The Leftovers Episode 3 Music' title='The Leftovers Episode 3 Music' />The craziest time jump, though, is not the prologues wordless portrayal of tested faith, but the very last scene, where amidst white doves and white sheep a much older Nora Carrie Coon is apparently a woman named Sarah, in Australia. When asked, she says that she doesnt know a Kevin. It seems that the season to come has some explaining to do. The Leftovers returned in fine, upsetting form Sunday night providing several torn souls at the tail end of what has seemed to be a brief lull of peace. The show has always opted for storytelling that jumps throughout a timeline the three years since we last saw the main characters has led to quite a few changes. Erika Regina King is gone, and in her place Laurie Amy Brenneman has fallen in love with and married John Murphy Kevin Carroll, kind of awkwardly taking her place in the house next to Kevin and Nora. Something happened to Noras baby Lily, because shes gone Matt Christopher Eccleston and Mary Janel Moloney now have a toddler named Noah aptly, considering the floods of last seasons miracles. Meg Liv Tyler and Evie Jasmin Savoy Brown are dead, apparently bombed by a drone. The Leftovers Episode 3 Season 3In a tongue in cheek reference to the oldest story in the book, the day that everything changes again is the day that a not so strange stranger comes to town. Dean Michael Gaston was the center of one of Season 1s most upsetting plotlines, so of course it makes sense that just as everything appears to have settled down for Kevin that hed show up to Jarden with a crazy conspiracy theory and a half eaten sandwich. Whats interesting is that while its hard to believe Dean, its hard to not believe him, too, given how much weird stuff has happened in this show. Kevin is half credulous and half skeptical, treating Dean with wary caution. Maybe thats just common sense, but its striking how unmoored Kevin is in his otherwise very grounded life He seems to be sleepwalking. The way that the sound is mixed in his meeting with Dean offers an auditory interpretation of the competing narratives in his head. On one hand is the ramping up paranoia of the score, and on the other is a cool, crackling silence the sound of reasonable doubt that intrudes upon Deans story. What seems to be happening is that while Kevins journey to the other side or whatever happened in International Assassin was absolutely beautiful, it may be more than he can entirely live with. There seem to be gaps in his life that hes afraid of looking at too closely, for fear that he will fall in and never emerge again. Dean is one of those gaps, and so he pushes away from Deans theories. The next morning, he asphyxiates himself with his dry cleaning bag and neatly packed roll of duct tape with such efficiency that its clearly a habit. It does not appear to be an erotic pursuit. It instead seems like maybe Kevin is more comfortable at the liminal space between life and death. When hes called to deal with protestors at Matt and Michael Jovan Adepos baptism site, he snaps in and out of focus until he walks up to the rocks and drops himself into the river with that same lack of self regard. Michael takes the opportunity to baptize him, in a moment that is both beautiful and put on Kevin whispers angrily when its over that it doesnt really count, because he kind of did it for show. Minutes later, Kevin is bathed in baptized by blood, when Dean tries to kill Kevin but Tommy Chris Zylka manages to shoot Dean in the head in time to stop it. It is hard to tell exactly what it means, right now, but it all feels like it means something. Indeed, that nagging sense is probably why Matt, John, and Michael have been talking about a gospel about Kevin using his deaths and resurrections from Season 2 as proof of something miraculous. The blocking in that climactic feels very symbolic Matt, John, Kevin, and Michael are all meeting in the church from seemingly different entrances all four seem to be facing different cardinal directions. Aside from visually establishing the characters differences in perspective, its hard to not think of the four evangelists, especially as we already are working with a Matthew and a John in our grouping. And yet on the other hand there is something so comical about the name Kevin being biblical a comedy pilot called The Gospel of Kevin is literally currently in development at ABC. A review of the third season of The Leftovers could probably focus exclusively on musical cues and needle drops in the series, including the transition from Max. On The Leftovers Season 3 Episode 4 Kevins illness rears its head in the most astounding way, while Nora struggles with demons of her own. It almost feels like Kevin Garvey is similarly convinced of his own lack of fitness for sacred texts, because he nearly burns his own gospel outside the church. But something stays his hand skywriting overhead, which proclaims that there are 1. The Zero Theorem Full Movie Part 1 here. The cult in the prologue is looking for a date when the chosen will be taken to heaven, presumably. One of the dates they propose is January 2. April 1. 6 the day the episode premiered. They may have been wrong on timing their calculations never work out right but in a broader sense, they were right a rapture of some kind was at hand. The doves they are communicating with are like the doves that SarahNora is carting around sheep fields at the end. Ex50penG' alt='The Leftovers Episode 3' title='The Leftovers Episode 3' />Laurie has brought John into her scheme to offer people salvation through trickery, and the two are deep in their work. Meanwhile, Matt immersed in his own kind of salvation is losing the wife that he spent so many years patiently caring for. Its hard to find the threads of justice or virtue in both cases, and maybe thats the point. Whatever it is, The Book of Kevin opens this season with questions looking ahead at the episode titles, The Book of Nora is going to close this season and this series. Its not all that surprising that Noras legend would come to match Kevins. Full Episodes Of Suits here. But this premiere indicates well be waiting on answers for a while.