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SPOILER ALERT: This publish accommodates spoilers from “If You Might Learn My Thoughts,” the Season 3 finale of Hallmark’s “The Method House,” which streams on Hallmark+ and Peacock.

“The Method House” kicked off its third season with the abandonment of a mysterious child, and followers have waited all season to get extra details about the enigmatic scene. By the tip of the Season 3 finale, we all know one key factor in regards to the child: who he was. It turned out that the cooing toddler was Elliot (performed by Evan Williams as an grownup) as a child. He was left by the pond by his time-traveling mom, who jumped into the frigid waters with somebody who should be a male Landry, however whose face we by no means see. 

Why they left Elliot by the pond and what related Elliot’s mom to the as-of-yet unidentified Landry are inquiries to be explored in “The Method House” Season 4 — Hallmark introduced the present’s renewal the day earlier than the finale. As Kat (Chyler Leigh) and Elliot examine his household’s relationship with the pond, Del (Andie MacDowell) will likely be busy on the lookout for Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) who disappeared after Lewis Goodwin (Philip Riccio) threatened to press tried arson expenses in opposition to him. We will’t think about that Del will likely be too happy to be taught that her boyfriend, Sam (Rob Stewart), is aware of much more about Jacob’s time travels than he’s let on, but it surely was gratifying for viewers to have it confirmed that Sam has his personal relationship with the pond, which was confirmed within the finale as effectively. 

Whereas many questions nonetheless linger about Elliot, Jacob’s disappearance, Sam, and KC Goodwin (Vaughan Murrae), the Season 3 finale did reply a lot of them about Colton (Jefferson Brown) and his time-travel adventures. Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) took an surprising journey to the ’90s to have a heart-to-heart along with her grandfather and get solutions her household desperately wanted about what the patriarch knew in regards to the pond when Jacob disappeared. 

Selection caught up with showrunners Heather Conkie and Alex Clarke to speak in regards to the child twist, Easter eggs, closure, and what all of the finale developments imply for Season 4 and “The Method House” shifting ahead. 

What does this ending imply for Elliot and his relationship with time journey? 

Alexandra Clarke: It bought a heck of much more private, which is a enjoyable new layer to all of this. It’s a extremely enjoyable launching pad. As a lot as he loved his 5 extra minutes with Colton, and he’ll always remember that, Elliot has all the time been somebody who saved time journey at arm’s size. To make this realization, or create this idea that includes his family, takes that to the subsequent degree. 

Elliot and Kat additionally appear to take their relationship to the subsequent degree after an necessary dialog on this episode. Are they in a greater place to really make this relationship work than they had been at the start of the season? 

Heather Conkie: It’s them coming to phrases with the fact of who they’re as folks. They don’t seem to be the identical folks that they knew in 1999; they need to shift gears. Alex wrote that fantastic scene. It’s a kind of scenes that I feel anybody who’s having weird realignment issues of their relationship ought to watch, as a result of it’s a grasp class. 

Clarke: We began this season with them in love. They realized by way of the course of the season that it’s not a love that’s totally shaped but. They each do quite a lot of rising on this season and make errors, and do impulsive issues. The entire arguments that they’ve aren’t actually arguments. They’re recognizing they’re at an deadlock, and they should work on themselves earlier than they’ll work on them as a unit. I feel this heartfelt dialog is the crescendo of that. They’re realizing that to essentially love one another, they’ve to like who they’re now and never who they had been. 

Going to the previous is all effectively and good, however they’ll’t love one another with the previous in thoughts. They’ll journey to the previous, however they’ll’t dwell there. Elliot acknowledges that he’s all the time put her on a pedestal as a result of her household was excellent, so any mistake she made he held in opposition to her as a result of she was speculated to be excellent. Conversely, Kat realizes that she all the time took Elliot with no consideration as a result of that’s how he was once they had been youngsters. He was all the time there, and he by no means faltered. Her realizing she wants to understand that’s actually beautiful too. 

Elliot isn’t the one one we be taught has a deeper connection to the pond on this finale. You validated everybody who has theorized that Sam at the very least is aware of what the pond can do by exhibiting him standing there when he’s speaking to Del. What are you able to tease about Sam’s relationship with the pond? 

Conkie: We put him within the precise place with nearly the precise phrases as we had Elliot in on the finish of the pilot. In the event you put the 2 photographs collectively, they’re an identical, actually. The traces are an identical. 

Clarke: That was a really purposeful option to mirror. Our present is all in regards to the echoes of the previous and the current. The previous is rarely gone. We love the decision again to our first episode as a result of the entire finale is about going again to the beginning, which is why we selected Coldplay’s “The Scientist” proper off the highest. We’re exhibiting the viewers that this has been within the works for some time. We’ve had these concepts since Season 1 and we’re lastly exhibiting it to you. 

So many unfastened threads with Colton had been tied up on this finale. Does it totally shut the loop on his time touring, or is there extra to find there?

Clarke: I don’t assume you’ll be able to ever rely Colton out. The lore of Colton is the inspiration of our present. He’s such an interesting character, and we do undoubtedly reveal rather a lot between Episodes 9 and 10 about his expertise with time journey, and why he made the alternatives he did. There’s all the time extra to the story with Colton. There are such a lot of questions that I hope folks ask about these ultimate moments of the episode with youthful Del, and Colton taking Elliot in. What are the implications of that? That’s a part of Elliot’s story that definitely our viewers hasn’t been conscious of. There’s undoubtedly extra secrets and techniques to unveil. 

One of many issues we did verify on this episode is that Colton knew who Kat was on the crash web site and he didn’t simply forgive her, however all the time cherished her. What does having that information do for Kat going ahead? 

Conkie: It definitely frees her of the extreme guilt that she’s been feeling ever since she made that fateful determination to attempt to change issues. I feel it’ll change her in some methods, however Kat can be very “onto the subsequent.” 

Clarke: One of many issues that’s actually intriguing about Season 4 is what Kat appears to be like like after getting closure. Colton knew he was going to die, and he stopped Alice from telling him something about the way it was going to occur. He was prepared to do no matter wanted to be executed in an effort to deliver Alice into this world and have this second with him in February 2000. He was resolved in his selections. That’s going to free Kat in a method that we haven’t seen her be free earlier than. I’m intrigued to know what which means for her, whether or not it means on the lookout for the subsequent or no matter it means for her confidence. There’s quite a lot of roads to go down along with her after this. 

Del additionally bought some closure on this season. She lastly jumped within the pond! What does the journey again to the ’70s do for Del and her relationship to the pond? 

Conkie: The pond has been the enemy. This was the primary time she realized it could possibly be absolute magic. The marriage is considered one of my favourite scenes in your entire lifetime of the present. I cherished the music. I really like the best way it was filmed. It’s actually fairly one thing, and really emotional. 

Clarke: She wanted that journey to be a present in an effort to see the pond in a brand new method. She’s solely ever identified it as a vessel that takes folks she loves away. Giving her the present of seeing these folks for 5 extra minutes goes to permit her to see it in a special gentle shifting ahead. She’s a really sensible girl. She’s not going to turn out to be obsessed the best way that Kat and even Alice are, however she wanted to have a constructive expertise with the pond to maneuver on. 

We additionally be taught that Susannah left Lingermore to the Landry household. What are you able to tease about what which means for Season 4 and the Goodwin/Landry feud?

Clarke: It’s such a scrumptious method to finish that story proper now. They’ve this paper in hand — what are they going to do with it? Do they really wish to go down that highway? It opens up quite a lot of questions in regards to the relationship between the Goodwin and the Landry households. Don’t overlook, Louis Goodwin already is aware of that the desire exists —KC confirmed it to him in Season 2. What is going to it imply if it comes again to hang-out him? These are thrilling inquiries to be confronted with. 

KC returns on this episode and confirmed that they not Alice’s daughter. We nonetheless don’t know precisely who they’re although, so why did you wish to give that tidbit of data?

Conkie: This clears the slate for Alice. She’s been ruminating and dreading all season that she finally ends up with Max Goodwin. Is that actually the longer term and is every little thing preordained, or does she have a selection left on this world? Then she finds herself really being drawn to this man and it’s a reduction to her to know she nonetheless has a future she will select, identical to Elliot and Kat now have a future they’ll select collectively. 

Clarke: Within the writers’ room, we all the time attempt to affiliate these three unbelievable feminine characters with the previous, current, and future. This was a season the place Del was questioning her previous. Kat was questioning her current and the place she match now that her mission to deliver Jacob dwelling was over. Alice was actually questioning her future due to the existence of KC and what that meant. On the finish, we wished to see these characters get a way of freedom from these questions. Del was freed from her questions as a result of she bought to return to her wedding ceremony and it was precisely like she remembered. Kat and Elliot having this unbelievable dialog, and arguably by way of her experiences with Thomas this season, she was capable of free herself to be within the current. Alice — due to the KC of all of it, and the closure they offer her — is freed from any doubt she might have had in regards to the future. It was necessary to point out in our finale that they’re now all free. 

The thought comes up this season that the pond can punish folks for breaking the foundations. Clearly the pond makes decisions about when and the place to ship folks again in time, however is it a factor that may punish or reward vacationers for his or her habits previously? 

Clarke: That was Colton’s rationalization to Alice and his logic for why he saved it to himself, why he was ashamed, and why he thought it didn’t work for his household. These are all classes in communication. Colton didn’t know the total story in regards to the pond. I feel the pond teaches classes, however it’s all about reflection. It takes you the place you want to go. I feel it’s a passive entity versus an aggressive one. Colton tells Alice he made a horrible mistake, and he did. We’re all able to making horrible errors, even an unbelievable character like Colton. That’s why this present resonates with folks as a result of even the characters with the very best intentions which are nothing however pure good are additionally able to falling down and getting it fallacious. And that’s okay. I feel that’s a really highly effective message.  

This interview has been edited and condensed.