2. Alamogordo, N.M.

Complete story — includes the ending

Ben finds Kerrigan in his room covered with drawings of the Tattooed Man, repeating a mantra talking of a crone. On his way back to the carnival, Ben drives past the desert from an earlier vision. He picks up a wandering, disoriented Sofie, accompanied by visions of the Tattooed Man. Sofie finds a new home in Lodz's trailer, but Lodz's former lover, Lila, grows suspicious of his unexplained disappearance. After receiving Kerrigan's poem and one of his drawings, Management informs Ben of the relevance of the Tattooed Man as the Usher, and that they need to find an old lady in Ingram, Texas. Varlyn Stroud, Brother Justin's "archangel made flesh", kills a prison guard and escapes, then sets out to find Henry Scudder. He visits the Hawkins Farm, then proceeds to Tipton. After killing the sheriff, he finds a 1921 letter to Rebecca Donovan from Scudder in Babylon. While Brother Justin breaks ground for his Temple of Jericho near the decrepit tree, Dolan collects evidence tying Iris to the ministry fire. Justin gets his chest and back tattooed with a tree. Awards: Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic)".