The Path continues to tease the rise of Lilith’s doomsday cult in the ashes of Meyerism, but are Lilith’s visions true prophecies, or the deluded ramblings of an unwell mind? It’s beginning to feel like the later, but she’s truthfully spread her delusion to many others who believe her apocalyptic visions of the end of times, so it’s hard to say what may take place. It could be something significant, or it could be a big plate of Y2K nothingness. Time will tell, but things don’t look very good for her movement at the moment.

Meyerism is making huge inroads all over the world, which is partially due to Vera’s attempt to fulfill her mother’s wishes of growing Meyerism so large that its fall will be devastating to the entire planet. Is the new donated Asian center for Meyerism in Bali being set up as the seat of Meyerism’s downfall? Now that Vera’s come clean to Eddie about who she is, and why she joined the movement as its secular liaison, things are strained between them. It would be impossible not to be. Everything he thought he knew about her when they started their relationship turned out to be false, and now he’s left picking up the pieces of what is real and what’s a fabrication not only about himself and Vera, but about Meyerism’s relationship to both Steve and Lilith. If Eddie figures out Meyerism is based on a lie, will he continue leading the movement, or will he end it?

One of the more interesting aspects of the episode is the road trip Hawk and Eddie take to the Maryland conversion therapy center Caleb is at. What starts out as a rescue mission, ends up being a painful lesson when Hawk doesn’t get the reception he imagined. The therapy center is bathed in outdated notions, and visuals, as Caleb’s father’s brand of Christianity tries to teach homosexuals to become heterosexuals instead of accepting them for who they are. It’s a sad thing to see, and even the institution’s director seemingly struggles with his own sexuality while reviling Hawk for revealing his same sex desires. It’s pretty telling that Hawk finds Caleb on what looks like a movie set from Happy Days, role playing interest in the opposite sex over milk shakes while Elvis Presley plays on the jukebox, and the instructors watch off set. The idea of set gender roles is so mid-century it hurts, and when Hawk tries to break the illusion and pull Caleb out of this acting exercise, it ends in a typical 50’s fashion … Hawk gets punched out. The bruise on his face and lips can’t smart as badly as his emotions after being rebuffed by Caleb. Will Hawk move on, or is he fixated on rescuing Caleb even if Caleb isn’t interested in being rescued?

Cal’s quest to fill in all of the blank spots in his memory comes to a head after Sarah sneaks into the Meyerist compound to confront Vera about Lilith’s disappearance. They have a nice little chat in what appears to be a Meyerist detention cell after Sarah is apprehended for trespassing. The illusive cave Cal is searching for is the same place Sarah unlocked the mystery of who Lilith is. With the knowledge of where to find the cave, Cal may be able to remember everything he forgot. It’s interesting that these two former leaders of the Meyerist movement are both picking up the crumbled pieces of their shattered notions of what their life long religion really is, but in completely different ways. Sarah wants to know Meyerism’s origins, and that’s led her to Lilith and an inability to believe in anything anymore, and Cal wants to feel safe and pull some meaning from it all. Despite the terrible things Steve did to Cal, he still wants to stay in the religion.

Vera also tries to separate herself from her past beliefs, and the overbearing influence her mother had over her. She believes she can stop her mother’s prophecy, and her movement, by taking her mother out of the equation, which is why she has Lilith committed to a psychiatric institution. Since Vera is the person who had her committed, she’s also the only person who can have Lilith released. It’s a nice try by Vera to reverse the damage she’s done by enacting her mother’s desires on Meyerism, but I have a feeling her mother, or at least her mother’s prophecies, will still play out in her absence, meaning Eddie still has a target on him. With only two episodes left in the season, it would seem The Path is leading to a violent conclusion. Will Eddie and/or Meyerism survive?