‘The Leftovers’ Season 1, Episode 3 ‘Two Boats And A Helicopter’ Recap [SPOILERS]: Christopher Eccleston Steals The Show

Reverend Matt Jamison's sermon in the opening minutes of this week's episode was our first real taste of the character, a holy man that didn't get taken to heaven in the apparent Rapture. He has decided to share the truth about those that had disappeared, explaining that the event wasn't divine, therefore allowing himself to feel like he wasn't "forgotten" by God. But his badmouthing gets the best of him and he is attacked by a loved one of someone he damned as a coincidental "chosen person." This is most likely a common occurrence for Reverend Matt Jamison. (SPOILERS to follow)

Christopher Eccleston is brilliant in this role.

"They need to hear the truth," he tells Chief Garvey.

Even though he doesn't really believe that the incident three years prior was the Rapture, he is eager for some proof that God exists. Jamison is let down of course, just as Garvey was let down in the previous episode about him seeing things. That worked out for Kevin in the long run, though.

As the episode progresses, we see that Jamison has plenty to deal with. The Church isn't exactly flourishing and someone has put an offer in to the bank to purchase the land. Plus there seems to be some problems at home.

Nora Durst, "The Woman Who Had Lost Everything," is Matt's sister. She doesn't like that he's badmouthing the departed. A brief argument leads to him telling Nora that her husband, Doug, had been unfaithful to her with her children's preschool teacher.

Matt's wife, Mary, apparently had an accident and needs constant care and watch. She can't move and Matt can't pay the nurse taking care of her. He sleeps on a couch next to her bed, crying and asking God for help.

It looks like Matt had some sort of good friendship with Kevin's father, because he left the Reverend a wad of cash in the Garvey backyard. He takes the money ($20,000) to the casino and gets on a role. He turns it into $160,000. After a mugger tries to steal the money, Matt beats him unconscious.

On his way home, he stops to help a Guilty Remnant member that had a rock thrown at him from a car. He too gets hit with a rock, sending him into a dream-like state. We eventually go back to the day that everyone disappeared and we see the accident that sent his wife into a comatose state.

He wakes up in the hospital and races to the bank to find out that he's been unconscious for three days. The Church was sold to the Guilty Remnant.

"It was a test for what comes now," Matt says earlier in the episode, stating what he truly believes had happened and is happening right now. This episode showed how Matt handled God's test.

Where will Matt go from here? Were the pigeons really a sign from God? We'll have to wait and see what Matt does to attempt to get his church back, but we've seen that he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty anymore.