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Idle thoughts as we head into the final three episodes of season 3:

I would love a Vera/Mary scene where they talk about being cult wives. Wow, what makes us go after the powerful man?

I need a Vera/Cal scene where they realize it’s a miracle they’re as functional as they are (not very) given who their parents (bio and adoptive) are. Super sweet supportive hug, and they become each other’s best allies.

Still hoping for Eddie realizing Cal is the Johnny he can save.

A possible twist - THE LAW comes looking for Mary for the murder of her father and Cal takes the blame to let her escape with Forest (and atone for Silas). This might actually function as a redemption arc for Cal.

Eddie SNAPS THE FUCK OUT OF THINKING HE’S A MESSIAH before anybody has to actually die.

Sarah snaps the fuck out of thinking Lilith’s lunacy is a more pure vision of the Movement, begs Jackson for his forgiveness, and they become partners who boink and fight cults.

Hawk and Caleb live happily ever after. Possibly in a polyamorous relationship with Noa.

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The Path spoilers and speculation for the end of S3.

SPOILER ALERT!

So Michelle said on her Facebook Q&A that there would be a Murder and a Suicide in S3. I'm assuming Marys dad was the murder. Who do we think for the suicide?

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Since Kodiak is coming back this next episode, I hope we might finally get back to his comment, “Steve was only looking for a way out–and the boy knew it. He’s probably hung it over Steve’s head from childhood.”

A way out of what?

The implication in Kodiak’s memory of Cal having been listening to that one session is that’s when Cal learned whatever it was.

Maybe Steve confided to Kodiak that he had stolen the religion from Lilith. Perhaps he was justifying it to Kodiak that he needed to get the ability to free Kodiak from the medical trials, and that’s why Kodiak was staying loyal to him. Cal overheard it. Cal either repressed it as part of the abuse he was already enduring, or Steve specifically rewired those memories.

That could tie in to what we hear Cal say in the teaser, about disappearing from his own life’s story. If the entire Movement is built on Steve stealing Lilith’s story, and Cal actually knew that, then Cal’s entire childhood is a lie. He wasn’t special, because Steve wasn’t special. He wasn’t able to bring the Light to others because the Light isn’t real - or Steve’s version isn’t, anyway.

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The Path speculation: Kodiak.

Did Kodiak know about Steve? He seemed very sure that cal wanted to kill Steve in Season 2. He also left the movement at some point. And he said “The Boy” knew something about Steve that he thought he used to blackmail him. Either the abuse or something else that Cal blocked out? Maybe he isn’t talking about Cal in that last screenshot but Steve himself.

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I'm betting the Christian kids dad isn't going to like this.

I’ve been wondering if they’re going to do a conversion therapy plot line.

Especially with Hawk having shown up at dad’s church and had the intuition to say, “Hey, guy who totally didn’t try to kiss me, stop toying with my very female cousin’s heart, OK?”

Hawk seeing how horrible it is for Caleb would be forced to think about the use of similar techniques in the programs that the Movement does, and his own experience in the white room.

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Also, mildly curious if “Vera Stephans” is a hint of something regarding her relationship to Steve, or if it’s on the level of lack of original naming that got us Sam Field and Ashley Fields.

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Anyone else get the feeling that despite everything Cal has yet to hit rock bottom?

Absolutely. Cal hasn’t begun to honestly think about what he’s done, or what has been done to him. In S2 interviews, Hugh would refer to Cal as compartmentalized - and that’s really it. He’s locked away everything - his abuse by his biological parents and Steve, his abuse of Mary, his murder of Silas, his adoration of Sarah, his envy of Eddie. He thinks he’s addressed it, but it’s just festering in whatever compartments he thinks his hidden them in.

I’m really hoping we’ll see at least some of this in the coming season.

Let’s see Cal in the dirt with his emotions and really beginning to understand what he’s done and what was done to him.

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@brushstrokesmcgee That’s a great question. I feel like the mystery of “is he/is he not” a legit prophet or crazy one of the most intriguing parts of the show, and I feel like it would jump the shark at this point if they resolved that. I don’t think they should reveal this until the last season. What do you think?

I don’t think they should ever reveal it, not even in the last season.

Fundamentally, this show is about faith - asking us as viewers to think deeply about faith, whether we come to the show as someone with it or without it.

If you give a definitive answer, you entirely undercut the deeper value of the show.

I hope that whenever and however the show ends, it leaves enough ambiguity for viewers to have a discussion with themselves about faith.

Did Hawk really levitate or was he just delirious from sleep deprivation?

Did the Light send visions to Eddie to arrive in time for Doc to tell him he was the Chosen Son, or was it just happenstance?

Did Eddie’s prayer’s save Abe’s daughter - or did the medicine work?

Did Felicia burn her hands on the Ladder - or on the campfire?

At this point, I hope they figure out how to tell the story that any combinations of these can be true

#ancatdubh777 #brushstrokesmcgee #the path #the path speculation #in short i'd like to have faith in this show again