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** Episodes 2 through 7 of Season three have a piece of music relevant to the episode playing over season two's intro sequence.
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* DownerBeginning: It doesn't get any more depressing than the sudden disappearance of 2% of the world's population, as highlighted by a mother losing her child.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The real Mark Linn-Baker really does have two degrees from Yale.
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** There's also the Department of Sudden Departures, which Nora works for. Their main focus seems to be paying out benefits to the family of people who departed and investigating Departure related fraud.
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** "Certified" explains how Laurie showed up to the Ranch alone, in a stolen van with a black eye.
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* ThemeMusicWithholding: Every episode of Season 3 has a different song playing over the credits, until the finale uses the show's de facto theme song, Iris [=DeMent=]'s "Let The Mystery Be".
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** Granted, out of all the theories presented, this one seems to be one of the least likely based on information that the audience knows that said MIT researchers couldn't; [[spoiler: between the woman Kevin was sleeping with departing while he was penetrating her, as per WordOfGod, to Kevin and Laurie's unborn child departing ''in utero'', it seems clear that explanation just doesn't hold water.]]
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** "International Assassin" begins with [[spoiler: Kevin breaking the surface of water]] and ends with [[spoiler: Kevin breaking the surface of soil]].
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** "International Assassin" begins with [[spoiler: Kevin [[spoiler:Kevin breaking the surface of water]] and ends with [[spoiler: Kevin [[spoiler:Kevin breaking the surface of soil]].
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** [[spoiler: Season 3 opens with a sequence set in the 1800s, which ends with a man sitting on a roof, confused as to why the world hasn't ended. 6 episodes later, Kevin Sr. does the same thing.]]
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** [[spoiler: Season [[spoiler:Season 3 opens with a sequence set in the 1800s, which ends with a man sitting on a roof, confused as to why the world hasn't ended. 6 episodes later, Kevin Sr. does the same thing.]]]]
** Quite literally in the season 3 titles: episode 1 is "The Book of Kevin", episode 8 is "The Book of Nora".
** Quite literally in the season 3 titles: episode 1 is "The Book of Kevin", episode 8 is "The Book of Nora".
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* {{Flashforward}}: From [=S3E7=] "The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)" to [=S3E8=] "The Book of Nora", the story line jumps ahead [[spoiler:decades]] while still remaining in Australia.
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* HowWeGotHere: [=S3E1=] ends with a woman named "Sara" (looking like a much older and world-weary Nora) living in Australia and steadfastly denying she has any recollection of any man named "Kevin". [[spoiler:[=S3E8=] reveals this is Nora, ''many'' years in the show's future. She may have gone to where everyone Departed to and seen her children grown, her husband with a new wife, and decided she belonged nowhere, before coming back here. Or she just avoided Kevin after a horrendous fight they had and he abandoned her again]].
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** With the benefit of hindsight from season 3's "Certified," however, Laurie ''being'' a therapist may have contributed to her joining the Remnant; her own profound and unresolved grief, and inability to meaningfully frame her loss surrounding The Sudden Departure must have made it dangerous to engage day-in and day-out with the similar distress of others. When another mother asks her about the possibility of the departed eventually returning to the same spot from whence they disappeared, and what she should do- pointing out that the GR members outside "would at least write it down"- something in Laurie snaps.
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The majority of "The Book of Nora" takes place two decades into the future, with Nora now living in Australia under the alias of "Sarah".]]
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The majority of "The Book of Nora" takes place at least two decades into the future, with Nora now living in Australia under the alias of "Sarah".]]
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The majority of "The Book of Nora" takes place two decades into the future, with Nora now living in Australia under the alias of "Sarah".]]
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** "Guest" and "Guest", "Don't Be Ridiculous" Ridiculous", and "The Book of Nora" focus on Nora Durst.
** "International Assassin"is and "The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)" are focused on Kevin Garvey.
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** "Certified" centers on Laurie.
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-->'''Erika''' to '''Nora''': Your children. You said you lost them. '''Did they depart, or did they die?'''
-->'''Erika''' to '''Nora''': Your children. You said you lost them. '''Did they depart, or did they die?'''
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* StrawNihilist: The Guilty Remnant. Their EstablishingCharacterMoment is to stand near a prayer vigil for the Departed with boards that read together "STOP WASTING YOUR BREATH!" and they only get ''nastier'' from there.
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** In the first episode, Evie and her friends drive home from a swimming excursion in stony silence. This foreshadows that [[spoiler:they've secretly joined the Guilty Remnant]].
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** In the first episode, episode of season 2, Evie and her friends drive home from a swimming excursion in stony silence. This foreshadows that [[spoiler:they've secretly joined the Guilty Remnant]].
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** [[spoiler: She dies in the first episode of Season 3 though, subverting this trope.]]
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* AdultFear: Best exemplified by the opening scene in which a woman loses her baby to the Great Departure. Taken to a more horrifying level in "The Garveys At Their Best", as it's heavily implied that [[spoiler: Laurie, who was receiving a pregnancy ultrasound at the time of the departure, saw her baby disappear in utero]].
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* AdultFear: Best exemplified by the opening scene in which a woman loses her baby to the Great Departure. Taken to a more horrifying level in "The Garveys At Their Best", as it's heavily implied that [[spoiler: Laurie, who was receiving a pregnancy ultrasound at the time of the departure, saw her baby disappear in utero]].utero. She reveals this to Kevin in Season 3]].
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** [[spoiler:Both seasons end with a once peaceful town (Mapleton in Season 1, Jarden in Season 2) falling into anarchy and flames. And in both cases, the Guilty Remnant are the cause.]]
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** [[spoiler: Season 3 opens with a sequence set in the 1800s, which ends with a man sitting on a roof, confused as to why the world hasn't ended. 6 episodes later, Kevin Sr. does the same thing.]]
** [[spoiler: Season 3 opens with a sequence set in the 1800s, which ends with a man sitting on a roof, confused as to why the world hasn't ended. 6 episodes later, Kevin Sr. does the same thing.]]
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** Season Three kicks off 2 weeks before the 7th anniversary of the Great Departure. Matt Jameson, his congregation, and many others believe something monumental is going to happen this time around, but no one knows or says what it will be.
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** Season Three kicks off 2 weeks before the 7th anniversary of the Great Departure. Matt Jameson, his congregation, and many others believe something monumental is going to happen this time around, but no one knows or says what it will be. [[spoiler: As it turns out, nothing happens whatsoever, aside from a brief storm.]]
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* AdamWesting: Mark Linn-Baker appears as a post-departure version of himself in "Don't Be Ridiculous".
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** "Crazy Whitefella Thinking" follows Kevin Garvey Sr's travels in Australia.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Dean the dog-hunter returns in the third season premiere, and dies trying to murder Kevin and Tommy.]]
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** In season 2, the Guilty Remnant staged a MASSIVE invasion of the town of Jarden, TX (rechristened "Miracle" after the Great Departure and officially declared a ''National Park''). This led to serious civil unrest as droves of unsanctioned civilians came in with them and proceeded to loot and commit general anarchy. The response to what is basically domestic terrorism in season 3? [[spoiler:The ATFEC [[spoiler:ATFEC launches a drone strike on the visitor's center where the GR is holed up, wiping them all out in an instant]].
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* RealityEnsues: Matt leaving the casino alone with a large bag of cash. He's quickly accosted by a thug who watched him leave.
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** Matt leaving the casino alone with a large bag of cash. He's quickly accosted by a thug who watched him leave.
** In season 2, the Guilty Remnant staged a MASSIVE invasion of the town of Jarden, TX (rechristened "Miracle" after the Great Departure and officially declared a ''National Park''). This led to serious civil unrest as droves of unsanctioned civilians came in with them and proceeded to loot and commit general anarchy.Come the beginning of The response to what is basically domestic terrorism in season 3? [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The ATFEC commits launches a drone strike on the visitor's center where the GR is holed up, wiping them all out in an instant]].
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** In the season 2 finale [[spoiler:the Guilty Remnant lead a raid into the fortified town of Jarden. The non-members rampage through the city into the night, while the GR establish a base in the town's museum. There seems to be little resistance and no government crackdown in response]].
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: After the Guilty Remnant's stunt in season 2, the government apparently decides they're done with this nonsense [[spoiler:straight [[spoiler:and straight up orders a drone strike on the visitor's center they are holed up in]].
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* GasLeakCoverup: The [[spoiler:drone strike on the Guilty Remnant members]] in Miracle is officially spun as a gas leak ignited by a cigarette, even though it happened in broad daylight and is well-known enough that pretty much anyone can look up the truth.
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* NumerologicalMotif: Season three focuses on 7 and multiples thereof, mainly a prediction that the seventh anniversary of the Departure will see something like it happen again.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Patti died in Kevin's arms. Twice.]]
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* LonelyPianoPiece: Many, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZH0MUSCsj0 The Departure]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLH-u80xgkI Departure (Home)]] are the most notorious.
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* BuryingASubstitute: At the beginning of the series, about 2% of the world's population just suddenly vanishes, with no apparent cause and NoBodyLeftBehind. After a little while a company comes around that will build expensive, lifelike dolls that look like the deceased for a mock burial.
