Season 3

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. The Book of Kevin

In 1844, a professed prophet teaches his congregation various failed predictions of a pending celestial event. In the present day, a military drone kills the GR members who invaded Miracle, including Meg and Evie. Three years later, the National Park jurisdiction over "Miracle" has ended, and Jarden is open to the public. Kevin is the police chief in Jarden, Tom is an officer, Nora has returned to work as a DSD agent, John and Laurie are married, Erika and Jill have moved away, and Lily is absent from the Garveys' life. John, with Laurie's support, poses as a mentalist who can bring his customers messages from the dead. Kevin, unable to accept his apparent immortality, comes repeatedly close to killing himself. Matt predicts that something might occur on the upcoming seventh anniversary of the Departure. Mary, fully recovered from her coma, decides to leave Jarden, and Matt, with their son Noah. Matt, with help from Michael and John, have been writing a gospel of Kevin, believing him to be a Christ-like figure who will play an important part in the anniversary. In rural Australia years in the future, an older Nora denies knowing anyone called Kevin.

2. Don't Be Ridiculous

A man in Jarden dies and Matt helps his widow make it seem as though it was a departure. Nora is contacted by actor Mark Linn-Baker, who claims he represents people who can reunite her with her children if she meets him in St. Louis. Nora meets with Linn-Baker but is convinced he is suicidal after he explains the group he represents have built a radioactive machine which can theoretically "send" people wherever their departures have gone. Nora dismisses the machine as being pseudoscience that incinerates people. Nora drives to Kentucky to see Lily, now living with her mother Christine. Returning to Jarden, Nora discovers Kevin suffocating himself. Kevin tells her he is not suicidal, but does it to feel pain. She gets a call from Linn-Baker's benefactors, who want her to meet them in Melbourne with $20,000. She agrees, ostensibly to uncover the fraud, and Kevin asks to go along. In Australia, a group of women kidnap a police chief named Kevin and drown him, expecting him to return to life. Kevin Sr. witnesses them from inside one of the women's house. Opening theme: " Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now " by David Pomeranz

3. Crazy Whitefella Thinking

After traveling to Australia on the advice of the voices in his head, Kevin Sr. learns from a prophetic chicken that a flood will come on the seventh anniversary of the Departure, leading him to believe it is his destiny to stop the flood. He travels to various Indigenous communities to learn chants from native tribes (which he believes can stop the flood if he performs them). The last chant he needs to learn is only known by one person: a tribal leader named Christopher Sunday. Through illegal methods, Kevin Sr. finds Sunday and recounts his journey. Despite protesting that his chant cannot stop a flood, Sunday agrees, but dies before he can teach the chant, leaving Kevin Sr. to wander the outback. Kevin Sr. is bitten by a snake and rescued by a woman named Grace, who takes him to her house. Grace reveals that all her children died after she assumed they departed and that she has just killed a police officer who she believed could contact her children, based on a page from Matt's book that Kevin Sr. was carrying. Kevin Sr. reassures her belief, revealing that his son is the Kevin from the book. Opening theme: " Personal Jesus " by Richard Cheese

4. G'Day Melbourne

At Melbourne, Nora is instructed to catch a bus to an abandoned warehouse in Kensington. There, physicists Drs. Eden and Bekker ask Nora if she would allow a child to die if it meant that a cure for cancer could be invented. Nora answers that she would, rationalizing that children die every day, but this leads Eden and Bekker to reject her and leave. After arriving in Australia, Kevin sees Evie outside a window in a television studio in Federation Square and races there to confront her. Claiming to be called Daniah, Evie says she does not know Kevin. Kevin calls Laurie, who warns him against pursuing things further. Kevin ignores her and finds "Daniah" at a public library, leading Laurie to force him to realize that the girl is not Evie and that he has been hallucinating. Reeling from the day's events, Kevin burns Matt's book and, after fighting with Nora, leaves the hotel. Outside he finds Kevin Sr, who spotted him on live television that morning. While Kevin Sr alludes to "the explosion," there is chaos in the streets. Grace, Kevin and Kevin drive away, leaving Nora alone in the hotel. Opening theme: "This Love is Over" by Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs

5. It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World

A Marine Nationale submariner launches a nuclear weapon at an island in the South Pacific Ocean, leading to all air traffic being grounded. Matt disagrees with Kevin Sr.'s interpretation of the impending apocalypse and believes that Kevin must return to Jarden. Matt charters an airplane to Melbourne to bring Kevin home and Laurie, John, and Michael accompany him. The grounding of flights forces the party to land in Tasmania and board a passenger ship (which is hosting a "pride" of people that celebrate the lineage of "Frasier, the Sensuous Lion" through mass copulation). The mystery man from the realm of the undead is onboard, revealed to be someone named David Burton who claims to be God. Burton throws a man overboard and Matt, unable to convince the captain of the murder, kidnaps Burton. Matt questions him and Burton reveals that he has not noticed anything that Matt has done for him. They arrive in Melbourne and Matt reveals to the others that his cancer has returned. The captain informs Matt that a body was found in the ocean and that Burton will be taken into custody. Burton attempts escape but is mauled by one of Frasier's descendants. Opening theme: " Ashrei " by Benzion Miller

6. Certified

Shortly after the Departure, Laurie attempts suicide before changing her mind and joining the GR. In the present, Matt and Laurie meet with Nora while John and Michael go to find Kevin. Nora spies on Eden and Bekker, having decided that she wants to go through the machine now that her relationship with Kevin has crumbled. The trio track down the machine to a truck parked on a highway by the ocean. Nora hesitates, unable to decide what to do, and Laurie tries to persuade her to do her job and report the fraud to the DSD, implying that the machine cannot take her pain away. Matt stays with Nora while Laurie goes to join John, Michael, Kevin, Kevin Sr. and Grace. Kevin Sr. has persuaded Kevin to drown himself, go the realm of the undead and deliver messages: John wants him to tell Evie that she was loved, Grace wants answers about her children's fate, and Kevin Sr. wants Christopher Sunday to teach him the last chant. Jill and Tom call Laurie before she goes scuba diving. Laurie ends the phone call by telling them she loves them both. Opening theme: " 1-800 Suicide " by Gravediggaz

7. The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)

The rain begins in Australia. Kevin is drowned and returns to the realm of the undead, where he is again an assassin and must assassinate the President: his identical twin brother. Kevin discovers that, by looking into any reflective surface, he can switch consciousness between the two brothers. As the President, he encounters Grace's children and Evie, none of whom give meaningful responses to his messages. Kevin is alerted that there is an imminent nuclear threat and goes to a military bunker to plan a response, aided by his Secretary of Defense (Patti). Patti manipulates Kevin to launch a nuclear attack, requiring him to cut the launch key out from inside the heart of assassin Kevin. As the assassin, Kevin arrives at the bunker and calls Christopher Sunday, who refuses to teach him the chant. Assassin Kevin is captured and brought to President Kevin. Before they carry out their task, the two Kevins realize their regret in their handling of Nora. Patti and President Kevin watch the nuclear apocalypse as Kevin returns to the world of the living, where the rain has stopped, implying that there was never any flood to begin with and that the prophecy was false. Opening theme: reprise of Season 1's "The Leftovers (Main Title Theme)" by Max Richter

8. The Book of Nora

After saying goodbye to Matt, Nora enters the machine. Many years later, an older Nora lives alone in a rural Australian town. One day, an older Kevin arrives at her doorstep, seemingly unable to remember anything that happened between the two other than the time they met at the school dance. Kevin asks her to go to a local dance with him. She rebuffs him, then calls Laurie to accuse her of revealing her whereabouts to Kevin, which Laurie states that she did not. Several days later, Kevin reveals the truth: he has searched for Nora every year since they last saw each other but did not know how to approach her when he found her, and so acted as if their relationship never happened. He refused to believe that Nora was gone, even after Matt died from cancer and she did not attend the funeral. Nora says that the machine transported her to an alternate reality where 98% of the population departed, leaving the 2% that are missing from this world, but decided to return to this world after learning her family was happy and had moved on. Kevin says that he believes her and the two feel relief, having been reunited. Opening theme: reprise of Season 2's " Let the Mystery Be " by Iris DeMent