This is something that showrunner Jessica Goldberg often thought about while creatingThe Path.
Now, he wants absolution.
If youre unhappy with me, hey tell me, because I wont get another chance, Cal says.
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Im sorry for everything that I have done that is wrong and everything wrong that I do next.
Offshore accounts are involved.
On one hand, hes a true believer.
No one is watching him talk to the doctor, so hes not just there for show.
Hes truly seeking guidance.
Can he really be a true believer if his actions dont reflect the values hes been taught?
Like Cal, Sarah thinks that pure belief can justify pretty much any act.
At first, Alison protects Eddie, claiming its not her place to say why theyve been communicating.
But when Sarah offers to trade Alisons late husbands diary for intel, Alison caves.
She reveals that Eddie isnt buying the ladder-in-the-sky stuff anymore, but so what?
Does it really matter?
Its clear from Sarahs livid expression that the answer is yes.
Obviously, these two women prioritize their husbands in very different ways.
Both women are putting their families first.
Its just that Sarah thinks her real family is Meyerism.
Thats ironic, considering that for Eddie, having a family is the closest thing to finding religion.
Last week, he told Hawk that Sarah helped erase all doubt for him.
The whole time I was thinking,How fast can I get home?he says.
So I guess thats what I found.
No matter where I am, I just want to be home with my wife and my kids.
They are my truth.
He admits that he was afraid shed put him in a room to be brainwashed.
People go through the motions in religions they dont believe all the time, he says.
Good deeds and family are all that matters.
She flinches as if its an insult.
We arepart of somethingthat matters, she growls.
And we matterbecausewe are a part of it.
Turns out, its much hotter than their usualyou-wear-that-pink-slip, Ill-pretend-its-sexyroutine.
Either way, if Eddies going to be a non-believer, he needs an I.S.
Youre my life now, he says.
When Hawk tells his parents hes leaving the movement, Sarah kicks him out.
She blames Eddie for poisoning his view of Meyerism.
Eddie tries to stop Hawk, but Sarah forces him to let their son go.
Theres gotta be some fin room for doubt!
Eddie insists, desperate.
Doubts whats caused the world to be in such st shape, says Sarahs dad.
Youll lose everyone, Eddie warns them.
Only people who lack conviction, she says.
Apparently, that includes Eddie.
She claims hes not their son-in-law anymore.
You choose your family, just like you choose your faith.
And right now, no ones closer to Sarah than Uncle Cal.
He has already told Sarah that Dr. Stephen Meyer wants them to be guardians of light together.
Cal has found a place for Ashley to stay with her family.
You just need a room of your own, he tells her.
But theres a catch: She has to convince Hawk to return to Meyerism.
What would it be like to lose her whole family?
Thats what would happen to Hawk.If Ashley really loves Hawk, Cal suggests, shell let him go.
Flash-forward to Hawk crying in the front seat of his car, where hes just been dumped.
You broke your sons heart, he tells Sarah.
It was for the best, she says, calmly.
What, so he could end up like you?
When the episode ends, Eddie is totally alone.
And so is Alison.
Whatever truths were revealed in that book, they must be close to unbearable.
Whether she has more subversive plans for the compound remains to be seen.
Tonight, it seems that she just needs a warm place to stay.
Everyone needs a room of ones own, even if that room looks a whole lot like prison.
