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Anyone want to shed some light on some of the themes or symbols in the after life?
Water- don't drink, little patti drowning, the well
Bird- loose in the hotel, grandpa kills it once he's staying
Outfits- Kevin picked assassin, what would have happened if he went priest, or cop?
Dad- where was he? Who was he with?
Patti- body double? What we the deal with all of her stories?
Loved the episode and kept me engaged for sure. Just have more questions than I did before. Which is great because this has a great classic LOST vibe to it. I just don't know what it all means.
Here's my interpretation of these things.
Hotel - some kind of in-between like Purgatory or Hades or even Hell. In the Divine Comedy, Virgil was Dante's guide through Hell.
Water - Agree with earlier poster that said it kind of represents hope. Once you drink it, you give up. But it's also referencing the Lethe River in Greek mythology. If you drink the water it makes you forget the reason you're there. I think Virgil wanted to forget what he had done hence why he ended up drinking the water. He had stated earlier he was there to atone for his sins. Maybe for molesting John Murphy?
Birds - Symbolic? If you die in the in-between you can't leave, or it was even possibly one of the same ones Erika had been burying (more on this later).
Outfits - Maybe he chose the assassin since it was the most neutral looking one since he no longer saw himself as a cop and definitely not a priest. I can't remember if it was Virgil but someone said to Kevin something about him choosing the assassin since they live the kind of life that doesn't require them to have any responsibilities or family. Maybe that's how Kevin viewed himself in his head. However, I wonder if the guy dressed as a cop with a hood on his head was his dad. Remember what Virgil told Kevin. He needed to stop thinking of that place as a straight line but as a place that maybe time isn't continuous even mentioned a circle. Just like Mary being there and the birds. In purgatory time is irrelevant.
Dad - he said he was in Perth (mentioned in one of the first episodes this season he was going to Australia). It looked like he was with some aborigines. Possibly gave him some kind of elixir or concoction that allowed him to contact the in-between or afterworld since he was the one that sent him the flowers with the card "Get Well Soon" (double meaning again?) Maybe meant get to the well soon. Picture on the card even looked like his dad throwing a rock into the well.
Patti - the whole point of Kevin going there was to get rid of Patti. Virgil had told him multiple times that Patti would try to deceive him and prevent him from doing what he needed to do. I think her being a senator running for president or whatever was Kevin's projection of how he saw her in his mind. She was an important person in the GR and how she influenced a ton of people in his world. Maybe that's why Wayne and the other GR lady were there as well since they were projections from Kevin's memory or head. The body double was one of Patti's tricks to keep him from actually ridding himself from her. The little girl was another projection of how Kevin saw her. She was just innocent and afraid and Kevin felt sorry for her. In the end he ends up throwing her into the well that people throw things in to unburden themselves from.
