Harlan Coben’s Shelter finale spoilers follow.Harlan Coben’s mystery thriller Shelter started off fairly strong but has since fizzled thanks to its tenuous attempt to connect the dots from one mystery to the other. Mysteries that, even on their own, were tepid at best.
Still, the forced friendship between Mickey (Jaden Michael), Spoon (Adrian Greensmith) Ema (Abby Corrigan) and now Rachel (Sage Linder) is what has kept many of us tuning in, because forced or not, this foursome just works.
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Got to love the charming misfit energy they bring.
Together they have cracked the case of the missing (presumed dead) Dylan Shakes (spoiler, he’s alive and well and has been hiding from his abusive father in chez Bat Lady since childhood).
The cryptic disappearance of Ashley (Samantha Bugliaro) has also been solved leaving Mickey and the gang to rescue the endangered teen from being trafficked.
By the finale, there is just one thing that isn’t adding up, and though we are still scratching our heads over how Ashley became Mickey’s girlfriend after one day and a date that never was, that’s not what we mean. We’ve given up trying to understand how the creators thought they could make that one work.
We are, however, referring to the question of what happened to Mickey’s dad, Brad (Kristoffer Polaha).
Throughout the show’s eight-episode run Mickey has been gripped by the feeling that his dad isn’t dead, a thought that was birthed when Bat Lady (Tovah Feldshuh) told him as much.
Yet after some digging, (only after he was finished chasing down the Ashley leads) and a few red herrings, nothing has confirmed the gut instinct that tells him Brad is alive.
So what happened to Brad?
Shelter ending explained, what happened to Mickey’s dad?
It was confirmed in the lead-up to the finale that Mickey’s dad was effectively abducted after the crash that supposedly killed him.
Ema helps Mickey find out that a stolen ambulance arrived at the scene of the crash and that Brad was attended to by a man not registered as a paramedic.
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That same man took him away.
The man turned out to be Luther (Luke Marinkovich), a boy who had been part of a group of children rescued from a problematic foster-care situation by Brad many years before.
During that rescue, the children were ushered through a window on their way to Bat Lady’s house and Luther cut his face on a rusty nail, leaving him scarred.
The already skittish Luther blamed Brad for this injury and, feeling unsafe, wanted to leave.
Instead, he and the rest of the children were urgently taken to a sound-proof shelter room in the tunnels beneath the house, to hide from the police who had arrived.
The children were left alone while Bat Lady dealt with the police, though, much to our irritation, Brad’s absence was never explained, but we forge on.
While alone, Luther’s brother had an asthma attack and died before the adults (and a teenage Brad in way over his head) could return.
Luther blamed Brad for his brother’s death and, in Bat Lady’s words, wanted him to suffer like his brother had.
She then went on to remind Mickey that Luther is “his butcher”, as a way of warning him that Luther may still seek revenge on Brad by killing him, thus potentially setting up a season two.
Bat Lady caps off their touching heart-to-heart by confirming that Brad is truly dead but that his life work of rescuing helpless children (the work of Abeona) lives on through Mickey and his friends.
So why did she previously say that Brad was alive?
Is Mickey’s dad alive in Harlan Coben’s Shelter?
Despite evading Mickey’s questions throughout the entire series when she could have so easily been transparent in episode one, Bat Lady is feeling particularly chatty during their talk.
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It is then that she reveals that the reason she said Brad was alive was because she kept hearing his voice during the night calling to her.
As she had never experienced this before with any of the many, many people she’d lost over the years, she felt there was a reason. However, she reconciled that Brad must be dead and that her hearing his voice was just her connection to Mickey.
Mickey initially accepts this answer until he is later triggered by the memory of a conversation he had with Spoon.
During that conversation, Spoon explained that voices can travel through pipes and be heard in other locations.
He then realised that Luther didn’t just want to kill his father, he wanted him to suffer like his brother had.
The fab four head down to the tunnels under Bat Lady’s house. Though the door was welded shut after the death of Luther’s brother, Spoon deduces that the welding on the door looks brand new.
Simultaneously Mickey’s aunt Shira (Constance Zimmer) gets a call from her sometimes-friend-sometimes-lover Hannah (Missi Pyle) to say that Brad’s body has been exhumed per her request and she heads down to view it.
As the kids break down the welding on the door, the scene cuts to Shira who looks visibly shocked by what she sees.
With the door now open, Mickey enters and eventually from the dark crevices his father, Brad, emerges.
Though full-bearded now, he looks pretty good for a man trapped underground for months. Thank goodness for Bat Lady’s food and drink rations. Clearly, no one thought to empty them before welding the door shut.
Shelter may have answered its biggest cliffhanger, but we still have one burning question that must be answered.
Why wasn’t Brad’s body identified before he was put in the ground? And if he was, why didn’t said identifier realise that it wasn’t him?
Harlan Coben’s Shelter season 1 is available to stream now on Prime Video.
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