seaoftroubles | Sins of the Fathers preplay

Danny arrives, maybe just in time for Audrey to realize that Duke is gone. She fills him in on the strange marks, the probable missing persons, and the ghost trouble. Nathan arrives to give them a ride to the gravedigger's house to interrogate him, perhaps Danny notices the paint on the gravedigger's wife's hand instead of Audrey, and he and Audrey play confused tourists together while Nathan waits in the car? They tail her into the woods, where the Rev's people have gathered with the kidnapped troubled people.

The Rev's people are heavily armed, with rifles and pistols. A group of people make molotov cocktails by a collection of gas cans. Two men with rifles guard the doors to a shed, while another set pull an unconscious young man out of the back of a van, keeping him quiet with chloroform. They put him into the shed with several other bound, unconscious people. They're troubled. The Xs marked the homes of the kidnapping victims. They're clearly planning to burn the shed down.

Before the cops can decide to take action, the Rev walks out of the woods, with Duke on his tail. Audrey can't see the Rev, but Danny and Nathan can. All Audrey sees is Duke arguing with empty air.

The Rev's men manage to get the drop on the cops, disarming them, and forcing them into the open.

Duke sees the troubled people in the shed and accuses the Rev of being insane, declares that he's going to stop them. The Rev says that he's here to "save" them. One of his men forces a knife into Duke's hands, which he brandishes at anyone who comes near him, including Audrey when she's led right up behind him. Audrey's shocked. Nathan accuses him of working with the Rev. Duke denies it and drops the knife.

The troubled gravedigger is the one holding the gun to Audrey. Nathan tries to tell him not to listen to the Rev, and Audrey tells him that he's troubled. Kyle tries to deny it, and Duke's dad appears, telling Duke that this is the way it always goes when people realize they're cursed. The gravedigger's pregnant wife is clearly horrified. The Rev points to Duke as the person who can save the gravedigger and his family.

Duke tries to refuse. Someone shoves a knife into his hands again. Duke clearly struggles with the decision as both the Rev and his father urge him to use his trouble to "save" the gravedigger's unborn child, and the gravedigger begs him to help. Audrey tells him not to do it, and the Rev calls her a liar.

That's the last straw. Duke shakes his head. She's his friend!

Duke's father tells him that Audrey's previous incarnations killed his grandfather, killed him. That Audrey will kill Duke. Duke turns away, still in denial, and the gravedigger takes the chance to run up and grab Duke's hand, forcing him to stab him in the stomach.

Duke can't do anything but stare as the gravedigger collapses to the ground. And THANKS HIM.

With the kill complete, the Crocker trouble doesn't come with the same side-effects. His eyes go silver, but he doesn't need super strength. There's not adrenaline rush or high. He's just shocked. He meets Nathan's eyes as Nathan stares back at him, clearly distrustful.

The ghosts get in some last enigmatic lines as they fade out with the dying gravedigger's trouble. Lots of comments about how Nathan and Duke are on opposite sides and will have to kill each other, all while Nathan and Duke stare at each other trying not to have feelings. It's super deep, yo. And extremely weird.

The gravedigger dies. The ghosts vanish. Audrey grabs her gun and shouts that EVERYONE THERE IS UNDER ARREST DAMMIT!

Nathan and Audrey have a bunch of paperwork to process, but also a date to prepare for! Yay! Duke goes back to his boat, Danny following along yelling, probably, and gets out a big ass bottle of booze to try and drink his feelings. He and Danny maybe have a heart to heart about killing in the line of duty? The ways it fucks with your head. How to avoid it as best as possible. Duke starts to calm down, says that he just wants to get back to Fandom, but Haven behind him again. Danny gets up to use the bathroom? I feel like he should be out of the way a little when Nathan barges in. Nathan barges in, demanding to know what Duke's done with Audrey. Duke's all "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN AUDREY'S GONE??" and they fight. Danny hears the ruckus, comes rushing back out to find Duke prone on the floor with Nathan standing above him, pointing his gun in Duke's face. Duke's reaching for the gun he keeps taped under the galley table, but is too busy staring at the fresh new tattoo on the inside of Nathan's arm to actually grab it.

And the season ends with an exterior shot of the boat along with a gun shot, because this show is the woooooooorst!

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From:

seaoftroubles

In which Danny finds himself once again kidnapped by the entire town of Haven

From:

hatesparadise

Because he'd been having an okay week and that just could not stand, Danny, with a cup of coffee from The Park in hand, found himself back in Haven.

"You've gotta be kidding me," he grumbled, getting his bearings again in a town he'd been to all of once. Time to hunt down Crocker for whatever fresh bullshit was happening!

From:

seaoftroubles

Audrey's thoughts were moving along the same lines, at least with regards to Duke.

Who seemed to have wandered off while she was investigating a crime scene.

She came out of the house, careful not to disturb the dropped keys and wallet and other signs of struggle on the front porch, and looked around.

"Duke!" she shouted. "Where the hell did he go?"

From:

hatesparadise

Well, at least there was someone he knew!

"It's gonna be one of those days, isn't it?" Danny asked, carefully coming up to where she was.

From:

seaoftroubles

"It definitely has been so far," Audrey agreed. She flicked him a tired smile. "Detective Williams. Welcome back. Since I can see you, I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not one of our new ghosts."

From:

hatesparadise

"Certainly hope not," he said, touching his own chest for confirmation. "What's happening this time?"

From:

seaoftroubles

"Dead people coming back to take their revenge on the living," Audrey said, like she was talking about the local boat parade. (Which, admittedly, had turned out to be a very exciting and stressful day, but still.) "Pretty much all of them buried by the same gravedigger, so Duke was supposed to be taking me to go talk to the guy."

She frowned, looking around, as though Duke might come bouncing out of the woods that surrounded the house with some bullshit excuse. "I had him stop here to check out some suspicious graffiti I've been noticing around town. Houseowners seem to be missing, and now so is he."

From:

hatesparadise

"Oh, that's pretty alarming actually," he said. "Alright, need another set of eyes on this?"

Since he was gonna do it anyway. Because Duke.