Throughout all of Sullivan’s Crossing Season 4, we’ve been waiting to find out the circumstances of Maggie (Morgan Kohan) and Liam’s (Marcus Rosner) marriage, why Maggie never heard from him after he left for an assignment shortly following their wedding, and why he’s really at the Crossing. Finally, in Episode 5, we get some shocking answers.
But before we get to Liam and Maggie, the episode begins with Tracy (Emerson MacNeil) in the hospital, after she developed a fever near the end of Episode 4. Maggie ordered X-rays, upsetting Dr. Quincy Carlson (Jonathan Silverman) because she did so before he arrived.
When Maggie eventually talks to Quincy, he is adamant that Tracy’s care is now handled solely by him.
When they arrive at the home, Cal starts cleaning up and sees a leak in the bathroom, with towels on the ground to catch the water. Ben says his mom is going to call a plumber, but it’s clear that Ben and Tracy have been taking care of themselves alone in the house for a while.
Maggie calls Cal, asking if he sees anything in the house that could have caused Tracy’s reaction, like something she could have eaten. Cal finds a bunch of mouse droppings, and Maggie goes back to tell Quincy that Tracy needs to be tested for leptospirosis. He wants to wait for the test results to confirm, but Maggie believes Tracy needs to start treatment immediately and decides to move forward behind Quincy’s back.
When Cal was in the kitchen of Ben and Tracy’s home, he had a flashback to being a kid picking blueberries for his siblings to eat, while their mom was gone looking for their father. And driving back to the hospital with Ben, Cal tells him about the time he had to take his little sister, Sedona, to the hospital because he thought he had picked blueberries, but they were actually chokeberries, which Sedona is allergic to.
Maggie is a ‘reactive’ doctor
In the middle of caring for Tracy, Maggie gets a call from the Nova Scotia Board of Physicians that there’s been a last-minute cancellation, and she has an opportunity to present her request for special permission to complete her residency in Timberlake instead of Halifax to the board. But Maggie doesn’t want to leave Tracy, and declines the invitation. That means she’ll have to wait at least a year to move forward.
Maggie is given the time to present her request, but then Quincy arrives, who says, in front of the board, that the hospital told him she started treating Tracy for leptospirosis without consulting him. He adds that while Maggie is an “accomplished surgeon,” she is “reactive” in her approach and “may find it difficult to accept other people’s diagnoses.”
Speaking privately, Quincy tells Maggie he wants Tracy to be her first patient.
What could happen to Ben and Tracy?
Back at the hospital, Maggie tells Ben and Tracy they can’t go home until their mom gets the house cleaned up, and Tracy pushes back.
Then Jeanie Blassette (Trina Corkum) shows up. She’s in charge of youth outreach and welfare, and runs the summer camp Tracy attended. She got a call from the hospital about Tracy and Ben’s mother’s absence, but Ben assures her that their mom is on her way, and Cal stays quiet.
As Ben leaves to get Tracy’s markers from Cal’s car, he overhears Jeanie tell Cal that if they’re not being cared for, foster care could be the next step.
When Cal gets back to Tracy’s hospital room, she’s not there, and her hospital gown is on the floor. Realizing Ben still has his keys, he pieces together that Ben took his car to drive away from the hospital with Tracy.
‘I was the one who abandoned you’
Back to Liam: In several episodes, we’ve seen him speaking on the phone, and we now know he’s been talking to his editor, who’s asking for updates.
“You can’t put your life on hold forever. You need to get back to work,” he says, adding that he also wants Liam to be happy.
Throughout Episode 5, Liam went to the outpost to see if Maggie had returned, after he tried to talk to her about why he had disappeared in the last episode. But Edna (Andrea Menard) stresses to him that Maggie is happy and doesn’t want her to get hurt again.
While that leads Liam to pack up to leave the Crossing, Maggie goes to see him at his cabin.
And that’s when we find out what actually happened with Liam after his wedding to Maggie.
“I was done my assignment, and I was headed back to the airport. Back to you. When my vehicle was surrounded. They pulled me out of the car. They put a hood over my head. And they drove me out to a holding area,” Liam tells Maggie. “I was taken hostage, and I was held captive for three years until I was finally released.”
That’s also why Liam has those scars on his back.
And that’s where the episode ends, raising questions about how Liam and Maggie’s relationship will move forward.
