Silent Night (Haven)

"Silent Night" is the thirteenth episode and Christmas special for the second season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven. It aired on SyFy on December 6, 2011. It was written by Brian Millikin and directed by Shawn Piller.

Despite being the standalone episode, this special was included as an extra on the "Haven: The Complete Second Season" DVD and Blu-ray.

Plot

In sunny July the people of Haven are putting up Christmas decorations. At the local cinema a girl called Hadley Chambers is looking for her mother, though the owner explains to Audrey and Nathan that she doesn't have one. Silent Night is heard from nowhere and outside a man putting up lights slips and would have choked had Nathan not caught him in time. Everyone is convinced it is Christmas.

At the police station Audrey, Nathan and Duke are talking to Stan the cop, when Silent Night is heard and Stan disappears. When Audrey asks the others if they noticed, they don't know who Stan is. Audrey realizes there must be a Trouble. A body is reported and Audrey takes Duke to investigate. At the scene she calls Nathan for backup, but he thinks it's a joke because there are only two police officers in Haven, him and her. The phone plays Silent Night. Duke doesn't remember that there was a body. In fact, now there is no body. Only Audrey remembers. They go to see Vince and Dave, who consult the archives to find a case in 1955 when Arthur Chambers claimed that he'd made people disappear, but they never existed. He eventually shot himself. Audrey connects Arthur Chambers to Gordon Chambers, father of Hadley. Dave indicates the population of Haven was 3101, but last time Audrey checked it was over 20,000.

Audrey, Duke and now Nathan, go off to find Chambers, who has just moved to Derry. They run into a traffic pile up at the edge of town. The front car appears to have crashed into thin air. Duke disappears and Nathan doesn't remember him, but he trusts that Audrey is right. A bird in mid-air thumps something and falls to the ground, prompting Audrey to find an invisible wall that traps everyone in Haven, a giant glass dome. Chambers must still be in town, so Audrey and Nathan hunt down his toy store. They don't find him, but they do see a whole shelf of snow globes and connect the dome over Haven with a snow globe. The town is being transformed into a snow globe.

After further searching Audrey hears Silent Night and Nathan has disappeared. At the Haven Herald, Vince alone, and confused, gives her the Chambers address. The population is seventeen. She finds Chambers, who remembers his mad grandfather's stories, how his grandfather remembered people who'd disappeared, but he doesn't remember his wife. Audrey realizes that Chambers isn't the Troubled person, but his daughter did remember her mother. Chambers disappears in front of her to the tune of Silent Night and Audrey goes off to find Hadley. The streets are empty. Everything is abandoned.

Audrey finds Hadley alone at the cinema, holding a snow globe. Audrey tries to tell her she is troubled and that she is turning Haven into her snow globe, but she doesn't listen. She feels abandoned by her father, by her mother and has withdrawn into a fantasy world inside the snow globe. She bangs it on an armrest and the whole town begins to quake. It starts snowing in the cinema. Audrey tells her her father loves her and that she doesn't need to feel alone. As she continues to encourage Hadley to come out of her fantasy world, Audrey looks into the globe and sees Nathan, while he sees her as a giant face looking down over him, as does Duke. Audrey and Hadley continue together until it stops snowing. They turn around and the cinema is full of people. Hadley's mother comes back from the powder room.

That night Audrey throws a Christmas party, which everyone thinks is weird in July. Both Nathan and Duke ask what happened this day, as no-one seemed to remember. She said that she was reminded how important friends really are. Hadley, who has been playing Christmas carols on the piano starts to play Silent Night, but Audrey asks for anything but that. Hadley strikes up We Wish You a Merry Christmas and everyone joins in. Dave and Vince close the episode by saying "Well, that's the end of our story. Correction, that's the end of this story. There's an awful lot more to tell. Not that we're telling. Another secret to keep in Haven."

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.119 million viewers.^[1]

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