This is a timeline/chronology of characters and events for the TV show: Haven
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Chapter 3
1659 - THMS
1684: The Haven Herald town newspaper was founded, presumably (though not yet stated definitively) by an ancestor of Vincent Teagues.
1686 – THMS
February 1692 – May 1693:
The 'Salem witch trials' conducted in various parts of Massachusetts, resulting in the effective murder of 20 people, most of them women, take place.
After 1605 and before* 1767:
Mara and William find Haven and periodically visit to persecute the townspeople by allegedly inflicting 'Troubles' on an individual that becomes hereditary when that person had descendants. It may be that William and Mara in fact change supernatural hereditary abilities into disabilities by warping or tweaking their victim's DNA in some way. In S4:13, it is openly stated that both William and Mara**/Audrey are not 'Earthlings' but 'Otherworld' born (which is why they are two of the four who can open the portal lock).
In the brief flashbacks of Mara and William in Haven forest (S4:13) Mara was wearing a peasant blouson and Roma Gypsy type skirt whilst William was wearing a leather jerkin type thing. To be honest, the first thing I thought of during those flashback scenes was "Hollywood Musical Bavarian". Anyone who has ever seen Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Heidi, National Lampoon's European Vacation, William Tell, Robin Hood, etc., will know what I mean – Hollywood's idea of what Bavaria/Tyrol/Swiss peasants looked like and wore in the 1500s to 1700s – Mara looked a stereotype Gypsy gal from central casting (she only needed to squawk 'cross my palms with silver!') There was only the narrowest escape from Lederhosen and yodelling – when I looked at "William" I thought of the Woodcutter in the animation movie Hoodwinked.
However, we have plenty of indications that the 'soft spot'/the Troubles (versus the Troubled) predated Mara and William by centuries if not millennia, so logically it is far more likely that Mara and William found Tuwiuwok/Haven by chance and kept returning sporadically to wreak havoc by virtue of being wicked* cruel people – it is hinted at by Agent Howard in S3 and claimed by William in S4 that the Barn was created 'for' Mara because she was the more guilty one behind the evil and thus bore greater blame/deserved more serious punishment.
* We know they had to be active in causing Troubles by 1767, because in 1786 Fitzwilliam Crocker (see 1786) commissions Regis Glendower***, presumably a Silversmith, to create the silver caskets to house the accoutrements of being Cursed to kill fellow Troubled people, presumably because he and others knew the next THMS was due in 1794 so the Havenites were expecting the Troubles to start up again from May 1791 onwards – presumably the Troubles are the Harbinger of the arrival of The Woman, though this is not certain, because we don't know when Mara and William were caught, who by, what their punishment exactly was and when it went into operation.
** The name "Mara" means "bitterness" in the root Semitic languages and is most famous from the Bible book of Ruth when the elderly Israelite woman Naomi returns to Israel with her daughter-in-law (the eponymous Ruth) having been bereaved of her husband and both her sons without grandchildren to show for any posterity. In S4:12, Audrey tells Duke that "Mara" is not anyone she ever wanted to know or be, and the sensations she gets from the flashbacks William tries to trigger seem to indicate that Mara was a cruel, vicious person who deserved bad things to happen to her:
Audrey: It was terrifying…it was like the worst jolt of just…evil…when I touched him, and I think that some deep part of me liked it.
In this respect, Audrey/Mara is like the Stargate SG-1 character, Linea. In Stargate SG-1 S2:3 The Prisoner the team is wrongly teleported to a prison that cannot be "escaped" from except via Stargate. An elderly woman named Linea who is clearly some sort of organic chemist and medical doctor helps them pull off a prison break and leaves through the Cheyenne Mountain Star Gate Command Stargate somewhere unknown. But just after that the SG team then learn that Linea is the "Destroyer of Worlds" a Josef Mengele type megalomaniac who has committed genocide.
In Season 3:11 Past and Present they find Vyus, a world where everyone is a young, healthy adult – but amnesiac - and where there are no elderly people or children. Khera the Minister for Health is a diligent, compassionate and caring leader to her people, until the neurotoxin causing the amnesia begins to break down and she begins to remember being Linea. She admits that the old memories of Linea are warping her, overriding the goodness. Because Khera cannot remember what event began to warp the good, decent Linea into the embittered, warped Linea, the team eventually make the amnesia permanent, keeping the good Khera and obliterating Linea.
Likewise in Haven we see that The Woman without any memories of Mara – Sarah, Lucy, Audrey, and Lexie – is like Khera: courageous, loyal, kind, caring, compassionate, gentle, moral, trustworthy, humble and altruistic. When memories of being Mara begin to come back, Mara is like Linea: cruel, capricious, vicious, unkind, callous, monstrous, brutal, amoral, treacherous, egomaniacal, and selfish.
At first glance, it would seem to be that Mara's "punishment" was helping the people she had wronged every 27 years and that only by killing William would she be freed, but since wicked people really only love one person – the one they see looking back at them in the mirror – it may be that Mara was supposed to commit suicide?
Again, this would not really work – selfish, uncaring people don't commit suicide because they only love and care about themselves. The druggie, the rapist, bigots and terrorists, would never kill him or herself because they are far too egotistical and each is deeply in love only with the "wonderfulness that is me". It is the decent, honourable person who worries about letting down the people they love who suffer from depression and the mistaken belief that they are a burden, or that they are failing their loved ones who would be happier/richer/better off without them. The tragic case of the actor Robin Williams, convinced his recent diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease would make him a burden to his beloved wife and children, is a classic example. Another example was Michelle Broad, wife of the England cricketer Chris Broad and mother of current England cricketer Stuart Broad: when diagnosed with MND/Lou Gehrig's Disease, she meticulously organised her own suicide and sourced her husband a successor wife beforehand in 2010 to avoid causing her family more suffering. Whilst "Audrey" did not hesitate to sacrifice herself in the belief that she was ending the Troubles (S3:13), "'Mara" would never do anything so selfless, as we apparently see in the closing moments of S4:13.
In Season 4, the main source of information was corrupt and suspect – being William****, who only cared about getting Mara back and who (understandably) hated Nathan in particular and the Haven townspeople for Mara having been taken away from him, rather than showing genuine remorse and repentance for his and her own wicked behaviour – if that indeed is what really happened.
In Season 4, Nathan tells Greg Brock, who is unable to father children, that he lost a son, but only Dwight is present who hears this – Audrey doesn't mention James (or Arla) despite claiming to have all her memories as Audrey, and despite being told by William that the Barn is 'dying' expresses no concern that if the Barn really does or did "die" forever then James, who was inside it with her at the time Nathan shot Agent Howard, will also die or has also died forever. Nathan is clearly jealous***** of William, quite sensibly and with good reason, recognising him as the main threat to Nathan's love for Audrey (S4:9).
However, it appears that William does not know that Sarah and Nathan have a son together. Although William is clearly powerful, it is also clear that he has some rather serious limitations in terms of knowledge and possibly ability to act directly. For example, at the end of S4:8, we hear a gunshot ring out just after Duke, Jennifer, Vince and Dave realise that Audrey killing Nathan, the person she loves most, is now – according to the Mi'kmaq riddle in Sebastian Cabot's journal – the doom of Haven rather than it's salvation.
At the beginning of S4:9 we see that the reason Audrey is shooting is because Goon No.2 (the big scowling one not the little one with glasses) has appeared in her loft above The Grey Gull with a gun – apparently with intent to kidnap Audrey and take her to William. The timing of the kidnap attempt by William via Goon No.2 clearly demonstrates that William doesn't have any psychic knowledge to know Nathan was there or why he was there, nor does he have any omniscient or even mundane knowledge about the people in Haven in that he doesn't seem to know Audrey and Nathan had a sexual relationship (it would appear only Duke has figured that out).
The reason the timing of the kidnap attempt demonstrates these things is because from the perspective of William, as the Great Evil, Audrey killing Nathan due to the now outdated information that it will end the Troubles forever is the best thing that could happen for William's ends – it will guarantee catastrophe, disaster, agony and suffering for Haven, which of course is the aim of Great Evil everywhere. If William had any psychic or knowing ability, there is no way he would have sent his goon to grab Audrey then, interrupting them at the very moment she and Nathan were unwittingly about to hand him Haven gift-wrapped with a giant red bow on a silver platter. William is clearly neither as omniscient or as omnipotent as he acts.
*** Regis Glendower is presumably the ancestor of Cole Glendower, although whether he was also a "merman" is uncertain. It is interesting that Regis is a named derived from the Latin Rex, meaning "ruler". The surname Glendower is again Anglo-Celt (see Chapters 1 and 2). Glendower derives from the Brythonic Welsh Glyn Dŵr, Glen of Deep Water. The most famous Glendower was Owen, Owain Glyn Dŵr, (c.1354-c.1416), the nationalist Welsh leader and de facto Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) from 1400-1406. Owen was heir to two of the four great Princedom families of Wales and held considerable estates in North Wales, a descent from Llewellyn the Great, himself a descendant of Cunedda the grandfather of Owain Ddantgwyn. His father, Gruffyd Fychan II, was hereditary Tywysog (Prince) of Powys, as the kingdom had been whittled down to a Welsh principality by the 11th Century. Although large rewards were offered for Owen's capture from 1410 onwards, he was never betrayed – the last confirmed "sighting" was in 1412, and he disappeared altogether in 1416. In terms of the mythology of Haven, it is tempting to considered whether Owen and a few of his children that survived to adulthood (he had at least four illegitimate children, David, Ieuen, Myfanwy and Gwenllian as well as six sons and five daughters by his wife) cut their losses and sailed away from Wales to settle in Haven, Maine, and Regis was so named in honour of his royal ancestor who for a brief period restored Wales as an independent kingdom.
**** It may be doubtful that William is his real name, any more that Sarah/Lucy/Audrey/Lexie is that of 'Mara', or even Mara herself. Fans noted that in the opening credits, there is a "family tree" shown that has the name Lucy, on it – as a family historian myself, I freeze-framed the tree****** and had a look, and I noticed that if you look at Lucy, the name "next" to it is Bill, which is a diminutive of William. Since The Woman was a copy of the real Lucy Ripley, it may be that William is a pseudonym or that he is a copy of the real 'William' – maybe even Mara is a copy of a real, original woman. It is not yet known whether there is any significance to the woman that The Woman copies – see 12th July 1981.
***** In terms of Nathan's jealousy, see the entry for the De-Aged Duke.
****** All you can see in the opening credits is a stylised drawing of a natural tree – you just see the top half of the trunk, so you cannot see the original or "first" parents whose children and descendants are shown in the branches and twigs going off it. However there is clearly a word that starts with a capital S, though it is a bit too tempting to assume the name is Sarah.
The tree then goes into two distinct, thick "branches", there is writing on the branches in dark ink but I cannot distinguish it. On the right hand "branch" it divides into four smaller branches – Rebekah, 1720, Brent 1710, Mark 1730 and what appears to be Jane in 1709. The Brent branch has his child as Lucy, 1730 (I think) and directly to the left of Lucy as you look at the screen, the "child" of Mark of 1730 is Bill 1785-18-something. The thick left branch similarly splits into six smaller branches, but the writing on the whole tree is very faded and illegible, as if scribbled in a hurry and then taken out of a washer after a spin cycle because someone forgot it was in their pocket. However, the tree does imply multitudinous descendants of one original couple or one original parent by two or more co-parents. It is tempting to speculate that the original parents were William and Mara, or perhaps Mara by William And Other(s), or by some other couple entirely and both William and Mara could be their descendants – the concept of hereditary is clearly established in Haven with the idea that Troubles "run" in families, though the genetics can sometimes be a bit fictionalised for TV convenience than biological fact (see 12th June 1981).
1713 - THMS
1714 – King George I, becomes the first Germanic British monarch despite distant cousinship as all close heirs to the throne are Catholics who refuse to convert to Protestantism/Lutheranism.
The significance of such events as Catholic/Reformation Christianity to the show is uncertain: the real life population of Maine is over 80% Catholic Christian; however, Boston was founded by Puritan/Lutheran/Calvinist Christians (17th Century) and a majority of the subsequent colonists were Episcopalian/Presbyterian/Unitarian/Congregationalist Christian (18th Century). Additionally, Maine and Massachusetts were the originators of New England Transcendentalist Christianity (19th Century), most commonly known as New England TranscendentalismNET.
In Haven, the "Good Shepherd" church is of classic Unitarian come Congregationalist external and internal architecture (known as Presbyterian and Episcopalian in some areas), although it appears to be largely non-denominational. As of 2011 it has not been shown who was appointed pastor in the place of Edmund Driscoll, after Audrey killed him in Season 2, though he had a daughter (Hannah), and at least two close relatives – paternal nephews, brothers Jack and Aiden Driscoll in Season 4.
18th February 1725:
In the opening credits there is part of the front page of the Haven Herald with a partial column reporting that the Maggie Q broke up in calm seas in Haven Harbour, and another report of a bizarre animal attack that killed several Havenites, including a man named Brad Donnelly, whose widow Susannah is quoted as intending to move back to her home state from Maine. That Brad Donnelly must have had male Donnelly relatives remain living in Haven because in 2009 one of Garland Wuornos' co-members of Haven Hunt Club (S1, Fur) is named Brad Donnelly, presumably a lateral** descendant of the man drowned when the Maggie Q went down.
However, it is highly likely that the incidents really happened in 1712 and/or 1713 and that whomever was running the Haven Herald at the time* deliberately changed the date – see: 'Between 8th May 1956 – 31st May 1956', the paragraph that starts with the double **.
* There is no way to know for sure, but presumably from its founding in 1684, the Haven Herald is owned and operated by the Commander of the Guard – the firstborn male Teagues of each generation.
** In genealogy (family history) and many Western legal systems lineal descent or a lineal descendant is a person who is a direct descendant of that ancestor or ancestress by parent-child-parent-child-parent-child descent. Duke is a lineal descendant of Roy Crocker Junior, Hadley Chambers was a lineal descendant of her great-grandfather Arthur Chambers.
In many Western legal systems, collateral descendant is someone descended from the sibling or half-sibling of a parent or a common ancestor; so for example if Wade and Marcy Crocker had had one child and then one grandchild, their Will might have bequeathed their estate equally 50-50 to their grandchild and to Jean Mitchell, Duke Crocker's only child (so far) – their grandchild would be a lineal descendant of Wade Crocker, and Jean Mitchell would be his collateral descendant, being the daughter of his half-brother Duke (and would be a collateral relative of Wade's grandchild).
In genealogy, though collateral is used, the phrase lateral is used because collateral is a specific legal definition applying to siblings of X whereas lateral can mean descent from a genetic relative of X but one whom could have been his or her cousin, aunt, granduncle, niece, etc. An example is Ian Haskell in S2, who is a lateral descendant of Tristram Carver – i.e., descends from one of Carver's relatives, but is not a lineal descendant because Carver had no children nor is a collateral descendant because Tristram had no siblings that were sent to Haven with him. In the news clippings we see in the opening credits it is obvious that Susannah and Brad Donnelly (1725) had no children, so the Brad Donnelly of 2009 had to be a lateral descendant of Brad Donnelly of 1725.
1740 - THMS
C.1740 – 1770:
Most likely period that Tristram Carver (and the Original Harker boy) are sent to Haven as indentured servants
1752:
The British Empire, which at that point included the then British colonies of what is now the New England/Eastern United States as well as Eastern Canada adopted the Gregorian Calendar going from 2nd September 1752 to 14th September 1752 the next day to remove the 11 days' discrepancy the Julian Calendar had built up.
Before that point, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc., etc., were all using the Julian calendar. All dates in this timeline use the Gregorian calendar to prevent total confusion, not least of which mine.
1767 - THMS
1786:
Fitzwilliam Crocker commissions a Haven silversmith (Regis Glendower according to Beverley Keegan in S2:18, Roots) to make the small and large silver caskets. By this point, males in the family appear to have become 'socially sanctioned serial killers', who with other key lineages (Teagues, who command The Guard, and Driscolls, who have no Troubles) maintain the balance of powers in Haven.
The small casket's intended use is unknown, except for it having the cryptic Latin inscription translated 'Love Conquers All' on the inside lid. What this means is anyone's guess; however, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: 'any act committed out of love is beyond good or evil' – of the three Crockers we've seen so far, Roy, Simon and Duke, none of them want to kill anyone, so maybe the inscription was once a well-known aphorism indicating that as long as the Crocker men acted out of compassion and what they felt was their "duty of care" then they could not be judged as "bad" for what they did.
There is an example of this (OSE) in S2:12, Sins of the Fathers, when Simon Crocker recounts to Duke how killing Jenny Myers' grandfather saved many lives, and we actually see two examples of this so far in the series: the first in Season 3:3 The Farmer, when Duke effectively saved hundreds of lives including Harry Nix's sperm-donor children, who were also Nix's primary victims. The second is in S4;12, When the Bough Breaks, after a distressed Audrey admits to Duke that a part of her got a thrill from inflicting a Trouble on Lincoln* in an attempt to stop baby Aaron's cries killing people, and after the attempt fails and William tells her to keep trying -
Duke: This is why you can't do this. The temptation – it's too much. He [William] will get you back. You won't be Audrey Parker anymore and you won't care. I do care…you can't just go on, Troubling person after person until you get it right…
Duke insists that Audrey give him back the Crocker Curse that Wade cured when he manipulated Duke into killing him; when Jennifer, upset, demands of Duke why he has to be the one, Duke gently points out that, 'the Crocker you see is the Crocker you get'. Duke is a known quantity and unlike Lincoln, who wasn't Troubled until Audrey tried*, Duke was already genetically Troubled – like a cancer returning after being in remission for a period, in theory he should revert to Troubled Duke Crocker without any problem.
As others have pointed out – it is possible to be a killer, and never commit a murder: soldiers, police, etc. One writer said that murder was actually the 'rarest crime in the world' because murder is: 'only ever pre-meditated, pre-calculated, an evil act for the murderer's gain, either in terms of greed, hatred, obsession or insanity. If one person kills another, but did not predetermine to commit the crime, or does not gain by it, then that person is not a murderer. The armed bank robber who in panic shoots dead a bank teller is guilty of manslaughter not murder; the couple, or two best friends having an argument where he/she shoves her/him and he/she falls over and hits her/his head on the coffee table or hearthstone or breakfast bar is neither murder nor manslaughter, but a sad, fatal accident. The man who arranges for someone to ensure his grandaunt has a fatal car crash so he can inherit her fortune is a murderer – pre-meditated, evil and gains by it.' As of Season 4, this inscription has not been referenced since it was first seen on the small casket lid in Season 2.
The word "Fitz" derives from the French "Fils" (son, or child) which comes from the Latin "Fili" (child, offspring, progeny). Fitz was used to denote "son of" or "child of…" Generally Fitz was used to denote that the person was illegitimate – for example, Margaret Fitzhugh (or FitzHugh) would be the illegitimate daughter of a man whose first name or surname was Hugh.
Fitzwilliam ("son of William") suggests that Fitzwilliam Crocker was the illegitimate son of a man whose forename (or less likely surname) was William or Williams, and that Crocker was in fact his mother's surname, as traditionally illegitimate children could be given the father's name (or surname) as a first or middle name and the mother's surname was given as the child's surname – for example, Margaret Fitzhugh Smith might be the daughter of Elspeth Smith and John Fitzhugh, with Margaret either being Elspeth's mother or John's (more likely Elspeth's).
Fitzwilliam Crocker most likely was the son of "Female Crocker" and "William Surname". In Season 4, Jack Driscoll implies that along with the Driscoll and Teagues families, Duke's ancestors were also amongst the "founder" families of Haven although he does not state the "Crocker" family. There is no indication at this time what the surname of Fitzwilliam's biological father was, though presumably he inherited the Trouble from his father.
In Season 4, we learn that Vince Teagues inherited his birth-right and responsibility to "Protect the Troubled" not from his white Celtic Teagues ancestors but a Mi'kmaq Indian ancestress who was hereditary protector of the Troubled at the time a Teagues man founded Haven and she married him.
It is plausible that similarly, Fitzwilliam Crocker's biological father was of Mi'kmaq Indian descent and occupied some hereditary 'socially sanctioned serial killer role' amongst the Mi'kmaq and that the Driscoll family also have some Mi'kmaq ancestress whose lineage never developed a Trouble.
* The characters in S4:12 don't understand why Audrey's attempt to afflict Lincoln with a silence curse (a 'bubble' they could put baby Aaron inside) failed to work. There is no way to know, but logically I would think it was because he was not naturally deaf. In the episode we see he has hearing aids, meaning his hearing loss was caused by illness or accident or working in a noisy environment, i.e., industrial deafness – his deafness was not a genetic birth defect. The key feature of the Troubles are that they are genetic, inherited through ancestral DNA. Trying to change a hearing man's DNA to make him deaf would have been far too complicated for Audrey, especially given her deep reluctance to make the attempt in the first place. However, logically, if Audrey had tried to make the curse work on someone who was congenitally deaf, it would probably have worked without any problem.
1794 – THMS
1812:
Birth of Rufus P. Barker (see 1841)
1821 - THMS
1841:
Death of Rufus P. Barker – in S2:12, Sins of the Father, Audrey and Nathan see Duke at his father's grave (he has hidden the large casket of weaponry there). Nathan remembers that Simon Crocker was buried at Seaside Cemetery but because it is eroding, the relatives have moved their loved ones to other cemeteries around Haven, Duke had his father's remains moved to Eastside. Duke spots Nathan's dad Garland wandering around the gravestones and Nathan goes to him.
As he approaches, Garland nods at the gravestone and reads it aloud 'Rufus P. Barker, 1812 – 1841' He doesn't dwell on the grave* as he and Nathan begin to speak, however, in Season 3:1, 301, when Audrey reveals her kidnapper (and Roslyn Toomey's murderer) believes that the "Colorado Kid" is still alive, Vince Teagues categorically states that he helped Lucy bury the man himself in "Potters Field" and demonstrates that it is not one of his usual lies/half-truths by being happy to help exhume the body. The Colorado Kid is seen to have been buried in the vacant plot right next to Rufus P. Barker, (meaning that Barker was either Plot 300 or 302) showing that Eastside Cemetery must have once been known as Potters Field, and that the name was changed to Eastside Cemetery, perhaps because of the unwelcoming** religious connotations, at some point after 1983.
* This causes a continuity error – the only people who "come back" as ghosts are those who were buried by Kyle Hopkins, the municipal gravedigger. However, Garland Wuornos was buried in the cooler by Nathan (and Duke) on Goose Hill. Near the end of the episode Dave Teagues goes back to the Haven Herald office and angrily kicks the cooler because Vince admits to having dug up Garland's cooler with the express purpose of getting it into Eastside Cemetery which is the only cemetery where the restless dead are coming back to give the living a good drubbing. However, if Vince dug up the cooler and hid it at the office, Kyle Hopkins would never have known anything about it so would not have touched it or buried it, so Garland would not have returned. If Vince did get Kyle to rebury it (and then Vince dug it up again himself intending to return it to Goose Hill) we are not told how Vince explained away a picnic cooler full of rocks with plaid painted on them to Kyle - a fully paid-up member of Reverend Driscoll's bigoted followers blithely following his simplistic and unworkable*** plan to "cure" the Troubles by killing everyone with one – oops that includes me. It is noteworthy that neither his daughter Hannah, nor his two nephews Jack and Aiden were of the Reverend's same worldview.
** In the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 27 verses 3-10, Judas Iscariot returned to the Temple in Jerusalem and told the Pharisees (the Jewish equivalent of the higher clergy like bishops, cardinals, the pope/archbishop) that he could not keep the "30 pieces of silver" (about $70 US and £50 UK) as he had 'betrayed innocent blood'. When the Pharisees callously told him, in essence, "not our problem", he threw the money to the Temple floor and left, famously committing suicide by hanging himself.
The Pharisees were too afraid of divine wrath to add the money to the Temple treasury, as it had been used to facilitate the murder of an innocent man, Jesus of Nazareth, and had been "donated" (thrown back) by Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed his friend and then gone straight from "handling" the cash to killing himself (Acts 1: 18,19). However, Jewish society of that era was deeply racist, so the Pharisees decided to buy Potters Field, which is still locatable today on the south slope of the Hinnom Valley just before it meets the Kidron Valley. They used this to bury "strangers" and non-Jews – classed as subhuman - who might die in the area with no known relatives or who live near enough to claim the body – in a hot climate, prompt burial of the dead was a public health necessity reflected in the Jews' centuries old Mosaic Law health laws.
Despite the Pharisees' attempts to keep their machinations secret, it became common knowledge, and was known as Akeldama, "Field of Blood" in Hebrew. The reason the field was used as a pottery was because the ground was classed as worn out agriculturally, poor quality and of no arable use – it was therefore available for sale at 30 pieces of silver, which was only the price of a slave, and had been for centuries – a few hundred years before, the Jewish prophets Jeremiah and Zechariah both referenced 30 pieces of silver as the "going rate" for one slave. The Pharisees considered it more than enough to bury mere non-Jews who were inconsiderate enough to keel over in Jerusalem and the surround.
*** In S2:12, we see the late Reverend and his followers holding the "list of people known to be Troubled" that was originally typed up by Stuart Pearce (and which he gave to Nathan for safekeeping!) However there are only 38 names on the list, 2 of which are partially and wholly obscured. However, in S2:13 Silent Night, we learn the population of Haven is 25,121. If only one hundredth of the population is Troubled, that is still 250 people, none of whom are exactly "advertising" their condition - Dwight and Reggie Boswell, who died in S2, Business as Usual, had been fishing buddies for years yet had never talked with each other about their individual Trouble.
This point of extreme discretion and non-disclosure, that the Troubled don't talk about their Troubles, often not even to each other, is one made repeatedly by characters ranging from Nathan, Duke, Dwight and Jordan. In S4:3, Jordan tells Nathan about the Troubled Mike Gallagher, 'He didn't talk about it. Most people don't,' which was a microcosm of the prevailing attitude. In S3, Over My Head, when Reed Harris's car is hit by a tidal surge – in the centre of town – and he is helped by Nathan, Audrey and Duke to get out of his flooded car, he insists that 'I am going home to get out of these wet clothes, take a hot shower and forget this ever happened!', to which Duke drolly responds, 'It is the Haven way.'
If only one tenth of the population is Troubled, that is still 2,512 people to track down. If it's only one fifth of the population, you have to find 5024 people, if its only one quarter that's still 6280 – each and every one of whom will undoubtedly fight back to protect himself or herself – and come at you like a "berserker of old" to protect their family from your bigoted "let's mass murder Troubled people" attitude. And what of all the people who have no idea that they are Troubled – like Kyle Hopkins himself, in Sins of our Fathers or Lynette, in Double Jeopardy – or are convinced that the Troubles are nonsense even as they are wreaking havoc all around them, like Wesley Toomey in 301 or Robert in Reunion.
As we see, Reverend Driscoll only got so far because he and his group were dealing with a barely double-figure target group – and whilst some obvious people are on the list (Marion Caldwell, Beatrice Mitchell, TJ Smith) there are a variety who aren't – Stuart Pearce was a friend of Reginald Boswell, who in turn was a fishing buddy of Dwight Hendrickson, but Dwight doesn't appear on the list, even though surely Stuart (through Reggie) must have known about him and another noticeable omission is Stuart's next door neighbour 'Barry'. Stuart began typing up the list before he accidentally killed their mutual acquaintance Reggie Boswell by dehydration, and Stuart and Barry were good friends. They were both Troubled and they used to confide in each other, so Barry logically should not only have been on the list but one of the first two names along with Reggie Boswell; however, the first two names listed (first left hand column of the three) is Landon Taylor (from S1, Fur) and Beatrice Mitchell (S1 Ball and Chain) – ironically the last name under column three is Marion Caldwell, who was the first Troubled person Audrey encountered in Haven, so it appears the list has no internal logic.
While there are far more male names on the list than female/unisex names, Barry does not appear – however, this can't really count as a continuity error because when you see the camera pan down the list, the way it is held means that the penultimate forename on the first column (surname Frais) and the entire last name is obscured, so we could say that Barry was either the first name of 'Frais' or else he was the unseen last name in the first column. The list is also stops only about one third of the way down the third column, presumably to deliberately give the idea that Stuart Pearce was interrupted whilst compiling it and never got back to it, which is why "obvious" names do not appear.
On the positive side, the list is nicely realistic in that it includes two men named Mike, a Peter MacDonald and a Kelly McDonald – in real life, you do meet people who have the same forename – I have several colleagues called Karen to the extent that we customarily refer to them by their surname initial: B, H, L, M, S, etc. Similarly it is common to get variants of the same surname in the phonebook of the same town, e.g.: Thomson, Thompson, Stewart, Stuart, MacDonald, McDonald. I have two colleagues who work in different departments for the same organisation, who cause total confusion by virtue of both being 'Jack Kelly' (not his real name!)
1848 - THMS
1850s:
The newly invented photography becomes commercial being turned into lucrative businesses throughout Britain, Europe and North America; this era is the earliest opportunity beyond line drawings and paintings to capture the likeness of The Woman (Audrey) and compare with later images to see if she always looks the same.
1875 THMS
1887:
The opening credits show the gravestone of a Jack Moody that bears the symbol of The Guard. That his headstone bore the protective symbol shows the Troubles existed in some form at least in 1887 when Jack Moody died. This is the earliest verifiable evidence that The Troubles existed before the 20th Century, though they do not prove the periodic return and presence of The Woman.
c.1887:
Birth of Ben Harker Junior's "Down's Syndrome" granduncle, the brother of his grandfather (S4:12), thus great-granduncle of Aaron Harker.
7th May 1899: TEAMS
The Troubles begin again in Haven between April-July 1899
About 1901, the birth of Ben Harker Junior's grandfather; father of Ben Harker Senior, great-grandfather of Aaron Harker and younger brother of the "Down's Syndrome" Harker (see 1902 below).
Circa mid-1902:
In S4:12, Audrey returns to the Haven Herald, seeking a way to stop the Harker* Curse (never let a Harker cry, lest people near and far should die) without doing as William demands and creating a new Trouble. We see her reading a cut out newspaper article (undated) of the funeral of a "popular" school teacher, Kathy McKee, from Spanish Influenza**, at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Haven (the same church of Reverend Edmund Driscoll). The article is a cover-up because it was really a Harker crying that caused the death – it appears as if it is the sound of a Harker in distress that kills, and that a Harker who wept silently would not cause any harm, but this is unknown.
As Audrey moves the magnifier over the article and the photograph we see it is the same newspaper article that is partially shown in the opening credits, but in S4:12 Audrey sees with the magnifier what is not in the credits – herself, in the bottom-right hand corner of the photograph, with her head turned to the right, looking across at something not shown in the photograph (behind her the coffin is being escorted down the steps of the church). This makes her realise that one of her previous Incarnations*** tried to stop the Harker Curse but was unable to do so.
* In S4:12, Ben Harker Junior, who is about the same age as Duke and Nathan (b.1975) tells Audrey and Nathan that he had a Harker great-uncle (granduncle, see below) who had Down's Syndrome. The Harker Curse did not begin until puberty, by which time the children were taught not to show emotion, but because his great-grandparents couldn't teach his grandfather's brother not cry, in the end they cut his vocal chords rather than kill him.
In genealogy, the siblings of your grandparents are your grandaunts and granduncles. In recent decades, it has become fashionable to call them great-uncles and great-aunts instead, but this is very confusing, because when it gets back to the previous generation of your grandparents' parents, your great-grandparents, if you used great-uncle then you have to add on another great, so the siblings of your great-grandparents become your great-great-uncles and aunts, but they are not the siblings of your great-great-grandparents, whose siblings must have a third great-great-great-uncle added to them. In short, most genealogists keep grand and great as they used to quite sensibly be – I would have called Ben Harker's relative his granduncle, and the brother of his great-grandfather would then nicely and neatly be his great-granduncle.
In genealogy a generation is about 35 years. If Ben Harker Junior is a similar age to Nathan and Duke, this means he was born 1974 to 1976, say 1975. His father would have been born about 1940, and his grandfather about 1905 (obviously there is leeway either side). In the 1890s to 1900s there was very little reliable contraception other than condoms, so the option of not having children if one turned out to be handicapped wasn't an option. Condoms back then were big ugly things made of sheep intestine or rubber (from 1855) and about a ¼ inch thick.
Since the Harker Curse did not start until puberty, it is likely the Down's Syndrome Harker was a teenager in 1902, and – although we can't say for certain – it may be that The Woman in the 1902 photograph suggested the severing of the vocal chords as the only way forward, but there is no way to know.
In 2011, William changes the curse so it affects Aaron Harker who is a four-month old baby (b. February 2011), however, puberty should not begin in humans until the age of between 14-17 years and ends at about the age of 20-23 years; it overlaps with, but is not the same as, adolescence (though the two are always conflated in the media) which begins at the age of 18-20 and ends between the ages of 28-35 years.
Ben Harker Junior's "Down's Syndrome" granduncle was therefore most likely born around 1887. In the Western Hemisphere, following the end of WWII puberty now begins between the ages of 10-12, which is far too early and ends about 16-18 years, again too early as adolescence still does not begin until 18-20 years – the reason is that puberty is the physical, bodily changes of the human body's size, shape and organ development from childhood to mature adulthood, but the one organ unaffected mostly by puberty is the brain.
Adolescence is the physical, neurological changes of the human brain and our mind, our emotions and our psychology, which transitions us from childhood feelings and simplistic worldviews to adulthood emotions and complex psychological ability to reason out. The increasing rate of precocious puberty with children beginning to develop at eight and nine years of age is deeply concerning because adolescence is currently still starting at around the age of 18 years - it means you have physically and sexually mature 12-15-year-olds whose brains are literally still those of children. However, this did not begin to really happen until the late 1960s and 1970s due to the actions of the food and medical "industries", so at the turn of the 19th Century, children still entered puberty on average at the age of 16 years, so the "Down's Syndrome" Harker would logically have been in his mid-teens in 1902.
** Although Spanish Influenza is most famous for the 1918-1922 outbreak that went "nuclear" globally, there had been prior, minor outbreaks in preceding years that overlapped with minor, dwindling outbreaks of the bubonic plague – it is possible that the reason the "last gasp" pandemic of Bubonic Plague in the 1890s caused so much loss in China and India was because it was actually bubonic plague and Spanish Flu (really bird flu) together. There was a minor outbreak in 1911, in England, following an unseasonal heatwave. There was also an outbreak in 1906 in San Francisco following the earthquake.
The clothing worn by The Woman in the photograph – the high-necked blouse with the cameo brooch at the throat and the hat, and also the clothing worn by others in it, is clearly late Victor-Edwardian era (1890 – 1910), and not the more modern clothing that would have been worn from about 1910, particularly after World War I in 1918 onwards. Since THMS took place in mid-October 1902, and the next THMS would not happen until 1929 (with the Troubles presumably starting in 1926) the funeral had to have happened in mid-1902 and not in 1919 when the Spanish Influenza pandemic was at its height.
*** The newspaper article photograph of S4:12, When the Bough Breaks is of crucial importance in the mythology of Haven because it is the first confirmation of The Woman being in Haven that is independent of the Teagues brothers.
All the way through, Vince and Dave Teagues have been the oldest living extant Havenites who also have a knowledge that the Troubles are real (with the exception of Eleanor Carr, who was killed in Season 1) and as such have been the sole source of information, guidance, advice, and warning to Audrey, and also Nathan, Duke, Dwight, Claire Callahan and Jordan McKee – as they were to Lucy Ripley, James and Arla Cogan, Simon Crocker and Garland Wuornos in the 1970s and 1980s.
However, we have seen that Vince in particular will not hesitate to lie to anyone, including Audrey herself, and even kill people, such as Simon Crocker and Nathan Wuornos, the son of their close friend Garland, if he perceives it to be for the greater good of the people of Haven in his position as Commander of The Guard. Therefore that puts everything the brothers said and did under suspicion.
They are intimately involved in the life of Audrey Parker – it was Dave Teagues who took the seminal photograph of Lucy Ripley looking at the "body" of the Colorado Kid on 28th May 1983 - it was Vince and Dave who befriended Sarah Vernon in 1955. In short, there was no evidence that The Woman had ever been to Haven or involved in the Troubles whatsoever before Sarah Vernon in 1955, meaning there was no evidence that wasn't supplied by, or sourced through, or connected with Vince and Dave Teagues, for examples: The Guard tattoo is Vince Teagues' birthmark, Dave Teagues has possession of Sebastian Cabot's journal; Vince and Dave have the finger-ring that Sarah Vernon gave them, Vince and Dave's fishing-boat shed was Arla Cogan's bolt hole.
The photograph that captures The Woman in Haven in 1902, over 30 years before Vince and Dave were born, is thus the first independent verification we have that The Woman was involved in the Troubles before 1955; this means that it is more likely that we are able to trust Vince and Dave Teagues' claims and actions as being accurate and/or honest to the extent of what they know or what they believe to be true. The 1902 photograph demonstrates that The Woman can be verified as being in Haven during the Troubles throughout a period of at least the previous one hundred plus years: 1902, 1929, 1956, 1983, 2010; indeed 1926-1929 is the only period for which there is as yet no evidence of The Woman being in Haven, though logically she must have been there.
1920:
Birth of Roy Crocker grandfather of Duke; in his obituary clipping in the S3 Sarah he was 35 years old at his death on 16th August 1955.
1926 – TEAMS
The Troubles begin again.
1926: – General Strike in Britain
C.1927/1928:
The birth of Stuart Mosley, whose Trouble creates the means to destroy the Troubles for good, by giving The Woman someone she loves, and thus if The Woman kills that person, the Troubles end forever (this possibility apparently does not exist before 1955, and ceases to exist as an option in October 2010).
1929 – Wall Street Crash, followed by the Great Depression that lasted until 1938/9. The Woman's identity and activities are unknown during this period
1929 – October – THMS
13th October 1934:
As seen in the opening credits (S4) the Haven Herald reports that the Halleck's farmstead "disappears" without trace; this may mean the Halleck family were related to Arthur Chambers (see Christmas 1955) in having a similar but not identical Trouble.
However, it is highly likely that the Halleck Farmstead really disappeared in 1929 and that whomever was running the Haven Herald at the time* deliberately changed the date – see 'Between 8th May 1956 – 31st May 1956:', the paragraph that is double **.
* Vince Teagues was most likely not born until the following year, 1935, so assuming the Haven Herald was being run by the Teagues family, most probably his parents.
c.1935:
The birth of Vincent Teagues here and Dave* 'Teagues' in Otherworld; 'Agent' Howard arranges the adoption of Dave by Vincent's parents. We learn in S3 that Vincent is the Leader (Commander) of The Guard and that the leadership is hereditary, being passed down to the firstborn Teagues in each generation by descent from a Mi'kmaq ancestress who was the hereditary Protectress of the Troubled, although the entire family appears to be members. Dave lacks the tattoo because he was adopted, not biologically born to the Teagues. It is not indicated whether they knew of Dave's origins, but since either Vince's father or grandfather was Commander of The Guard at the time, it is logical that they would have known.
* We see that although Howard is somehow connected to the Barn, he operates outside it and operates autonomously during the 24 year periods that The Woman is in the Barn "between" Troubles – by the time Howard presumably arranges Dave Teagues' adoption in 1935, the Troubles have been over for nearly 6 years since the THMS of 1929. Likewise, when he organises the adoption of Jennifer Mason with a family in Boston in 1984, the Troubles have been over for months since the THMS of 1983 – presumably this must mean that Howard can leave and enter the Barn at will, or that he can visit and leave Haven via the portal "well" under the lighthouse in Season 4.
However, in Season 3, Howard tells Audrey that the Barn was created for her and that it will appear 'whenever you need it to'. We see this in Season 2 where the Barn appears on Kick 'Em Jenny Neck Island** when Duke and the real FBI Agent Audrey Parker follow the navigation instructions in Simon Crocker's journal – although Kick 'Em Jenny Neck Island is the roughly circular Island covered in trees that can be seen from The Grey Gull it appears the only safe approach is to set sail from the harbour, rather than go straight across to it from the bar's landing stage.
This happens despite the fact that The Hunter Meteor Storm is months away, so obviously the Barn can manifest at various times and may, in fact, be somewhere for some time but invisibly unless it "wants" to be seen – in Season 3, Vince Teagues also sees the Barn on a hill on Kick 'Em Jenny Neck island, but Audrey who is with him cannot see it, despite being the current Incarnation of The Woman. Maybe the Barn could not tell the difference between the brain patterns of the real Audrey and Haven Audrey and the memory-wipe was an error the Barn/Howard realised too late. Possibly the Barn appeared to real Audrey because she was with a male Crocker – Duke and Nathan had both been in Haven in 1955, so maybe their "signatures" in time were sensed by the Barn.
** Kick ''Em Jenny Neck Island is a 'remote' island situated about ten miles along the coast from Haven; since we already know that Haven is a scattered "town" (more accurately a collection of small farmsteads, etc., etc.,) with a lot of space between locations, there is no problem with the idea that it is visible directly from The Grey Gull – if you consider the Haven Herald office (just round the corner and down the block from Haven PD, apparently) as the geographical "centre" of Haven, more or less, The Grey Gull can easily be ten miles away and still considered to be "in" the town of Haven. Again, in terms of the Troubles, the people of Haven probably all factor in the concept of Minimum Safe Distance when it comes to building a property and living nearby to others, no matter how good their friendship/neighbourhood spirt might be.
c.1935:
Birth of Ben Keegan, brother of Beverley and father of Maura (S2:18)
1938:
Founding of the Maine "Sea Dogs" team
c. 1938:
Birth of Dominic Novelli and Beverley Keegan (S2:18). Beverley Keegan is apparently the President or Chairwoman of Haven Historical Society, according to Duke's explanation to Evi in S2:18 Roots. She has sufficient knowledge to immediately assign craftsmanship of the small silver casket to Regis Glendower in 1786 on behalf of Fitzwilliam Crocker.
c.1940:
Birth of Ben Harker Senior, nephew of the Down's Syndrome Harker, father of Ben Harker Junior, grandfather of Aaron Harker (S4:12)
1947:
Birth of Garland Wuornos
3rd April 1949:
Simon Crocker is born (d.1983) to Roy Crocker Junior and an unnamed wife; during his childhood he and his mother live near Derry, the fictional New England town that features in a lot of Stephen King's works.
1949:
Haven Joe's Bakery is founded – in S2:13 Silent Night, "Joe" implies he is Troubled and that Audrey (and Nathan) helped him. Since the Joe in Silent Night is not old enough to be the founder of 1949, presumably Haven Joe was his father.
June 1950 – to July 1953:
The Korean War
C.7th May 1953 - TEAMS
Circa mid-May 1953:
Stuart Mosley and his platoon are ambushed in South Korea – Stuart's Trouble activates and he "time-shifts" his entire platoon one year into the future where they will be safe from harm – in 1954 they stumble out of the bushes, confused, believing only a few seconds have passed, with no memory of what happened or where they were. The effort of teleporting many people at once whilst under intense enemy fire causes Stuart to collapse with neurological shock and have a nervous breakdown; he is invalided back to the mainland but remains in a near catatonic state until 2nd August 1955, which as 'Sarah Vernon' mentions in S3:9 Sarah, is the date that 'she' was assigned as his Woman's Army Corps nurse. At which point he finally 'improved more in the last two weeks than in the previous two years' as she tells Nathan (during frogmarching him out of the hospital room by his ear, like a naughty schoolboy – probably the trigger for his masochistic neo-sex dream in Season 4).
This appears to be the earliest recorded Trouble of that era – it also demonstrates, as other Troubles already have, that the Troubles are hereditary and genetic, meaning that they are global. During each period of the Troubles being "active", the three years prior to THMS in mid-October of Year 27 Since The Last Time, a Troubled person leaving Haven as an escape will not work – the Trouble remains active no matter where in the world the person is. Likewise, even if a Troubled person or their immediate family has never been to Haven or lived there in years, the Trouble will activate –this happened to Dwight Hendrickson in Afghanistan in 2007, and to Jennifer Mason in Boston in 2010 – she had no knowledge of a town called Haven, Maine and had no idea she was supposedly born there - and to others. Due to this, it is likely that the admission that The Guard is "national" and has a cross country network of safe houses and routes to bring Troubled refuges into or out of Haven is a half-truth intended to disguise the fact that The Guard is "global" in scope.
Before August 1955:
Death of Roy Crocker Senior, great-grandfather of Duke Crocker – see 16th August 1955.
2nd August 1955:
In S2:9, Sarah, Sarah Vernon references that she was assigned as the nurse to war veteran Stuart Mosley two weeks before they arrived in Haven, which was 16th August, so Sarah was out of the Barn and believing herself to be Sarah Vernon of the Women's Army Corps by the beginning of August 1955.
16th August 1955:
Sarah Vernon an Army Nurse arrives in Haven, assigned by 'Captain' Howard specifically to help a traumatised Havenite US Army Korean War veteran named Stuart Mosley. She kills Roy Crocker Junior the same day – ironically it is only because Stuart sent Duke back to 1955 unintentionally that Sarah kills Roy – we see that Roy would have been accidentally killed trying to break up a bar brawl hours before Sarah ever arrived in Haven, until Duke, who is there, spots the protruding jagged chair strut and saves Roy from being impaled on it. Roy and Sarah have no knowledge of each other's existence until Roy discovers his own family journal that Duke has brought back in time with him by accident and sees his own obituary with his son Simon's handwriting on the back.
The person who really made it possible for The Woman to break the cycle and save Haven permanently wasn't Audrey, Nathan, Howard, The Guard or William – but one man, Stuart Mosley. He did this by sending Nathan Wuornos and Duke Crocker back to the date that Sarah first arrived in Haven.
Nathan broke the cycle of The Woman's solitary state by making her pregnant – no matter "who" she is and what happens, she will always love the son Nathan created with her. Then Duke completed breaking the cycle of The Woman's solitary state at the hospital when he told Sarah to find Vince and Dave Teagues, at the Haven Herald, who would help her with the Troubles; Nathan backs up Duke's words, assuring Sarah Vince and Dave would be her friends.
At the end of the episode we see Sarah in a call box, calling Captain Howard for permission to stay in Haven; unbeknownst to her, Howard is only a few hundred yards away, dressed as a US Army captain, observing her. This is the only time we see him, but we have no idea how long he has been present, and may have seen Nathan and Duke – if so, did he recognise them?
Although Stuart Mosley was the catalyst, Nathan Wuornos and Duke Crocker were the KEY FACTORS in changing the Troubles, because they created new situations that Sarah interacted in:
In1955, Vince and Dave were only about 20 years old; they were too young to remember the previous THMS of 1929; however, those of the generation to be their older siblings and their parents should have recognised Sarah Vernon from the 1929 incarnation; likewise those of their parents and/or grandparents' generation should have recognised her from 1902 as well.
Roy Crocker Junior would have been 6 years old when the Troubles begin in 1926 and 9 years old when The Woman entered the Barn in 1929, certainly old enough to remember The Woman. Yet when he intercepts Sarah Vernon and Duke in the hospital basement, he does not recognise her from his childhood at all. He also does not make any allegation that her previous Incarnation (1926-1929) killed his father, Roy Crocker Senior.
Indeed, there is no suggestion by Roy or anyone else that Roy Crocker Senior's death was in any way suspicious or indeed that it was violent/as a result of attack at all. When the unpleasant Haven PD officer Hank King is browbeating Roy to kill Stuart, he does not attempt to emotionally manipulate using the logical "big gun" that would be reminding Roy of how a Troubled person killed Roy's father or grandfather. There is nothing to indicate that Roy Senior and his father at least both died of old age or else "naturally" of some illness/accident that had no suspicion of foul play.
This demonstrates that there is no history of conflict between The Woman and the extant Crocker "Patriarch" or the Crocker Family as a whole during any particular Troubles, and that the death of Roy Junior via "Sarah" and Simon via "Lucy" (really Vince Teagues as we learn in S4) was coincidence, not some long-term vendetta. We clearly see that Sarah did not set out to harm or kill Roy, nor did Roy have any knowledge of or intent to kill Sarah until Duke explained the situation, and in S4 Vince Teagues accepts the majority of the blame for murdering Simon Crocker, although Lucy was involved.
From what Duke said in S1 and S2, it would appear that Simon's death was made to appear to be accidental, which excludes outright attack. From the ghost of Simon Crocker's statements in S2:13, it appears that Simon Crocker himself was not attacked outright, and that he did not realise until the last moment when it was too late that he had been "set up", so he may have been asleep/unconscious/unable to recognise any intruder for some reason. We know this because in 2:12 the "ghost" of Simon accuses the "ghost" of Garland Wuornos of co-murdering him with "Lucy" (Simon believes Audrey is Lucy). This shows that Simon was not directly attacked as he did not see any perpetrators. Garland denies killing Simon but says the only reason he didn't was because Lucy got there first – neither of them shows any awareness or knowledge of the fact that Vince Teagues was Simon's killer, as Vince confesses to Jordan McKee in S4.
This supports the idea that Simon was somehow tricked or rendered unable to fight back and his accidental death caused by someone he didn't see at the time – the same thing happened in 301 where Audrey never sees her male kidnapper's face as he always backlights his face – we know Arla can change her voice because she pretends to be Roslyn Toomey speaking to Audrey – the male kidnapper, though we only ever see a silhouette, was the right height and build to be Arla disguised as Tommy Bowen.
So why didn't Roy Crocker Junior or anyone else of that generation or the preceding one recognise Sarah, especially when she was identical in appearance to The Woman photographed (S4:12) in the Haven Herald in 1902? The answer seems to be emotional connection, or rather lack thereof.
It appears that it is Duke who gives The Woman her first actual friends in Haven, when he tells Sarah Vernon in Stuart Mosley's hospital room how to make contact with Vince and Dave. It appears that nobody from Haven has ever been involved with the repeated visitations of The Woman before 1955, since Vince at least was not born until the 1930s and the previous THMS was 1929, nor does anyone of Vince's parents' generation appear to recognise her from 1902 – although of course it is possible social/emotional connections were made in the 19th Century occasions.
From that 1955 contact, we see in S3 that it was Vince and Dave who make the first ever attempt to save Sarah from going into the Barn, not The Woman herself. Likewise, it is Nathan who makes an intimate connection with Sarah, and who, by fathering their son, gives her something entirely new and unique that is tangible and real Outside the Barn – James "Cogan".
Those ripples from these actions by Duke and Nathan – made possible by Stuart Mosley – suggest that the fact nobody remembers the Incarnations of 1929 and 1902 (and presumably, 1875 and earlier) is because prior to 1955, The Woman came to Haven alone, discreetly did her best to ameliorate the Troubles but remained solitary and uninvolved for the duration, not making any emotional connection or bromance/friendship or romance attachment to any individual, and thus still solitary, quietly entered the Barn without fuss to emerge 27 years later and repeat the cycle of aloofness, aloneness and friendlessness.
If The Woman kept herself to herself and never made friends or any emotional link to anyone in Haven, this would plausibly explain why nobody of Vince and Dave's parents' generation, et cetera, remembered she had been in Haven before, except possibly other than a vague sense of déjà vu or fleeting musing that her face seemed familiar.
This also means that the Troubles could not have been stopped "forever", as opposed to just 27 years, at all until the 1956 THMS – if Sarah had killed her baby son, or in 1983 if Lucy had killed James, or in 2010 if Audrey had killed Nathan.
If The Woman did not make any emotional bonds during the periods she spent in Haven pre 1955, she would not have fallen in love (romance), or loved anyone (friendship); therefore, there would have been no "Expiatory Sacrifice" Person in existence whose death by her hand in remorse and repentance would end the Troubles forever.
Nathan and Duke, via Stuart Mosley, are the two who created that option of being able to end the Troubles forever by causing Sarah to love Vince and Dave (friendship) and her infant son (filial); that broke The Woman's previous cycle by her getting involved with the Havenites (from her perspective, initially Nathan, Duke, Vince and Dave, then Stuart Mosley her patient) on an emotional level instead of a detached "professional support" mode.
This also means that the Mi'kmaq half-riddle in Season 4:8 Crush, must have meant something else when it was given to Sebastian Cabot in 1497: 'That which was your salvation, is now your doom.' Since the end the Troubles forever option has only been possible since 1955, there must have been another method of ending the Troubles forever but which would invert and become a curse not a cure should the soft-spot between worlds get "holed" again before it was used (as in October 2010).
This does actually tie in with the events of S4:13, when what would have seemed to be their "salvation" – shoving William back through the portal to Otherworld with extreme prejudice" – seems to have become their "doom" in that William was able to revert Audrey back to Mara as he was pushed through, and apparently kill Jennifer and Duke in the process.
Christmas 1955:
Arthur Chambers, a local eccentric toymaker who loves model trains, goes to Vince and Dave and claims that he made his neighbours and several members of his family "disappear" – but he is not believed because everyone "knows" the people he claims to have "disappeared" never existed in the first place*. At least one son did not disappear and did believe his father; and fathered Gordon Chambers, whose 16 year old daughter, Hadley Chambers, begins to recreate the disappearances done by her great-grandfather Arthur**, turning Haven into the "inside" of a giant snow globe.
* It is not known why Sarah did not or was unable to help Arthur Chambers, since as The Woman is immune to the Troubles, she would in theory have remembered the disappeared people really did exist. However, it is quite likely that Sarah never met or knew of these people, or Arthur Chambers, for two reasons:
Because of Nathan and Duke, 1955 was the first time The Woman had developed any social connection or emotional attachments to people in Haven; therefore Sarah's intimate circle was probably very, very small – maybe even her friendship group consisted of just Vince, Dave and Stuart Mosley and the last was more patient than friend. She may have tried to cultivate the parents of 8-year-old Garland Wuornos in the understandable presumption Garland was the father of Nathan "Wuornos". She did not make the gregarious relationships seen more in Lucy and to an even further extent in Audrey.
Additionally it was 1955 and Sarah Vernon was an unmarried, pregnant woman – by Christmas she was four months' pregnant and even if she had not begun to "show" rumours about her condition would have been circulating. It is unlikely that Sarah would have been socially accepted or acceptable in some parts of Haven; the local townswomen would certainly have seen her as a threat out to secure herself a substitute husband (in place of the man who "abandoned" her) and a reasonable lifestyle – i.e., financial security – at their expense, and she would certainly have been classed as an immoral, bad association.
The US Army, best nurse ever or not, would have court-martialled her and dishonourably discharged "her" the instant that rumours an enlisted unmarried woman was pregnant reached officers' ears. (Presumably Howard did some fairly nifty manoeuvring in that regard, since of course the real Sarah Vernon was a US Women's Army Corps nurse unaware her identity had been copied).
Even for 1955 20-year-olds Vince and Dave, they never actually meet the mysterious "Nathan" Wuornos who was her son's father and "Duke" Crocker who directed her to them for help, so them believing Nathan and Duke would not be born for another twenty years was a big ask. It seems most likely that Arthur Chambers went to the Haven Herald first, and that Vince and Dave "filtered out" his claims and never told Sarah.
** It is known that Troubles are 'related to the people who have them' – this is demonstrated (again) in Season 4:8 Crush and S4:12.
Continued from 1956 in Chapter 4…
2014
The Cat's Whiskers