‘The Way Home’ Cast and EPs Tease Cracks in Elliot and Kat’s Fledgling Relationship: ‘No One Said Kat Was Perfect’

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “The Way We Were,” Season 3, Episode 2 of  Hallmark’s “The Way Home,” which streams on Hallmark+.

Everything was coming up Elliot (Evan Williams) in the Jan. 3 Season 3 premiere of “The Way Home” on Hallmark Channel. His surrogate family was reunited with their long-lost son and brother, Jacob (Spencer MacPherson). He and Kat (Chyler Leigh) finally made time to commit to their relationship with each other without a time-traveling pond getting in the way. In terms of life goals, Elliot was knocking it out of the park. While he and Kat took the next step in their relationship – moving in together – in the season’s second episode, there are already some cracks starting to show in one of the show’s central relationships.

“We have these three women, and we always apply past, present and future thematically to them. This season is about Del questioning her past. Alice is questioning her future and what that looks like, and Kat is questioning her present,” says Alex Clarke, the daughter half of the show’s mother-daughter showrunner team. “She’s such a doer. She’s very much like Del, and last season was about completing the mission and getting Jacob home. To a certain extent, it was also about giving Susanna what’s owed to her. At the top of this season, those missions are done. Jacob is home. The book is published under Susanna’s name. She’s done all of the things, so she’s questioning who she is now and where she fits.”