‘The Leftovers’ season 2 finale: Is everything tying back to the beginning?

If you remember back to the first episode of “The Leftovers” season 2, there was a scene that was certainly depicted as strange and surprising at the time: The story of a cavewoman in a place that was very clearly Miracle National Park thousands of years before the first events of the series started to play out. It was clear that this was meant to tie together a theme of this place as “special” in some regard; this is something that we saw play out once more in the eighth episode entitled “International Assassin,” an exploration into what was in some ways the other side, and a place that Kevin Garvey had to escape to come back without Patti Levin in his head.

While it may still not feel as though the introduction to the season makes a whole lot of sense, rest assured that this is an idea that executive producer Damon Lindelof has every intention of circling back to in some way before the end of the season. Just take a look at what he had to say to Variety as some further evidence on the subject:

“The way that the season ends, the way the finale ends — the last scene of the finale very purposely and unambiguously refers back to the cavewoman. Not in a story way, but in a character, emotional, thematic way. I hope that once the audience sees the finale they’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s why they did that.'”

Will it be nice to have more information? Certainly, but the beauty of the show for the most part is that we haven’t quite needed the information. We’ve gotten by just fine without it, so it will be interesting to uncover just how we will feel after uncovering this truth.

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