Extant (2014–2015): Season 1, Episode 5 - What on Earth Is Wrong? - full transcript

John begins to doubt Molly's mental state when the validity of her pregnancy is questioned. Meanwhile, Ethan suffers a serious setback, and John and Julie disagree over how to care for him.

MOLLY: I went to space
on a 13-month solo mission.

I didn't come home alone.

My husband created a lifelike android
called a Humanich.

His name is Ethan.
He's the prototype.

This is a story about Earth.

Ethan!

A story about family.

A story about surviving.

NARRATOR:
Previously on Extant:

COMPUTER:
Beginning playback.

Where is Molly?



You haven't the faintest idea

what you've put in motion
with your little stunt.

Concealing Molly's pregnancy,
destroying her blood sample.

You sent her a text,
"Get out of the car."

- I'm not saying another word.
- You'll probably wanna talk.

Your brother, you did an exemplary job
of covering up his past.

Just leave my brother out of this.

This is a situation
of your own making, Sam,

and one that only you
have the power to change.

What do you want me to do?

[BARKING]

What's going on, boy?

Ah! He bit me!

QUINN: Put that on the bite.
- Okay, thanks.



I don't want anything
to jeopardize our work or him.

This is much more than
my work now. It's my family.

MOLLY:
Ethan!

[WHIRRING]

[GRUNTS]

Ethan! Come on, baby. Come on.

[AIR HISSING]

MARCUS:
What a crazy night.

I didn't get any rest. I...

I feel so muddle-headed.

Marcus?

Were you expecting someone else?

Your hair looks pretty.

Hey, have you seen my
red duffel bag?

[BUZZER SOUNDS]

Molly?

What do you want it for?

I'm sorry, maybe I
just have baby brain-drain.

Re-entry training in the Sims.
It's the last one.

But it's a dangerous drive
down the Cape in the rain.

It's a beautiful day.

No, please, don't go.

- I'm coming with you.
- Okay.

I really wish you'd
turn the auto-drive back on.

I feel better if I'm in control.

They never let me turn
the autopilot off on the Sims

unless we're literally
a million miles away from docking.

Why don't you take a nap?
Wear the restraints.

I've got my seat belt on.

The other ones.

What are these?

[HORN HONKING]

[GASPING]

ETHAN:
Mom?

Are you okay?

I kept your secret.

[BABY CRYING]

The baby needs you.

[GASPS]

[DOGS BARKING
AND PEOPLE YELLING]

Molly!

Molly!

Molly!

Over here! I found them!
Call an ambulance!

MAN:
Get an ambulance now!

JOHN:
She's three months pregnant.

- We'll check her in transit.
JOHN: Please, do it now.

Rus, I'm not getting anything.

JOHN:
Excuse me.

FEMALE EMT:
Sir, you can't move him!

Oh, Ethan.

Help my wife. Check the baby.

I can't get a fetal heartbeat.

Let's go. Let's go.

- John.
MALE EMT: Give us a hand.

- What happened?
- She's unconscious.

We're going back to the mainland.
I called for an airlift.

- What's happened?
- I'll let you know

as soon as I know, okay?

[SIREN WAILING]

[COUPLE PANTING]

We're not gonna hang out
and get breakfast, are we?

No.

I mean, thanks.

You know what I mean.

Good times.

[WHIRRING]

[WHIRRING]

Play messages, last to first.

CHARLIE: They just touched down
at Medplex Metro ahead of schedule.

Maybe I've mentioned this
a thousand times already,

but it'd be amazing
if you'd call me back.

I just talked to John at the island.
Ethan's shut down at the core.

Molly's hurt. They're
flying them in to Medplex Metro.

Call me back, Jules.

- John, where am I?
JOHN: It's okay.

- You're safe. You're waking up.
BECK: Offshore airlift.

Hypothermia from exposure,
concussion, loss of consciousness.

You're in a hospital.
You were unconscious from a fall.

- Where's Ethan?
- Ethan is safe.

Mrs. Woods, do you know
what day it is?

Uh... Monday. What about the baby?

BECK: How many weeks?
MOLLY: Fifteen.

Oh, God.
Did something happen to my baby?

Have you experienced any
bleeding or cramping

- in the past 10 days to two weeks?
- No. John, they took me somewhere.

And they did something to me.

NURSE: No, no, no.
- Yes, they did, John.

We're gonna sedate you, Mrs. Woods,
and get you checked out. Nuller.

- Is that really necessary?
NURSE: Just try and relax.

You need to stay out here, sir.
Come on.

DAVIS:
Load it up.

Two minutes till we're ready.

Then we'll roll out, I guess.

[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT
OVER PA]

JOHN:
Julie?

I tried to reach you.
There is no change.

- My phone's bugging out. Charlie...
- The shutdown is at the root.

Is Molly okay?

Ethan must have sensed
a catastrophic event

during the fall,
and shut himself down.

There's a chance
his system integrity is interrupted,

but his core is still active.
He'll be okay.

- What were they doing in the woods?
- Ethan got separated.

How?

I'll dock him
and run the diagnosis crawler.

- And then a restart.
- Yeah.

Oh, he's so cold.

It's the warmers.
They don't draw power.

I know why he's cold. It's just...

It's just strange.

- Molly will be waking up soon.
- I'll get him back.

- Hi.
- Hi.

- Did they Nuller me?
- Yeah, I'm afraid so.

- Yeah.
- Julie took Ethan.

She's gonna check him out
and reinitialize.

She's gonna wake him up?

Yeah, wake him up.

He's in good hands.

- John...
- Hm?

[MONITOR CHIMES]

Hello, I'm Dr. Gavin Beck,
and I'll be with you in just a moment

to discuss any questions or concerns
you might have about your...

I'd like to keep you overnight
for observation.

The nanobiotics should prevent
any complications from the lacerations,

but the concussion deserves
a 12-hour hold.

- My baby?
- Did we lose it?

Your HCG is baseline,

your uterus shows no sign
of any implantation,

let alone a recent miscarriage.

- I don't understand.
- There was no pregnancy.

What?

Your body has not been pregnant
in the recent past.

Are you sure you have
the right patient?

Woods? Molly Woods?

- I wanna see myself.
- We're very busy today.

Well, I need to see it.

It's a healthy uterus,
but there's no fetus there. Okay?

Well, that's impossible.

They'll be by soon
to move you upstairs.

Medplex cares about the quality
of treatment you received today.

The following short assessment
will help us to better serve you.

- You're not allowed in here.
- There were blood tests, a scan.

- The baby was fact, not fiction.
- Mr. Woods...

I'm just simply suggesting that
there must be some kind of a problem

- with your machines.
- Did you see the scan yourself?

Or do you know
your wife was pregnant

because she told you she was?

If I were you,
I might begin looking at this

as a psychological issue,
not a physiological one.

You can't be in here.

Where are you?
What the hell happened?

I'm okay, Daddy. They, um...

You know, patched me up
pretty good.

I've been holding my breath.
Thank God you're all right, baby girl.

What about Ethan?
Please, tell me he's not hurt bad.

John's gonna run some tests on him,
but it looks like he's gonna be okay.

If I'd only known he was gonna run...

I know, Daddy, it's okay.
I need your help right now, though.

John and I ran some tests
on one of my old genetics setups.

It should have processed
a result by now.

- No, I already shut that thing down.
- Before it finished?

No, no, there was a readout that said
there was an error with the samples.

Do you have another?

I gotta go, Daddy.

Are you sure you're all right?

Yeah.

What? He said I was crazy?

Okay, right.
Well, we gotta get out of here.

MOLLY: I know what they did.
They took it out of me.

And now they're covering it up.
The ISEA did this.

Sparks admitted to doing
all kinds of secret experiments, right?

Well, maybe they did all of this
to take the baby.

What, you got a better explanation?

Molly, I'm on your side,
but nothing makes sense.

I was missing
for six hours, you know.

I know, but there is
no pregnancy hormones.

Did they just abort the baby
and give you a full blood transfusion?

- They wouldn't have had time.
- They have resources.

They did this,
and they're covering it up.

Ethan may remember what happened
when he wakes up.

Sam.

She knows I was pregnant.
She saw the scan, she performed it.

- Change destination, please.
COMPUTER: Changing destination.

How is it our little man
only has class-one tears to his skin,

but his neural net is freaking nuked?

Something scared him,
and he pulled all his systems down.

It was self-preservation.

Yeah, he turtled, for sure,
but why, lady? Why?

I love that his skin just tears
in straight lines.

That's nice work.

Sorry.

I just don't understand how John
could've exposed him to this kind of risk.

Ethan got lost in the woods.
It could've happened to any kid.

It's not any kid.

All right, the crawler's done.

All right, let's reboot this puppy.

Remember when we actually
built a puppy, and I said that?

Yeah.

[CHARLIE CLEARS THROAT
AND JULIE SIGHS]

Say a prayer.

[MACHINE WHIRRING
THEN THUDS]

CHARLIE:
There's still damage at the core.

This is gonna take a while.

How did it make the trip?

Our concerns about keeping it alive
outside of the mother

won't be an issue.

It's surviving.

It's thriving.

COMPUTER:
Have a nice day.

- Don't go anywhere.
- Understood.

Still no answer.

The door is open.

Keep it that way.

[RINGS DOORBELL]

[SIGHS]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

- Hey, Molly.
- Sam, thank God.

What's going on?
Hey, John. Come on in.

I have been calling you
and calling you.

I can see that.
What on earth is wrong?

- Has anyone been in touch with you?
- About what?

Why do you have cuts
on your hand?

John and I went to see my dad
on the island.

We were gonna do a test ourselves,
but they followed us there.

- Who did?
- Sparks. He's behind the whole thing.

You so saved me, Sam.

- Molly, did you get an IV?
- We just left the hospital.

Molly blacked out.
We were looking for Ethan.

They took the baby out of my body.

I woke up this morning,
and the baby was gone.

They're covering their tracks.

What baby? Do you mean Ethan?

The pregnancy?

Are you pregnant?

No, Molly, that's not even possible.

Wait, you honestly don't know
what we're talking about?

I mean, you discovered it.
You did the scan.

What scan? I...

- Are who listening?
- Oh, come on.

Molly, what were they
treating you for at the hospital?

Was it a blackout, a head injury?

Okay, are we really gonna
play this game?

I'm not playing any game.
I'm trying to react to you as a friend...

No, as a friend,
you told me to get out of that car.

JOHN:
You called me after the party,

and I said she'd gone
to the ISEA with Sparks.

- And you sounded worried.
- I was worried.

You were acting so strange
that night.

The text is gone. They erased it.

Honestly, I don't...
What do you want me to say?

- What do they have on you, huh?
- Molly,

if there's any part of you
that trusts me right now,

please, go back to the hospital.

They better have a gun to your head.

SAM:
John.

I'm so sorry.

But something happened to her
up there. She's right to be paranoid.

But it's a brain issue.

She needs to be seen.

Take her far away from
whatever it is she's suspicious of,

but, please, just get her
some help, please.

They got to her. They're trying
to make me look crazy.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello?

- We'll be right there.
- What?

It's Ethan. Something's wrong.
He's not waking up.

Yasumoto Towers.

Whatever caused him to shut down
was catastrophic.

His systems are trying to
rebuild everything he is from scratch.

He's still in there.

I know he is.

Is there anything we can do?

Well, it's not as simple
as reloading a backup.

Ethan's complexity has out-paced
our ability to repair him.

We could try forcing an engagement
with his body to speed up the process...

No, interfering could be disastrous.

Even when we've modeled
a flawless restart,

there's still potential
for cognitive and memory loss.

He might not be who he was
before he shut down.

So basically he's in a coma?

JULIE:
Basically.

All we can do is wait.

[SIGHS]

I want someone by his side 24/7.

Really? But he's not
even gonna know we're here.

We'll know.

Ethan's hurt because of me.

They used him
to lure me out of the house.

Who knows what happened?

We have to get inside the ISEA.

It's the only way
we're gonna get any answers.

- Hey, well, if you don't believe me...
- Hey, I...

I don't know what I believe.

That's the truth.

I know something happened to you
on the mission

because you came back changed.

I know you believe
you were pregnant...

No, I was pregnant.

We spent years trying to have
this baby. We wanted it so badly.

So, I...? What,
I saw what I wanted to see?

- No...
- All of it?

You were alone with Sam
during the test.

I wasn't with you
when she warned you about Sparks.

Everything I know about
this pregnancy, I know from you.

And we both know
you've been hallucinating.

I know when I'm hallucinating, okay?
I've had a lot of practice lately.

I'm not saying it wasn't real to you.

I am not imagining a baby.

Listen, it doesn't matter
if I believe you or not,

but if I'm not sure it happened,

then I guarantee you the rest
of the world will be certain it didn't.

Okay.

You let me know
if anything changes with Ethan.

Molly, where are you going?

It does matter,
John, if you believe me.

His program architecture is resilient.

He's strong.

He gets it from us.

He gets it from Molly too.

- Can I take a shift?
- Soon.

What happened out in those woods?

I don't know.

I guess we'll find out
when he wakes up.

[ALARM BLARING]

John?

- What are you doing?
- Trying something.

- His systems are ready.
- You can't engage his body yet.

He needs some kind of stimulus.

- He needs to know we're here.
- It's too soon.

Ethan?

Do you hear me?

- [IN HOARSE VOICE] Who are you?
- It's me, Dad.

Who are you? Who are you?

Who are you?

Who are you?

COMPUTER:
Shutting down.

- How could you do that?
- It's just as risky to do nothing.

So that was... That was good?

The truth is Ethan is in
an undiscovered country right now.

Neither of us knows
what's going on there.

The truth?

How about you wanna find out
what Ethan knows

about what happened to Molly?

I do, but I didn't put him at risk.

Taking him to the island
put him at risk.

You didn't even tell me
you were going.

We built him together, John.

From coding to body-mapping,
through every stage of development.

And then every big decision that
needs to be made, you just make it.

Did I need your permission
to take him to see his grandfather?

That's not what I'm talking about.

We were gonna find
the best home for Ethan.

We were auditioning families
when you just...

...took him home.

- But you never objected.
- What was I gonna say?

"I know you guys can't have
kids of your own,

but I think it'd be better for Ethan
to be with someone else"?

I'm not saying
he's in the wrong place.

I know Ethan wouldn't
be who he is without you.

But you're not his parent.

And I don't need your permission
to make any decisions here.

You work for me.

We're not partners.

[DOOR CLOSES]

How's Ethan?

I don't know.

I was impatient.
I tried to rush things.

He's back to where he was.

Molly, I want to believe.

If you can just help me see
how can all of this be true.

Okay, I can't.

Something terrible
happened to me, unthinkable,

and I don't have proof.

Now, I know that's hard for you.

You need a leap of faith.

Yeah.

But if I take the leap and I'm wrong...

And I'm crazy?

[SCOFFS]

Nothing would make me happier
right now than to be crazy.

[CHUCKLES]

I can't lose you.

Please, don't give up on facts now.

The only chance I've got
is to keep fighting from the inside.

But why would they
keep you around?

Well, because they think
they've neutralized the threat.

Sam was the only one who had
proof of the baby on that blood test.

And they tied her up pretty good.

They covered up everything.

Everything they knew about.

The dog.

- Remember Gus?
- Yeah.

He bit me.

Sparks doesn't know about that.

JOHN: Yeah.
MOLLY: I gotta go call my dad.

Thank you, Daddy.

Baby girl.

Hey.

What the hell do you want
with a bloody towel?

- See you at 4.
- Okay.

Dr. Beck, do you have a moment?

John Woods.
You treated my wife Molly.

BECK:
Yes?

I just wanted to apologize
for my behavior yesterday.

I had no right
to come after you that way.

There's no need. I see
you didn't stay the night, like I asked.

Well, she was panicking, and I felt
it was better for her to be home. Sorry.

As long as her symptoms
didn't get any worse.

But you were right.
I was seeing what I wanted to see.

- We all do that. If you'll excuse me.
- Yeah.

But she's getting worse.
Now that you've opened my eyes,

I realize she's been living in
this fantasy world for quite some time.

I'll have my office give you
contact information.

There are also at-home therapy
options, if you don't mind a simulant.

- Now, I really need to be going.
- Oh, a simulant?

BECK: An artificially-generated
therapy option.

- The units are excellent.
JOHN: A robot therapist?

I don't know that I'd trust that kind of
thing helping my wife. Do they work?

BECK: Just get in touch with my office.
- Come on.

Sorry, I just want to thank you again.

And did you...? Did you
give me your contact information?

You know, I'll let you escape now.
Thanks for all the help.

[DOOR CLOSES]

MOLLY:
This proves it.

They tried to make me think
I was crazy.

There was a baby.

But why admit to getting you pregnant,
and then cover it up?

I don't know, but this blood analysis
shows that it was part me,

and this other DNA, well,
I've never seen anything like it.

So, what Sparks was saying
about me being the father, that's...

I'm sorry.

I believed him
when he said it was ours.

But I've gotta find out
what they did to me.

You said it yourself,
the only way is from the inside.

Yeah, so I've gotta get myself
back to work,

pretend I believe their story,
act crazy and confused,

and chalk it all up to a bad re-entry.

Act like you believe it,
and they will too.

We can't trust anybody, John.

Not Sam, not anybody.

No, but we can trust each other.

[TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

- Do you think...?
- Been worried about you.

They told me that
you were admitted to a hospital

after an airlift this morning.

I had to get away, okay? I panicked.

- I'm sorry.
- You could've killed us both.

- I was trying to help you, Molly.
- Help me.

You saved my life.

It was crazy of me
thinking I was pregnant.

I'm embarrassed that
I lost touch with reality like that.

It's painful to see someone you love
not act like themselves.

Yeah, well, I scared everybody
I loved, okay? Even myself.

I need another chance.
I wanna come back to work.

I'm not Kryger.

No, you're not.

He wasn't as strong as you.

But I suggest you take some time,
think about this.

No, I worked too hard for everything
I've got. I don't wanna lose that now.

All right.

We're all here to help you
get healthy, Molly.

But I won't lie to you.

Given your condition,
we'll be watching you very carefully.

I'd expect that.

I'm not gonna let you down.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

I know you're there.

You smell better than anyone else
in this building.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Well, that's not saying much.

You know, you should
go away more often.

While you were gone, I found out
that you were wrong about two things.

First, that sales rep
was trying to seduce me.

- I wasn't imagining it.
- I'm happy for you, Danny.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with
that centrifuge he was trying to sell.

DANNY:
You know what? Promise me.

When our research makes
a deep-space colony viable,

I get to go first, by myself.

MOLLY: You don't mind, do you?
DANNY: Mind?

I've been hanging out
with our dead worms.

[UPBEAT MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

DANNY [MUFFLED]:
Speaking of which...

[DIALOGUE MUFFLED BY MUSIC]

This is the cam
from the deep-space probe

as it was returning to the Seraphim
on your mission.

- So this was about...
- Sixty-four hundred miles up,

where all the worms died,
right there.

I was looking at that,
but I couldn't find anything.

Neither could I,
which only leaves one possibility.

You messed up
and contaminated the samples

before the probe left the station.

MOLLY: Right.
- No, wrong. You don't mess up.

Hey, do you wanna do this
another time?

No, no, go.

Well, I kept at it,
and then I discovered this.

- Oh, a new filter.
- Mm. I called it Algorithm Danny 5.

But here, here, here, watch.
Right at 6,392 miles out.

It's a wave of interlaced
energy fields.

I mean, it oscillates so fast,
no single frequency shows up.

That's why we never found it.
I've never seen anything like it.

So it moves like energy,
but it contaminates.

More like a spore.

What is it? Where did it come from?

I don't know.

Looks like you found our worm killer.

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

Hey, John.

Ethan?

When?

I'm on my way.

He did it on his own.
Julie noticed it first.

Twenty minutes ago,
everything just comes back up.

- He's asleep, but he's in there.
- He's smiling.

Wouldn't you?

Ethan.

Hey, Ethan.

Hey.

Mom.

Welcome back. We missed you.

Time to go home.

I'm so tired.

Well, Dad said it's gonna
take some time to feel all better.

A lot of rest.

Okay.

I was so scared
when you were gone.

Do you remember what happened?

Anything?

No.

- Can I get a drink?
- No, no, no.

You stay right here. I'll do that.

Don't get used to
this kind of treatment.

Were you expecting someone else?

[GASPING]

Where did it come from?

Hey, boss. I'm just leaving.

Hey, Danny, can you send me
the new algorithm? Your file?

Yeah, but you're not gonna guilt me
into staying late.

Heh. No guilt.

Okay.

There you go.

Thank you.

Here.

Okay.

Load file.

Index day 307, hour 14.

- Is this?
- Yeah.

When I saw Marcus.

Pause. Insert filter,
Algorithm Danny 5.

Index, play.

The transfer to the life support cell
is complete.

All vitals are strong.

What the hell is it?

It's a boy.

[MACHINE BEEPING
AND AIR HISSING]