![]() I don’t know if it was a deliberate call back, but it made me even more emotional than I was. That made me tear up partly because it was such a beautifully played father-daughter scene, and partly because that’s a line from the Supernatural finale too, when Sam gives his brother the gift of permission to go in a more permanent way. ![]() Cordell gives her a gift, knowing she’s been struggling with individuation and the question of staying close or going away for college.Ĭordell: I want you to know now…it’s okay to go. ![]() Stella has grown up a lot over the past two years of real time, and on the show as well. You’re the one that keeps this family together. Cordell is proud of his daughter.Ĭordell: You make all of us feel. Everyone does that differently and on their own timetable, but Stella and Geri and Cordell have all learned that it’s true. That’s also a theme of the episode, going back to the exploration of grief and loss that I have always valued most in this show – that you can’t go over it or around it, eventually you have to go through it. Cordell admits he would never have taken the game out of the box, that it’s so like her – and her mom – to make him face it. Stella says it seems like a good time to start over, or to carry on where they left off. Later in the episode, they share a tender father-daughter moment over one of the games they used to play on family game night, something Cordell hasn’t been able to do since he lost his wife. Cordell is every parent, wondering where the time went and saying that it seems like yesterday that Emily told him she was pregnant. Emily not being there is hard for Stella, and it’s hard for Cordell too. I facilitated a grief counseling group at a university counseling center for many years, and I heard from so many students nearing graduation just how hard it was to approach that milestone without a parent they had always imagined there to be proud of them. If you’ve ever lost someone, you know that the toughest times are big life events, the celebrations that you always thought that special person would be at. The first thing that’s missing is Emily, because Stella Blue is about to graduate. (One of the things I like best about Walker is that they love to run parallel themes throughout an episode and then reference it somehow in the title, and it’s a fun game for a reviewer to pick out all the instances of that theme – or at least it is for this reviewer!) The episode is titled “Something’s Missing” and that is both literally and figuratively true throughout the show. The season finale of Walker tied up a lot of loose ends for Season 2 – and then kicked off a whole new mystery, and a dramatic one at that!
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