out. Fatima sees the ghost Elgin has been seeing and grows fearful.

Kenny (Ricky He) and the female officer question people about the death of Tillie. The female officer is shocked to learn about Sara and her reason for being an outcast. As the two head off to question Sara, they encounter Ethan screaming for help. He leads them to Julie. Back in her mental prison, a chained man appears to her and it is revealed Julie time traveled. In season 2, when we thought he was speaking to Boyd, he was speaking to Julie telling her to run. She leaves the room to enter a dark cave. She then overhears her mother and Victor in another moment from the past. Her body is moved from out of the stone ruins and she returns to the present.

Donna walks in on Boyd and Ellias arguing about Fatima. She immediately can see the tension on their faces and Boyd opts to tell her the truth. Donna is immediately stunned. Donna, though she understands, thinks they need to tell everyone else the truth. “There is something horrible growing inside her or else this place has finally broken her mind.” Donna says if Boyd won’t tell people the truth, she will and storms off.

Victor, Tabitha and Sara return to the church basement where young Victor initially saw Jasper speak. Victor remembers what Jasper previously said and all of this leads back to the children. There is more to their story and what happened to them. Victor says he told his mother what Jasper said about saving the children, and that is why she left Victor and his sister.

The photograph Elgin saw is revealed to have been a blood bag. He snuck into the medical center to get one and when back at colony house, used it to drain his own blood into the bag. As he is doing so, another photo is taken and shows the shed Fatima is hiding out in. He heads off into the woods to find her. Meanwhile Ellias has decided to hide out with Fatima. When he and Boyd arrive back at the shed, they discover she is gone. Elgin has taken her to the hidden room he found and claims Ellis sent him and is waiting for her. However, that was only a ploy to get her to follow him. She is scared and tries to leave but he says she needs to be safe for the baby. When she says there isn’t one, he claims there is…just not hers. Fatima attempts  to run from Elgin but he grabs her and puts her in the room himself as she screams out for help.