Complete story — includes the ending
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
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