The Leftovers - Matt Jamison Pop! Vinyl Figure Straight from Mapleton comes this new line of Funko Pop! Vinyl Figures featuring the cast of The Leftovers! The Leftovers starts three years after a global event called the ""Sudden Departure"", the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people, 2% of the world's population, on October 14, 2011.[ 8]Following that event, mainstream religions declined, and a number of cults emerged, most notably the Guilty Remnant. He struggles with his inability to accept that he, a good Christian, was not taken in the Sudden Departure while many sinners were.