Kevin discovers the key to his heart could destroy the world.
This isnt my first visit to the other side of the world.
Each time Im here, it gets harder and harder to leave.
Kevin Garvey
The first sign was the opening-credits music.
Fasten your seat belts; its going to be a bumpy, wet, and surprisingly hilarious night.
There are wisps of romance, too.
Thats where the episode opens, with a flashback to happier days for Kevin and Nora.
Their discussion in the bubble bath?
How do they want to be disposed of after they die?
Its the morning after Laurie drugged Kevins disciples, and Kevin has taken matters into his own hands.
He leads the others outside, and they save a surprised Kevin from drowning.
I thought wed do it together, Chief explains, eliciting the episodes first ripple of laughter.
And so they lower him back in the water and he drowns.
He grumbles bad news in Russian and calls Kevin by his International Assassin name, KevinHarvey.
Welcome back, Dean the Dog Killer, just in the nick of time.
Thats a tall order for a Dog Killer, especially since Sunday is the prime minister of Australia.
Better call in the boss from Mission Control.
Or the man on the bridge.
Or the guy at the hotel who made Kevin sing Homeward Bound.
Or actor Bill Camp.
And he gives us a secret, too.
Remember he whispered something in Kevins ear on the bridge, before Kevin took Young Patti to the well?
You said I was the most powerful man in the world, Kevin shares.
Goddamn right, you are, says Mission Control.
Pick up that mirror and look at yourself.
In fact, the beard is back.
His name is Liam Playford, and his shoeless siblings sit quietly next to him.
He urges the President to move, but Kevin insists he wont leave until he speaks to Evie.
Ukrainian separatists have armed a nuclear submarine and will launch within two hours.
Kevin needs to get to a secret bunker that he can access with his unique biometrics.
The door can be opened only by you and you alone, says the chief of staff.
Unless you have an identical twin brother, which would be ridiculous.
Know who else had a twin brother, according to God/David Burton?
Hes piecing together that hes the madman Dean was talking about.
Do you know that Im not the president of the United States?
he asks her, once theyre alone inside.
I sure do, she says, though its not clear just how much she understands.
You just do what they tell you to do…. What doyouwant?
Her words have dual meanings and are an important theme, one thats been teased in previous episodes.
Kevins rebuttal is interrupted by a flood out of his mouth.
He spits up a geyser of water and opens the window to hurl.
But hes not dying.
Whyd you pull me out of the pond?
asks a weary Kevin.
There is no pond, answers Chief.
The whole fing ranch is flooded.
Does that make any sense?
Did Chief just panic?
Michael, however, has doubts.
His sister doubted President Kevins commitment in the alt-reality; now he casts more doubt on Kevins motives.
(Remember it was Michael who called Laurie and begged her to come and stop Chiefs plan.)
Why else would I be doing this?
I dont know, why would you?
Michael responds, just as Kevin thinks back to his sweet bathtub scene with Nora.
Think back to Kevins last conversation with Laurie.
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Chief takes control and locks the others out of the bathroom.
He seizes the honors of holding Kevin under the bathtub water while he drowns again.
In an instant, President Garvey is spitting up water outside the Melbourne bunker.
The facial recognition scanner approves his unique biometrics, but thats only the first part of the test.
That procedure entails placing Mr. Lil President on a separate waist-high scanner.
The third question didnt seem like a legitimate test.
Kevin insists on speaking with Christopher Sunday first, but Patti is relentless.
Enter the VP, another GR from the past: Meg.
Patti is too far along to play innocent.
We are going to vaporize every man, woman, child on the planet, she says.
We give the people what theyre too chicken-s to do themselves, what they elected us for.
We give them what they want.
And they want to die.
God is still whispering in his ear, but Mission Control isnt exactly reliable.
Put your faith in me, Mr. Harvey.
The thing is, Machiavelli famously said the opposite or at least the Machiavelli fromourworld said the opposite.
(Hence it comes about that allarmedProphets have been victorious, and allunarmedProphets have been destroyed.)
But shes a changed woman: Shes in love!
Im in love with the most wonderful man I have ever known, she says.
His name is God.
What was that noise?
Control asks, after Meg hits the ground.
You tell me, youre God.
That was just a pickup line.
Kevin has had enough of that voice in his head.
He goes rogue and throws out the earpiece.
Kevin pleads with Sunday to give him something, because otherwise the flood will consume the Earth.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe your father can sing the song and stop the flood?
No, is Kevins answer
Then why are you here?
Sunday says, underlining the existential point of the episode again.
Because you keep coming back here.
And from his own lips:This isnt my first visit to the other side of the world.
Each time Im here, it gets harder and harder to leave.
Patti suggests the President face some of these internal contradictions some other time perhaps.
Both Kevins deny writing it, though Patti suggests that theybothwrote it.
The final words, read through tears: She was alone and all was well.
Assassin Kevin has had enough.
Take the thing out of me… so we cant ever come back here ever again.
And thats how the world ended.
Or, thats how one world ended.
The key to Kevins heart destroyed the planet.
We fed up with Nora, the Assassin says before dying.
Kevin wakes up under a sheet in Graces dilapidated church.
The rains have ceased.
How did Kevin get to the church from the ranchs bathtub, and why?
Had he died and not risen as before?
I thought you were gone, says Chief, sitting alone on Graces roof.
It was raining so hard and I got scared, so I came up here…
I dont think Im ready to come down.
Had the waters really risen high enough to send Chief scampering up the ladder to safety?
Had they receded due to something Kevin did in the other world?
And how does his latest resurrection impact the meaning of Chiefs last words: Now what?
Chiefs world didnt end.
Or did Kevin really save the world, and is Now what?
a plea for new instructions for their next chapter?
Kevin teases a sliver of a smile, and its hopeful.
But which world is she in?
Did she follow Mark Linn-Baker through to another world, perhaps the one Kevin just destroyed?
Or is she just off the grid a few clicks away from the Playford ranch?
And as the good books says, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
