The Time Traveler’s Wife Season 1 Episode 4 brings a big mess to Clare’s apartments as two Henrys show up to meet her friends. Last time on the show, The Time Traveler’s Wife finally shifted its narrative completely to Clare’s side. After all, the show is about her story. We witnessed how Clare grew up meeting a man who traveled through time and dropped by to meet her.
The show also shifted to a darker narrative by showing us the trauma Clare went through during her teenage years after coming close to a boy. Henry coming to her aid also revealed that she is destined to marry him sometime in the future. Now, in the fourth episode, we see Clare adjusting to the fate she can never change as she tries to accept the younger Henry, who is unlike the one she met while growing up.
The Time Traveler’s Wife S01 E04 Recap
The Time Traveler’s Wife Season 1 Episode 4 opens up to the time Clare was 20 years old. Henry knocked on her door to meet her best friends Gomez and Charissa. The only thing was Gomez didn’t like any bit of Henry, and we soon find out why. Things got messier with an older Henry also showing up at the same place at the same time.
Cut to the time Clare was 18. She wanted to be closer to Henry, knowing that he was her husband. She only dreamt of him. This was the last day they were going to spend together. The next she was going to see him was two years into the future. A younger version of him who might not even know who Clare is. The older Henry advised her to go out there and meet people before they started making out.
Cut to the future. A drunk Clare ends up sleeping with her best friend’s boyfriend, Gomez. She feels that she betrayed her friend. A drunk Gomez later apologizes for the same and ends up crossing paths with the younger version of Henry, fighting with his girlfriend, Ingrid. He helps Ingrid to get rid of him. Gomez was not the only one, as Charissa also expresses that she likes girls and ends up sleeping with Clare.
Coming back to where we left off, Henry meeting Clare’s friends continue to go into disaster. The older Henry showing up reveals that the meeting is about to get worse. It does with Ingrid showing up. Clare, Henrys, and Ingrid had no option but to tell Charissa and Gomez the truth. While Gomez receives some tips for the future, Ingrid sees herself battling with Clare to find out who Henry ends up with.
Ingrid ends up finding out about her imminent death while the older Henry disappears. He also claims that he never time traveled after 41, which means he might be slowing down as well. The episode comes to a close with the younger Henry, who Clare doesn’t like comforting Clare. When Clare was 18, Henry left a note asking her to have Mercy, and she does the same in the future.
The Time Traveler’s Wife Season 1 Episode 4 Review
The Time Traveler’s Wife Season 1 Episode 4 takes a step up from the two central characters by bringing in more characters who know about Henry’s time travel thing. As we predicted, it seems like the characters of Henry and Clare may continue to tell the story hand-in-hand.
Still, at the end of the day, the main focus continues to be on Clare, what she feels like and how she is suffering from a husband who disappears out of nowhere and travels to another year. This was an episode where we saw Clare finally coming to accept her reality as she forgives Henry, who she thought was a jerk. Apart from that, we continue to see her love for the older Henry grow.
The show introducing the characters Gomez and Charissa made the episode fun. Especially watching Gomez and Henry go back and forth to roast each other. Well, it’s hard to believe that they would be best friends in the future like older Henry predicts.
A fun episode that came to be because of the mess ended up in an emotional mess. Watching Ingrid realize her imminent death was pretty heartbreaking on its part. At this point, we don’t know if we will continue to see Gomez, Charissa, and Ingrid in the future, but we would love to.
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