THE CROSSING – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS

Hannah (Kelley Missal) listens to a seashell. Missal was Danielle Manning in 288 episodes of the ABC daytime soap
ONE LIFE TO LIVE

Forty-seven people wash up on the beach near the small Oregon coastal town of Port Canaan. (Four hundred dead bodies wash up as well.) The survivors are not shy about revealing that they come from nearly two centuries in the future. Caleb (Marcuis Harris), the most articulate of the new arrivals, says: “We heard that someone had discovered something, a process, a way to bend time…People traveled from all over to get to the site. People with no other way out. We were the first group to attempt it. We knew there would be risks. But no one expected to arrive how we did – in the water beneath the surface. Something went wrong.”

Another refugee describes the time travel process: “They packed us onto the platform and took us into the ground – the ‘threshold’ they called it. The sound started and it was like cracks of thunder, over and over.” No one expected to materialize under the sea, One supposes they were lucky the machine’s error landed them in the water and not inside solid rock. Continue reading →