Dear Doves,

Well at least no one got brutally murdered in this episode. But it was still weird, nonetheless.

It centered on the Rev’s sister, Nora Durst. She lost her husband and 2 children in the rapture. Except…they don’t call it “the rapture”. Everyone calls it the Sudden Departure. In fact, Nora works for a govt entity called the “Department of Sudden Departure”. Those who were taken are referred to as “the departed”.

Nora is in a lot of emotional pain, as you can imagine. She is still upset over her brother (the Rev) telling her that he knows her husband was cheating on her with their kids’ preschool teacher. She goes to the courthouse to get a divorce from her departed husband and sees Kevin (the police chief) there, doing the same thing…divorcing his wife Laurie, who joined the Guilty Remnant. She tells Kevin that she is supposed to attend a job conference in NYC, but thinks it will be a waste and asks him if he would like to go with her to Miami instead. Kevin is shocked by the invitation and tells her that he lives at home with his daughter. Nora blurts out a profanity about his daughter. Now he is doubly shocked at her, she apologizes and leaves the courthouse.

At home, Nora calls up a prostitute to come to her house. Nora inflates an air mattress. The prostitute arrives, and Nora puts on a Kevlar vest, hands a loaded gun to the woman and instructs her to shoot Nora right in the chest, under her heart. The prostitute doesn’t want to do it, but Nora offers $3,000…so she does it, then runs out of the house. Nora falls over onto the air mattress, temporarily knocked out. She obviously doesn’t want to be dead, but everything she does is weird and she is acting out from too much pain.

One scene has Nora at the office speaking to her boss. He asks her about the 150-questions-questionnaire she hands out to people who want benefits for their loved ones who have departed. He says that question #121 has all “yes” answers on each completed questionnaire she hands in to her bosses, but this is not the case with other employees of theirs…why is that? She says she doesn’t know. We find out later on that the question is: “do you believe that the departed one is in a better place?”. I am guessing they mean Heaven…and Nora herself previously filled out question #121 on her 3 questionnaires for each of her 3 departed family members by answering “yes” on all of them.

Nora is seen interviewing a gay man, whose husband was taken in the departure. He has to answer all those questions, which are very hard for everybody. Some of the questions appear to be absurd. She asks him if his departed one took more than 2 alcoholic drinks daily, was he born in a hospital and did he ever attempt suicide? He answers ‘yes’ to those questions.

Well, Nora eventually goes to her Conference in NYC. There are a bunch of protestors and conspiracy theorists outside the hotel, carrying signs saying WHO did it (World Health Organization) referring to the Sudden Departure. She goes to the Registration Desk where they tell her that her badge is lost. She has to wear one that says “Guest”. She is highly annoyed and suspects that someone is impersonating her at the Conference. She has to go on a panel the next day to talk and answer some questions.

She gets in an elevator where she meets other attendees of their conferences: life insurance salesmen, and others. One guy is in business making up wax bodies of the departed so that their families will have something to bury. He charges $40,000 per wax body. The rapture/departure sure has opened up markets for those who want to cash in on the missing. At a party, one of the salesmen tells her the insurance companies don’t want to pay off on the policies because no one is sure where those people went anyway, or if they’re coming back.

In the next scene, we see her lying on her bed in her hotel room after the party, and there is knocking at the door. It is the hotel security who have come to throw her out because they say she wrecked their bar last night. She tells them she was never in the bar, and that her badge was stolen and someone must be impersonating her. They throw her out anyway. Outside she sees a copier place where she gets a badge forged for her, with her name on it. She gets back to the hotel to attend her panel, but the security guys see her again and take her to their boss’s office where she is questioned. She repeatedly tells them she didn’t wreck their bar, and she needs to attend her panel. The boss says if I take you there and no one is there with your name, will you quietly go? She says yes.

They both walk to the panel, where a woman is impersonating her. The boss calls for security back-up, seeing that Nora was telling the truth the whole time. Nora walks up to the microphone and says “I have a question for Nora Durst”. Then, the fake Nora (seated at the panel), gets up and says I’m not Nora Durst (she’s obviously a conspiracy theorist/imposter)….and then goes on a rant saying that the Dept. of Sudden Departure is nothing more than a scam and those questionnaires are all incinerated anyway. She yells something about the govt having some super weapon that can target people from space, kill them, and leave no residue…and that’s what happened in the departure. The hotel authorities come to remove the woman.

Afterward, Nora goes to the hotel bar, which has clearly been damaged by the impersonator. She is given a drink “on the house”, and sits next to a guy at the bar who wrote a best selling book called “What’s Next”. He had 4 family members disappear, but as he talks to her, she thinks he’s a fraud because he shows no signs of pain….whereas her pain is excruciating. She goes off on him, yelling that nothing comes next…he runs away from her out of the bar. She takes a sip of her drink, then heads outside.

Outside of the hotel, she sees all the ‘crazies’ again, and a tall guy who asks her if she wants to stop feeling this way. She follows him to some seedy apartment where they say they can help her but it will cost her $1,000. She agrees and pays the charge on the computer. They usher her into a room behind some curtains where she sees none other than….Holy Wayne, the healing hugs guru. He can tell she has had more than one family member taken, and reveals that he took away the pain of the best selling author of “What’s Next”. So that explains why that guy felt no pain. Holy Wayne hugs Nora, who breaks down crying. He also reveals that he is going to die soon, himself.

Back at home, Nora is feeling much better. She gets a voicemail from her brother the Rev, who says he’s sorry and is changing parts of his life. She saves the call. She is no longer mad at him. The doorbell rings, and it’s Kevin. He tells her that he didn’t take what she said about his daughter personally. He asks her if she would like to go out to dinner with him some time. She smiles and says yes.

In the last scene, Nora is interviewing a woman, and asks another absurd type question:. Did your departed one use deodorant or aerosol hair spray? She also asks: was this person charitable? Was this person religious? She answers ‘yes’ to all three questions. Then Nora gets to the #121 question: do you think the departed is in a better place? The woman hesitates, cries and says: “No”.

At this point, I am wondering what is the “take away” from this whole series up to this point. It is after all, a TV program…and they want to program the viewers to think a certain way. Apparently, no one thinks Jesus came to get His followers. The leftovers either don’t know what happened, or suspect some nefarious govt operation. This show tries to give the impression that lots of ‘bad’ people were raptured.

I am wondering if the ‘programming’ is about trying to get people ready for the *real deal*…the actual Rapture. What will be the *explanation* from the lying media to the real left behind people about those who were taken?? Have you ever wondered what the explanation given, would be?

Perhaps aliens will appear on TV, lie and tell everyone they created humans, but that some people had to be *removed* and taken to another planet or mothership…for re-education….because those taken were ‘bad’ or there was something wrong with them. This could be the “lying wonders, Great Delusion” mentioned in the Bible. That would be my best guess as to how it would be explained.

See you next week…God willing.

YsiChrist,

Patty RP