The Farmer

For the 1787 comic operetta of this title, see The Farmer (play).

The Farmer is the third episode of the third season of the supernatural American/Canadian television series Haven. It aired on SyFy on October 5, 2012. It was written by Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn and directed by T.W. Peacocke.

Plot

A jogger is found by his companion, Sherry, dead not far from the track with blood around his mouth and a pair of lungs beside the body. The M.E., Casey, shows that no incision was made to the man's body and guesses the lungs came out through the mouth. A man wearing a Trilby hat photographs the corpse with his phone from a distance, enlarges the image and sees the lungs. At the station Audrey tells Nathan about the fact that she only had 46 days left before she would disappear (see previous episode). Casey explains that the lungs were diseased. He adds that the lungs weren't those of the victim. Nathan goes to interview Sherry, but she has already been questioned by a black male of around 35 named Tommy. A call for a disturbance comes in causing Nathan and Audrey to investigate. They find Tommy in Trilby bending over a body at the address. He explains he's a cop, but Nathan cuffs him. There are kidneys on the floor by the body. He explains that he is chasing someone who'd removed the liver from a victim in Boston, his trainee. Upstairs they find the victim's sister, Zoe. At the station, Zoe is in a bad state. Stan the cop is showing young Mark around the station. Tommy tells Audrey and Nathan that he was in Haven because witnesses had seen the perp wearing a "Sea Dogs" jacket. There is a scream from the corridor. Zoe has attacked Mark, pinned him to the floor and opened her mouth, prepared for who knows what, when Tommy knocks her out.

At the hospital Claire Callahan explains to Audrey that Zoe's organs are failing one-by-one. Nathan receives word that the diseased lungs and the kidneys were from the same person. Audrey conjectures that the killer is Troubled which causes his organs to fail, so he needs healthy ones. Claire notes that the most suitable organs come from family members. Nathan adds that if the attack succeeds, he gets the organs; if the victim gets away, their Trouble is triggered, and Audrey finishes, that they need new organs. Nathan asks Stan if Mark is related to Zoe. Stan doesn't know, indicating that Mark's mother had used a sperm donor. Tommy says that his trainee's mother had used a sperm donor as well. Nathan subpoenas the records of the local fertility clinic. They speculate that the killer has supplied his sperm at the clinic so that, when the Troubles returned, he'd have a stock of organs. And if these children's Trouble is triggered they will have to harvest organs themselves. Audrey says that the cycle must be broken. Harry Nix is surveying his next victim, a young woman.

Audrey has asked Duke to help interview the children and at the house of the third name Duke sees the girl and a man wearing a Sea Dogs jacket. Nix grabs the girl and from his mouth comes a snake-like tongue moving at the girl, but Audrey shouts and the man jumps into his car and drives off. The girl is in a bad state. Tommy doesn't believe Nathan's story about the Troubles. Audrey calls and Nathan gets an address from the license number of Nix's car, but Audrey and Duke find he and his family have gone. Audrey surmises that Nix will soon need organs, so they go off to the nearest child in the fertility clinic records. The child is not there so Nix takes his own son off "for a pit stop". Nix's body is failing him as he prepares to remove organs from his son. Audrey and the others catch him before he can do it. Tommy sees the tongue return into Nix's mouth. The boy is in shock. His father is dying. Audrey tells Nathan to take Tommy and the boy away. She tries to get Duke to kill Nix, but, realizing that this was Audrey's plan all along, he refuses.

At the morgue among the victims' bodies is one whose nose had been surgically removed and a woman who had been killed with a bolt gun, just as Roslyn Toomey had been. At the station Audrey deliberately alienates Nathan. She explains to Claire that bad things happen to the men she has loved. She receives a text that makes her leave. At the Grey Gull Duke is drinking. Audrey tells him that all those in Nix's extended family who were Troubled had mysteriously recovered. She has realized that Duke changed his mind and had killed Nix. Duke is not happy.

Someone opens Tommy's hotel room door. He then drives and parks in a remote location telling someone on the phone that he was "out" as he disposes of a body.

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.4 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.572 million viewers.^[1]

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