Episode
The Choice (S3E7): Season Finale, Part 1
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- Badlands Media
- Published
- May 7, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 6360
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Summary
Ghost and Ashe in America kick off the season three finale by tracing the slow-burn arc between Gaius and Simon across episodes four through seven. A broken cistern, a few tied knots, a bad piece of marriage advice, and one drunken stumble into the Roman quarter later, you've got two men from opposite sides of a wall doing the work of building a bridge. The hosts dig into what makes this dynamic land: shared manual labor, real disagreement, and the slow conversion of the heart that happens when Gaius finally confesses to Simon about his illegitimate son and a sick little boy he can no longer pretend isn't his. Along the way: why the disciples can't stop tying themselves into knots when Jesus steps out of the room, why Judas is the only one who never gets his ego death scene (and why that makes the betrayal hit harder), Atticus humiliating the Pharisees in the temple courtyard, and Caesarea Philippi foreshadowing. Plus a bracing detour into the difference between the People of the Book and the People of the Way, and why a Colorado governor candidate could not answer what Tina Peters was actually convicted of.