By Jennifer Larson

Tonight is where the truth comes out, at least as far as Dan’s (Kevin McKidd) rendezvous’ with Livia (Moon Bloodgood) are concerned. Last week Dan’s wife, Katie (Gretchen Egolf) confronted him about the watch she found in his coat pocket, so the cat is out of the bag. As if this woman didn’t have enough to deal with, now she has to compete with a time-traveling ghost. Well, I guess Livia isn’t really a ghost, but up until Dan began whipping through time, everybody thought she had perished in a plane crash. This is just one of the plot twists in JOUNERYMAN. While the writers are definitely keeping us on the edge of our seats wondering how and why this is all happening, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of bizarre incidents that take place in this family’s life. I’m not saying I don’t appreciate their effort, I just wish they had spaced these shockers out a bit more. That being said, I do enjoy watching Dan bounce back and forth between his time and the past trying to figure out whom he’s supposed to be helping.

But just because he keeps getting plopped in front of the same person, doesn’t mean that they are the intended target. As we’ve seen, sometimes it’s a six degrees of separation situation, where Dan has to help one person in order to save another one. Now that’s interesting without being too complicated. Tonight Dan is thrown back to 1998, where he follows around a woman who co founded a software company. As it turns out, this woman’s fiancé was tweaking the company’s books, so you see, it could be that he is the victim Dan is supposed to save. Either way, since they are tied together in time and circumstances, they both require Dan’s attention. Meanwhile, poor Katie is trying to keep it together for the fund-raiser she is in charge of. But with a husband who keeps mysteriously disappearing, it makes it so much more difficult for her, especially when she has to be concerned with whether or not her husband will even be there to give her his support.


While Dan seems to be adjusting to his new responsibilities, he’s still trying to find answers for himself, like why this is happening to him. So, whom do you go to when you want to find out about time travel, a scientist, which is exactly where Dan headed. And it is at this point that we get another mystery dropped into our laps. It turns out the guy Dan talked to knew his father. So, does this mean that time travel is a family business? That would be an interesting twist, but I think we have our fare share of those for the moment. And we still don’t know how Livia ended up in her situation. But for all you guys out there who think it would be great to have one woman in the present and another traveling around in the past, think again, because poor Dan is getting it from all sides. Katie wants to know if he’s run into Livia and Livia wants to know if Dan had a thing for Katie all along. But none of that stops Dan from doing what he’s been sent to the past to do, help random people.

Tonight Dan is traveling all around the 90s to stop a woman from being murdered by her jealous ex-boyfriend, or at least that’s who was accused of it. But that would be too predictable, and Dan is never there to save the person he originally thinks he is. And while it’s great that he’s going back in time to make right what went wrong, he could use a little of that kind of help at home. Unfortunately, Dan had to abruptly leave right before he could take his wife to her big gala. This marriage is already on shaky ground, and I don’t think these little excursions are helping much. I mean a wife can only be expected to be so supportive, you know? But that puts Dan in such an awkward position; you know save your marriage or save a life, it’s a hard call to make.


Ultimately, it’s not Dan’s call to make, because he has no control over how, why or when he leaves. While he did end up saving a women’s life and keeping an innocent man out of jail, he may be losing his wife to his own brother; but hey he did date her first. Oh, and that scientist Dan called to find some answers ended up calling Dan back, in 1998! Something tells me we’ll be hearing more from this guy in episodes to come. Until then, maybe Dan can go back in time and save his marriage, because the way it looks right now, it’s going down the tubes fast.