Countdown (Haven)

Countdown is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven. It aired on SyFy on October 18, 2013. It was written by Matt McGuiness and directed by Jeff Renfroe.

Plot

Seth walks out of a Haven shop looking frequently and confusedly at his cell phone. Stopping at a shop window with a programmable electric display, he keels over and turns to stone.

At Audrey's apartment, Duke asks Audrey how long she can keep up the pretense of still being Lexie before the Guard finds out and kills Nathan. Audrey decides the best plan is for her to avoid Nathan as much as possible, so Duke goes with Nathan to investigate Seth's death. Jordan tells Wade that he can end the Troubles and if he helps her she will show him his power. Nathan and Duke question witnesses who explain that the victim was staring at his phone like he was receiving text messages and Duke ironically asks if someone has a Trouble that works through text messages. Vince confronts Jordan about her scheme to kill Lexie and end the Troubles, but she stops him with her tazer touch.

At Paul's Electronics, Officer Tatum is taking a statement from a distraught Paul Krebs regarding a theft when he is called away. Paul is upset when Tatum leaves before his statement is complete and follows him, protesting. Wade is at the electronics store too and witnesses the exchange and as Paul and Tatum leave, steps up to Paul's till and puts cash down for two portable video recorders. Tatum comes to assist Nathan and takes Seth's phone for analysis, but never leaves the crime scene for he too has turned to stone, while looking at the electronic screen on his bike. Wade turns up at the police station to get a fireworks permit. He leaves a pen in Nathan's office. Nathan and Duke follow a lead that takes them to a school where the principal notices that his phone and all other electronic devices are counting down together. On zero the principal turns to stone. At the gym of Haven high, the coach has just indicated that the scoreboard is malfunctioning, counting down, so Nathan and Duke race over.

Jordan has Vince captive and he tells her that the Troubles had started before Lucy arrived, so she could not have caused them and tells her how to end his wife's Trouble he got Simon Crocker to kill his father-in-law. The Troubles had made him a monster. Later, Wade shows Jordan the video feed from the pens he left including the one in Nathan's office. Jordan now explains to him that Troubled blood triggers his power. Nathan's video feed shows Paul complaining about his treatment when Nathan arrives with the coach. Audrey has hidden all the digital screens, but the coach still turns to stone. She then notices that the thermometer she'd picked up has been reset and Nathan can see it counting down. Audrey connects Paul to a number of the events arguing that when he was robbed the robber as he left told him to count to 1000, about fifteen minutes, the time the clocks count down. Paul's trouble is setting a count down that leaves people motionless, just as he had been forced to be motionless when he had been robbed. Her rationale makes Nathan realize she is Audrey.

With time running out they go to Paul's Electronics, but there they are confronted by Jordan, who, with gun in hand, tells Audrey to kill Nathan, before he turns to stone. Audrey refuses and they find Paul, knocked out. They revive him to find that he was robbed of a bracelet that he wanted to give to a love interest and things went wrong from there. They get him to call her to ask her out. With a lot of prodding he does so and, when she accepts, the clocks stop counting down for Nathan. Wade, who was part of Jordan's original plan, comes in and stabs Paul to take his blood and activate his Trouble, then escapes. An ambulance is called for Paul. Jordan goes to release Vince feeling as if she, like Vince, had become a monster. Nathan tells Audrey that Paul will recover. By Haven cemetery Jordan starts to say goodbye to Wade, as she has decided to leave Haven tomorrow. She tells him her plan to end the Troubles would not have worked. He thanks her for helping him experience his Trouble, then kills her.

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.45 million viewers. ^[1]

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