he starts to understand how traumatized he’s been in life, too, so hopefully, they’ll both continue this healing process and become more functional in the love department. One of the things that’s always been difficult for Owen and Amelia is they both have some pretty severe trauma, so even when she’s trying to be conscious and practice contrary action when she’s afraid, if Owen goes into his fear reaction, they just kinda bump up against each other and their amygdalae are at war. TVLINE | I thought it was so bittersweet that, after Amelia promised Owen she’d try be less wary, it wound up being Link, in a way, that she wound up doing that with.
You have the tools and the grit and the heart to take this missing puzzle piece and do amazing things with it.” So when her mom was able to generously and courageously reflect back to her, “I wasn’t able to help you with attachment to heal after that trauma, and that might be why some of your reactions in relationships are a little broken,” she gave her that consciousness that she was too young to have as a 5-year-old. So as she became older, a lot of her reactions to external stimuli were informed by a fear response or a trauma response as opposed to a consciousness about why she was doing things. In the early years of childhood, there’s so much information being laid down in the unconscious brain, and for Amelia, that story had a lot of trauma. I think what her mom gave her was consciousness. TVLINE | Would you agree that the trick for Amelia going forward will be not falling into old patterns - in other words, not going when the going gets rough? So when she walked on the set and I met her for the first time, I burst into tears. Whenever Amelia’s thinking about her past, I’m picturing Tyne Daly in those inner narratives. All these years, I’d been playing creatively with the image of her as Amelia’s mom. Oh my gosh, yeah, huge! And when I heard Tyne Daly was actually coming, my heart leapt.
TVLINE | Biiig episode for Amelia - and, thanks to her mom, a big turning point, too. What does it all mean for Amelia - and for her and Link - going forward? Fresh off another knockout performance, here’s Caterina Scorsone with the answers. “You are more than a human blue light,” she admitted, “though you’re very, very good at blue-lighting.” And as if they were ever really off, they were now extra on. What if Amelia couldn’t? “Then that’s on you.” Taking Carolyn’s words to heart, Amelia apologized to Link - with his favorite donuts, even. “If you don’t think you’re worthy of love, you’re wrong,” said Mom, “and that’s on me.” So go ahead and blame her, and by all means, move on. Thankfully, before the duo returned to Seattle, Carolyn reached out to her daughter and expressed her remorse for pushing her away in the wake of her father’s death. Finally, off the dinner from hell, Amelia kinda-sorta broke up with Link - he now knew too much about her for their non-relationship to remain uncomplicated! When Link attempted to help, he only complicated matters by mentioning Betty and Leo. “Fake Owen,” Nancy told the so-called black sheep of the Shepherd family, might just be “the most demented thing you’ve ever done.” At that, Amelia stood up for herself, not that her siblings would give her credit for anything if their lives depended on it. Having met Owen on a visit with Derek, she no sooner was through the door than the jig was up. The non-couple probably would’ve gotten away with their exercise in role-play, too, had Kathleen not “accidentally” mentioned the family reunion to their mother, Carolyn (Tyne Daly).