The Leftovers — Season 3
Seven years ago, 140 million people inexplicably vanished. In the third season, families come together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to better explain what defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing their journey Down Under.
The town had become a cage, the inhabitants haunted by echoes of the past. Kevin Garvey, back in his familiar role as chief of police, carried the weight of it all. He seemed to have found a measure of peace, yet the seventh anniversary of …
Nora, an investigator for the Department of Sudden Departure (D.S.D.), traveled to St. Louis. Her mission: to unravel a potential deception targeting the families of those who had departed. Rumors spoke of a scheme promising reunions, a way…
Driven by what he believed to be either divine prophecy or madness, Kevin Garvey, Sr. traversed the Australian Outback, seeking to avert the coming apocalypse.
She pursued the architects of a complex deception in Australia, while he glimpsed a familiar visage, a ghost from three years past that demanded a reckoning with buried trauma.
As the seventh anniversary of the Departure approached, Matt Jamison felt a sudden, compelling urge to travel to Australia. He acted on impulse, determined to bring Kevin home. Fate, however, had other plans.
She was a therapist once, and now she must be again. Heading to Australia, she carries the weight of helping Nora and Kevin navigate theirs. A former professional, she’s called back into service, a familiar role to ease their burdens.
To ease a burden, Kevin adopts a new guise. He becomes a vessel for compassion, a deliverer of mercy, stepping outside his own life to offer solace to others.
The final scene unfolds. ***
