TV PREP: Extant – Season One, Episode Six

First aired August 13th, 2014.

Whatever fathered Molly’s baby is some kind of telekinetic super being, because baby got skills. It’s managing to get into the minds of everyone around him and has actually grown since the last episode.

The baby gets into the head of one of the scientists and the ring pattern appears on his skull. The man goes on a rampage and murders another scientist before he’s subdued by security. Afterward, he has no memory of the murder. What the scientist does remember is being told by a hallucination of a dead lab assistant to kill the other man and release the baby. Director Sparks later uses the baby to see a vision of his dead daughter, Katie, as a child.

So, not only is the baby aware of his surroundings, but he’s also able to do some serious damage to people. What’s also troubling is that he is already manipulating people into committing acts of violence. The only question is whether he wants to escape because he knows the company has bad things planned or because he wants to set out to take over the world. The hidden third option is that he wants to be reunited with his mother, Molly. Heh, then he can share a bunk bed with Ethan. Whatever his intentions are, I have a feeling we’re going to learn them very soon.

Meanwhile, everyone has decided to play secret agent. Molly planted a listening device on Sam’s watch to spy on her and Sparks. She finds out Sam is giving Sparks any information, but learns he threatened Sam’s brother and feels less betrayed by her. Kryger uses some fancy machine to copy the fingerprints of Marcus Dawkins, the head of security at the company. Kryger sneaks into the ISEA to take a copy of a space mission and hands it off to Molly, but before he can get away, Dawkins captures him. The footage is the last mission Katie was on before she died. Her entire crew was infected by the blue energy and she showed signs of being pregnant as well.

It’s a little scary to think that, in the future, people can get access to a machine and steal your prints (and identity) so easily. I’m having a little trouble buying that Kryger, a man who most people in the ISEA believe is dead, wasn’t recognized by a single person in the building. What I can’t figure out is why Sparks wanted to repeat what happened to Katie, I thought maybe because she was being kept alive and he wanted a cure, but she seems to be definitely dead. The obvious answer is that the company wants to turn Molly’s baby into some kind of military weapon, because that’s what every evil corporation wants with these kind of things. Why can’t they ever want to cure cancer or try to make the world a better place?

Ethan has been having nightmares, which John finds fascinating since that’s not in his programming. His nightmares are about the hexagon pattern he saw on Molly, which may play into how he was able to crack the code so they could watch the video.

Julie meets a man at the gym who also has an artificial limb and she offers to give him some maintenance. They start to bond further when he gets to the lab and it looks like they will be dating soon.

Ethan’s nightmares are supposed to symbolize that he’s growing on his own, despite what he’s programmed to do. I’m all for that. So far, Ethan has behaved so much like an android. It’d be nice to see him develop more human emotions. As for Julie, I guess it’s good that she met someone. Maybe she won’t be so obsessed with John and Ethan, but I’m really just not interested in where that’s going. All I want to know is the story behind how she lost her legs, but other than that Julie could disappear from the show and I wouldn’t blink.

Quotes & Thoughts

“All it takes is one phone call and your brother gets dropped off in the middle of the city with no money and no medication. Whatever he does then, you can’t protect him. … I won’t warn you again.”

The baby already seems hostile toward humanity. It might be a good idea to treat him better.

“Damn it, Gordon, you’re supposed to be in charge of security! You can’t be the security breach!”

Whatever happened to Hideki? Is he back in hypersleep or something? This whole operation was funded by him. You’d think he would want to see what progress is being made.

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