Extant: Season Two, Episode Two – “Morphoses”

First Aired July 8th, 2015.

Tobias Shepard (played by David Morrissey) sends armed troops after the adult version of the Offspring (played by Henderson Wade). The Offspring uses its powers to turn the soldiers against each other and Tobias learns that Molly (played by Halle Berry) is out of the hospital.

JD (played by Jeffery Dean Morgan) almost takes Molly back to the hospital after hearing aliens were responsible for the woman’s death. But Molly convinces JD that she is his best and only lead and they continue to work together. They visiting the woman’s OBGYN who confirmed she had strange symptoms such as the accelerated growth of the fetus. He also mentions that a colleague has a current patient with similar symptoms. Molly and JD track down the woman, Zoe (played by Alexandra Breckenridge) and are shocked to see that she has a husband. Molly knows Zoe’s husband isn’t the father and tells Zoe that she knows about the symptoms and that if she doesn’t terminate the pregnancy she will die. Molly has JD take her back home and she drugs him the first chance she gets and takes off to find Zoe and convince her to end the pregnancy. Zoe becomes too distraught and flees but when Molly tries to run after her, she experiences some kind of trance. Molly ends up in a seedy club where she hooks up with a man before waking up in the woods. There, she sees a young girl with glowing eyes.

Shouldn’t these guys have learned by now that confronting the Offspring head on doesn’t work? I think the Offspring must have transferred himself into that couple’s baby and then grew up into the handsome (and dangerous) young man he is today. He’s also quite the ladies’ man, although whether that’s because he has lots of charm or due to his mind control is up in for debate. If Molly wanted to get her point across better she should have mentioned how the other women had their stomachs torn out from the inside. The fact that the Offspring hypnotized his mother into hooking up with a random guy is creepy, there’s really no other word for it. Because she carried him, Molly must also be capable of producing other alien/human hybrids. That’s the only explanation for that little girl, and the fact that Molly just had another child is a huge revelation. Although that would have been exceptionally fast even for an alien pregnancy so it’s likely that was a vision dream of a future alien Molly is carrying.

Molly suddenly wakes up in her bed handcuffed by an angry JD who is ready to lock her up for good until they hear voicemails from Zoe begging for their help. When they arrive at Zoe’s house she’s gone and JD gets an alert showing that Zoe has died, her stomach torn open like the other victims. Molly gives JD the slip once again but he tracks her using a chip he secretly placed on her. Meanwhile, Julie (played by Grace Gummer) is trying to balance meeting her new employer’s demands with raising an increasingly defiant Ethan (played by Pierce Gagnon). The company wants to use Humanichs as weapons and force Julie to comply by threatening to take Ethan from her. Julie activates a new Humanich named Lucy (played by Kiersey Clemons) who malfunctions and crushes a technician’s hand. When Ethan learns that Julie has been lying about being reunited with Molly he’s so depressed he tries to kill himself. Julie decides to end Ethan’s pain by erasing his memories of his parents and resetting him so that he believes she is his mother.

JD and Molly are one of the most dysfunctional crime solving duo’s I’ve ever seen, which of course makes it fun to watch them. Although for a guy who’s supposed to be a brilliant investigator, I’m surprised JD still thinks they’re searching for a serial killer (although since the Offspring is responsible, he is right in a way). These women were ripped apart from the inside, a run of the mill serial killer couldn’t do that and this guy needs to really look at the facts. The government wants to use Humanichs as weapons (not a huge shock there), wasn’t that the first steps that led to Skynet being built? The scene with Ethan trying to kill himself was emotionally rich, it’s not often you see an android so depressed he’s suicidal. Julie erasing Ethan’s memory of his parents is not only horrible but it’s a cheat that she was able to do that. Whenever Ethan has a traumatic experience it can be wiped from his memory. He’d never be able to emotionally grow like a human and that limits his potential.

Meanwhile, Tobias decides to use a drone to kill the Offspring since it keeps killing the armed troops sent after it. When they locate the Offspring at a bar he orders the strike reasoning that the heavy civilian causalities outweigh the threat. Tobias then sees that Molly is in the bar as well and briefly wavers (they have a romantic history) but orders the drone to strike. The Offspring won’t have to rely on just seducing random women to take over Earth. He can have the government help him kill people. With Molly newly single I really hope she and Tobias don’t somehow rekindle their relationship. With all of the action going on, any romantic drama would slow down the momentum of the season.

Quotes & Thoughts

“By the way, I’m the investigator. You’re the sidekick that doesn’t talk.” “You have control issues.”

The way Molly and JD waste so much time bickering, it’ll take them half the season to make any headway on their case.

“If you signed a drooling manic out of ‘Crazy Acres’ that’s because I’m your only hope to solve this case.”

After everything that Molly has gone through, I think it’s safe to say she may be a little crazy, which is understandable.

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