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The Bermuda Triangle covers approximately

500,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean,

and many believe that
over the past hundred years

the triangle is responsible for

a high number of unexplained disappearances

reportedly claiming dozens of planes, ships

and over 1,000 lives.

Among which were a sortie
of Navy Corsair fighters.

They took off...

and they disappeared.

No radio contact.

No wreckage.

No explanation.

Can you... I don't know.

Can you squeeze me in at 5:00?

Shit. That's my... Hold on.

It's okay, baby. Shh.

Can you make the formula?
I'm going to be home in...

Sam?

Sam?

Daddy!

Sam?

Daddy!

Sam!

Sam!

Where are you?

He was right in the car
seat. Sam, where are you?!

Sam!

Sam! Where is he?

I don't understand.

Sam! Sam!

Sam!

_

Iran, 1.47 million.

Turkey, 1.55 million.

Germany, 1.71 million.

The Leftovers is the
story of an amazing event

that occurs and changes the world.

There is something called
the sudden departure

where 2% of the world's population
very randomly evaporates.

That doesn't sound like a lot,

but on a global scale that's, you know,

in the hundreds of millions of people.

There's nothing connecting
the people that disappeared.

They were all different ages, races,

economic backgrounds.

Nothing unified.

We pick up three years later,

and the world has just gotten weird.

The thing about the three year
gap and picking up the story later

is people have absorbed this blow
and are really trying to figure out

how do we go on from here.

And now, for those who want to,

let us pray for mercy and forgiveness,

and return of those who have left us.

The story concentrates on a small
New York suburb of Mapleton, New York

where we have lost 100 people.

Not bad people.

Children, families...

uh, babies.

Gone.

Our story focuses not on
the people who have gone,

but the people who remain.

We are watching the story of one family

and that family is led by
a guy name Kevin Garvey.

He's the chief of police in this town.

One of the things that I
actually loved about the character

is that he basically is getting
pulled from several different sides.

From his family, from his job.

His son, who is a college age son,

is wandering the country and completely
and totally out of touch with Kevin.

He's trying to find
himself in the sense of,

what is it all about?

What is this? Why are we even here?

And does it matter?

Jill is Kevin Garvey's daughter.

She is 17 and in high school.

Not only is she like a high schooler that
has to deal with all sorts of problems,

but she's dealing with a dad
who's not 100% focused on her

because he is chief of police

and he has a lot of
chaotic things to deal with.

Kevin is basically just

trying to put one foot
in front of the other.

Do his job in a world
that may be crumbling.

Where were you?

The departure. When it
happened where were you?

Cleaning out a gutter.

Where were you?

At the laundry mat.

What could've happened?

I mean, some people conjecture
that it's the biblical rapture,

but we don't know that for sure

and I think one of the things that's
most intriguing about this show

is that it's so ambiguous.

Scientists are trying to
find a scientific explanation.

Everyone's trying to
understand what this event was.

In my early meetings with Damon,

of course that was my first question
after reading the script was,

what happened to everybody?

And he rightly or wrongly
basically just said,

"I'm interested in
watching people in the show

"not know the answer to that question

because the reaction is more
important than the event."

People say you talk about what it wasn't
because you don't know what it was.

I know what it was.

_

The reverend is saying that
this was not the rapture,

which means that he regards it
to be some kind of a natural... phenomenon.

Belief in the rapture is a particular twist on
Christian belief about the end of the world.

Essentially it boils down to the
belief that when Christ returns

he's going to actually come back twice.

The next time he comes back,

he's going to take from the earth
all of the Christian believers

to meet him in the clouds,

and then he's going to
go away again with them.

He will then leave the earth running

for another seven years
of terrible tribulation.

There will then be a great
battle called Armageddon,

and then he'll reign for a thousand years,

and then he'll come again later.

Whereas the more traditional picture,

I would argue the more biblical picture,

is that when Christ comes back, that's it.

All of the end things happen at once.

When he comes there will be a
trumpet blast that everyone will hear,

and everyone will know it.

We convene the council of clerics,
representatives of post world religions,

who were somewhat conflicted
about October 14th,

and were thus unable to
reach any kind of consensus,

which in turn lead us to the
scientific community for answers.

If people are disappearing,

that's something that's happening
right here in our physical universe,

so there must be a
physics explanation for it.

As to the instantaneous

disappearance of 2% of
the world population,

your conclusion as to what
happened to them is,

"I don't know"?

When we think about humans disappearing,

immediately certain questions come to mind.

For example, why just humans?

What is it that's
selecting only for humans?

Humans are made up of matter,

and matter, we were taught in school,

can neither be created nor destroyed.

Now that's not exactly true.

Matter can be converted into energy.

That's how stars produce
their energy in fact,

by converting matter into energy.

That's how atomic bombs
produce their energy,

and that's exactly what E=MC2 means.

That's how a little bit of matter

can be converted into a lot of energy.

So if I have a chunk
of matter, like a human,

that were to suddenly disappear,

if it were converted into energy,

that would be the equivalent
of a nuclear explosion.

So that can't be what's occurring.

When you hear
the premise of the show,

I think the only question that there is
to ask is the one that you're asking,

what was the sudden departure,
and why these people?

But as the show goes on,

my hope is that you become
less invested in that question

and more invested in the
people that you're watching.

So many of our loved ones
were lost three years ago.

We so wonder where they went

and why.

If 2% of the world's
population did disappear,

that would have a very disorientating

and destructive effect
on the world and society

because it would be something that
people couldn't understand or accept.

I think if you experience
that kind of grief and loss,

which is what the town goes through,

and no explanation,

for some people life changes completely.

In my view you'd have something
like a breakdown of society

because the moral glue
that holds society together

is suddenly disrupted.

Everyone's sort of standing
back and taking a breath

and asking themselves
what they believe in now.

I think it's tempting to think that

after some kind of catastrophic event

people become more religious,

or they become more interested in religion.

I'm not sure that's always the case.

The human capacity for
unbelief and indifference to God

is actually very, very deep-seated.

A lot of characters find that there's no belief system
that they can rely on to explain this,

and they find themselves gravitating
toward these different cults.

The Guilty Remnant is one.

The Guilty Remnant is a new cult that is starting,
certainly in Mapleton, but all over the world.

You're not crazy.

You're all businessmen and
some of you are parents,

and you've just made this choice.

What happened three years
ago was a catastrophe

from which you never recover.

There is no meaning in
the way you used to live.

None whatsoever.

The Guilty Remnant offers relief from that

in acknowledging, yes,
life is over as we knew it.

That is our premise. We know this.

We're not trying to distract you and
say, you know, you'll feel better.

It's this we get it.

We really serve to remind

people that that happened,

so we're going to stand as
living memorials to that.

Where did they come
from? What do they want?

You don't even know who they are.

We know who they were.

People are attracted to
cults if they're vulnerable,

and if they are looking for
extraordinary degrees of certainty and guidance in their lives.

Patti runs the Guilty
Remnant, and is one of

those people who can
take a strong stance,

and lead others to that stance.

She just never lets go.

They follow people around,
and it's very strange,

and we don't really know what
they want or what they're up to.

It's okay.

Just ignore 'em. C'mon.

They're eating food
that's just kind of slop,

that keeps 'em alive but
doesn't particularly taste good.

They're not having hot showers.

You know, all the luxuries
of life go away completely.

People take a vow of silence, and they
dress in white, and they smoke cigarettes.

Most of us don't smoke, because we believe
that we're going to live a long time,

and we don't want to get sick, and
they're just saying, "We don't care".

You'd say why would you
want to be part of that?

You have communal beds,
basically, all on the floor.

There's just peace in the truth,

and from the Remnant's perspective,

the truth is we only have right now.

There's nothing to say that's going
to fix it, so stop with the nonsense.

It's really not about what they stand for

inasmuch as what they're
pulling away against.

It's time. Everybody's
ready to feel better.

Not the Remnant.

I think he hates them. I think
it's a deep deep A-distrust,

but loathing, of this
community that's sprung up.

They've become a real nuisance.

All units on foot. North
side of the park, now.

They provoke aggression and hatred.

Go, go, go!

Fight, now, fight! Fight, fight!

Just our presence and kind
of what we trigger in people,

but we don't fight back, we
just stand to bear witness.

The grief that the town feels,

and the judgment that we are placing upon
them for trying to return to their lives,

that's enraging to people, I would imagine.

This Wayne, he's the real deal?

It's as real as it gets.

People call him Holy Wayne.

Now, he doesn't call himself that,
but I think he quite likes it.

Can you help me?

There's a great scene in the first episode
where a senator comes to Holy Wayne,

and we know that the
senator's in a lot of pain,

he's a very angry man,

and the guy says nothing.

And the senator begs him to
do something, can he help him.

And the guy still says nothing.

And then the next thing we know,

this guy's walking out all smiling.

I am no longer burdened.

- All gone?
- All gone.

Holy Wayne, in a sense, is a cult leader,

and a prophet, and he has
this inexplicable power

to take people's pain away.

By the point to which we reach
the beginning of this series,

he is at the height of his
powers, but also a fugitive.

He kind of exploits people

using his power for his
own financial benefit,

and also surrounding himself
with like a harem of young girls

that are kind of his groupies,

but Christine has a
distinguished position among them.

I love you.

I love you too.

She was just so young when
The Departure happened,

she was, like, 13,

and then after it, she ran away from home,

and she found Holy Wayne,

and she becomes his spiritual
wife, and he takes care of her.

This girl is everything. Yes?

Yes.

In 1587, 117 English settlers

arrived just off the coast
of what is now North Carolina,

and formed the colony of Roanoke.

John White, a newly elected governor,

sailed back to England for fresh supplies.

When he returned, the houses and
other shelters were nowhere in sight.

The village was abandoned, and its
inhabitants had vanished without a trace.

How could people really disappear?

Is it a situation where
people have been teleported?

Is it a situation where
we have multiple dimensions

as are predicted by string theory,

and somehow these people
slip into another dimension?

Whatever it is,

it's something that takes
place via some mechanism,

and it can't be uncovered.

When we study physics, there's two
things that we as humans know are true.

Number one, we don't understand everything,

and number two, we will
understand more in the future.

And those two things will forever be true.

_

Matt Jamison is an Episcopalian
Reverend, post-Rapture.

The world's attitude to God
is ambiguous, to say the least,

so he's lost a lot of his business, really.

And indeed, from a personal point of view,

his own relationship to
God has become very complex.

He feels that he should have been taken,

because he was a true believer,

and that was the promise,
as far as he was concerned,

of the biblical Rapture,

that Jesus' true followers
would be reunited.

It wasn't the Rapture!

They were no better than us! I have proof!

We see him in the pilot claiming
that it wasn't the Rapture,

certainly not the Rapture
as predicted by the Bible.

He becomes a kind of
investigative reporter,

digging up dirt on the
people who disappeared,

to show that they were not good people,

that it could not have been the
Rapture because bad people were taken.

He starts to publish a pamphlet
about various people who were taken,

and the skeletons in their closets.

This becomes a kind of almost
terroristic act within the community,

to go after people who are gone.

In that very human way, he justifies it

by telling himself that God shows
him to remain, to do the dirty work.

What do you believe in, Matt?

Do you know where my family went?

Do you know what it was!?

He articulates to his sister, Nora,
that the sudden departure was a test.

It was a test for what comes now.

He sees it in the way that
Job saw the various trials

which were visited on him.

The loss of his children, the loss
of his wealth, the loss of everything.

He sees himself as the shepherd.

Do you know who that is?

Nope.

Her name's Nora something.
She was at Hero's Day.

Her husband and her kids all disappeared.

Nora, she occupies a very
elevated position in this town

because she is the most grief-stricken
person in this tragedy of tragedies.

She has lost the most
people in this small town.

Their names were...

Are...

Doug, Jeremy, and Erin.

When you have a tragedy occur,

the way that what has happened to Nora
has happened, it becomes your identity.

I'm so sorry.

Oh. Uh, no worries.

Let me get you another one.

No, No, it's fine, I've
got to be somewhere anyway.

Sorry.

If she chooses to try and let go

of that grief and pain, then who is she?

And I think that's the question about
her that I think is really compelling,

and something that
everyone could relate to.

- Kids okay?
- Yeah.

Jill, she's fine.

Tommy's still out west, I think.

Just because he doesn't check
in as often as he should,

doesn't mean he doesn't love you.

Scott Glenn plays Kevin
Garvey Senior, Kevin's father,

who is the former Chief of Police.

I was the Chief of Police of this town

when this big disappearance happened.

His father went insane, you know,

and the big question is, is his father
the most sane person in the town?

Or, is he the most insane?

I've been committed to a high
security mental institution,

because I've started hearing voices,

and the voices are from a
very profound and high place.

In the normal world, we would
just assume that this guy was nuts,

but in this world, we have to
allow ourselves for the possibility

that the voices that he's hearing are real.

They said they sent, or are sending
somebody to help you.

Help me with what?

I don't know.

But whatever it is, you might
want to keep it to yourself.

So if we do it in Hawaii, half
the guest list won't even show up,

which is getting to the point, right?

When we find Meg in the first episode,

she's feeling very, uh, suffocated.

And angry, and frustrated,
in her life and in her world.

Listen, I know that this is
all a little overwhelmin'.

Planning a wedding is a big deal.

It's not, actually.

What?

It's just a party, right?

We're exchanging vows.

That's not the wedding.

She's got a lot of turmoil
going on inside her,

and a lot of angst, and
then the G.R. show up,

and they're following me.

Why are you following, everywhere!?

Go! Away!

In the pilot,

Meg was written as a
20-something-year-old redhead,

and there was only like one scene.

For some reason, I fell in love with her,

and I was completely drawn to her.

Then I knew that I had to be her.

Yo, ladies.

Wanna get stoned and play some ping pong?

We're already stoned.

Oh, okay. Then we can skip
right to the ping pong.

The overall effect of in an instant,

if 2% of the world's
population disappeared,

is that it could happen again
any time without warning.

Everyone's having a different reaction.

Everyone's trying to come to terms with it

in their own kind of way.

The teenagers in particular
are getting pretty hedonistic

and disconnected and reckless,
more so than teenagers usually are.

They're pushing the limits but I
think teenagers are always doing that.

It's just, it's amped up with the unknown.

Tragedy can lead people to
nihilistic ways of living.

The young people
are, like, all bets are off.

Nobody's going to college so we might
as well just drink and get stoned.

The kids are certainly
less inclined to sit around

and mope and wonder
why this thing happened.

But there is this magnification that occurs in a world
that feels like it's spinning a little bit out of control.

If something terrible happens

and somebody can find no hope in the
face of it, it's not really surprising.

But if they stare that fact
in the eye, so to speak,

perhaps they turn to a hedonistic
way of living just seeking pleasure

because everything's
meaningless and pointless.

It was 1878 in Quincy, Illinois

when 16-year-old
Charles Ashmore

went to the well to
fetch a bucket of water.

When he didn't return his father
and sister set out to look for him.

All they found were clear
footprints in the snow

that stopped abruptly.

There was no sign of a struggle.

Just footprints that ended
on the way to the well.

He was simply gone.

_

I love Tom Perrotta's book

not only because I think
the premise is so fresh

but the way that he writes
characters and suburban life

I think is very unique
and incredibly relatable.

One of my favorite
things about Tom's writing

is that he goes so deeply into

each character and with
such detail where you think

"I know exactly what he's talking about."

I've never worked in TV before

and Damon is a real veteran
of TV and so is Pete.

So, in that sense, though
I originated the material

I'm very much handing it over to them.

- And can you go long on her?
- Yeah.

Kind of pick her up and make
it kind of dirty if you want.

What is very different from the book and what is immediately
apparent is Tom has a little bit more of a satirical quality.

The menace isn't quite as high.

Any translation
of the book into a film

requires that a new thing is created
and I'm totally fine with that.

You'll see that with, say,
the character Matt Jameson.

A very minor character in the book

and he's become a kind of a
major force within the show.

Then there are characters like Dean played
by Michael Gaston who aren't in the book.

Lucy Warburton is not
in Tom Perrotta's novel.

This is a character that is, um,

that was developed for the adaptation.

The most fundamental
change on a character level

was we took Kevin who is actually
the town Mayor in Tom's book

and we made him the chief of police

because it just felt like that
was a much more dynamic job.

And more importantly if you're living in a world
that is teetering on the brink of insanity

a cop is going to be dealing with
insane people on a regular basis

in a way that the town
mayor probably isn't.

The book is more of a meditation
on grief and loss, I think,

than...

well, just you've got
to action it up for TV.

So they do.

An unmanned merchant ship,

The Mary Celeste

was found adrift in the
Atlantic Ocean in 1872.

The ship's cargo was intact

and there were no signs
of bad weather or a mutiny.

But the crew was gone

along with the captain
and his entire family.

They were never to be found.

_

One of most well known
mysterious disappearances,

is the whole crew of the
ship The Mary Celeste.

A perfectly seaworthy ship
with valuable cargo

is found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean

with nobody on board.

The lifeboat was missing.

There was no lifeboat found.

Their fate is probably obvious.

If you think about the...

just capsizing they would have drowned.

The big mystery is what caused
them to get into the lifeboat.

Why get into a little boat

when you have a perfectly
seaworthy big boat

to which nothing seems to be wrong with it.

The lost colony of Roanoac Island

which is one of the earliest
English settlements in the New World

is a most intriguing story.

A man named White had
to come back to London

to arrange for further supplies to be sent.

Unfortunately it was for
three years before he got back

when he got back there was nobody there.

It wasn't clear what had
happened to the people.

He did find the letters
"CROATOAN" on the tree

which was the name of both neighboring
island and neighboring tribe.

Nobody really knows what happened to
the colonists in those three years.

It's still a mysterious disappearance.

Louis LePrince is an interesting story.

He is now, I think it's fair to say

recognized as having
invented the moving picture.

He was in the process of
taking his invention to America.

He got on a train with his luggage

and he was never seen again.

The interesting thing there is that
the luggage disappeared as well.

So, did he in fact ever get on the train?

There are all kinds of
questions about that one

which make it a particularly
interesting disappearance.

Let's roll 'em.

- A mark.
- C mark.

Here we go, folks.

And action!

Bring in my fighters.

Come on down, guilty remnants.

What Pete does and what Damon does

is kind of a magic trick
as far as I'm concerned.

It's a high science for them.

Every time Damon comes on set

it's like a radar kind
of goes off in my head

and I look around for
him and then there he is.

And it's, like, "Hey, dude, what's this?"

And he's, like, "Do you really wanna..."

That's the famous Damon Lindelof line.

"Do you really wanna know?"

And it's so scary

that usually I'm, like...

usually I'm, like, "No, man. No, no.

"No. I don't want to... no."

There's a part of you
that feels like he knows.

He knows everything. He knows where this
is going to go and what's going to happen.

And that he's cast you for a reason

and he's asking you to do
certain things for a reason,

but you don't know yet because
something else is going to happen.

You can even lose, I'm not sure, if you...

Damon basically just crushes down
on every character, every scene,

he really, you know, gets into the sandbox
and drills down on all those character stuff.

We've had a little bit of talk
about where things were going

but I have to say most of
it has been a surprise to me.

Sometimes because it's a surprise
to them what Nora is doing, I think.

He wants to live in the moment.

These characters are impacting
on him and his writers

as they're impacting on
the audience and on us.

And what I love is that I
don't know where I'm going.

It's how I watch television
just one episode at a time.

So as an actor it's just
one script at a time for me.

And I find that to be the
healthiest way for me to work.

It's great when it's a sort of surprise

because life is like that.

And this is a really strange slice of life.

Livvy, go sit out again.
Start from the top.

Amy, will you come back
in and exit again, please?

Pete Berg who is very energetic
and crazy and amazing...

and he loves to just throw everything
as you think it's going to happen

away and just put you in these situations

that feel really chaotic but it
creates this incredible tension,

and it makes everyone very free.

But I really like something almost extreme.

Like real long lensy.

Here, profile, face.

Tight on the eye.

Looks up.

Pete has this kind of, you
know, whirling dervish kind of,

you know, insane, macho,
whatever you want to call it,

just... he's just very aggressive
about his directing style

in the way he just throws cameras around.

When I say approach

you guys are going to slowly
start moving in on them.

He knows that there's a
world that he can play in

and that he can control these
little characters on his videogame

through his monitor.

And tell them "Go this way,
do that, run with them."

And the camera operators are going to know

if that might happen too.

Floyd!

He's an improvising
director which is very rare.

Okay, thank you all very much.

Good job...

I think the story's going to
resonate with so many people

in a very intimate way.

Whatever the viewers' assumptions are

about this rapture-like event

should be a welcomed discussion.

I hope that people will just relish
the mystery and some of the ambiguity

because, frankly, our lives are full of it.

Let it happen to somebody else for a while.

You killed for great
purpose? Yes, but you killed.

It just feels real. You feel like you're
peaking in on these peoples' lives.

It's about what it is to be human.

If we work very very hard

and if we're committed to our vision,

it's possible that we might make
something that feels different or new.

Cut!

And cutting.

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