Duke digs a grave for Wade in a field and sadly bundles Simon Crocker's journal with the body. He tries say a eulogy, but can't think of anything, so he just buries him.
At the Haven Herald, Vince hands Jennifer a list of six families, saying they are the most likely candidates to be the one she came from. Dave comes in and hands him a journal, asking him to read it. Vince shoos him away and says he's been trying to reach Nathan, but he won't answer his phone.
After they had sex, Nathan cooks breakfast and Audrey nuzzles him. She comments that they were fools to have waited so long. She says she's glad to be back helping the Troubled. Vince knocks on the door, so they awkwardly get dressed and Nathan slips out the back. Audrey, still pretending to be Lexie, greets Vince and claims she doesn't know where Nathan is when he asks. As Vince leaves, he spots Nathan, who claims he was looking for Duke. Vince admits that he personally doesn't want Nathan to die, but he has to hurry up and get Lexie to fall in love with and then kill him to end The Troubles, or else The Guard will run out of patience.
Duke meets Jennifer and explains he buried Wade. He then tells her to take her stuff off his boat, because he's leaving Haven as soon as his friend Jack Driscoll returns his bilge pump. She's shocked, and he explains that he used to be a businessman who only looked out for Number One, but recently, he's turned into a chump who helps others and gets nothing in return. She tries to reason with him, but he snaps at her and walks out. He walks down the street, and gets confused when the air and sound ahead distorts. He then clutches his ears in pain as everything ahead implodes. A man collapses, blood flowing out of his ears. Duke pulls a little girl out of the area as her basketball implodes. The pressure goes back to normal, and Duke checks on the collapsed man, who is dead. He calls 911, and Jack Driscoll staggers up. Jack, who scuba dives in his spare time, deduces that a Trouble increased the pressure in the area until it became equivalent to the bottom of the ocean. Vince and Dave stagger up, babbling nonsense, and Duke figures that they have the bends and will die if they don't get treatment soon.
Nathan, Audrey, and Gloria arrive. Gloria checks the area and deduces that the pressure was greatest in the center, then slowly spread out like a bubble. Meanwhile, Duke and Jack put the Teagues brothers in a decompression chamber at the docks.
Jennifer is packing up her things from Duke's boat and sees a horseshoe crab on the deck... with human eyes. Duke arrives and she tries to show him, but the crab is gone. He explains that he's only staying until he's sure that Vince and Dave have recovered. She tries to explain that he's a hero and that he shouldn't be punishing himself for killing Wade, but he says he's done with Haven.
Nathan, Audrey, and Gloria find a car with a dead Jill Nunis in the center of the pressure zone. Nathan notices that the glass from the windows is outside instead of inside that car, and there are muddy footprints on the passenger side. They figure that the Troubled person who caused this was her passenger. Audrey realizes that Vince and Dave can possibly tell them who the passenger was, because they were there when the pressure started.
Vince and Dave recover, so Duke, Jennifer, and Jack help them out of the chamber. Jennifer muses that it could be Jack's Trouble that caused this, but Vince explains that Jack is Reverend Driscoll's nephew, and the Driscoll family doesn't have a Trouble. Jennifer leaves. Duke informs Jack that he is leaving Haven. Disappointed, Jack says perhaps Wade can continue the Crocker family business of eliminating Troubles, not knowing that Wade is dead. He tells Duke that his brother Aiden has the bilge pump. Last night, they went out drinking to celebrate learning of Aiden's wife's pregnancy, so he's probably hungover somewhere. Audrey and Nathan arrive and ask for Duke's help, but he complains that recently, they've only been helping themselves and he leaves. Nathan wonders if he is right, but Audrey insists that he wasn't.
Jack has muddy shoes, and Vince and Dave confirm that he was Jill's passenger. They suggest to him that he may be Troubled, and he panics, saying that is impossible. Suddenly, everything starts imploding and Vince, Dave, and Audrey clutch their ears in pain, while Nathan is unaffected because he can't feel it. Thinking quickly, Jack runs into the decompression chamber and Nathan seals him in. The pressure outside goes back to normal, while the pressure inside the chamber rises to the equivalent of 20,000 feet below sea level. Vince explains to "Lexie" that while she may be immune to Troubles, she's not immune to their environmental effects. Jack says he's a Driscoll, so how can he possibly have a Trouble?
Remembering what happened to Carrie Benson, they ask if he was attacked by two thugs. He says he can't remember because he went out drinking, but it is possible, because he woke up in a ditch by the road, and Jill gave him a lift back into town. They ask him to show them his back, and Audrey sees a glowing hand print. Nathan asks Vince and Dave to find Carrie and make a composite sketch of the thugs who attacked her, while Jack explains that he panicked when Jill almost ran the brothers over. Audrey realizes that Jack's Trouble activates when he is stressed or upset and he admits he stopped his panic attack with a breathing exercise. Following her lead, Jack does the breathing exercise again and the pressure in the chamber goes back to normal, so they let him out. Jack says he can live with being Troubled because he doesn't plan on having children, so it will die with him. Aiden and his child will carry on the Driscoll name instead.
Meanwhile, a police officer finds Aiden sleeping on a park bench and wakes him up, saying that is not allowed. Shocked, he wonders how he got there and then remembers that he and his brother were attacked by two thugs. For some reason, the officer is very obnoxious, refusing to believe anything he says and giving him a hard time. She cuffs him and tries to drag him away. He freaks out, then the officer drops dead with blood flowing from her ears, and everything around him starts imploding. He frees himself from the cuffs and wonders what is going on. Nathan, Audrey, and Jack arrive, but the pressure is so great that they can't get near him. Jack calls him and explains that the two thugs who attacked them gave them a Trouble, and Aiden has to stay still to minimize its effects. Aiden's cell phone gets destroyed by the pressure, and they are too far away to hear each other. Nathan calls in an evacuation, then tries to call Duke without success.
Jennifer drives around town, visiting the families on the list and crossing them off. She sees a horseshoe crab with human eyes on the road in her rear view mirror, but when she looks back, it is gone.
The area is slowly being evacuated, and everybody is forced to get farther and farther away from Aiden as the pressure bubble slowly expands. It reaches the firehouse and its generator explodes. They are running out of time before the pressure bubble reaches the hospital. Jack suggests they get Duke to kill him to eliminate Aiden's Trouble, but Nathan and Audrey argue that since the two thugs gave them their Trouble, it might not work.
Duke returns to Wade's grave and gives a eulogy apologizing for failing to get him to leave Haven and for failing to get through to him. His phone rings and he yells at Nathan to stop calling him, but it is Jack, begging him to help. Duke arrives at the scene, but says he can't help. Nathan calls him out on this, but Duke calls him out on how while Jack is willing to die to end one Trouble, Nathan isn't willing to die to end them all. He punches Nathan in the face and gets his blood on his hand, but nothing happens. Everybody realizes that Duke's Trouble is gone. Without a word, he drives away.
The hospital calls and says they can't evacuate the worst patients in time. Nathan finally says they may have to consider Audrey killing him to end The Troubles. Jack worries about Duke abandoning them. Nathan suggests they use a deep-sea diving suit to get to Aiden, but Jack says he doesn't have one. Suddenly, Duke drives up in a truck with three deep-sea diving suits, explaining that he used one of his shady contacts to acquire them. Nathan, Duke, and Audrey suit up while Jack monitors the the equipment.
The three enter the pressure bubble and approach Aiden. Nathan's air line gets snagged on a park bench and ruptures. Jack warns Nathan to get out of there, but he starts suffocating, so Duke drags him away while Audrey continues. Nathan desperately tries to open his suit and get some air, but Duke warns that if he does that here, then the pressure will crush him. Audrey reaches Aiden and urges him to calm down and live for his wife and unborn child. She has him perform Jack's breathing exercise and the pressure starts to drop.
Duke gets Nathan out of the danger area and they remove their suits. Nathan figures that Duke killed Wade and that removed his own Trouble. He replies that he had no choice because Wade had become a crazy serial killer. He apologizes for his harsh words from earlier, as he was angry and not thinking clearly.
Duke meets Jennifer on his boat and apologizes for yelling at her. They kiss and start having sex.
In Audrey's apartment, Nathan hands her his gun and says they have to end The Troubles once and for all.
Duke and Jennifer, in a state of undress, talk. She explains that the last family on the list had moved out ages ago, but had left a box for the daughter they gave away, which she took. The box includes a copy of the book "Unstake My Heart". Vince and Dave arrive and apologize as the two get dressed. The brothers show them the journal of Sebastian Cabot, an explorer who lived with the Mi'kmaq Indians in 1497. The journal says that a time of great evil and suffering started when a door to another world was opened, which Dave takes to be the door that brought Lexie to Haven. This period's harbingers include horseshoe crabs with human eyes. When Jennifer says she's been seeing them, the brothers panic.
In tears, Nathan talks about how so many people died today, like Jill, who had been married for over 30 years in Haven.
Duke tries to call Nathan and Audrey, but they don't pick up.
Nathan tells Audrey that the pain of everyone in Haven is on them, and that Duke had to kill his brother because of The Troubles. Audrey puts the gun to Nathan's chest and he tells her that killing him is the most loving thing that they can do. He tells Audrey that he loves her as she prepares to pull the trigger.
Duke, Jennifer, Vince, and Dave drive up to The Grey Gull. Vince continues to read the journal, and it says, "What was once your salvation is now your doom." They wonder what that means, and Duke realizes that everybody thinks Audrey killing Nathan will end The Troubles. Vince wonders why Duke referred to her as Audrey and not Lexie. They rush up to Audrey's apartment, and a gunshot rings out.
To Be Continued...
- Accidental Misnaming: Gloria absolutely does not care.Gloria: Oh! It's Lexie Do-It."Lexie:" DeWitt.Gloria (dismissively): Yeah.
- Accidental Pun: While in deep-sea diving suits in Aiden's pressure bubble.Duke: We're in deep now.Audrey: Not funny.
- Almost Out of Oxygen: Nathan's oxygen line for his deep-sea diving suit gets caught on a park bench leg and ruptures, leaking air that is keeping his lungs from collapsing in on themselves. Duke has to drag him out of the pressure bubble while Audrey forges on alone to talk Aiden down.
- Apocalyptic Log: Cabot's journal documents the last time the "great evil" came to Haven, and how to tell if it's happening again (spoiler: it is).
- Armor-Piercing Response: Duke's response to Nathan and Audrey's pleas for his help in this case is two well-deserved "Reason You Suck" Speeches and pushes Nathan to retreat back to The Plan they had originally, which is to have Audrey kill him to end the Troubles. It leads him to beg Audrey to shoot him, claiming it's the "most loving thing they can do."
- Beast of the Apocalypse: The horseshoe crabs with human eyes are these, according to Cabot's journal.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Duke finds Jennifer on his boat after asking her to come back, but words fail him, so he just kisses her. They both look a little shocked that actually happened, before Jennifer all but leaps into his arms for another and he carries her off towards his bedroom.
- Blatant Lies: Nathan sneaks out of Audrey's apartment and when he's caught, he tells Vince he was looking for Duke.
- Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: The episode ends with a gunshot and Duke, Jennifer, Vince, and Dave looking towards Audrey's apartment in horror and disbelief.
- Brick Joke: When Duke asks Jennifer to leave the Rouge, he insists he's nothing more than a businessman. Later, Jennifer mocks it in her Thinking Out Loud What the Hell, Hero? monologue.
- Buffy Speak: Audrey starts to wonder if helping with the Troubles is what she's supposed to do "karmically," and then mentions that's a "Lexie word."
- Call-Back:
- Jack and Aiden are Driscolls, related to the Rev.
- In the box that Jennifer finds at her birth parents' old house is a copy of Unstake My Heart, the book Howard pocketed in the pilot and planted for Audrey and Audrey II to find.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Duke expresses his frustration that he didn't even want to be part of Haven's weirdness, he was dragged along and he'd like to go back to being a self-serving businessman, before making plans to sail off on the Rouge. As if to emphasize the point, he's drawn into the Trouble of the week by virtue of simply walking down the street and being presented with the option of saving a child or letting her get crushed to death by the deep-sea depth Trouble. He hangs a lampshade on it.Duke (exasperated): Can't I just leave?!
- Comically Missing the Point: After Duke kicks Jennifer off the Rouge, she goes to get her stuff and sees a horseshoe crab with human eyes. She expresses concern to Duke, then remarks he probably doesn't care, because he's "bound for Timbuktu." Duke points out Timbuktu is landlocked.
- Continuity Nod:
- Jennifer still has the cut Wade gave her last episode.
- Audrey might have Anti-Magic, but she is not immune to the pressure Trouble. Dave explains that she's not immune to the physical realities of the Troubles. This seems to be a handwaved excuse so the pressure can be Played for Drama, but it's not the first time Audrey has been subject to Troubles that manipulate external phenomena despite being immune to ones that cause hallucinations or reality warping. It's just...never been explicitly stated like that before.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Jennifer tells Vince and Dave that she lost her father as a teenager and her mother five years prior. Which, while sad, does answer the question of why she was able to just take off to Maine with Duke without anyone looking for her.
- Did They or Didn't They?: In case the ending of the last episode was too vague, this one has a scenes of Nathan and Audrey half-dressed and cooking breakfast in the cold open.
- Dramatic Irony: Out of all of the people in Haven to kidnap and curse with a Trouble, William's mooks picked two brothers from the most militantly anti-Trouble family in the entire town.
- Due to the Dead: Duke buries Wade, along with his father's journal. He tries to say some kind of eulogy, but can't think of any and only says his brother's full name.
- Explosive Decompression: The Trouble of the week is crushing everything on land as though it were several thousand feet below sea level. It's played more realistically then other examples of the trope. Nothing explodes, though car windows and bottles implode. The poor guy caught inside the bubble dies from his lungs collapsing and he's found with his eardrums ruptured, both things that would actually happen with enough underwater pressure. Vince and Dave both get the bends, or decompression sickness, from being caught in the bubble and then immediately brought to surface level as it disappeared. They display real (if exaggerated to be Played for Laughs) symptoms and are treated by being locked in a decompression chamber, a real treatment.
- Failed a Spot Check:
- Vince buys Nathan's lie about being at the Gull to see Duke, despite his hair being mussed, his shirt unbuttoned, and his shoes untied.
- Vince at it again (this time with Dave), crashing the Cape Rouge to Info Dump about Cabot's journal directly after Duke and Jennifer's Relationship Upgrade, oblivious to Duke's attempts to get them to leave and the fact that Jennifer is wearing Duke's shirt.
- Fantastic Racism: A more subtle variety than usual. Jack and Aiden are both Driscolls, nephews of the Rev. Jack is disappointed that Duke is leaving town, insisting that the Driscolls and the Crockers have "protected" Haven from the Troubled for centuries. When it's revealed to him that he is Troubled, Jack freaks out, needing to be locked in a decompression chamber to get rid of his pressure bubble. He tells Nathan and Audrey that his family's "pride" has always been that they aren't Troubled. Aiden has a similar, if less overt, freak out at the news that he is also now Troubled.
- Foreshadowing: Jack offers to have Duke kill him to end the pressure Trouble for his entire family line, thinking not only of his brother but of his unborn niece/nephew who will inherit it. This is not the solution that is eventually found, but this is the exactly solution that will play out for the Harker Trouble later this season.
- Friend in the Black Market: Duke's explanation for where he got the deep-sea diving suits is that he "knows a guy."
- Gilligan Cut: Played with. Dave rushes into the Herald with Cabot's journal, but Vince brushes him off, expressing concern that Nathan is not answering his phone. The next scene is Nathan and Audrey having their morning after, a very good reason why he's not answering his phone. It's not a Smash Cut, so it doesn't play the trope straight, but there's still something funny about it.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The height difference between Duke and Jennifer's actors is more noticeable during their Relationship Upgrade scene. What to do when you're a foot taller than your Love Interest but you want to keep kissing her? Just hoist her up so you're at eye level and carry her somewhere more convenient!
- I Did What I Had to Do: When Nathan asks Duke if he killed Wade, Duke tells him he had no choice.
- If Only You Knew: Vince berates Nathan for not being at the Gull to seduce "Lexie" per the new plan, totally unaware that Nathan had just sneaked out of Audrey's apartment after they'd slept together.
- Internal Reveal:
- Nathan and Audrey find out Duke's Trouble is gone when he punches Nathan in the face and the blood is not absorbed.
- Vince and Dave find out Audrey is faking the Lexie persona.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Happens to both canon couples, but notable for Duke and Jennifer because Duke gets really irritated about it. He is one minute away from throwing Vince and Dave overboard.
- I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before: The Troubled of the week is a Driscoll—as in, Reverend Driscoll's family—and have never been Troubled before in the history of Haven. Everyone expresses disbelief that this is even possible.
- Love Triangle: The Duke/Audrey/Nathan one is brought up, but it's vague and doesn't take up much screen time.
- Mangst: Duke is dealing with his grief over killing his brother and being Brought Down to Normal. He deals with this by being a Jerkass.
- Misdirected Outburst: Duke's angry at having had to kill his brother, and he is taking it out on anyone who happens to get close enough.
- Moment Killer: Vince does this twice to both canon couples in this episode. He has impeccable timing.
- Mood Whiplash: Duke and Jennifer's reconciliation and Relationship Upgrade is shown alongside Nathan trying to convince Audrey to shoot him to end the Troubles. These scenes aren't shown consecutively, they keep cutting back and forth for the last ten minutes of the episode.
- Moral Myopia: Not Nathan this time, but Audrey; when Duke points out all the ways they're being self-serving and hypocritical, Nathan starts to rethink things and tells Audrey that Duke "isn't wrong." Audrey asserts he is, though Duke makes some good points.
- Not Staying for Breakfast: Subverted. Nathan had every intention of staying for breakfast and was, in fact, making it when he had to bail in order to keep up The Masquerade of the Lexie persona.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Jack and Duke talk about Duke leaving town. Jack is reassured that they at least have Wade to carry on the tradition of defending Haven from the Troubles. He also mentions his brother and sister-in-law are expecting a baby, and that Jack will give Duke's spot at the christening to Wade.
- Portal Door: Cabot's journal describes the last time the "great evil" came, it came through a door, and Jennifer surmises it was the door Lexie came through—and it came through with her.
- Profound by Pop Song:Vince: You're supposed to make her fall in love with you!Nathan: Well, it's like the Phil Collins song says, you can't hurry love.Vince: It's The Supremes.
- Quit Your Whining: Jennifer is having none of Duke's Self-Deprecation and insistence he's a self-centered, self-serving asshole. She outright tells him he's full of crap.
- Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Duke saves Nathan from dying in Aiden's pressure bubble, and they reconcile. Duke admits he doesn't really want Nathan dead, he was angry earlier, and he leaves to make amends with Jennifer.
- Relationship Upgrade: For Duke and Jennifer.
- "Reason You Suck" Speech: Duke twice in this episode:
- One to Audrey and Nathan about using him when they're the police officers and their actual job is to protect the town, and about how they have only been interested in protecting each other.
- When Jack offers to sacrifice himself to save his brother, Nathan starts to try to convince Duke to do it, and Duke turns around and points out that Jack is willing to sacrifice himself for one Troubled person, while Nathan has decided his life is more important than all the Troubles.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder:Jennifer: You saved my life, Duke. You've saved Lexie's life, Nathan's life—twice—and now Vince and Dave. Am I missing anyone?Duke (sheepishly): I mean, there was a little girl with a basketball...
- Right Behind Me: Duke asks Jennifer to meet him on his boat after previously asking her to leave, and walks in just in time to hear her chew him out in a rant while talking to herself. She is flustered to turn and find him there.
- Sadistic Choice: The scene where Nathan tries to talk Audrey into shooting him highlights just how much this situation sucks and how much she doesn't want to do it.
- Sexy Shirt Switch: Jennifer commandeers one of Duke's shirts after they sleep together. Unusual for the trope, it's not the one he was wearing when they started.
- Shout-Out: Nathan references the song "You Can't Hurry Love." Vince gets annoyed when he attributes it to Phil Collins, insisting it's The Supremes.
- Talking to the Dead: After being unable to come up with a eulogy, Duke returns later to talk to Wade at his makeshift grave.
- Tempting Fate:
- After Jack controls his Trouble enough to be able to leave the decompression tank, he gives thanks that he is the one Troubled and not his brother, Aiden. Jack does not plan to have children, so the Trouble won't be passed on, while Aiden is expecting a baby. The next scene is Aiden being roused from a park bench and his pressure Trouble being activated by the stress of being handcuffed by the police officer trying to shoo him away.
- Duke surmises that the riddle in Cabot's journal means that Audrey killing Nathan is no longer a way to save Haven and would make things worse. Vince and Dave agree that she "better not" shoot him. Cue the gunshot from upstairs.
- Took a Third Option: Duke refuses to kill Jack, in part because he has been Brought Down to Normal and killing him would do nothing to end the Trouble. Seemingly the options are having Duke kill Jack to end the Driscoll Trouble or have Audrey kill Nathan to end all the Troubles, but Duke pulls up with a van full of deep-sea diving suits so they can enter the pressure bubble and talk Aiden down.
- Viewers Are Goldfish: Jack Driscoll and Duke have a conversation about the Trouble of the week being the kind of pressure you get deep-sea diving, and then confront the seriousness of Vince and Dave having the bends. The very next scene is Gloria, "Lexie," and Nathan having pretty much the same conversation almost word for word. There isn't even a commercial cut in between the scenes.
- Wham Shot: Jack Driscoll has the same handprint on his back that Carrie Benson did, and Audrey is again the only one who can see it.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Jennifer tries to call Duke out on being self-deprecating, pointing out he's a hero who has saved lives. He is not buying it.
