Station Eleven
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What happened to Jeevan?
The idea that he intentionally abandoned Kirsten was unthinkable, and yet the possibility was aggressively teased.
In his lowest moments, Jeevan even blamed Kirsten for Franks death.
He vanishes from her life on an errand to repair their relationship.
In short, Dr. Chaudhary is a perfect answer to the question that has hung over the entire season.
The episode opens about a year after the flu hits.
Holed up in a cabin in the woods, Jeevan and Kirsten alternate playing grown-up.
She decides when hes been eating too many candy bars; he hauls and processes the deer she hunts.
What is it Arthur told Miranda?
Even when youre here, youre not here.
Theres not much to do, and hes losing it.
Kirsten occupies herself with reading and knife-throwing.
She prefers the safety of the cabin anyway.
But when a stranger plows the road, they resume some of their other activities like scavenging.
There are still other people in the world even if Jeevan and Kirsten have seen fewer than ten.
Instead, shes readingStation Elevenfor the zillionth time, and Jeevan fights the woman off on his own.
Later, they argue about it.
Its everyones and no ones fault.
Kirstens just a kid making a kids mistakes.
He wants her to be an adult with him.
The expectation is unfair, but hes just a person, lonely and frayed.
The wolf is waiting.
Its a miracle Jeevan shoots him in the midst of the attack and a miracle he survives the night.
He passes out just before he makes it home.
Its the closest thing weve seen to civilization recreating itself: a purpose-built institution serving a community need.
Shed lost her license and wasnt working when the flu hit.
Jeevans been there about two weeks already, slipping in and out of consciousness.
When he wakes up, theyve amputated his foot, and Kirsten is gone.
So Jeevan stays at the birthing center.
Hes not the doctor he claimed to be on the radio, but Terrys willing to teach him.
And what choice does he have?
Hes in a wheelchair now, and the Michigan snowdrifts may as well be mountains.
Crucially, he has no one to go home to.
Rose, another patient, has her own just someone I ended up with.
In spite of his grief, Jeevan thrives.
Eventually, he gets around on a cane and the stump of his foot.
When the babies come nearly all at once, he stays cool.
He helps these women who have brought their pregnancies so far on their own, and it heals him.
He finds a purpose he didnt have before the flu.
There are bad outcomes, of course.
Roses baby survives, but Rose doesnt.
Tyler is already out there, calling himself a prophet and building his followership.
After they discharge the last patients, Terry hands him a Dr. Chaudhary tag.
Prophet, doctor, actor.
In this new world, you are who you say you are.
And thats what happened to Jeevan.
He didnt want to leave Kirsten.
I dont believe he ever would have left her.
By the end of the episode, shes a mother.
They leave the birthing center on her bike, Jeevan cradling her new son in the sidecar.
Twenty years later, they live together by the lake.
