The Leftovers season 2, episode 2, “A Matter of Geography,” breaks the silence of the Garvey narrative and follows their journey to Jarden.

The Leftovers is arguably a new show. But if you look hard enough at the season 2 premiere, some semblance of the show we left in Mapleton, NY remains. There is a family on the edge, an unnatural event, an array of people who went off on their own paths following the Great Departure, and a town defined by where they were on October 14. The Leftovers is never going to give you answers on a silver platter. The narrative wants to move forward, but it is constantly fighting elements that pull it back.

“A Matter of Geography,” returns to Mapleton for the first half of the episode to cut the Garvey’s free from the tethers of Tom Perrotta’s novel and burst the bubble of their cozy New York hamlet.

The heightened allure of Jarden “Miracle,” Texas, a place spared by the Departure compliments the heightened stakes of The Leftovers second season. The setting is a less a town than a trap and the Garveys are the latest nuclear unit to fall victim to the false sense of collective living. Miracle advertises itself as a place for everyone, somewhere where people of all faiths, cultures, beliefs can come together in awe of the statistical evidence that no one left the town on October 14.

For the Garveys this is a town where it is not the average person versus a cult. But just like Mapleton, and arguably the rest of the unseen world, the battle is not between groups of people. Rather, it is between the individual and their past. If the Guilty Remnant blew the whistle on anything last season it’s that battles fought in silence can only stay quiet for so long.

And tonight’s The Leftovers is a testament to that. The smoke did not clear Mapleton’s streets before Kevin and Nora were confessing to sleepwalking and hiring prostitutes to take a shot at them. Even Kevin Garvey Sr., took notice of the effects of silence and benefited by using it wisely to earn discharge and a one way ticket to Australia. Silence may never come for him, but he recognizes how to use it. The Garvey secret sessions did not come to an end in two days. In fact, over the next two months in Mapleton, Jill continued to see her brother Tommy and, at his request, kept the information from their father.

Kevin lifted the burden of his sleepwalking by acknowledging it aloud. That does not however take away the lingering fallout from his last nocturnal escapade. Rebuilding a family with Nora, adopting Lily, fighting a washing machine, do little to set him at ease when the silence of oblivion looms every night. It ultimately drives him to the final resting place of Patti Levin, where he exhumes her body, purposely gets pulled over, confesses to having a body in the bed of his truck, and is then released from federal custody.

Just like the Departure, this agent’s eye patch is another mystery that does not need an answer.

So Kevin walks free. But his living nightmare is only just beginning and his silence is now broken by Patti Levin saying, “What the fuck was that?”

Jarden is the hottest new Disney attraction. The drive in is littered with people camped out hoping for a ticket to the main park. The visitor’s center is as cold and unwelcoming as the tunnel of Space Mountain with video monitors reminding you to be alert and not to sit on the guard rails. There are informative maps, auctions for homes, and mandatory quarantine for all pets.

It is the place for Kevin, Jill, Lily, and Nora to pick up a new life. The sign arrived when Nora’s home was purchased by MIT to study the correlation between where her entire family sat when they vanished and if that “hot spot” has something to do with determining future events. That leaves the family with nearly $3 million to play with at an auction for a house in Jarden. Their initial rental burned down, a sign that maybe this was not the place for them in the first place. But Nora has her heart set on Jarden because it is the place that she believes will keep her safe.

But the “Miracle” in Texas is not ready to work its magic on Kevin anytime soon. The house is a fixer-upper to say the least and Patti has no intention of letting Kevin get by without acknowledging her presence. In fact, that gash on his head was not do to a fall, but rather a push at the hands of Patti. Her role this season remains the same — acknowledge the problem. Only this time around, she’s a little louder about it.

His first night in their new home, after meeting the guarded Murphy family, Kevin finally slips away into the silence and the timelines of the first two episodes align. Kevin wakes up in the dried out spring, tethered to a cinder-block that held him under until the water’s disappearance brought him back to consciousness.

To echo Patti, “Uh oh,” is right.

Things are about to get loud in Jarden. Very loud.

The Leftovers season 2, episode 3, “Off Ramp,” airs Sunday, October 18 at 9:00 p.m. ET on HBO.