Tangling With The Troubled: Haven ne’er-do-well Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour) watches over a rage-infected Nathan Wuornos (Luke Bryant), and (opposite) Audrey (Emily Rose) tends to a supernaturally aging Duke.


fugitive, and she uncovers evidence that her own past may be linked to the town (a woman who looks exactly like her appears in a photo snapped the morning of the Colorado Kid murder and Audrey suspects it might be her mom), she decides to stay and investigate, eventually turning in her federal credentials to take a po- sition with the local PD. “What keeps her [there] is the fact that she is really good in this place, that she


can help,” says Rose. “She feels that she clicks and belongs in that place, and I think that’s very interesting to her. Plus, she just can’t freakin’ figure out what the deal is, what’s going on, and I think that’s like an itch to her. It bugs her.” With its male/female crime-solving dynamic, monster-of-the-


week-style episodes and expansive, mysterious series-defining mythology, never mind its perpetually overcast locale and un- resolved sexual tension, comparisons to The X-Files are in- evitable. (Haven even pays homage to the series in a first-season episode where Audrey says to her former boss, “At least I’m not like that one guy you trained who was chasing aliens, what was his name?”) But there are also some key differences, the most notable


being that even though the Troubled are often behind gruesome injuries and deaths, incarceration and punishment is not nec- essarily the most frequent outcome. Perhaps that’s because Nathan himself is among the ranks of the inflicted – he has no sense of touch and hence is oblivious to pain, which proves to be far less cool than you may imagine, as he often unknowingly injures himself while on the job. By the end of the first season’s thirteen-episode arc (out now on DVD/Blu-ray


from Entertainment One), more is known about mysteries at play in Haven, as well as the central characters themselves. We learn that Audrey has an innate way of dealing with the afflicted and is the only person whose touch Nathan can feel. It also becomes evident that the woman in the photo may not be her mother after all – a revelation that is driven home in the first season’s final scene when Audrey is confronted by a federal agent who claims to be the real Audrey Parker. “They withheld from me the information that somebody else was going to come


to the beach and say that she was Audrey Parker. I’m actually glad that they did because it really, really shocked me and it was a tough pill to swallow,” says Rose.


“It pretty much took everything I knew and ripped it out from underneath me, so I was really kind of like, ‘Where do I start now?’ ... It affects Audrey in [season two in] a very sad way. I think she really battles with believing that: a) who she is, is really her, and b) it puts her in a kind of sad place, it’s like grieving your own self. It’s really weird.” Likewise, Nathan discovers that his contentious relationship with his father,


the police chief (played to grouchy perfection by Nicholas Campbell), may have something to do with the fact that he isn’t his father at all. But before he can get all the details, it’s too late, and the Reverend, a relatively minor character from the first season who opposes the presence of the Troubled in town, is setting his sights on the top cop posi- tion. Bryant reveals that in the second season, the Rev will be a polarizing dark force between the town’s two popu- lations and act as a mouthpiece for the haters. “In season one, Nathan was working under his father


and his father kept a lot of things from him,” explains Bryant. “He didn’t necessarily tell him all the things that he knew about town and what was going on here and didn’t really treat him all that well. So for Nathan, since his dad’s gone now, it’s about discovering who he really is, literally, and also what kind of man he’s going to be now that he’s out from under his father’s thumb.” Don’t expect that the Colorado Kid murder or any of


Haven’s other myriad mysteries will come to speedy con- clusions, however, because the show toils extensively in


what the characters don’t know and the search for answers is absolutely in- tegral to its ongoing plot. As such, Haven parallels its literary source material to a tee. “When I read The Colorado Kid, I was really frustrated by the end of it because


I was like, ‘God, this doesn’t go anywhere,’” says Rose. “Then when I read his af- terword to the reader, I was like, ‘Gosh, I like you Stephen King, that you actually sat there with the reader and said, ‘This is what this story is about: the unsolved mystery that constantly bothers you and won’t let you sleep at night.’ I really like that he was able to write from that place, not a lot of writers would be brave enough to go there and not tie it up in a bow for the audience.”


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