SPOILER ALERT: This put up comprises spoilers from “Convey Me to Life,” the Season 2 finale of  Hallmark’s “The Manner House,” which streams on Peacock and Hallmark Motion pictures Now.

“The Manner House” added one other jaw-dropping twist within the Season 2 finale, “Convey Me to Life,” which aired Sunday night time on Hallmark. Jacob (Spencer MacPherson) returned house to the current day, bringing Kat’s (Chyler Leigh) Season 2 quest to an in depth — however that wasn’t probably the most surprising second of the finale. After Kat declared, “I want Dad was right here to see this,” to her little brother, the present moved to a flashback of a really younger Colton in interval clothes speaking to an previous girl about the way it wasn’t his time to go within the pond. One other flashback revealed that it was truly grownup Colton (Jefferson Brown) standing within the bushes watching himself with a younger Jacob (Remy Smith) on the summer time kick-off earlier than Jacob disappeared in 1999. 

These flashbacks  imply that Colton is a time traveler, and was utilizing the pond lengthy earlier than younger Jacob, Alice (Sadie-LaFlemme Snow), or Kat jumped into the mysterious water connected to the Landry farm. This revelation shifts a number of issues we thought we knew in regards to the collection, and raises a bunch of latest questions. 

Within the finale, it additionally appeared like Elliot (Evan Williams) made a breakthrough episode in regards to the guidelines of the pond, permitting him to journey again to 1999 with Alice to get his 5 additional minutes with Colton. Elliot postured that individuals can journey in tandem with the Landry girls, however not go into the long run. Nevertheless, this Colton twist brings the second a part of that concept into query. 

However that wasn’t the top for Season 2 finale bombshells. The episode additionally raised questions on Casey Goodwin (Vaughan Murrae), who confirmed up miraculously to inform Del that the Goodwin household would not be buying the Landry farm. After they delivered the brand new paperwork, Alice observed that Casey was carrying a hoop round their neck that appeared suspiciously like Brady’s (Al Mukadam) and Kat’s engagement ring that Kat had given to Alice earlier within the season. So now we should query whether or not Casey can also be a time-traveler, and what’s her true relationship to the Landry household. 

Selection caught up with “The Manner House” showrunners Heather Conkie and Alex Clarke, a mother-daughter duo, to ask all the burning questions on these surprising revelations and what they imply for Season 3. 

How lengthy have you ever been planning this Colton twist?

Alex Clarke: For some time. This present is so advanced, and is three totally different exhibits at any given time. All the things has to sort of intertwine with one period informing one other, so sure, it’s a must to know the top earlier than you start. The thought of Colton as a possible time-traveler was in our minds to start with of Season 1. What’s so good is that Jefferson, who performs Colton, has all the time performed the function on this extremely enigmatic manner the place you aren’t positive if he’s recognizing individuals, if is aware of greater than we’re sharing — and it’s actually been such a present to observe. Now, as we go into Season 3, you may look again and see the little nuances that you just don’t discover the primary time you watch an episode. He did a miraculous job with that. 

Does that imply he knew it was grownup Elliot within the finale? 

Clarke: We will neither verify nor deny! That’s what’s so nice about Jefferson’s efficiency. All we are going to say is that we are going to reply a number of these questions in Season 3. 

Are there any scenes that you just advocate followers return and rewatch in gentle of this twist? 

Heather Conkie: I count on the viewers will return and do precisely as Alex mentioned, and watch all the Colton scenes and see them from a barely totally different perspective now. 

Clarke: I believe one of many issues we had been closely influenced by once we first acquired into the writers’ room was “The Sixth Sense.” Our purpose was all the time that second on the finish of the season the place you go, “Wait, what?!” And you then rewatch the entire thing with this new piece of knowledge, and see issues in numerous lights…

This huge revelation in Season 2 is not only that Colton is a time-traveler, but additionally why does Casey have a hoop round their neck that appears like Alice’s? 

What does the Colton revelation imply for Elliot’s “Flynn Issue” concept? Is that fully null and void, as a result of Colton clearly can go into the long run?

Clarke: Any rule that we clarify within the present is normally the proper one. At our core, we comply with the principles of the pond, as a result of the minute we cease following the principles is the minute we lose the belief of the viewers. We now have the entire listing. We now have them up within the workplace and are very, very cautious to not stray from the principles. We will discover loopholes, or we will method that rule another way, and that’s laborious. However Elliot’s Flynn issue is vital to the collection. 

You additionally put in a scene between Del and Evelyn Goodwin a number of episodes in the past that felt ominous, and didn’t give a number of context. Are we going to search out out extra about what occurred between these two and Colton in Season 3?

Clarke: Nothing is throwaway in our present. We don’t have time in our 41 minutes and 57 seconds to have throwaway moments, as a result of it’s such an intricate and fast-moving present. So any second like that — that asks the query or poses a brand new concept or exhibits you somebody in a brand new gentle — may be very purposeful. What viewers must belief is that any query we increase, we are going to all the time reply. It’s only a matter of time. 

Jacob returns to the current within the finale, however we don’t see him reunite with Del. What made you resolve to avoid wasting that for later? 

Conkie: It felt proper. As Alex mentioned, we solely have a restricted time and it felt like that second [between Del and Jacob] was too massive a second to squeeze in. It’s inevitable. It is going to occur. 

Clarke: This season was additionally actually a narrative about Kat bringing Jacob house. It was about her quest to avoid wasting him and the final word query was, can she convey him house? That query we did reply:Sure, and now her quest is completed. She achieved that second. Any reunion with Del is clearly one thing all of us wish to see, however that’s one other story. The story that we had been telling this season was about Kat. Because of this, that second of them heading in the direction of the home and her being the one to say, “I want dad may see this,” propels us to those massive reveal moments. It was her story. We informed her story. 

Clearly, with all of our tales, there’s by no means actually an finish, or each finish creates a brand new starting. That’s one thing that we had been actually conscious of going into Season 3. The concept each ending is a brand new starting is sort of a theme. 

Does ending this chapter imply that Kat received’t be tempted to return to 1814 even when she now is aware of Thomas remains to be alive?

Clarke: We solely offer you as a lot as you want. That’s sort of the motto of the present. [Finding out that Thomas is alive] is a second that raises a number of questions for Kat, if and when she and Jacob stroll by means of that kitchen door and what comes subsequent. 

Kat and Elliot sort of finish on a query mark this season. What do these questions imply for his or her relationship? 

Clarke: I believe her closing that chapter goes to open up time for her and Elliot in a manner that she by no means actually has been capable of give him. Kat is an extremely impulsive particular person. She is somebody that when she units her thoughts to one thing, she received’t ever quit on it till it’s carried out, and probably at the price of a number of different issues that perhaps she’s not even conscious of. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see her character begin to refocus her priorities. 

Elliot has a “let there be gentle” epiphany on the finish of the episode. Is he totally healed from the trauma of dropping Colton now after attending to time journey? 

Conkie: That was him breaking by means of not only a wall, however a complete mind-set and remorse. It might open him up another way. I believe it should change that. He’s taking that step, and simply bursting by means of that wall he put up round himself. 

Clarke: Right here’s a man who has spent his entire life residing in that home, after which returning to it 4 or 5 years in the past. He’s lived with that dent within the wall reminding him that he’s able to being like that. I believe the act of busting by means of that wall, breaking it down, has a way of freedom — I believe he’s made his coronary heart greater. On the similar price, I believe time touring with Alice allowed him to place himself in Kat’s footwear. He does wish to warn Colton, regardless of every little thing, even supposing he’s a man who lives by the principles. He all the time needs to say to [Colton], “Don’t get within the truck. Don’t go to the carnival. Maintain your eye in your child.” In that second, I believe he has an unimaginable perspective shift on what Kat has been going by means of. 

I believe each Kat and Elliot are coming to one another with totally different views now. Kat’s quest is completed, however what’s subsequent? Elliot additionally has far more understanding of why she has carried out what she’s carried out. That can go away them in a extremely attention-grabbing place subsequent season. 

Clearly, you may’t reveal who Casey Goodwin is to the Landrys, however what are your conversations like along with your actors when you already know there may be going to be a serious twist with their character? How a lot warning do you give them? 

Conkie: I’ve all the time felt as a author that it’s higher to maintain actors at midnight in a manner, as a result of they react to it instantly when it occurs, versus them pondering forward of time. It’s all the time the case, however with Vaughan Murrae it was totally different. I believe they’d a concept after they acquired the function. They knew a little bit bit. They had been an individual who watched Season 1 with their mother, they usually had been a fan. So it was unimaginable for them to come back play amongst people who they’ve been watching. 

Clarke: To your level, Mother, I believe even that very first day they sort of had an thought of the place we had been going with the character. 

Del was growing a romance all season and was lastly beginning to actually open up in these ultimate episodes. What’s reuniting together with her long-lost son going to do to her drive to be with somebody once more? 

Conkie: Alex and I’ve thought very laborious about how would you deal with that after 20-odd years of acceptance that it’s by no means going to occur. It’s sure to vary an individual in an enormous variety of methods. Do you return to treating that 32-year-old like an eight-year-old? Are you overly possessive? Do you push apart each single factor in your life? Apart from that, simply to get to know this particular person once more, this grownup, it’s sure to have an enormous impact on Del. It’s going to have an enormous impact on Port Haven, as a result of they had been such part of this horrific disappearance and maintaining her stepping into her time of absolute grief. It’s going to have an effect on her relationships, for positive, with everybody. 

Clarke: One of many issues we all the time take note is this concept of a fortunately ever after. That’s such a fortunately ever after second of a son who has been lacking for twenty-four years strolling by means of the door. What comes after that, although? It’s not like we freeze in time, shut the ebook and we’re carried out. Fortunately ever after is a little bit of a fantasy as a result of there may be all the time one thing after and inevitably it has its personal challenges as a lot as it’s a completely happy ending within the second. 

What’s the general proportion probability that we’re going to see Andie McDowell bounce on this pond in Season 3?

Clarke: We’re asking ourselves that actual query within the writers’ room. By no means say by no means with something on our present.We satisfaction ourselves on jaw-drop moments, so there will certainly be extra. 

This interview has been edited and condensed.