Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
It seemed only fitting that this week's 11.22.63 began with a flashback to Jake's classroom in the present day, as he posed the question, "If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you do?" In addition to offering a humorous explanation for the series' own time-travel physics -- basically, "Don't worry about it" -- the result brought about a lot of "kill this person" answers, which is something Jake has been struggling with from the beginning of the show with Oswald.
As such, "The Truth" was an important episode in that it gave Jake an early opportunity to determine whether Oswald was working alone or as part of a larger conspiracy. Of course, we kind of knew Jake's plan to witness Oswald attempting to assassinate General Walker would fail, since we still have three episodes left and the title of the show is literally the date of Kennedy's assassination. Still, this part of the episode was notably weaker than previous installments, if only because Bill couldn't hold it together for two freaking minutes when he thought he saw Clara coming out of the church. (And in case you were wondering, yes, that is the only payoff for his entire sister subplot.)
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It seemed only fitting that this week's 11.22.63 began with a flashback to Jake's classroom in the present day, as he posed the question, "If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you do?" In addition to offering a humorous explanation for the series' own time-travel physics -- basically, "Don't worry about it" -- the result brought about a lot of "kill this person" answers, which is something Jake has been struggling with from the beginning of the show with Oswald.
As such, "The Truth" was an important episode in that it gave Jake an early opportunity to determine whether Oswald was working alone or as part of a larger conspiracy. Of course, we kind of knew Jake's plan to witness Oswald attempting to assassinate General Walker would fail, since we still have three episodes left and the title of the show is literally the date of Kennedy's assassination. Still, this part of the episode was notably weaker than previous installments, if only because Bill couldn't hold it together for two freaking minutes when he thought he saw Clara coming out of the church. (And in case you were wondering, yes, that is the only payoff for his entire sister subplot.)
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