All roads lead to Miracle.
Get ready for an explosive finale.
Last week, we were believers.
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Kevin Garvey died and was resurrected after battling his most powerful adversary, Patti.
It was a miracle.
It was proof of the shows commitment to some spiritual and/or supernatural explanation for the unexplainable.
And it totally set us up for Ten Thirteens suckerpunch cliffhanger.
We knew Meg would be back.
She tells herself to smile.
Shes having lunch with Mom, who just wants to talk about the wedding.
Its Oct. 13 Ten Thirteen the day before the shocking disappearance of millions.
Youre the most relentless person Ive ever known, says Mom.
When you have a cause, theres no stopping you.
Mom has another Mom story to tell, but Meg needs another bump to endure it.
Hold that thought, Mom, back in a jiff.
What was Mom going to tell her?
Meg will never know, and the guilt could warp her psychologically.
Cut to: Meg and her fiance on a bus a Miracle tourist bus.
I was slightly disoriented, and Id forgotten what her fiance (Bill Heck) looked like.
Was this a post-Mapleton fire Meg, trying normalcy one more time after her Guilty Remnant stint?
This is another flashback, with a slight time-jump forward.
Meg, it turns out, visited Miracle long before Matt and Nora and Kevin moved south.
Theres Cecilia at stop No.
13, the bride-to-be who wears her dress a few hours every day.
And that preserved fracture in the road at No.
7 remember Michael cycled past it in the season premiere?
that was from a gas explosion on Oct. 14.OR.
The town is a scam.
But Meg has hope that Isaac the palm reader can help her.
(His house hasnt burned down yet.)
He grinds it in his palms and asks, What do you want to know?
Meg wants to know what her mother intended to tell her.
Isaac warns her that the untold story isnt necessarily final-words worthy and that knowing wont fix her real problem.
Meg lashes out and accuses Isaac of being a fraud.
So…what was the story?
Apparently, it was so insignificant or disappointing that we dont need to know it.
Meg leaves Isaacs house, her face ashen.
But then she puts on the mask for her fiance.
Smile just like she told herself in the restaurants bathroom mirror.
He wasnt the real deal, she tells him.
Want a baby carrot?
I dont think Evie hangs out looking for sad people to give carrots.
But somehow, she and Meg share a bond.
(So thats a huge clue.
Im sorry you didnt find whatever you were looking for here, says Evie, despondently.
Evie leaves; Meg and her fiance head back to the bus.
Its not even close to being dark, but they are so done with this place.
Whatever Isaac said or didnt say it pointed her toward the next thing… the Guilty Remnant.
Cut to: A bus is blocked by a herd of GRs.
But this isnt the Miracle tourist bus; its a school bus full of children.
Were almost back to present day.
And these GRs arent standing there passively smoking.
The GRs barricade the panicked children in the bus, and Meg walks away with a smile.
Its not going to explode, is it?Is it?
Megs stunt gets her called before the GRs elders.
Violence is weakness, says GR No.
Ha, says Meg.
And yes, Meg doesnt have patience for this oath-of-silence crap any more.
Youre wrong, and Im not the only one that feels that way, says Meg.
Why do I have to just stand there, when I can put my cigarette in their fing eye?
The elders suspect Meg is planning her own Oct. 14 disturbance.
Meg denies, but her eyes admit everything.
She almost wants them to know.
NEXT: Tommy is so fed
But first, she needs to take care of Tommy.
So she drops in on the American Legion, where hes selling salvation to lost souls.
Game, set, and match.
Now theres this gorgeous succubus who sets his heart and nearly his skin on fire.
It also happens to be true.
Laurie lashes out in anger, and Tommy walks.
Hes greeted with another pummeling, but Meg arrives.
She mocks him, telling him to just hug himself if he wants to feel better.
But Tommy pleads his case and says the magic word: Miracle.
If we wanted to be with his family, hed be in Miracle.
Megs reaction is one of disbelief and then utter ecstasy.
Because its pretty fing amazing what Im going to do.
Maybe Tommy is still a little drunk.
Maybe hes not too smart.
But Texas is actually not the first thing on his mind.
Hes the kind of guy who might almost believe that.
Meg suggests a honky-tonk pit stop, and the two have a date.
Note that Meg has shed her GR white and is now clad in black.
(She is the looney-tunes Mockingjay!)
Some solid first-date small talk about moms and stepdads, some shots, and some slow dancing.
To get you pregnant, she finally says on the dance floor.
I wanted to get you pregnant.
Thats why I fed you, Tom.
Okay, so what does this mean?
In Texas, Megs operation is headquartered at a well-armed ranch.
But a hiker found his way onto the grounds and may have seen whats hiding in the barn.
(Note the roller skates in the closet where they have the poor guy imprisoned.
Im still stuck on the magic ofXanadu!)
Or…, Meg thinks, We can just stone him.
Tommy follows her out, looking for guidance.
But Meg tells him, Now were done, and hands him a stone to make himself useful.
But Meg still has plans for Tommy, no?
Why bring him all the way to Texas if he has not become part of her devious plan?
That night, Meg drives to Miracles tent city of the damned to survey the bridge.
Theres a celebratory atmosphere as the camp counts down the minutes until Oct. 14.
The clock is literally ticking on the Milton High School football scoreboard.
(Go Vipers, ha!)
Meg slaloms through the smoke and trailers and then, there it is: the bridge to Jarden.
Its Matt Jamison, looking the best hes ever been in two seasons ofThe Leftovers.
He pours some tea and tells her all about Mary and the Garveys.
I think we both came here for the same reason…because this place is safe, she says.
Id forgotten that, Meg lies.
In a very different key in of story, one of them would pull guns.
Whos going to shoot first?
What are you waiting for?
Youre waiting for me.
Meg and Matt are destined for combat, but theyre cut from the same cloth of overzealousness.
Megs mothers foreboding description of her daughter Youre the most relentless person Ive ever known.
When you have a cause, theres no stopping you thats Matt, too.
Whatever happens tomorrow, Matt is positioned to fill the void.
Back at the ranch, Tommy is settling in for the night with the others.
[Meg] is going to change everything!
one GR writes to Tommy, and she practically vibrates with excitement.
But after lights-out, he sneaks to the barn, which houses Megs huge secret plan.
Inside is the silver trailer that Meg imagined.
Newspapers line the windows.
Repeat…no one is guarding the barn or its contents on the eve of the attack.
Tommy grabs an ax and pries pop fire up trailer door.
A golden light reflects on his face when it opens.
And there is Evie, dressed in white.
And the scales fell from our eyes.
She scribbles with her marker, while her other two missing friends look on in silence.
And she slams the door in his face.
A huge answer, but so many questions.
So Evie and the girls are part of the GR cult and fabricated their own disappearance.
There was no second Departure in Jarden, no Biblical or supernatural hocus-pocus.
Somehow, someway, she and Meg reunited after their baby carrots meet-cute and orchestrated this huge ruse/terrorist attack.
Is Meg planning to return the girls and then sacrifice them on the bridge?
And will Tommy be driving the truck voluntarily or against his will?
Why else would Meg bring him this far?
Why else was the barn left so unguarded?
Im pregnant with anticipation.
