Oh, did we forget that John Murphy banished her brother, Matt, to carny-degenerate tent-city?
Dr. Juaquin brings some credibility when he arrives in Miracle.
Correction: He brings an orange box.
Credit: Ryan Green/HBO.
Is he a quack?
Has he cracked the Departure mystery?
Erika is perplexed when he knocks on her door, but hes actually in town for Nora.
Did she cross paths with Evie, he asks Nora?
Did they ever touch?
Was she touching her own children when they Departed?
In other words, did Nora cause this?
Nora lashes out and literally kicks him to the curb.
In fact, Noras play for morning nook-nook is interrupted when Kevin is startled.
None of the fraud flags popped, he says about the girls families results over breakfast.
If the questionnaire says they Lifted, maybe they Lifted.
Funny you should mention that, he seems to say.
Someone gives off ultraviolet rays or whatnot, causing everyone around them to Lift.
Nora wants that new questionnaire.
She has to prove to herself that she isnt a curse.
Meanwhile, Erikas Audubon Society/voodoo jogs in the woods are losing their magic.
She digs up another bird, but this one doesnt fly away like before.
Its dead, and she discards its remains with the decaying victims of her other experiments.
At work, she sews up a man beaten for selling reservoir water for $500 per milliliter.
Nora is distracted by the lensing theory described in theScientific Americanarticle.
Kevin is wallpapering upstairs while obliviously engaging in conversation with an unseen Patti.
Some phony motherly banter, and Nora blurts out that she lost her two children.
Do you think Erika suspects her new neighbor is jinxed too?
Dr. Juaquins colleague doesnt think Nora is jinxed.
She calls Nora and apologizes for his lack of people skills.
Shes simply possessed by the demon Azrael, but good news the Vatican has been contacted.
Hes family, perhaps Erikas father.
He did something unforgivable once, something that caused John to shoot him.
Is it possible he did the something careless that caused Erika to go deaf?
It seems like she was born with hearing, and theres bound to be something major behind it.
He offers her another bird for the road after she warns him to stay away from her family.
NEXT: Nora and Erika have all the wrong answers
At least Matt is happy.
Hes found his place, his calling.
Give him a few more weeks and Matt will be giving hugs to people to erase their pain.
Last we saw Tommy, he was hugging the world with his phony baloney Holy Wayne story.
Its an odd choice.
But if Laurie has lost track of Tommy, then where is he?
Has he struck out on his own?
Or, has Meg kidnapped him as part of her plan to hurt Laurie?
At the fundraiser for the missing girls, Nora swipes Brevitys questionnaire.
But Erika steals the show when Jerry the Goat Slayer makes his daily appearance and sacrifice.
Cecilia, the wedding-dress lady, is stop No.
13 on the tourist audio tour because Miracle was chosen!
God shed his grace on thee!
Well, Erika is not having any of it any more.
The girls werent kidnapped; they didnt run away they Departed, Erika rants.
My daughter is gone.
So, no no, Jerry!…
[Note: Regina King getting emotional and screaming No, Jerry!
made we worry that Rod Tidwell was unconscious in the endzone again.]
That night, Nora knocks on the Murphys door, feigning concern.
She wants to give Erika the DSD questionnaire, but she obviously has ulterior motives.
They sit, and Nora asks the questions…and Erikas answers are confessional.
She was going to leave John before Evie went missing.
But she was worried about her children, especially Evie.
I wished that shed be okay without me, she says.
The next night, my daughter was gone.
Nora scoffs at Erikas theory or tries to.
Because once upon a time, she too wished away her family at the moment they Departed.
Did she wish them away?
Did Kevin wish away the woman he committed adultery with?
Did Laurie wish away her unwanted pregnancy?
So Im sorry, but, Erika, this had nothing to do with you.
Everything Erika said only confirms Noras own guilty suspicions about her role in her familys disappearance.
Maybe she is the earthbound instrument for some demon after all.
That alone couldve been its own episode.
