Magic Hour (Haven)

Magic Hour is from the third season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven, consisting of the seventh and eighth episodes. Part 1 aired on Syfy on November 2, 2012 and Part 2 aired on November 9, 2012. Part 1 was written by Shernold Edwards while Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn wrote Part 2 and both parts were directed by Paul Fox.

Plot

Part 1

Rica and Dan Hamilton are grieving at sunset over the accidental death of their daughter Lizzy, but the mother stops her husband from calling the police. She tells him they were told to wait. They soon find Lizzy miraculously alive. Next day they are coming to grips with the event when the mother is hit and killed by a car. Audrey goes to Colorado to find the mother of James Cogan, taking Duke with her. Nathan finds Hamilton suspicious, as his wife is taken away, so he tasks Tommy to watch him. At the station Jordan tells Nathan that her Guard colleague Grady is missing about the time the bolt-gun killer came to town. A photo of the killer in action reveals Grady's watch, so they think Grady is the killer. Hamilton has withdrawn a large sum of money, so Tommy and Nathan theorize that he is paying his wife's killer. Audrey and Duke discover that June Cogan is now in a home for the aged. At the morgue Hamilton causes a ruckus to prevent an autopsy on his wife, who comes to life at sunset. At the station Hamilton explains that he was told to put the money in the locker and wait till sunset. Nathan receives a report that the car which hit Rica Hamilton is owned by the Coopers who Hamilton explains are his business partners.

Dwight is a little shocked when Jordan asks for his help. They go to see the Troubled man that Grady was sent to bring back. He tells them that he went to meet Grady but the cops showed up so he ran. In Colorado, June Cogan has Alzheimers and thinks Audrey is Sarah, causing her to ask why she had changed her hair color. The nurse comes in and tells them to leave. Duke has stolen a photo album from Mrs Cogan's room from which he and Audrey learn that James Cogan got married to someone called Arla in 1983. Back in Haven, at the Cooper house at sunset Nathan and Tommy find Cooper dead on the floor and his wife hysterically asking why her husband hadn't come back to life. Nathan figures that it must be an employee, and with some investigation discovers that the housekeeper, Moira, worked for both families.

Noelle's boyfriend Joseph doesn't like her involved in Moira's blackmail scheme. Moira races in, saying they have to leave, as the police are on to them. Noelle is diffident, Joseph supports her, and Moira, understanding that her sister is being swayed by Joseph, shoots him. Noelle touches him and absorbs his death, becoming greatly weakened. Nathan and Tommy arrive, Joseph is alive and the sisters are gone. A background check reveals that the sisters' family had a cabin out at Trepingas Cove. At the cabin Moira helps Noelle onto the couch and complains that all the roads are blocked, so they can't leave. Noelle says she wants to stop, but Moira doesn't. Audrey discovers that Arla Cogan killed herself when James disappeared, so with no leads she is discouraged. Duke consoles her. They kiss, but, before long, Audrey stops, worried about the consequences.

Next day Duke tries to imagine Audrey as a redhead (like Sarah), giving Audrey an idea. Dwight calls Nathan to tell him that Grady died on Route #17 a while ago, so he is not the killer. Jordan tells Nathan that a cop was the last to see Grady alive, but Nathan is aware of no police activity out on Route #17. Audrey in wig pretends to be Sarah for June Cogan and learns that James is actually Sarah's son. Audrey and Duke return to Haven and Nathan calls them to come looking for the sisters. Getting the GPS coordinates for them from Tommy's car, he notices that the car has been to Route #17. Nathan and Tommy find Noelle at the next cabin, though Moira is off scavenging. Tommy is defensive about Nathan going into the trunk of his car for a blanket for Noelle, saying Nathan is better with people, so he, Tommy, would get the blanket. Outside Noelle is put in the car and Nathan asks Tommy to check inside for anything that might say where Moira has gone, then he looks in the car trunk where he finds a bolt-gun and realizes that Tommy is the bolt-gun killer, which earns him two bullets to the stomach from Tommy. Noelle runs off in the confusion, as Audrey and Duke arrive to see Nathan bleeding on the ground with Tommy shooting at the disappearing Noelle.

Part 2

Thinking quickly Audrey decides they have to find Noelle, who can save Nathan. When Duke sees blood where Noelle went into the bushes, they know she was hit by a bullet and Audrey concludes that she will contact her paramedic boyfriend, Joseph, so they follow Joseph. At the Haven Herald Vince figures that when the Bolt Gun Killer broke into the office he was after something specific. Joseph leads Audrey, Duke and Tommy to a house, inside which they separate and search for Noelle. Tommy finds her and smothers her. Both Nathan and Noelle are put in the trunk of their car. Audrey thinks that if they can find Moira and trigger the family Trouble, Moira can bring both Nathan and Noelle back. There are only a few hours till sunset. Audrey talks to Joseph to understand Noelle's Trouble and discovers that Noelle shares the scars of those she resurrects. He tells about the car accident that killed Noelle's father. The police had found the two girls standing in the road, apparently ejected from the vehicle. At the Herald Vince and Dave have been searching for sign of the Bolt Gun Killer, when Vince finds that one of the keys, the one to their fishing shack, is a new copy. Audrey manages to track down and arrest Moira, who tells Audrey that it was Tommy who shot Nathan, which explains to Audrey why Tommy has been acting strangely all day. She calls Duke, who is searching for Moira with Tommy, and tells him, saying he should watch him until Nathan can be resurrected.

Audrey calls Dwight, who buries Grady's body, and asks him to watch Joseph. Jordan arrives at Audrey's location, having tracked Nathan's phone, and Audrey shows her Nathan, telling her that Moira's Trouble must be triggered to save him. Duke is now acting tense with Tommy. Audrey and Jordan show Moira her sister's body, but Moira is unmoved, so they need Duke to test her blood to see if she is Troubled. Tommy has decided that Duke has been lying to him and in the ensuing fight Duke, touching Tommy's blood, realizes that he is Troubled. Before Tommy can shoot him, Jordan arrives and touches Tommy with her tazer hands. He escapes and Jordan tells Duke they can't follow him, as Audrey needs him. At the house where Audrey has Moira Duke finds that Moira is not troubled. The sun is very low. At Vince and Dave's fishing shack the Teagues brothers are surprised by Tommy. When Nathan is brought into the room Moira tells Audrey that it makes one feel crazy to see a loved one die and explains about waking up in the truck to find her father dead after a tool box had hit her in the back of the head, leaving a scar. Audrey realizes that Noelle had resurrected her sister and shows her the identical scar on Noelle's head. Moira refuses to accept it, saying that it would mean that Noelle saved her and not her dad, and Moira had never forgiven her sister for not saving their dad. Their father had said that only one person could be resurrected in one day, otherwise it would be too much strain, hence why Noelle couldn't save their father. The impact of this knowledge with the awareness of her own bad treatment of her sister causes Moira great emotional distress. As the sun is setting she hopes her Trouble has been triggered and touches both Nathan and her sister, but nothing happens. Overcome with grief, Audrey, with Duke and Jordan watching, tells the dead Nathan that she has always loved him. Suddenly, Duke absorbs Moira's blood and his eyes turn silver: she is now Troubled. The sun sets. Nathan revives and asks where the funeral is. Moira has absorbed both their deaths and Noelle wakes to learn that her sister had resurrected two people. As Moira dies, Nathan remembers Tommy. He and Audrey leave to find him, working from the GPS info from his car. Tommy has been torturing Vince and Dave at the fishing shack regarding the Colorado Kid and the barn (ep. 2.3), when Audrey and Nathan arrive. He escapes by boat and they shoot to take out the engine and stop him, but the boat explodes and they watch plumes of black smoke billow skywards from the boat in flames.

At the Grey Gull, Dwight has Noelle and Joseph in his truck with Moira dead behind them. Audrey tells Noelle that when Moira wakes up things will be different. Nathan tells Audrey that the person in the surveillance video (ep. 3.4) was clearly not Tommy and asks why he was killing the women. Jordan wonders what has happened to her relationship with Nathan. Audrey later alone, is met by Vince, who admits that he has been deceiving her and says he wanted to apologize before she vanishes again. She asks him who the father of the Colorado Kid was, but he says Sarah never told anyone. He gazes out to the island in front of the Grey Gull, and to his horror sees the barn into which Audrey will vanish. When Audrey turns to look in the same direction, the barn is no longer there. Audrey heads in, content, while Vince remains shaken.

Reception

Part 1 earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.5 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.548 million viewers.^[1] Part 2 earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49, being viewed by 1.601 million viewers.^[2]

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