{"id":2115351,"date":"2025-10-25T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115351"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:15:10","slug":"jaden-rain-shares-hopeful-view-of-characters-sad-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jaden-rain-shares-hopeful-view-of-characters-sad-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Rain Shares Hopeful View of Character\u2019s Sad Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland<\/a>) dealt with one of his most difficult cases yet on this week\u2019s edition of Murder in a Small Town<\/a><\/i> and expressed his dismay that it wasn\u2019t a happy ending for some of the most vulnerable characters involved.<\/p>\n

In the case, young Elliott (portrayed by guest star Jaden Rain) was the one who found a dying man on the side of the road and helped get him the help he needed to survive his injuries. That might\u2019ve been a heroic move, but he also made the massive mistake of stealing the gun he found near the victim and keeping it for himself.<\/p>\n

At the time, Elliott was grappling with problems on multiple fronts. As a foster child, he had a difficult time connecting with and trusting people \u2014 even his foster mother and his doting kid foster brother Greg (Roman Kinsella) \u2014 and on top of that, he was being violently bullied at school by a kid named Brett (Jacob Shoemay).<\/p>\n

After Greg witnessed Brett accosting Elliott in the halls of school once again, he took the gun from Elliott\u2019s locker and pointed it at Brett, putting them all in serious danger and, well, legal trouble. We soon discovered that Brett was the son of Mayor Christy Holman (Marcia Gay Harden<\/a>), which made a bad situation even worse.<\/p>\n

In the end, Karl advised Elliott that while he was going to be punished for his crime of bringing a weapon to his school, and hinted that little Greg would be in trouble, too, he expressed hope that he might turn his life around and finally accept the love his foster mother was trying to give him.<\/p>\n

Though the ending is rather tragic for Elliott, the actor portraying him thinks there\u2019s reason to have hope for the teen boy. TV Insider talked to Jaden Rain about his character\u2019s fate, below.<\/p>\n

Your character, Elliot, is being bullied in the episode, after he\u2019s dealt with so much, but he takes it with an air of stoicism. Can you just talk about getting into the headspace of this child?<\/b><\/p>\n

Jaden Rain:<\/b> Yeah. I think the first thing I realized with him is, he really feels like life is coming at him, as opposed to he\u2019s taking, really, any kind of control of life. I think before the episode starts, we meet him, and life has treated him in a way that we find him in sort of deflated. And I think throughout the episode, what\u2019s interesting to me is that he actually connects with people throughout the episode.. It\u2019s funny because we leave him in sort of a sad place again, but at the same time, I think throughout the episode, we do find some light for him that he\u2019s able to connect with after the bullying. And so I think getting into that headspace for me was trying to find the light in every situation for him, because I think it\u2019s not it\u2019s not fun to watch someone who\u2019s given up completely. And I think that\u2019s the trick with him, was to not deflate completely in a character that seemed given up on himself, in a sense.<\/p>\n

At first, he\u2019s presented as a kind of hero figure because he is the one who found Jack and got some help before it\u2019s too late. But then we do find out what he has this secret, which was that he grabbed the gun from the crime scene. What do you think he was actually thinking in the moment when he did that?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting. I think in the moment, he doesn\u2019t actually know. But I think when he sees it, especially because it\u2019s right after we see him get pretty intensely bullied, I think all he knows in that moment is that he feels utterly passive. He sees for this glimpse of a moment. It\u2019s just power. That\u2019s all it really represents in my head. And I think when he gets it, it just comes from a place of, it just really represents him feeling like he has some kind of control. So I think it\u2019s more a protection thing, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s fully aware of what he\u2019s taking himself from. I don\u2019t think he intends to use it to really harm somebody, but I do think it\u2019s there in the back of his head, so I don\u2019t think he\u2019s really fully figured that out, but I do think that he\u2019s scared, and that\u2019s why he takes it.<\/p>\n

Digging into his relationship with Greg, what was it like for you to establish that bond with your co-star? Because it felt very authentic, and it almost felt brotherly. I know that you said \u2014 and we saw \u2014 that Elliot can\u2019t connect with people. It does seem like he has a different relationship with Greg than anyone else.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah, definitely. And I think, doing it with Roman was definitely easy, the connection you\u2019re talking about, because he really is such an adorable kid. So all the scenes where I kind of have to push him away were definitely a little more difficult, because he\u2019s just so nice. But yeah, I think what\u2019s different about his character, to me \u2014 the backstory I\u2019ve pictured for Elliot \u2014 is it\u2019s a lot of rejection, unfortunately, leading up to the episode. And I think Greg\u2019s character is one of the few people that is very persistent, even when Elliot pushes him away, I think in the past, people have rejected him. Now, he rejects people first. And I think Greg is somebody that annoyingly, but also really wholesomely, keeps pushing at him. And I think that is a lot of the arc of his character throughout the episode, again, with connecting with people. I actually think the end of the episode shows a lot of that hope before him as well. When [foster mother] Nancy says she agrees to take him back, I think that really shows that later on, he\u2019ll feel a little bit more accepted in the world. I think that\u2019ll help him, subconsciously, knowing someone wants him back.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a tragic arc in the sense of what becomes of Greg when he has that standoff with Elliot\u2019s bully, and then we find out that that\u2019s the mayor\u2019s son. That\u2019s a big twist. So what was it like for you to discover that your arc was part of this reveal that the mayor, who always seems in control of everything, has an out-of-control son?<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, I think it\u2019s interesting in the sense of it kind of mirrors life in a way. We don\u2019t expect the bullies to be really people of public figures like that, and we don\u2019t expect the people that are getting bullied to be characters that are honestly as sympathetic as mine, in that sense. So I think it\u2019s always interesting finding out something like that when you\u2019re reading it. But to me, it honestly makes total sense, and I think it\u2019s kind of unfortunate, too, because it shows you again, a little bit of another reality, that at the end, my character, he might have good intentions, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s your actions that really have the consequences. And the bully\u2019s consequences aren\u2019t nearly as bad, considering he\u2019s just kind of not a great dude compared to stealing a gun.<\/p>\n

You alluded to this earlier, but at the end of the episode, Karl says this story doesn\u2019t have a happy ending, but then we see, like you said, the foster mother being willing to take him back. Do you imagine him taking that advice and turning his life around from here?<\/b><\/p>\n

I do, yeah. I don\u2019t think at the time it\u2019s happening, he\u2019s really thinking that far ahead. I think it ends really with a focus on Greg, of kind of that guilt. But in my head, I think he\u2019ll definitely see Greg again. I think he\u2019ll see Nancy again. And I don\u2019t think directly he\u2019ll be listening and thinking about all the advice that\u2019s probably going to come his way, but I do think just seeing how people are handling the situation at the end of the episode, opposed to how he\u2019s treated normally, I definitely do think he\u2019s going to have some kind of change.<\/p>\n

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