Crush (Haven)

"Crush" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven. It aired on SyFy on November 1, 2013. It was written by Speed Weed and directed by Stephen Reynolds.

Plot

Although the Driscoll family has never been Troubled, after a bender Jack and Aiden Driscoll are kidnapped by the thugs from the bar/barn and wake up to find they have been given a Trouble: when agitated they send out a pressure bubble as if they are deep under water. Whoever is inside the bubble is crushed to death. Jack learns that a diver's breathing technique can help him regain control and stop the pressure. Aiden is not so lucky. Jack asks Duke to kill him to stop it, because Aiden has just learned he is going to be a father and Jack doesn't want the child have the Trouble. Duke refuses, having lost his Trouble. Audrey and Nathan have to find another way to end the Trouble, as no-one can get near Aiden and in his distress the bubble is expanding and damaging more of the town. Meanwhile Jennifer, searching for her biological family, has started seeing a horseshoe crab with human eyes following her around. Audrey uses a deep sea diving suit to approach Aiden and tell him to use the same breathing technique his brother had used to regain control. At the Grey Gull Nathan is trying to convince Audrey that killing him would be best for Haven. However, on Duke's boat Dave and Vince find out from Cabot's Journal from the 1490s of a Mikmaq legend of a time of great evil and suffering that started when someone opened an otherwordly door. The time was marked—among other things—by horseshoe crabs with human eyes. Duke, Jennifer and the Teagues all go to the Grey Gull to tell Audrey and Nathan, when Duke asks if there is a solution to this great evil, but Vince can only give a riddle in Cabot's Journal, "What was once your salvation is now your doom". Duke thinks of Nathan's desire for Audrey to kill him to end the Troubles, but then a gun shot rings out from Audrey's room.

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.33 million viewers.^[1]

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