Welcome to Haven - Recap

FBI agent Audrey Parker is oversleeping at home when her superior, Agent Howard, arrives. He notes that she's reading fiction, and reminds her that FBI is non-fiction. When she asks if his comment concerns her case in Miami, he assures her that it is. Audrey defends her approach, saying that being opened to less likely possibilities is how she solves cases like the Miami case. Howard then informs her that she's going to Haven, Maine, the home town of Jonas Lester. He escaped a Federal lockup and killed a guard, and Audrey is to find Jonas and bring him back. As she goes over the case, Howard tells her to focus on the job, and nothing else.

Outside of Haven, Jonas runs through the woods, carrying a gun and chasing a man. He comes to a cliff and tells his target he doesn't want to hurt him. A sudden wind knocks the gun from his hand, sweeps him high into the air, and then drops him hundreds of yards away onto a nearby beach.

Audrey is driving into Haven when a chasm opens up in the road ahead of her. She goes off the road and her car suspends from a cliff. As she tries to figure a way to get a man knocks on the door and asks if she needs help. He comes around, opens the door, and gets her out just as the car tips the rest of the way off the cliff. The man notices her holstered gun and draws a gun on her, and Audrey draws her gun. Audrey identifies herself and the man confirms that he is Nathan Wuormos, an officer with the Haven PD. Nathan says the roads are bad and the sandstone tends to shift. As they get in his car, Audrey inadvertently slams the door on his fingers, but he doesn't react. When she asks if he knows Jonas Lester, Nathan admits that he just left the man and offers to take Audrey there.



Nathan takes Audrey to the beach where Chief of Police Wuormos, his father, is checking on Jonas' corpse. The chief isn’t happy to have an FBI agent there, and wonders if she plans on interfering. Audrey points out that the body is too far to have fallen from the cliff, and something like a cannon would have had to shoot it there. She also finds a fragment of paper on Jonas’ corpse. The chief insists that it was a fall and leaves. Nathan admits that his last name is Wuormos and the chief is his father. While he waits, Audrey calls Howard and tells him about Jonas’ death.



As Nathan and Audrey investigate the cliff, Nathan admits he isn't fond of his father. They find a gun and a hat. Nathan recognizes the hat and says he knows who owns it: Conrad Brauer. Brauer is a vet who served with Jonas and started a business when he came back to Haven, and Jonas stole money from him and other vets. They approach Conrad, who does repairs at a store owned by Marion Caldwell. He doesn’t want anyone coming within his “personal perimeter.” Nathan admits that Conrad has had personal space issues since the war. Audrey asks why his hat was on the cliff and Conrad admits that he went up there on occasion to watch the boats. However, he was clam digging when Jonas died.

As they talk, an enormous bank of fog suddenly rolls into town. Conrad disappears in the confusion and they hear cars crashing in the mist. When Audrey spots a truck heading for Nathan, she pulls him out of the way and he falls, injuring his shoulder. Afterward, Eleanor the EMT treats his injury and Nathan explains that due to a medical condition, he doesn’t feel pain. He insists that heavy fog is normal for Haven. Two elderly newspapermen, Dave and Vince Teagues, approach Audrey and introduce themselves. Vince seems to recognize her but isn't sure why. They want to talk to her about her case for their newspaper and she agrees to meet with them later.



Nathan and Audrey go to see the storeowner, Marion Caldwell, and her boyfriend Ted Ford. The couple is discussing their plans to move to Santa Barbara and open a new store since Marion's mother recently died. Marion confirms that she saw Conrad, a childhood friend, clam digging when Jonas died. Nathan gets a report that the gun belongs to a boat captain and smuggler, Duke Crocker. They visit his boat at the Haven dock but don't find him, and Nathan warns that he's a total waste and unreliable. Nathan goes to look for Duke.



That night, Conrad comes to Marion's antique shop and asks if she trusts him. She reminds him of how he taught her to swim when they were kids, and she's always felt safe with him. Conrad asks her to let him handle the situation with Jonas himself.

As a storm breaks across the town, Audrey goes back to the docks and calls Howard. It begins to hail and Audrey runs to shelter, but a lightning bolt hits a nearby power pole and the explosion throws Audrey into the water and knocks her unconscious.

The next morning, Audrey wakes up naked in a bed on Duke's boat. She borrows a shirt and goes outside to find Duke waiting for her. He explains that he laundered her clothing and offers them back to her. As she gets dressed, she asks him about Jonas and Duke claims that all he knows is that he's dead. He says that his gun was stolen, but that he did report it to Nathan. Audrey assures him that they're good as long as he told her the truth, and Duke knows what Nathan thinks of him all too well. She notices the weather damage to the docks and figure she needs to get a bird's eye view. When Audrey realizes that her cell phone is destroyed, he offers her a Princess phone. She's not amused.



At the station, Audrey suggests that Duke isn't as bad as Nathan claims, but he isn't impressed. She shows him satellite photos indicating the hailstorm started in the center of town, but Nathan doesn't believe it's anything important. He does have a report on the piece of paper, and Forensics has confirmed it's from the tide calendar on Duke's boat. There are numbers on it, and Nathan goes to ask Duke what they are. The chief comes in to ask if she's still wasting her time, and Audrey tells them what they've found. Audrey gets an idea and realizes that the beach where Conrad claimed to be clamming was at high tide. She goes to see Conrad at the shop, and he warns her to back away. Marion comes out and asks Audrey to leave Clarence alone, and a strong breeze suddenly blasts Audrey back. As it starts snowing, a panicked Marion runs inside and Audrey arrests Conrad. He insists that he killed Jonas by accident.

Audrey takes Conrad to the station and discovers that Nathan has arrested Duke. She tells Nathan to let him go, insisting that Duke is innocent. Conrad admits that he killed Jonas, much to Nathan's surprise, and he takes him to the side. Meanwhile, Audrey tells Duke that she knows he saw Jonas. He admits he doesn't talk to cops, even the ones that he likes, but he offers to tell her what the numbers mean if she can get Nathan to apologize. Nathan reluctantly apologizes and Duke explains that Jonas wanted Duke to smuggle him to Canada. Duke doesn't smuggle fugitives, but he figures the numbers are a boat registration number. He refuses to say anything else, but Nathan figures they can identify the boat from the harbormaster. Audrey asks Nathan to check out the harbor while she tries to figure out what Conrad did to her. He warns her how insane it sounds, but agrees to let her check it out for now.



At the antique store, Ted gives Marion the key to their new shop in Santa Barbara. He tells her they can put the deposit down to purchase it and start moving immediately. Marion agrees that it's time.

Vince and Dave come to visit Audrey at the police station and give her a photo from a case 27 years ago: the murder of the "Colorado Kid" in Haven. A woman in the photo looks almost identical to Audrey. Audrey asks them about Conrad and Dave checks the archives on her computer. She has him run a search connecting Conrad to odd weather. Dave comes up with an article on Marion, whose family moved to Haven after their home was destroyed by freak storms in Georgia in 1956. The daughter died recently and Marion was her daughter. Meanwhile, Nathan finds the boat and calls Audrey to tell her that he found Marion's financial records on it. The boat belongs to Jonas, and the records show that Marion inherited $2 million from her dead mother. Conrad has been protecting Marion all along. They realize that Jonas got the information from his secret partner: Ted.



Audrey calls Marion and warns her that Lester and Ted are after her inheritance. She explains that she was supposed to meet Ted on the cliff that night to go stargazing. However, he never showed up. Audrey tells her that Ted lured her there and Jonas was going to kill her. Marion confirms that Ted has gained access to her money, and checks her bank records. They show that Ted has cleaned out the account. As storm clouds gather, Marion hangs up the phone and runs outside to find Ted. Audrey calls Nathan and tells him where Marion is going, and that she's out of control.

Marion confronts Ted at her home and finds him packing to leave. She realizes that he's lying and demands answers. Lighting begins to strike around Ted, who tries to convince her he didn't try and harm her. When that doesn't work, he takes out a gun but she blasts it away with wind. Audrey arrives and explains that her emotions are causing the storms. As Nathan arrives, Ted recovers the gun and shoots him in the shoulder. Unfazed, Nathan takes him down. Meanwhile, Audrey tells Marion that she is causing all the bad weather and she needs to let go of her anger. Marion calms down and the weather dissipates.



Later, Conrad fixes Audrey's car and they go to see Marion on the beach. He explains that he went to the cliff that night to keep an eye on Marion because he didn't trust Ted. Audrey suggests that he loves Marion, and he needs to step up. She can't lock Marion up, and only Conrad can keep her safe and calm. Conrad goes to her and she promises to listen to him, and starts to take his hand. When she hesitates because of his personal perimeter, he reaches out and takes his hand.



Audrey brings lilies and lilacs to the injured Nathan. He's dozing, and she sees the Colorado Kid photo. When Nathan wakes up, Audrey explains that Lester got picked up on a parole violation, and broke out so Ted wouldn't leave with his share. Nathan isn't convinced that Marion was controlling the weather. He then tells her that he knows about the Colorado Kid case, because "the chief" was a beat cop who never solved it. He insists on not calling the chief his dad, and notes that the woman in the photo looks like Audrey. Nathan asks if it might be a relative, and Audrey admits she doesn't know. She explains that she used to dream of her mother rescuing her and every other orphan, and refuses to give up the dream.

Audrey goes to the site where the Colorado Kid was found, and then calls Howard and says she's going to take her unused vacation. She's unaware that he's watching her from across the harbor. Howard readily agrees to give her the time off, and then calls someone and tells them that Audrey may be able to help with their problems. As Howard drives off, another crack opens in the pavement behind him.



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