They’re told to reach back into the past and figure out what’s bothering them.
Sarah wants her husband to do the organization’s 14-day lockdown program, but Eddie refuses.
Everyone makes mistakes, he points out.
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“I don’t,” Sarah responds.
Cut to Cal in his car, listening to some kind of motivational tape.
At high school, cool girl Ashley Fields finally approaches Hawk in person.
It doesn’t help that Meyerist dogma expressly forbids such a private interaction with a nonbeliever.
This is emphasized to Hawk when he brings up the request at a later family dinner.
Eddie, however, tries nudging the rules.
After all, Meyerists are also supposed to aid anyone who asks for their help.
Their beliefs and their practices appear to be in conflict here a classic problem for many religions.
Eddie gives Hawk approval to do it.
Later, Cal and Sarah share their mutual frustrations.
Indeed, Cal appears to have created one possible enemy already: a detective named Abe Gaines.
Gaines tells his boss he’s putting the Meyerists on “cold watch.”
Speaking of Mary, she’s now training as a Meyerist novice.
Eddie meets up with Alison in a far less suspicious setting: a lumberyard.
And wasn’t the truth the whole motive for Eddie joining Meyerism in the first place?
For now, though, Eddie drives off.
Meyerists don’t eat meat, but he takes a bite of steak to placate Ashley’s family.
Later, Ashley takes him up to her room…but not for anything sexy.
She shows him a pile of unpaid pills.
Sarah again tries to convince Eddie to do the 14-day lockdown.
They have angry sex, which Hawk comes home to.
He storms out the next morning, opting to walk to school instead of taking a ride from Eddie.
Sarah says Meyer would forbid it.
Cal responds by saying that Meyer gave his approval before going into seclusion.
Eddie learns that Alison’s husband officially committed suicide but doesn’t know how.
Eddie was apparently on board before Peru but now wants him to stay in school.
This prompts Eddie to agree to the lockdown just to get this whole thing over with.
Mary once again makes a late-night booty call to Cal.
She says she believes in him.
Cal corrects her she believes in the movement.
But she doubles down.
Cal gets his press interview, and it goes extremely well.
His soaring rhetoric about idealism and improving the world even appears to turn his interviewer into a convert.
This success emboldens Cal.
He returns to the home of the rich couple.
As two of his goons drag the drug-addicted son away, Cal promises they will cure his addiction.
Eddie’s lockdown is just as insane as he expected.
He eventually admits to an affair with Miranda Frank rather than reveal his disturbing vision of Meyer.
The final scene of the episode, however, confirms Eddie’s suspicions.
Cal returns to Peru to visit Meyer…who is indeed comatose in bed.
Cal tells his sleeping mentor about the interview and the resulting publicity.
He declares this the beginning of a new era, “the era of the ladder.”
