Survivors (Haven)

Survivors is the second episode of the fourth season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven. It aired on SyFy on September 20, 2013. It was written by Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman and directed by Shawn Piller.

Plot

In a Haven park on Founders' Day a body is found upright like a statue, but burnt to charcoal. Nathan receives another message indicating no luck finding Audrey. William is back in Lexie's bar and tells her again that she is not Lexie DeWitt, but says reaching that point is going to be a process. At the Grey Gull, Duke asks Wade Crocker if he is going to stay around for a while, but Wade says he should head back to New York this evening, as his wife is losing patience with his absences. He adds that two guys tried to buy the Gull and Duke realizes they were Vince and Dave. Despite Duke's encouragement that she is not crazy, Jennifer is hesitant to go off her meds.

The M.E. says the charcoaled victim is Sally Marigold, Frank the fire captain's daughter and sister of Bill Marigold who was burned to death fighting a fire during the meteor storm. Dwight and Nathan conjecture that the Marigolds may be Troubled. At the Haven Herald Vince tells Duke the Guard are worried about the presence of another Crocker who might go into the family business (of killing Troubled people). Duke assures him that Wade will be out of town this evening. At the fire station Frank Marigold assures Nathan his family is not Troubled. Elsewhere a cab driver is found charcoaled. Nathan explains to Dwight that the cabbie was not a Marigold, so there is someone else going around incinerating people. William tells Lexie that her memories aren't real, that there are no emotions attached to them, and that she had another life... in Haven, Maine. She thinks he should leave.

Duke returns to the Gull to find that Wade is in no hurry to leave, having discovered that his wife has been cheating on him. Jennifer has just bought a mocha cappuccino at the Black House Coffee Shop. Outside she realizes she has left her shopping bag inside, so returns to find everyone there incinerated. Nathan questions her to find that one person she remembers is missing, a guy with a blue coat and brass buttons. One of the victims had been collecting for the fire department and a photo on her money jar indicates the Troubled person is a fireman. Back at the fire station Jennifer identifies the missing man's photo. A volunteer gives the name of the man in the photo as Don Keaton and says that he had been in the fire that killed Bill Marigold, leaving town immediately afterwards. He has only just come back to receive a medal. Nathan thinks that his Trouble must have been brought out by survivor's guilt. Everyone who has made him relive his guilt has been incinerated. And today he is getting a medal in front of the whole town. Lexie, angry with William telling her she isn't who she thinks she is, notes that he has a gun in his pocket. He pulls it out and takes it apart in front of her. As she tells him to take his gun and leave, the man who had threatened her returns with a huge thug.

At the Founder's Day celebration Nathan explains to Duke and Jennifer that he intends to arrest Don Keaton when he sees him, to take him away before he has the chance to kill anyone else. Nathan spots Keaton sitting alone and, as he confronts him, Jordan, not wanting to see Nathan die before Audrey kills him, tries to stop him from getting involved, but Duke prevents her. The town P.A. announces that the medal ceremony is in ten minutes, triggering Keaton's Trouble and Nathan starts getting hot. Nathan uses the sign of his discomfort to convince Keaton of his Trouble. Dwight arrives and takes Keaton away and Jordan harangues Nathan for getting in harm's way, accusing him of only acting in the interest of his love for Audrey and not for the Troubled. Duke tells Nathan that Jordan is wrong and that he'd been helping people since before Audrey came to town. Nathan says he's tried everything to find Audrey, but Duke says that the barn may have given her a new identity. As William is being taken out of the bar by the man and his thug, Lexie automatically reassembles the gun and orders them to let him go. William asks her, "still think you're a bartender?"

At the Gull a drunk Wade is happy to stay in Haven and have the opportunity to get to know his brother Duke better. Vince followed by some Guardsmen ominously notes that Wade is still in town. Outside in the mist Jennifer, who now understands she can be useful in Haven, tips out her meds. At Lexie's bar William says that, if he tells her who she really is, there is no going back.

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.36 million viewers.^[1]

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