Audrey Parker's Day Off
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"Audrey Parker's Day Off" is the sixth episode of the second season of the supernatural
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 American/Canadian television series Haven
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. It first aired on SyFy
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 on August 19, 2011. It was written by Nora Zuckerman
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 & Lilla Zuckerman
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 and it is directed by Fred Gerber
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Plot

Chris Brody wakes Audrey up with a kiss. He has made plans for Audrey's day off. Downstairs Duke is putting up a sign for Taco Tuesday. Audrey and Chris sneak by and make it to the car before Duke sees them and attempts to remind Audrey about the rent. Audrey has a chore to do before they can relax. She goes to the school. A couple is arguing in a car and a boy goes by without a helmet. Audrey goes in and talks to a class about her job. Then one girl asks Audrey if her gun is real and if she can fire it while a boy asks her if she has broken the law. At this point she gets Chris to talk to them. Outside, Chris explains that he's supposed to be in London trying to get funding for his work, but prefers to stay with her. Audrey gets a call from Nathan. There is a crime scene and when she arrives Nathan stops her from seeing it. He shows her a bloody green child's tennis shoe.

Chris wakes Audrey up with a kiss. And Audrey thinks she is experiencing dejâ vù. Downstairs, Duke is writing a sign. She gives Duke a check for the rent and goes to the school with Chris. She knows the children's questions. She leaves Chris and meets Nathan at the police station, telling him of her day repeating and the death. Audrey thinks her knowledge can help them get ahead of what's happening. She keeps in contact with Nathan by phone as they each look for signs. Duke calls out to Audrey. She'd forgot to sign the check, so she signs it and he goes off to the bank, but on the way he is knocked down in a hit-and-run. She reaches him and says he wasn't supposed to be there, then remembers the rent check. Duke dies and Chris wakes her up with a kiss.

Downstairs she tells Chris to stay with Duke and promises to pay the rent tomorrow. At the school she meets Nathan. She points out the couple who start to argue, a jogger who jumps a flower bed and a boy on a bicycle without a helmet. They decide to set up a check point, because they know the time and location. A church bell rings to mark the time and a car hurtles down the road knocking Nathan over as it crashes through the wooden barrier and is gone. Audrey finds Nathan who doesn't realize he has a large bolt of wood in his abdomen. Nathan describes the car as a beige sedan and the driver as an older man then dies in distraught Audrey's arms.

And Chris wakes her up with a kiss. She sees the blood on her hand from the broken wood of the barrier where Nathan was killed and thinks if she died the cycle could repeat forever. Downstairs, Audrey gets Chris to stay with Duke then goes to the police station, repeats the story to Nathan, asking him to stay, but getting squad cars to stop all beige sedans. She rings Duke to see if he's ok and finds Chris has gone. In fact he finds her at that moment. She says he must leave. As he does, the church bell rings. She sees a man waiting to cross the street. He seems a little obsessed. She helps him across the street and then calls Nathan to say that it may have resolved itself. Suddenly a blue car appears, but, before it can hit her, Chris pushes her out of the way and dies instead. The obsessive man comes and says that it is his fault. Audrey remembers that he is the man fighting in the car at the school. He's always been there.

And Chris wakes her up with a kiss. She goes directly to the school to talk to the obsessive man. His name is Anson Shumway and his wife has been threatening to take away custody of their daughter. His obsession made him late for the child's birthday: he'd forgot to do the light switch three times so he had to go back. His wife arrives and, as Audrey talks to her, Shumway drives off. At the police station a hit on his credit card reveals he has just bought something at a sporting goods store. Audrey realizes what happened. He'd bought a pair of green tennis shoes and as he went to give them to her his OCD got him stuck-- unable to cross the road. His daughter saw him and ran across the road only to be knocked down by a hit-and-run.

Audrey finds Shumway stuck at the curb and puts him in the police car, explaining that his Trouble causes him to reset the whole day each time he blames himself over what goes wrong and returns to the beginning to get it right. She takes the green tennis shoes from him and goes to the ice cream parlor where his wife and daughter are. Audrey gives the child the shoes and rings Shumway so that he can speak to his daughter. At the end of the call he tells Audrey he knows how he must end the cycle of repeats. Audrey fears the consequences and runs to stop him. As she approaches, he steps into the street to be knocked down by the car.

At the Grey Gull Nathan says that the driver was an elderly man who had confused the accelerator and the brake. He averts his eyes as he passes Chris and sees Duke still in rapture because of Chris's Trouble. Nathan tells him if he averts his eyes he won't fawn over him. Audrey, still disturbed by her five days in one which saw the death of each of her friends, tells Chris he should go to London.

Reception

This episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 0.5 for 18/49. It was viewed by 1.743 million viewers.
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