This is a timeline/chronology of characters and events for the TV show: Haven

For Disclaimer and information see Chapter 1…

Chapter 7

Probably about 1987 or 1988:

Bruce Fresnel is born in Haven, Maine.

19th April 1991:

Annie Fresnel is born in Haven probably the same year as a schoolmate/peer named "Kurt"; she commits suicide on 9th March 2009 a month before her 18th birthday for reasons that not known at the time. In S2:12, Sins of the Father, Nathan and Audrey get a homicide call and find that Annie's older brother Bruce has beaten to death another youth he names as "Kurt" – the ghost of his dead sister having visited Bruce and explained that the reason for her suicide was the trauma of being raped by Kurt – when Audrey and Nathan ask if Kurt confessed, Bruce responds, 'yes, eventually…'

Officer "Stan", the go-to-secondary-cop character in the show, leads Bruce away in handcuffs, but his fate is not known – it is unlikely he faced court proceedings given that key members of Haven's judiciary and the political behind-the-scenes Selectmen (the town "elders") must work in collusion with or be members of The Guard – no way would anyone "in the know" in Haven want the case to come to open court where the defendant (Bruce) claimed that the ghost of his dead sister (Annie) revealed that the victim (Kurt) had raped her – since Kurt apparently confessed to the crime as he was dying, Bruce most likely was released on the grounds of "justifiable homicide". Personally, I would have done exactly the same as Bruce, so I have to admit bias.

About 20th May 1996:

Duke wins the Cape Rouge from an old buddy of his father, Ray Veigler, in a poker game on his 21st birthday, and leaves Haven in it. He is unaware that the poker game was "rigged" by his father in collusion with Veigler in 1982.

He is gone for 12 years (returns 2008) and during that time learns to read and understand at least one Chinese dialect (Cantonese) and meets and marries Evidence "Evi" Ryan, whom is a scam/conwoman with whom Duke pulls off several cons/scams and it appears outright thefts* and smuggling trips. It is revealed in S2 that in 2007, the couple were in Macau, China, when Evi did something that nearly got Duke killed – the couple's marriage broke down and Duke left Evi because it was his determination to return to his home town for a while. Evi's attitude in contrast is a determined Modus Operandi of to "never look/go back".

* It would appear that at some point during his travels away from Haven in the Cape Rouge, probably in the first few years of 1997 to 2000 (ish) that Duke began to use and became addicted to an illegal drug, most likely heroin (an opiate drug related to morphine, derived from the seeds of the opium poppy).

The most common (due to cheapness) of the four types is Brown Heroin, which takes the longest to create an addiction in the brain's pleasure/reward/ craving trio (Ventral Striatum, Dorsal Anterior Cingulate and Amygdala) and which is most usually smoked in a pipe rather than injected (White Heroin) or ingested as a liquid (Black and Tar Heroin).

White Heroin is the second-most common version of the drug because the white colour means that users wrongly assume it is of higher quality/greater potency, although in fact the white colour just makes it easier to adulterate or "cut" the heroin with other substances (sugar, powdered potato starch, strychnine) that increase the drug dealer's profit margins and the likelihood the drug will kill the user (strychnine is a potent poison).

It is White Heroin when it is intravenously injected directly into the bloodstream rather than smoked, that causes the instant "rush" of exhilaration/euphoria in fewer than ten seconds that heroin is famous for and which users want, the origin of the origin slang, "chase the dragon"; the dragon being the potent, sudden-surge-rush of euphoric exhilaration, of feeling invincible and energised and needing to keep injecting "chasing" that sensation.

Injecting into muscle is also quite common because the exhilaration/euphoria, though slower to build, lasts slightly longer and peaks after about ten minutes. It would seem from hints in S4 that Duke did take White Heroin, but also that Duke managed to cease abusing heroin when he was still more of a Brown Heroin "inhaler" than a White Heroin "injector" of the drug.

This is never mentioned outright in the series, but it is implicit in dialogue/hints:

In Season 1 we see that Duke has spent sufficient time in the Far East to be fluent in reading at least one of the main Chinese languages**, which are not quick or easy to learn, and that he still undertakes "delivery" of specialist items for Oriental clients, apparently being trusted sufficiently to withstand beatings/torture to fulfil his contract delivery and his integrity in not peeking at his cargo also being trusted (S1:11). China is part of the infamous south-east Asian "Golden Triangle" of the global heroin trafficking trade, much of which is transported by boat. He and Evi also bait each other about Macau, which is a Cantonese speaking protectorate of China and again, deeply involved with illegal heroin trafficking amongst other crimes.

Also in Season 1 he references the teachings of the Buddha, although he may also have been brought up by his father as a believer in New England Transcendentalism***NET– Haven appears to have a strongly Congregationalist/Presbyterian heritage and NET developed out of these non-conformist Protestant faiths. Buddhist and Transcendentalist philosophies and Evangelical Christianity are all popular with recovering addicts because they share key themes:

Concept and pursuit of living a meaningful life, or living up to/in harmony with a greater or higher purpose than the "selfish self" – this was the basis for the Twelve Step Programme made famous by Alcoholics Anonymous and many outreach street programmes and "street pastor" voluntary workers. It is also a key tool in the treatment of substance addiction, especially drugs, and medical depression, as one person wrote in respect of the depression aspect: 'Depression is a deeply selfish illness. It is inverted egomania at its worst – I am soooo bad, I am soooo worthless, look at me, keep reassuring and cosseting my ego. The best treatment for serious depression is to focus your time and energy on manual work, not just any, but that which helps others – voluntary cashier in a charity shop, caregiver for an elderly or disabled person, volunteer with those supporting special needs. You don't have the time or the energy to return to the mire of your own woe and wallow in it if you are too busy helping other people.'

Meditation, contemplation and self-examination (colloquially termed navel-gazing) designed to "reprove and remove" self-deceit, self-justification and ego – for example such things as the Alpha Course, Mindfulness; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. The idea recognises that the world's most habitual liar is never as good at lying to others as he or she is at lying to themselves. This is about looking at yourself and recognising your own flaws and how you rationalise what you want to do, rather than what you know is right – the idea derives from a Bible quote in the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 17:9, 'The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate. Who can know it?' acknowledging that the selfish, emotional heart all too often overrules the more selfless, sensible head (classically exemplified by Audrey and Nathan's self-indulgent, selfish sexathon in S4:8 Crush that put others' lives at risk).

Exercise regimes (martial arts, wrestling, yoga etc.,) focus on self-control over the body's movement and functions and self-denial of bodily pleasures, especially food, sex, stimulants. The New Testament writer the Apostle Paul in the Book of Ephesians referenced the Christian "wrestling" with both the flesh (body) and the spirit (mind) in relation to the inherent tendency humans have, to paraphrase J. K. Rowling via Albus Dumbledore, to: do what is easy rather than what is right.

All of these three practiced together regularly: pursuit, meditation and exercise help a person who is an addict to train their brain "away" from focussing on the cravings and redirect the energy of those urges into more positive, constructive activities.

In line with this, we see in S4:4 that Duke has the motor control, despite his age, height and weight, to be able to execute and hold a handstand on the deck of the Cape Rouge, while Jennifer, despite being younger, smaller and slighter, wobbles over when she attempts it. Coincidentally, it is also possible to freeze-frame the handstand scene and admire the taut, pert posterior of Eric Balfour, those nicely curved calves and those well-shaped ankles…but I digress.

Again, in Season 3, yet another reason for Nathan's implacable opposition to Audrey encouraging Duke to use his Trouble is hinted as being because as a cop Nathan knows or strongly suspects that Duke had addiction problems to White Heroin in the past.

Even with, or doubtless despite, his dad being the Chief of Police, the Selectmen would not have allow Nathan to achieve the rank of detective in such a small-town PD if he had not had the "chops" for the job. Knowing Garland Wuornos' tough-love approach, Nathan doubtless had to be twice as good as every other candidate from cadet through patrol officer to sergeant to plainclothesman for his dad to concede him to be "adequate". Although Haven has the Troubles, it is also a small town USA – that means it endures the same problems of other such communities: from 2008 the world's third**** Great Depression (the Global Recession), social/economic uncertainty and deprivation, petty crime and antisocial behaviour, substance abuse, domestic conflict, local politics and point scoring, gossip and friction between different groups whether religious, racial or economic.

Nathan knew what addiction looked like, and was experienced enough to spot signs that a person had had some issues. He would also know that the most intelligent/shrewd addicts would have virtually undetectable injection sites***** on their body that the vast majority of people would never notice.

We see that Nathan's concerns about Duke using his Trouble don't seem to be about any fear that Duke will physically harm him but rather that the "thrill" will cause Duke to lapse back into other more tangible and non-Trouble addictions that Nathan as a cop cannot ignore, unlike he is able to with a "Trouble that causes silver eyes and momentary super-strength" – that's simple to ignore, whereas an arrest report that records, "found intoxicated and in possession of half a pound of white heroin and a pack of disposable syringes" will be perfectly adequate to put in front of a judge.

For example, in S4:4, when Nathan tells Duke, 'You don't know what absorbing that much Troubled blood will do to you.' His phrasing, tone and body language suggest physical injury is not his concern so much as the mental impact of what essentially will be the "ultimate high".

Duke responds, 'Maybe not, I do know exactly what that much Troubled blood wants to do to you.'

Duke pushes past Nathan's outstretched arm, but as he crouches down and lowers his hand into the blood, Nathan places his own hand on Duke's upper arm supportively as Duke touches the blood – he is clearly not afraid Duke will lash out at him by maintaining contact. When Duke experiences the rush and grabs Dwight by the throat, holding him up, Nathan doesn't hesitate to step right up next Duke in his personal space, and repeats quietly, 'Duke, Duke this isn't you.' It is because of Nathan that Duke regains some self-control and releases Dwight.

And finally we have Duke's own words in that same episode of S4:4, just after he releases Dwight and slumps down to the floor. Jennifer immediately goes over to him in obvious concern for how shaky and debilitated he is. Nathan immediately shepherds the others away to give them privacy.

Duke says to Jennifer, 'My thing with blood, it's ugly.'

Jennifer misunderstands this statement because she immediately replies sympathetically, 'You looked like you were in so much pain.'

Duke then confesses, 'That's just it…It doesn't hurt…it feels amazing…like heroin amazing… … at least that's what people tell me.'

Although Duke tags on the "save" at the end, the implication of his "slip" is obvious. How would Duke be able to compare experiencing the two sensations if the heroin one was merely hearsay? It is fairly obvious that The Voice of Experience is shouting in that line. This happens again in the pivotal episode of S4:12, When the Bough Breaks.

Trying to find some way round cursing anyone else and stopping 4-month-old Aaron Harker's cries killing "random people" without killing him to do it, Audrey goes to the Haven Herald office and looks through their archives – we get to the scene where see the newspaper photograph clipping of 1902, when Audrey realises that a previous Incarnation tried to stop the Harker Curse and couldn't. At this point Duke enters the office and is clearly wary of what he suspects Audrey is thinking of doing:

Duke: 'What was so important you couldn't tell me over the phone?'

Audrey: '[The Harker Curse] is random…I can't stop it…I never could. I tried and failed before.'

Duke accurately discerns: 'The going theory is that William is giving out Troubles because he thinks the original Audrey liked it? And he wants you to remember her. If that's true, does that mean that you and William -? Did you make the Troubles in the first place?'

Audrey is defeated: 'Yes – and now he wants me to do it again. He wants me to create a silence Trouble that will stop these deaths and save the baby.'

Duke is pragmatic, and also shrewd: 'Huh, so you called me down here to grant you permission to give someone a Trouble? Audrey, you can never do that, no matter what happens. He is trying to get you to shove that needle back into your vein – there's no recovering from that!'

This is yet another clear reference to a drug addiction with intravenous (into the blood stream) injecting use on Duke's part. At the time, however, Audrey misses it because she is offended – and feels guilty – because inside she knows what he is saying is the truth: 'You don't trust me to hold on to who I am?'

'I don't trust the Troubles. They are deep and dark and they take the people you love away…' Duke is referring to Evi, and Wade, who forced Duke to kill him, and also to his father's murder.

However, at this point Nathan enters the office and wrongly thinks Duke is talking about Audrey. Letting his passion overturn his common sense ('the heart is treacherous and is desperate'), Nathan urges Audrey to 'Trouble whoever you have to, to make this go away,' because he trusts her to remain Audrey. Duke becomes agitated but points out again that 'if you turn back into some female version of William…we are screwed on a whole other level!' Yet again, this is a metaphor for "falling off the wagon", or relapsing into a period of addiction – this is often the case with addicts, who in times of great personal stress or distress relapse into the addiction abuse of prior occasions.

Audrey decides to give into William's coercion in deliberately trying to give someone a Trouble. When it doesn't work, William claims that it is 'more of an art than a science' and gives her a box with six more black pebbles in, insisting that she keep trying and if so she will get it right. Duke comes up to her as William strolls off, and Audrey tries to deflect, asking if Lincoln, the man she bodged the Trouble on, is okay. Duke, however, won't be deflected:

'Give me the box.'

Audrey ignores this and says, 'I have to keep trying.'

Duke again refuses to let her snow him: 'You know I'm fine if you want to lie to that scumbag [William], but you're not going to lie to me.'

Audrey with feeble fake bewilderment: 'Lie about what?'

Duke retorts: 'You felt her, you felt your original self…and you liked it.'

Just as Audrey confessed to Vince, rather than Dave, who was more in love with Sarah, she now confesses to Duke won't she won't tell Nathan, who is more irrationally in love with her: 'It was terrifying, it was like the worst jolt of just evil when I touched him [Lincoln] and I think that some deep part of me liked it.'

Duke points out: 'That's why you can't do this. The temptation – it's too much – he [William] will get you back, you won't be Audrey Parker and more and you won't care. I do care, I can about you; I'm not going to let you do this.'

Again there is the reference to the temptation of addiction – remember, sin and crime are both the same in that at the time, they feel good – neither betraying your spouse with an affair, ruining your relationship with your best friend by lying to them, nor stealing from your family to buy marijuana or mugging an old lady for her pension is going to bring you out in boils, but all are simply evil. Also one of the things about addiction is that the addict isn't him or herself anymore and they don't care about or love anything other than feeding their addiction, which is what Duke references above again the context of addiction, because if Audrey keeps doing what William wants, "she" will disappear and the original, monstrous Woman will reassert herself.

In terms of the mythology of Haven, it is unlikely that Simon was a heroin or cocaine addict, but Duke's references to Simon's heavy drinking indicate that he likewise turned to an artificial means attempting to duplicate the same "high" as up to a certain point, alcohol inebriation creates disinhibition, euphoria and an effusive cheer similar to the euphoric high of injected White Heroin.

** There is no such language as "Chinese". But a multitude of often mutually unintelligible if distantly related Sinitic languages. The seven dominant ones, which have several sub-languages, are: Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Min and Hakka. It appears that Duke is fluent in Cantonese, and probably Taishanese, the dominant forms of Yue and probably Mandarin, plus possibly Min and Wu.

*** New England Transcendentalism is a religion-philosophy that began in the 1820s in New England amongst Congregationalist Christian churches as a protest movement at what was seen as the general degeneration of spirituality and the spurious "intellectualism" espoused at Harvard University – specifically the doctrine of Harvard Unitarianism. Incorporating the core beliefs of the Protestant Work Ethic and the Reformation, NET adherents believe that society and its institutions (particularly organised religions and official political party organisations) corrupt the individual by discouraging self-reliance and personal moral, economic, social and political independence in favour of moral idleness and abrogating personal fortitude to state or religious institutions to "do the work of being good for us if we donate money and forget about you." NET believes that only from "real" people can true cohesive, cooperative communities be formed and maintained.

Although developing out of Protestant Christianity, NET rapidly incorporated a variety of diverse sources into its philosophy, including the esoteric Hindu texts – the Vedas, Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, along with strands of Germanic Reformation of the Reformation ideals. There are two core tenets of NET. The first is rejection of the Trinity of God, believing in the Unity of God (that God is one individual being and Jesus Christ His Son and a different individual being, etc.)

The second and relevant to Haven is rejection of a belief in predestination, or fate. Put simply, predestination/fate is a belief that everything that happens is preordained long beforehand by some higher power or purpose, "god" for the sake of convenience. In terms of Haven, throughout Seasons 2 and 3, Duke repeats that he does not believe in fate and that individuals are "masters of their own fate". This is a key theme of NET and Christianity, and some Eastern faiths, although others believe in predestination.

The reason that predestination is rejected by Christianity and Judaism amongst other faiths is because predestination means there is no such thing as free will – we are all slaves of some Invisible Puppeteer, but it also means that nobody can be blamed for his or her bad behaviour. In the Bible book of Genesis, Eve is the one eats the fruit first, but escapes blame because 'the woman was deceived.' Adam, however, fails twice over – as the "older" first created human, he was expected to explain fully to Eve the situation and what was necessary, but didn't bother, making her an easy target to be conned. Then when Eve 'offered him the fruit,' he knew perfectly well what was required, yet did what was easy instead of what was right. That is why the Apostle Paul, often libelled as a misogynist, rightly pointed out in the Book of Romans: 'through one man, sin entered into the world, and death through sin.'

If Adam had been predestined to be rebellious and disobedient, he could not have been punished for something that was not his fault, and the same logic inevitably applies – if predestination is true, then you cannot credit Einstein or Stephen Hawking for their brilliant achievements which they are lauded for under false pretences but neither can you blame or punish rapists, paedophiles, murderers, genocide monsters such as Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pot, or terrorists – if predestination is true then the ISIS terrorist who murdered US journalist James Foley and filmed his crime cannot be blamed as effectively he had no choice in his own actions as these were ordained by Something Other before he was born.

The core tenet of faiths such as Christianity and Judaism and NET, amongst others, is individual freedom of choice to decide whether to do what is right or what is easy (i.e., wrong) in any given situation; redemption by working to gain an approved standing before the Almighty is possible for anyone and everyone – whereas there is no point even trying if predestination is the case. We see this shown in Season 1 of Haven with Vanessa Stanley who was an extremely irritating character for just that reason (see 'Vanessa Stanley'). The main text/great figure of NET is Ralph Waldo Emerson and his 1836 essay Nature, which was against 18th Century rationalism, the Sensualist philosophy of John Locke, and Calvinist fatalism.

**** There have been three "modern" Great Depressions. The First Great Depression, though not called so, was the decade plus long economic collapse in Britain particularly from 1720-1730s in the wake of the "South Sea Bubble" that didn't so much burst as was obliterated when its fraudulent nature was revealed. The Second Great Depression, and the only one so far labelled as such, was the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which lasted until 1938-39. The most recent, and still ongoing Third Great Depression, labelled the Global Recession, began in 2008 with the sub-prime mortgage fraud and is still ongoing as of time of writing.

***** Grossness apology first. Most people who inject a drug they are addicted to, whether these are legal or illegal, use arm or leg veins, however these are detectable. Occasional intravenous or intramuscular injectors, those abusers who are more intelligent, and those who have to ensure that their usage is invisible to the naked eye due to regularly being required to be partially undressed or naked in front of others (e.g., sports team and police/military shower and locker rooms) or whom fear being unexpectedly required to partially or entirely undress in front of other people for some reason, utilise various means to obscure or hide the needle marks entirely.

Depending on skin colour, age, sex and social/cultural expectations, some are able to have elaborate multihued tattoo designs that they then inject into; others inject in between the toes as the puncture point is usually entirely invisible even when naked. Some men inject directly into the penis, and some women who maintain some pubic hair rather than the "Brazilian" wax inject into their clitoris mound where the curls hide the puncture. The availability of blood supply to the penis and the clitoris (which is the female equivalent of the penis) means that injecting into these gives an instant and intense "hit".

1999:

Birth of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hendrickson to Dwight Hendrickson and an unnamed mother.

7th May 2007: TEAMS

The Troubles gradually begin again. It seems that the first "reactivated Trouble" was either Dwight Hendrickson OR Jeanine, the Cheerleading Queen from Haven High.

We know from the "webisodes" that Dwight was serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in Afghanistan (TV show shout out – Richard Burgi's The Sentinel character, James Ellison in the 1997-2000 TV series was an Army Ranger) in 2007 when his Trouble – Bullet Magnet – activated and he managed to return home, probably by virtue of medical discharge viz., bullet magnet. For some reason that is not explained he is a single father to a daughter, Lizzie, either by being widowed or divorced. Given the immense bias in the UK and US Family Court system against men due to the poison that is Political Correctness, it seems highly unlikely that Dwight would have been allowed unsupervised visitation, never mind sole custody, in a divorce fuelled by a malicious ex-wife and lawyers who twisted his heroism and condition into "psycho soldier" and "freak". It is much more likely that he was widowed.

The Guard relocate Dwight and Lizzie to Haven, and he joins them (you see the large tattoo on his back in Season 2) but when The Guard began to take advantage of his gratitude, and began doing things that were morally dubious, he became disillusioned and refused to join in their wrongdoing, and we see in one of the webisodes that when his confrontation with The Guard escalates from a shouting match into the two Guardsmen attempting to murder him, it is Lizzie who is killed as her fear of the altercation causes her Trouble – bullet magnet – to kick in, and when the Guardsman shoots Dwight, even though it is point blank range, the bullet veers past him and kills Lizzie behind him at the door of their home (2008).

In the TV show itself, Dwight warns Nathan in Season 3 about people with that tattoo not necessarily being benevolent or even good, advising that one of his major issues was discovering that The Guard relocated people 'whether they wanted to or not'. This ties in with the fact that although Vince is the hereditary Commander of The Guard (S4) we see that traditionally individual members have a great deal of leeway/autonomy and work more in smaller "cells" (the terrorist connotation being, I think, deliberately implied) than with Vince dictating everything – Jordan McKee is an example of this, amongst others. Likewise, after the final scene of S2:12 where Audrey has been Tasered and kidnapped, Nathan gets The Guard tattoo on his forearm – although Vince knows the truth about what he is investigating with the bolt-gun killer, Vince doesn't tell Jordan or any of The Guard that Nathan is a ringer.

It is clear that the majority of the time, Vince only steps in with direct commands if he has to. Whilst this "light touch leadership" serves to value people's IQ, and is morale boosting and motivating, making people want to prove up to the challenge of showing they know what they are doing, the downside is that it can allow the ambitious to develop a personal power-base, a "cult of personality", much like the deranged Reverend Driscoll. This danger of the "cult of personality" also features in the two-part Star Trek: Voyager episodes Equinox Part I (S5:26) and Equinox Part II (S6:1) to good effect. Additionally, a charismatic individual like the "Rev" or sub-group/cell can splinter off, or allow "mission creep" to deflect them. In those situations, they increasingly see the Commander as rather a "nominal" leader only or even entirely just a figurehead for the "real" mission or those "really" in charge. In that situation the only way to regain control is to do some very nasty "making an example of".

Apart from taking place in either Spring or Summer of 2007, Dwight's Trouble activation is not dated.

The second option for the "First Reactivated Trouble" of the Audrey Parker era is shown in S3 Reunion, at the Haven High School reunion, when Duke has been de-aged. Nathan and Audrey are trying to find the Troubled person who is reverting classmates to their 17-year-old self and then murdering them for being bullies. Nathan questions former classmate Jeanine, who has previously dismissed the Troubles as nonsense. However, she admits that she knows the Troubles exist, because she has one.

She explains to Nathan that in her mid-20s she saw what seemed to be all her friends getting married and settling down bar her, and although she tried to be happy for them she was envious*. In 2007 this came to a head when she was jealous* of her best friend falling in love; when she was matron of honour at the wedding, her envy* at wanting the perfect day and the fabulous looking wedding cake to be hers overwhelmed her and ever since every foodstuff she touches or tries to eat literally turns to cake as it reaches her lips – 'why do you think I look like this? Three years, nothing but cake.' Since the reunion takes place in-universe at the beginning of October 2010 that means that Jeanine's Trouble activated in the summer of 2007. So far, Jeanine and Dwight are the earliest known record of current Troubles occurring, meaning one of their Troubles is most likely Ground Zero.

* Just like puberty and adolescence are conflated but, although they overlap, they are not the same, jealousy and envy are often conflated into the same thing, but though there are similarities, they are not the same thing. Jealousy is a perfectly normal, natural emotion and, as long as it is expressed properly, is an entirely proper, justified and appropriate emotion and response. Envy, conversely, is an abnormal, entirely negative emotion and response that is always self-destructive and all too often lashes out towards the object of the envy – that is why envy is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, yet jealousy is not (the others being immorality, gluttony, greed, rage, laziness and hubris).

For example, in the Old Testament at Exodus 34:14, the ancient Israelites are commanded 'You must not prostrate yourself [worship] to another god, because Jehovah [the personal Divine Name of God] whose name is Jealous, he is a jealous God'. In the New Testament, at 2nd Corinthians 11:2, the Apostle Paul repeats this: 'For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, for I personally promised you in marriage to one husband that I might present you as a chaste virgin [bride] to the Christ. But I am afraid that somehow, as [Satan] seduced Eve by cunning, your minds might be corrupted away from the [love] and the [loyalty] that are due the Christ.'

Jealous is a synonym of zealous – the concept is one of fidelity (faithfulness or loyalty) versus infidelity (unfaithfulness or disloyalty) and it applies both romantically and platonically. People often become justifiably jealous when another person intrudes – or is thoughtlessly allowed to intrude – into areas of a relationship that the person has rightfully claimed as his or her own, such as a married couple's sex life, or an intimate confidence shared between two best friends.

Someone who is a truly loving spouse or best friend, for instance, would not provoke their spouse or best friend into a state of jealousy by having a tendency to sexually "flirt" with an attractive woman or man in front of their spouse to "show I've still got it", or socially "flirt" with a wealthy/ connected/"more useful" individual in front of their best friend as if their friend were suddenly not good enough to be seen with. That is why flirting comes under two of the Deadly Sins, Immorality and Hubris, because it is about Self-Love, not Selfless-Love – it is about boosting "my" ego, not showing respect and affection for our spouse or best friend. In that context, the anger and jealousy shown against us is entirely proper, and fully justified as it is our own fault for being – even if only verbally – unkind and disloyal to the relationship that should be paramount to us.

Envy on the other hand is entirely wrong – it is a warped and warping bitterness, an entirely unjustified resentment and anger directed towards other people who "dare" to have what the envious person wants but believes that he or she does not have – a nice house, prosperity, promotion, good health, social status, children, reputation, even obvious contentment and happiness. In the eyes of the envious person, whatever it is "they" do not "deserve" it and "I" am the one who "should" have it.

Unlike the man provoked to jealousy over his flirting wife or the woman jealous over her best friend seeming to ignore their long-standing friendship for a "new BFF", both of which are entirely understandable and justified feelings, envy is maliciously coveting what we do not have but are not entitled to either. The things or state of being that envious people covet have been achieved by hard work and effort such as promotion or a happy marriage, or else are things over which the individual has no personal control, such as being slim or having good health.

For example, in the TV show, Hawaii 5-0, Danny Williams as a true friend would be jealous for his best friend Steve's reputation as a brave and patriotic SEAL and law officer, reacting protectively when someone tried to talk trash about Steve – and vice versa. In the TV show, Grimm, Hank Griffin as a true friend would not be envious of Nick Burkhardt for having a happy relationship with Juliette Silverton or Monroe for his happy marriage to Rosalee because the circumstances of himself still being single are largely his own doing – he has been married and divorced four times, which should tell him something.

In the context of the mythology of Haven, if we accept that William and Mara did not cause the Troubles so much as damage/warp Abilities into Afflictions, then most likely the Troubles are triggered by "bad" and "improper" emotions. For example, the reason Jeanine's Trouble was not triggered until the wedding of her best friend was because that was the point where jealousy – understandable if a bit petty – morphed into envy, which was wrong. Another example is that of Tristram Carver, whom from the background of the episode seemed to have an arrogant belief in that as a relative of the Carvers he was too important to be a "mere" indentured apprentice; his overwhelming envy of those who had come to Haven and were making a positive new life for himself was expressed in a spiteful resentment and determination to destroy their successes rather than putting any effort in to making a go of things himself.

2006:

Dave Teagues, who has been a long-term smoker, lies to Vince that he has quit smoking (S4:12).

2007:

In Macau, China, something happens that puts Duke's life in danger and causes Evi and Duke's marriage to break down and they split up with Evi leaving Duke when he decides to return to Haven in the Cape Rouge – in S2:1 A Tale of Two Audreys, at The Grey Gull, Evi, who believes that Duke is running some kind of lucrative "long con", says, 'Macau…I saved your life in Macau…' to which Duke retorts, 'You almost got me killed in Macau…' Evi protests about Nathan holding a grudge for 'three years' indicating that (since S2 is set in early 2010), it must have been 2007.

2008:

Duke Crocker returns to Haven on the Cape Rouge. He invites his old school-friend, Nathan Wuornos, who is now a Detective with Haven PD, in conjunction with his father Garland Wuornos being Chief of Police, to go fishing with him. Nathan accepts this invite, happy to rekindle his and Duke's boyhood friendship, but when they are stopped and boarded by the coastguard, Nathan is hurt, believing that Duke merely wished to use him as a patsy to get away with smuggling contraband. Back on shore the two men have a brutal, hour-long, knock-down/drag-out physical fight that ends when Nathan suddenly realises that he cannot feel any of the injuries Duke's blows and kicks have inflicted the fight has triggered the return of his Trouble.

It has been established that the Troubles are related in some both genetic and psychological-emotional way to the families that have them – the trade of the Driscoll brothers Jack and Aiden was deep sea diving/wreck salvage, often in conjunction with Duke, who several times describes himself as a "businessman" and who clearly has several income streams besides The Grey Gull which he runs as a bar and also sub-lets as a landlord to Audrey and the Cape Rouge.

In S4:12 when Audrey, Nathan and Duke are trying to "figure out" the Harker Curse to stop it without giving into William's demands, Audrey states: 'The Troubles are always related to the people that have them.'

Nathan: 'Jack Driscoll was a deep sea diver; he developed a crazy pressure curse.'

At this point Duke mumbles something unintelligibly, not looking at Nathan who realises this and demands sharply, 'What?'

Duke reluctantly points out that, 'well you weren't exactly the most emotionally expressive kid in school – now you're…numb.'

Nathan, upset as he misinterprets this as a dig at him, immediately lashes out with a variation of the late Jordan McKee's snide but accurate summary ('he's an…emo-sponge') from S4:4, 'You're a sponge!'

Duke protests, 'It wasn't derogatory!'

However, it is true as we see from S1 that Nathan is very, "buttoned down" despite having a lot of pent up emotionality and passion.

Concluded from 2009 in Chapter 8…

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