The Family: I’ll Get You Another Friend

or a son… as the case may be. That is the one thing that struck us about “All the Livelong Day.” Yes, Willa knew the whole time that the real Adam was dead. Her angry and distraught mother, Claire, confronted her for bringing an impostor into their family, screaming “He is not my son!” Willa blurted out “Your son is dead!” She then quickly pointed out that Ben is alive and even though he’s not technically Adam, he’s the closest thing they have. Horrified, Claire took off and spent the night on a bench dedicated to Adam by the school he attended.

Ben and Adam in the bunker together

In flashbacks, we saw snippets of Ben and Adam living together in the bunker. Ben, it seemed, was resigned to captivity and tried to make it less horrible. As Adam got older, he became determined to find a way out but he got sick. Doug took him away and told Ben he did everything he could but Adam would not be returning. Doug said he would get Ben another friend soon.

There is a lot of speculation going around that Adam is still alive based on the “never found a body” trope, but the show’s creator wants people to keep watching so much that she obligingly blabbed all kinds of spoilers about future episodes in a TV Guide article. The only one we will share is her revelation that Adam is really dead.

Ben proves to Willa that he really knew her brother

It was Willa’s idea to turn Ben into Adam and she did quite a bit of groundwork before she changed her mind and drove Ben to the bus station, gave him $10,000 and said adios. Ben decided to go ahead with the old switcheroo himself. When that was sprung on Miss Resourceful, there didn’t seem to be much choice but to try to get back some control over Ben.

By the end of this episode, it turned out that Willa, Doug and Ben are not the only ones who think you can just substitute one person for another. Claire decided that she can deal with Ben as a replacement for Adam.

Wow! That’s all we can say. Can there be so many devious people in this one little town in Maine? That reminds us: Saddam Hussein was executed in December 2006. Nevermind how either of them would even know how to say Saddam Hussein — they must have been reading old papers in the bunker. It just didn’t look like a Maine winter when Adam escaped and encountered Willa at the Warren family home after she went for a jog. She was only wearing a sweat jacket.