From what we have seen so far of the Guilty Remnant, their motives aren't too clear. To start with, the only thing we know is that they antagonize people and don't speak. If you don't look too closely at what they do, you might be led to believe that they were just another cult, doing strange things like stealing photos or ruining memorial celebrations. At first blush, they could be mistaken for just another hate cult, but I don't think that's the case. Warning: Spoilers below.

I have a theory though: What if they are suicidal? What if the reason that they act the way they act isn't through some sort of mistaken belief that they can change things? But instead they have a genuine desire to die. They want to antagonize society to the point that people rise up as one and just annihilate them.

First off, they choose their members carefully. They take people that are despondent, and have suffered great loss, but most of all, people who can't get over their grief. The ones like Meg (Liv Tyler) who seem to be walking through a fog, who can't settle back into life like it was before the Departure. They follow Nora, they pursue Rev. Jamison – all people who have lost meaning in their lives since the Departure and just can't seem to move on. They haunt them like chain smoking ghosts, constantly reminding them of what they've lost.

It’s worth looking at the things they've done. They protested at Heroes Day, stole photos, and murdered Gladys. The icing on this cake is what looks to be their ultimate gambit: dressing the dolls up as the Departed and making people think their loved ones are back. If that doesn't encourage violence, nothing will.

We also have to look at what Patti told Kevin. They want this. They expect this. She antagonized him in that cabin, she did everything she could get to him to murder her. She purposefully said everything she could to get him to end her life. Then…then it gets telling. She wants him to understand: how she thinks about it all the time, how she obsesses over the Departure. They've sacrificed everything in the obsession of the Departure, they want to be in her own words, “erased.”