Kindred
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Ask, and you shall receive.
Finally,Kindreds Black characters are allowed to exist outside of plot points.
Theres no better, more mysterious love.
Without the protection of Kevin, Sarah suggests that Dana run away that night.
She gives her version of a blessing, saying she doesnt have a problem with her leaving.
As Dana tries to leave the plantation, Olivia arrives early in the morning to try and save her.
She asks Sarah to get Carrie to deliver a message to Dana inside the house.
Shes the one who turned Rufus over in the crib!
She also looks like she could be biracial … but I could be reading too deeply into it.
Sarah tells Olivia that Dana should already be gone.
But she is actually in Winnies cabin, talking to Nigel.
Nigels able to escape before Tom bursts in, but he catches Dana with one of the books.
Trying to save herself from being punished, she … tells Tom shell teach him how to read?!
He pushes her down, and she falls on top of her daughter.
Just as he goes to whip Olivia, they disappear.
Tom goes to Olivias cabin for answers regarding the sudden disappearance.
There he finds Kevin, who has been hiding out with Alice since Tom abandoned him in the forest.
Winnie is officially gone, stealing Kevins clothes and running away after Kevin tried to stop her.
Alice is sitting guard, armed with a gun shes strangely confident with handling.
Dana reappears in her 2016 house, screaming for Kevin and bringing us full circle to the season premiere.
These records were so precious they were often recorded infamily Bibles.
Danas grandmother kept one that happened to be left in the brownstone.
Dana packed the book in the move, and they flip through it, looking for Carries name.
There is a Carrie, but shes born too late to have a direct tie to Rufus.
However, she sees the name Alice.
Dana believes that once she ensures Rufus stays alive and their next direct ancestor is born, itll end.
I wish this were a mid-season episode instead of the finale.
We get a rushed peek inside their heads, and then the episode ends.
Penny and the neighbors swap information before they invite her in for coffee.
Alice was a badass character in the book and an even badder character in the series.
Its great to see that Kevin is taking care of her while Olivia and Dana are in the present.
Sophina Brown, as Sarah, had so much potential to take her character to another level.
Who knew Sarah was doing all that plotting?
made her a more interesting character than Tom and Margaret ever were.
