Extant (2014–2015): Season 1, Episode 7 - More in Heaven and Earth - full transcript
Convinced the agency has her baby, Molly is determined to find out where. Meanwhile, John discovers new and startling advancements in Ethan's programming, and Kern holds Kryger hostage in an attempt to recover the incriminating video he stole from the ISEA.
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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.
Previously on Extant:
Turn around! Hands in the air!
Shh.
- He's sleeping.
- Show her to me.
Kryger reached out to me. He broke
into ISEA. I don't know what he took.
- Why are you telling me?
- Tell Sparks. He'll know what to do.
Alan.
It's my nightmare.
- Where did you see it?
- On your belly.
- Absalom. Dose and a half.
- He's out.
He stole the Aruna transmission file.
I tried decoding it,
but it wasn't ISEA code.
This is Katie Sparks
from the Aruna Station.
The virus has entered the ship.
Unh.
Dad, I'm gonna die up here.
She was pregnant too.
He knew what was up there,
and he sent me anyway.
Capsule is 200 meters out.
0.05.
Ben, you know what to do.
Copy. Initiating final approach.
Meteor collision.
Functional cargo blocked.
Escape vehicle damaged.
Rapid oxygen loss. Leak detected.
T-res to bingo pressure?
Two minutes, 15 seconds.
Initiate de-press protocol.
Shutting IMV valves.
Securing the hatches fore and aft.
Equalizing available atmosphere.
Ben, if we isolated the leak,
why is the alarm still...?
Aah! My ears!
We're losing pressure!
Damn it, Ben.
You said you shut the IMV valve!
The meteor collision must have
caused a system malfunction.
Enter manual override code.
Okay.
Come on.
- T-res one minute.
- Come on.
Don oxygen mask.
- Aah! Damn it, come on!
- T-res 30 seconds.
- Twenty-nine, 28...
- Come on!
...27... Leak isolated.
Oxygen reserves active.
Nice work, Molly.
That was a close one.
Yeah, I'll say.
Seriously? A broken oxygen mask?
I know we gotta be ready
for anything, but come on.
- Molly.
- Nice, Molly.
May I have your attention?
This evening at 6:54 p.m.
Mission Specialist Derek Pearce
received a distress call
from the Aruna Station
reporting an oxygen fire.
Several minutes
after the initial comm,
an onboard explosion
disabled all contact
between mission control
and the Aruna crew.
At this time, we believe...
We believe there are no survivors.
Go home.
Be with your families.
We'll provide more details
as they become available.
Alan. Alan.
I'm so sorry about Katie.
If there's anything I can do...
There's nothing anyone can do.
Whatever you do,
do not recover the ship.
I repeat. Do not recover the ship.
Sparks knew about this.
He knew this happened
to his very own daughter.
And he sent me up there anyway.
Do you think he knew Katie
was pregnant?
She didn't even know
she was pregnant.
But he knew something
was up there.
And he sent me
on a fishing expedition.
And then you come back pregnant.
That's...
That's how I know it's still alive.
Think about it, Sam.
Why would they go through
all this trouble just to abort the baby?
They're keeping it somewhere,
and when I find it,
I'm gonna be able to prove
what they did to me.
What Sparks did to me.
Molly, they took that baby
out of your body
without leaving
any physical evidence.
I don't know how you expect
to be able to find it now.
I'm not going to find it.
Sparks is gonna tell me
exactly where it is.
But why? We can't even prove
that he saw the Aruna video.
But somebody can.
Derek Pearce.
He was the Aruna mission specialist.
He would have been the one
to receive Katie's distress call.
And you think that he'll admit
that Sparks was behind
this entire cover-up?
If he wants to save himself.
I'm gonna need your help.
- Anything.
- Okay.
Go through the entire
Aruna crew's medical history.
There had to be
some major anomalies
in the scans, the tether scores,
something.
Sparks would have had to sign off
on anything unusual.
You know if I go through
those records, he's gonna find out.
Good. I want him to know
I'm up to something.
I want him to lose sleep at night.
Why?
I wanna make him sweat.
Evening, sir.
Everything go as planned?
Not exactly.
- But I managed to locate the target.
- And?
Harmon Kryger won't be causing us
any more trouble.
Were you able
to recover the Aruna file?
No, sir.
But I am working on a strong lead.
- Morning.
- Morning.
- Did you get any sleep?
- Whew.
Every time I closed my eyes,
all I could see was Katie Sparks.
Are you ready yet?
I don't want to be late.
School doesn't start for an hour, E.
We got plenty of time.
First day back. He's nervous.
I don't blame him. I mean, after all he's
been through since his shutdown?
Well, that's exactly why
he needs to go back.
Ethan needs to spend some time
around normal kids with a normal life.
What's that?
This is normal life.
Look. A surprise for Ethan.
It's being delivered later.
Are you ready yet?
In a minute, kiddo.
- Are you going to see Derek Pearce?
- Yup.
The sooner he starts talking,
the sooner Sparks' nightmare begins.
And ours ends.
Hey, it has to end.
Yeah.
Search Aruna.
I need the medical records
from the final mission.
Where's the Aruna file?
- I could... I couldn't open it.
- So where is it?
Why would I keep it if I...?
If I couldn't open it?
Visitor. Back door.
Mom.
- What are you doing here?
- Well, I tried calling,
and when you didn't call back, I...
May I come in?
Of course.
- May I help you?
- Derek.
Hi. Molly Woods from the ISEA.
I'm wondering if maybe we can talk.
About the Aruna.
Molly, I'm kind of tied up right now.
It'll just take a second.
I really can't. Sorry.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know he spoke Japanese.
Neither did I.
Hey, where did you learn to do that?
I don't know.
I wanted to thank you.
Apparently, your information
about Molly's meeting
with Harmon Kryger
proved quite useful.
Did it?
That's good.
- I'm glad to know you're on board.
- On board?
Well, that you can be trusted to act
in the best interest of this organization.
And in your own best interest.
Which, really,
are one and the same,
considering what's at stake.
- Considering that, yes.
- One more thing.
I noticed you were looking into
the Aruna astronauts' medical records.
Why is that?
- Molly asked for them.
- And you gave them to her?
You said you wanted her
to trust me again.
What did she want them for?
I really don't know, sir.
Find out.
And in the future,
if Molly asks you for anything,
anything at all,
you're to run it by me first.
Understood?
Understood.
What? No, it's not our second date.
Please, if you think picking me up
at the gym counts as a first date,
there's not gonna be a second one.
Surprise me.
Odin?
Maybe.
- You okay?
- I'm fine. Why?
God, your pupils have turned
into cartoon hearts.
- Shut up.
- They're beating out of your sockets.
- Cartoon...
- You know where you can shove that.
"Surprise me."
Can anyone here tell me how Ethan
suddenly speaks Japanese?
- What?
- I dropped him off at school,
and he heard two Japanese girls
talking about him.
And he talked back in Japanese.
All right, little man's on fire.
But the question is,
what's fueling that fire?
Well, his neural net's programmed
with basic Japanese.
Yeah, but that's not nearly enough
to explain this.
Linguistically, it's like saying
Ethan had a stepladder
and used it to reach the moon.
But maybe he doesn't see it
as linguistic
but mathematical,
like translation as code-breaking.
He is good at that.
Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe that school is good for Ethan.
But at this rate, pretty soon he'll be
smarter than all of his teachers.
Well, I mean, so was I.
I turned out pretty good.
But we designed Ethan
to learn at the same rate as his peers.
We sent him to school to learn
like other kids,
to learn to be like other kids.
And other kids don't just start speaking
Japanese without being taught.
- Be cool if they did, though.
- No, it would be terrifying.
It wouldn't be human.
I don't get it.
I built Ethan. I thought I understood
everything about him.
G.I.N.A., look up the purchase price
of Derek Pearce's apartment.
Seems a bit pricy
for an ex-mission specialist.
Especially one without a pension.
That property
was purchased for exactly $1.
What? One dollar?
Well, that can't be. Check again.
Derek Pearce. Grand Avenue.
Penthouse A.
He bought it for $1.
Multiple property records confirm.
From who?
Previous owner
was Claypool Industries.
Sending you
a full purchase history now.
Okay, well, according to this,
Claypool Industries
bought the property for 5.2 million,
and then six days later,
Pearce bought it for $1.
So Claypool bought the property
and then put it in Pearce's name.
G.I.N.A.,
look up Claypool Industries.
One listing.
Claypool Industries Mining and Ore.
No current address.
Why would a mining company buy
a luxury apartment for Derek Pearce?
I'm guessing
that's a rhetorical question.
You could say that. Heh.
G.I.N.A., compose e-mail.
To Derek Pearce.
What is Claypool Industries?
Message send.
- Incoming V-Chron from John.
- Open.
So, uh, hey.
This might seem weird,
but did you, by any chance,
teach Ethan to speak Japanese?
Uh, no.
I only know a few words
from my time on the ISS. Why?
Long story short, Ethan speaks
Japanese out of nowhere.
Charlie put it in the lab report,
and now Yasumoto wants to see it
for himself at dinner.
Tonight. With the three of us.
- Seriously?
- Sorry.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
I'll see you later.
G.I.N.A., compose e-mail.
- Derek Pearce.
- What is this?
Message send.
- New message.
- Open.
I'm concerned, Gordon.
You haven't answered my calls.
You look awful.
Your house is a mess.
- Are you using again?
- What?
No.
No, I'm just working a lot.
That's what your dad said before...
He was exactly your age
when he got sick, you know.
I'm not sick.
- Maybe neither was he.
- What?
Mom, what if Dad wasn't crazy?
- What if he was right?
- Right?
What he did cost him and us
everything.
I don't mean what he did.
I mean what he believed.
That the voice of God
was speaking to him,
telling him to land a commercial airliner
in the middle of a cornfield,
hundreds of miles off course?
He was sick, Gordon.
He was very, very sick.
It's a miracle that people weren't killed.
A miracle, huh?
Maybe God was up there with him.
Please.
There's more in heaven and earth
than can be dreamt of
in our philosophy.
There's no shame in it.
Not in being sick.
But if there were something wrong
and you didn't admit it,
that would be a shame.
I'm fine.
I'm just worn out.
Okay. I'll go.
I'll let you get some rest.
But promise me this:
That if you do need help,
you'll ask for it.
Dr. Barton arriving.
- Sam.
- Hey.
I found something
in the Aruna records.
Okay, but I'm on my way out.
Pearce agreed to meet me.
Molly, you gotta see this. I checked
the crew members' brain scans.
At first glance,
they all look completely normal.
- Okay, on second glance?
- They're all exactly the same.
Somebody must've substituted
the same scan across the board.
But they didn't touch the tethers,
so look at this.
The naphthalene levels were elevated
to a man, or a woman in Katie's case.
- Naphthalene?
- We started testing for it
after astronauts
on the first mining missions
started coming back
with hemolytic anemia.
But the Aruna
wasn't a mining mission.
Well, it wasn't supposed to be.
Wait a minute. Pearce's apartment
was bought by a mining company,
Claypool Industries.
Maybe buying his silence
is what put them out of business.
Why would they cover up
the mining?
The ISEA partners
with mining missions all the time.
Because they didn't want anybody
to know what they were searching for.
It must be pretty valuable.
Not compared to what they found.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Ma'am, I'm gonna have
to ask you to step back.
- What happened?
- A jumper from the penthouse.
You're sure
there's nothing you're not telling me.
You didn't learn Japanese from a book
or a translation app or something?
Maybe it came
from the secret part of me.
- What?
- The part that belongs only to me.
There you are. We'd better get going.
Don't wanna be late to Yasumoto's.
Okay, Ethan. Go to the car.
We're gonna meet you there.
What's wrong?
What did Pearce say?
He's dead.
I think they killed him.
What?
You mean
because you were asking questions?
- What... What happened?
- He jumped.
Or else he was pushed.
- Oh, God, John, I'm scared.
- This has to stop.
That video's enough
to bring Sparks down.
But maybe it's not.
They made me look
like I was crazy once.
- They can do that again.
- And putting yourself in danger,
putting all of us in danger,
that doesn't seem crazy to you?
We... We can't do this any longer.
It's too risky.
Yeah, I know it's risky.
But no risk, no reward.
Come on. Ethan's waiting.
Drink it. It's just water.
There's more in heaven and earth.
Damn right there is.
I've seen it.
You've seen it too, haven't you?
It's hard to forget, huh?
I'm sure the Absalom will help,
for a while.
You don't know me.
I know that you let Sparks think
that you killed me.
I know the fact that you haven't
means you've got doubts.
- Watch it.
- Real doubts about Sparks,
about what he did to Molly and to me,
about what he's asking you to do.
I said, watch it!
Damn it!
Hello again.
Hello.
Um, you've met Ethan.
And this is my wife, Molly.
- Hello.
- Hi. Come in. Please.
Molly, this is Femi Dodd.
She's a board member
at Yasumoto Corp.
The first time we met, I, uh...
I called her an idiot.
John.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
If I'd known you two were, uh...
I definitely wouldn't
have called you an idiot.
Apology accepted.
You must be Molly.
Mr. Yasumoto.
- I've heard so much about you.
- And I about you.
The possibilities are limitless.
- No?
- Well, I'm not sure I'd say "limitless."
But making sense of the independent
activity in Ethan's brain
could be a huge step
toward understanding
the nature of human consciousness.
Right? Not to mention
a potential path to immortality.
Immortality? I don't understand.
I think Mr. Yasumoto
is referring to the theory
that once the neural pathways
are fully decoded,
it would be possible
to copy a human brain
and upload it to a Humanich's body.
- So it's possible, then?
- Theoretically, but...
Just because we can do it
does not mean we should do it.
For once, I agree with Miss Dodd.
And anyway, to suggest that
understanding Ethan's cognitive leaps
is akin to understanding
human consciousness,
it's not just premature, it's...
It's wrong.
After all, human beings
can't learn a language in a single day,
so Ethan shouldn't be able to either.
I think we should install some sort
of governing mechanism.
- What?
- Slow down his development.
But that goes against everything
you've ever said.
So you think Ethan's progress
should be allowed to continue?
Well, I don't know.
But I do know that we're not gods.
We're just parents.
And all we can do
is give him the best of ourselves.
And then whatever happens
happens, right?
We just have to wait and see.
To wait and see is to expose Ethan
to needless risk.
Well, no risk, no reward.
Yeah, it was tough
when I was young,
but these days
the supers are so good, it's...
I hardly even notice anymore.
Yeah, well,
I wish I could say the same.
Well, it's still new. It'll get easier.
So you're not,
I don't know, resentful?
Honestly, I'm... I'm almost grateful.
If it wasn't for my legs, I wouldn't
have started designing prosthetics
or gotten involved
in the Humanichs Project.
- You love your work, huh?
- Well, some days more than others.
Yeah?
Today wasn't one of those days?
It's just my boss. He's, like,
threatened by progress all of a sudden.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah. Yeah, I do.
- And he lets his personal feelings
cloud his professional judgment,
which drives me insane.
Sorry, we don't have to talk
about my dumb office drama.
Oh, no, it's okay. No. I like it.
I'd like to talk more about it, actually.
Really?
Sure. I mean, take Ethan.
How do you guys...?
How do you guys control him?
We don't. Especially not lately.
Actually, the goal is to try to get him
to start thinking for himself.
So you're saying that someday
he could have complete free will?
Can you imagine?
We have to talk.
- Not now.
- Now.
Pearce is dead. You could be next.
If this is about taking Sparks down,
you have what you need.
It's time to go public
with the Aruna video
and let the chips fall
where they may.
It's about more than that.
I wanna see it.
See what?
- The baby.
- What?
Whatever it is, John, it's half mine.
It was inside of me.
Not you. Me.
I brought it here.
And every indication is it's still alive.
I don't believe this.
And if it's out there,
I'm gonna find it.
Dad...
...I'm gonna die up here.
I just want...
Whatever you do,
do not recover the ship.
I repeat. Do not recover the ship.
What kind of father sends his daughter
into harm's way like that, Alan?
And then lies
and covers the whole thing up?
I know the Aruna
was a secret mining mission.
And that Claypool bought Pearce
an apartment to keep him quiet.
How much did they give you?
Well, enough to get Pearce killed,
I guess, right?
What was his life worth?
And what about my baby?
How much did you get for that?
Careful, Molly.
- You're out of your depth here.
- What about Katie's baby?
Yeah.
She was pregnant when she died.
Just like I was.
Guess you're the one
out of your depth here, Alan.
What do you want?
I wanna know where my baby is.
I don't know.
But I can find it.
No. I'll find it.
I got this far all by myself.
Before you go to bed tonight,
get down on your knees
and pray for Katie's forgiveness.
Tonight and every night
for the rest of your life.
It's not nearly gonna be enough.
But it's gonna be worth a try.
Hey, what are you doing up?
Did Julie adjust your sleep cycle?
No. I just woke up.
Is that for me?
- Yeah.
- Will you teach me to ride it?
Sure, sure. We're gonna take it
for a spin in the morning.
No. Now.
Ethan, it's dark out.
We'll... We'll wait for morning.
Please?
Well, screw it. Let's go.
Yes!
Do you wanna come in?
Next time.
Okay, I'm gonna hold on
to help you balance,
but steering, pedaling,
that's all you, okay?
- You think you can handle it?
- Yup.
This is how my dad taught me,
and I fell a lot.
But I didn't give up. Okay? Okay.
Remember,
keep your eyes straight ahead.
Not down on the ground, okay?
- Dad, let go.
- What?
Let go.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Did you want to teach me more?
No. No.
I mean, I did, but, uh...
I just wanna watch you ride now.
Ethan?
Ethan!
Ethan!
What's wrong?
You can't go off
on your own like that.
Sorry.
Come on, let's... Let's go back inside.
It's late.
We must prepare ourselves
for the battle ahead.
There will be violence.
Casualties.
But I, for one, am ready
to fight for a better world.
That's what I thought
I was fighting for overseas.
And then...
Then the drone strikes began.
See, I lost my arm in combat,
but my opponent
wasn't on the battlefield.
Uh-uh.
He or she
was sat in a nice little air-conditioned
room thousands of miles away,
pushing buttons and watching
the carnage unfold on-screen.
When we outsource war
to machines,
we outsource our humanity
to technology.
We have lost our souls to machines.
We talk of making a difference,
but so far that's all it's been: Talk.
Power outages
and rolling blackouts,
these half measures
are wholly ineffective.
We need more.
We need a reckoning.
Starting right here.
Sorry I'm late.
Actually, your timing is perfect.
- Can I help you?
- Yeah.
- I'd like to go to Claypool Industries.
- Oh. Gone.
- I know it's late, I'm sorry, but...
- No, no. I mean they're gone.
The fifth floor's been empty
since I started.
Okay, well, you know what?
The thing is, um,
I told my boss that I would take a look
at all the empty offices.
He's expecting a full report from me
first thing in the morning.
So do you think I could take
just a quick little peek upstairs?
I'm really not supposed
to leave my post.
I know. I know you're not.
But I would be so grateful if you did.
- Okay, come on.
- Thank you.
Katie.
Katie, it's me.
Please, Katie.
Please forgive me.
You gotta believe me, hon.
I... I had no idea.
I'm sorry.
Oh, Katie, I'm so sorry.
Dad?
Katie?
Alrighty. Here we are.
Take your time, look around.
I gotta get back downstairs.
- Thanks.
- All right.
Security breach. Code black.
Threat currently isolated on five.
Requesting backup.
Hi, Daddy.
Security breach.
Code black. Fifth floor.
Repeat. Security breach.
Code black. Fifth floor.
No!
You've made a mistake.
- I can help you.
- Yeah?
And how are you gonna help me?
You don't know
what you've unleashed. I do.
You think it was the hand of God
reaching down? You're wrong!
I've seen it.
And it felt a hell of a lot more
like it was reaching up.
Phone call from Director Sparks.
One word and this is all over.
You understand?
Put him through. Yes, sir?
Get down here.
Molly Woods is in the building.
- Have security forces been mobilized?
- Yes.
- Come on, let's go.
- Go.
Go, go.
Shh. It's me.
You can go with them
or you can come with me. Your choice.
Back. Shh.
- Here. You take her.
- Wait, wait! No!
- Take her.
- No, wait! No, not this!
- No, wait, wait, wait! No! No, not this!
- Let's go.
Move, move, move.
Get in the car. Move!
Kryger?
Go, go, go.
Hey, it's me.
Oh, God. I wish I could talk to you.
Listen. I'm sorry.
It's just, uh...
I can't control much right now,
but I can still control Ethan.
And I have to go in
and slow him down.
It's for his own protection.
I hope you'll understand.
I love you.
G.I.N.A., Oasis Mode.
Windows on Seclude. How do you
know they didn't follow us here?
I'd know if we were seen.
It's my job to activate a team to follow.
No, we got away clean.
- We're safe here. You can trust me.
- You want me to trust you?
Tell me everything, the truth.
When Sparks came to pick you up,
you were right to run to Vaspar.
He was bringing you in
to extract the Offspring.
- The Offspring?
- That's what we call it.
When you fled, we had to improvise.
Sparks may seem
like the man in charge,
but there's somebody else who's
pulling the strings outside the ISEA.
- Who?
- I don't know.
But whoever he is, he outfitted
the hospital ship with a surgical team.
They erased all the evidence
of your pregnancy,
and then they put you back
on the island.
And Ethan?
He was used
to lure you into the woods.
And the baby? It's alive?
It's a he.
Huh.
You're lucky, Odin. I don't usually let in
handsome foreigners until after 2.
- John?
- Why did you do it?
- Do what?
- Reset Ethan's access protocols.
What are you talking about?
You've been against
installing governors
in Ethan since I brought it up.
Now all of a sudden, I can't get in?
Wait. So you actually tried to slow him
down and he blocked your access?
No, no, no, you blocked my access.
I may not agree with intentionally
limiting his natural development,
but I would not go behind your back
to stop you.
Wow.
I guess you thought I would.
But how would he even do it?
I mean, we built in safeguards
to prevent him from interfering
with the coding process.
I don't know. Why would
the most advanced Al stop you
from hobbling his mind?
I didn't mean to...
- Are you alone?
- What if I'm not?
- I should go.
- Yeah.
He's in an artificial womb
about 20 floors below
where you were poking around.
It's not gonna be a baby for long.
It's growing fast.
They're treating an alien intelligence
far beyond our comprehension
like a lab rat.
Molly, I know what you're thinking.
You are not its mother.
You were its host.
He sent me a message tonight.
He scattered a flock of birds
in the shape of the pattern.
It's trying to speak to us.
And it wants to communicate
through you.
I'm sorry.
It made me flush my mother
into space.
It ain't the baby Jesus.
Whatever he is, I brought him here.
And I'm gonna get him out.
You think you're getting back into that
building after what happened today?
It's impossible.
If Sparks is running a rogue operation,
just go to the ISEA and tell them.
Tell them what? Without proof
of the baby, we got nothing.
We have the Aruna file.
They killed Derek Pearce
because I sent him an e-mail.
What do you think will happen
if I go in there with just my story
- and the Aruna file?
- What choice do we have, huh?
Sparks reports to the board.
You walk into the morning meeting,
you play them the file.
They can't all be in on it.
And what if Sparks buries the truth
of the baby before they see it?
They're never gonna know
what he did.
But it'll be over.
And we'll be safe.
Hey, hold up.
You don't believe this, do you?
That this thing is trying
to communicate with Molly?
It chose her for a reason.
But the way it's being treated,
that may change everything.
I was an Air Force MP
all the way through Second Korea.
I was stationed at all kinds of hellholes
across this rock,
and there is one thing
that has never changed.
If you lock someone in a box
who doesn't belong there,
he's got a lot to say
when you finally let him out.
Sparks is going about this
the wrong way.
- He's gonna get people hurt.
- Don't have to convince me.
I almost got my ticket punched.
- I never intended on killing you.
- Could've fooled me.
- No one's stopping you from walking.
- Leave you alone with Molly? Hell, no.
Right now she's the only friend I have
on this planet.
And this whole switching-sides thing
seems rather convenient.
I stick around to make sure
you don't pull another 180.
Your call. But you can trust me.
No offense, but the only person I trust
is me at this point.
Claypool has been compromised.
Molly Woods breached the upper floor
and managed to escape.
- How is this possible?
- I don't know.
But with her getting this close,
I believe the entire operation is at risk.
I also believe
that it's time to eliminate that risk.
For so long,
you've wanted to protect her.
And now?
Molly's a very smart woman.
She's a viable threat
to the Offspring.
But she is its mother.
There could be consequences
if we eliminate her.
We must ensure
its continued growth.
Even at the risk
of being discovered?
It's a risk we must manage.
I'm dying, Alan.
The substance that sustains me
has nearly been exhausted.
Despite my best efforts,
I have failed to reproduce it.
We could do another mission.
We could learn from the mistakes
we made with the Aruna.
Why send another mining expedition
when we have in our possession
perhaps something more valuable?
Billions were spent
locating the source of the substance,
and we encounter the entity
in the same location?
It can't be coincidence.
It's all the more reason to protect it.
Yes, there are many reasons.
You yourself have one.
Sir?
I've seen the surveillance footage.
At first, it was difficult to understand
what was happening.
But it became clear
you were able to see Katie.
That she had come back to life
for you.
What a wonderful gift
you've been given.
What is it like?
A miracle.
I can only imagine.
I need the Offspring to stay alive.
You need it to have a reason to live.
What would you like for me
to do, sir?
Relocate the Offspring
to the contingency site immediately.
But Molly Woods
is not to be harmed.
When we know the Offspring
has no use for its mother,
you can do what you wish.
Place call.
Anya Sparks.
Alan? Alan, what's wrong?
Nothing. I just needed to talk.
Oh, you know, it's late.
It's just, I was thinking of Katie.
You're the only one in the world
who understands.
I understand that calling me
makes you feel better. I do.
But it just makes me feel worse.
If Katie was...
We'd still be together.
A family.
But she's not.
That's not gonna change.
Good night, Alan.
You sure you don't want me
to come with you to the meeting?
Nope. I've worked for the ISEA
for almost 20 years now,
and, you know,
what we have should be enough.
I'm sorry, Molly.
It wasn't just the baby
they took from you.
They took everything.
Space. The stars.
Not everything.
Yes. We still have breakfast.
I got your message
about Ethan's governors.
I think you're making a mistake.
Well, it's a moot point.
He locked me out.
- I don't understand.
- Well, that makes two of us.
I've lost all access
to Ethan's neural net.
- How is that even possible?
- I have no idea.
Ethan! Breakfast!
I checked his room.
He's not up there.
I thought he was down here.
No?
Ethan?
His bike is gone.
- Where's he going?
- He's at the park. I'll get him.
You go do what you gotta do.
Okay.
Oh, check this out.
- Oh, yeah.
- All right.
Yeah!
Nice bike.
Thanks. My dad gave it to me.
- You live around here?
- No, I live a few miles that way.
Oh. So you came here
to give us your bike?
No. I came to ride. I like to ride.
Hope you like to walk, loser.
Hey.
You want some more?
Ethan. Hey.
Thank God. What happened?
Let me see.
- Did you fall off the bike?
- No.
Then what?
I told you last night, you can't just
go riding off on your own like that.
What were you thinking?
I don't know. I just wanted to explore.
We need to get you back to the lab.
Come on.
Damage detected.
Please contact the nearest
maintenance facility
at your earliest convenience.
I wanna take him home.
It's a busted-up sweeper bot.
It doesn't work anymore.
I wanna take it.
By the time I got to Claypool,
the team had already let her slip away.
They executed
the containment scenario.
She just got the better of us.
We're abandoning Claypool.
- Sir?
- Tonight.
We're moving the Offspring
to the contingency site.
The teams know what to do.
Yes, sir.
And, Gordon, taking into account
last night's break-in,
our investor would like
that security threat eliminated
before we move the Offspring.
I thought you convinced him
that she might be necessary.
She crossed the line.
We can't take any more chances.
Come with me.
They're moving the Offspring.
We don't have to go in.
They're bringing it out.
- Tonight.
- We can get him?
Mm.
The truck carrying the mobile incubator
will be heavily guarded.
If all goes to plan,
if we can pull this off,
we'll have a few hours
to get the Offspring to the ISEA.
I'm sorry,
but the word "offspring" just...
- It feels so...
- Alien.
Look, I don't know how we astronauts
are gonna pull off a truck heist...
There's a vulnerability
in Claypool's infrastructure.
I'll detonate an explosive
on the main transformer
as soon as the Offspring truck
is clear of the building.
With the power cut,
the system will drop the garage gates
to protect the building.
We can then split the truck off
from its security convoy.
- What about the guys driving?
- We'll neutralize them.
Oh, we're neutralizing now, are we?
We're not. I am.
- Can you drive a truck?
- Yeah.
Then worry about that.
The rest is on me.
No, well, we're all at risk here.
Sparks gave me an order to kill you
before they move it.
This is our only chance.
Okay, Rabbit, let's fix you.
So they just grabbed your bike
for no reason?
I could have stopped them
if I was stronger.
Don't move, and don't be so hard
on yourself. It was two against one.
I should be stronger.
Damage detected.
Please contact
the nearest maintenance facility
at your earliest convenience.
They were hurting the bot.
Seriously, if you keep moving,
I'm gonna turn your mouth off.
Can you help me fix him?
Got my hands full fixing you.
Are they gonna throw him away?
He looks pretty beat-up.
I don't think he's able
to perform his function anymore.
What's my function?
We made you
so that you could find
your own function.
That's why you're special.
Nobody wakes up on this planet
and knows their purpose.
But I'm sure you'll find yours.
He's come a long way since then.
I'm sorry.
For accusing me
of locking you out of Ethan,
or for barging into my apartment
in the middle of the night?
You choose.
You shouldn't fret over Ethan
rebelling against his programmer.
You wanted a kid, you got one.
It doesn't concern you we no longer
have access to his programming?
I can't speak to your concerns
as a parent,
but we set out to create a machine
that approximated a human,
and he just asked me
what his function is.
Ethan is questioning
his own existence, John.
It doesn't get much more human
than that.
Hey,
sorry I missed the facial lesions.
John said Little Man was a trooper.
He was much more than that.
He's changing, Charlie.
He's thinking about things.
Not just processing, but thinking.
Great. We're making a neurotic.
That seems like cause
for celebration.
You wanna get a drink or...?
Was gonna get some food.
You eat? Of course you eat. I mean,
you hungry? Look at me, I'm thinking.
I'm actually meeting someone.
- Orion?
- Odin.
You've been spending a lot of time
with this all-father of the gods.
- What do you know about this guy?
- I know he minds his own business.
But I bet if you ran a search on him,
Mr. Perfect wouldn't seem
so perfect.
You ran a search on him?
I mean, if I did,
I'd just be looking out for you.
If you did, it wouldn't feel that way.
What's happening in there?
My transport team
was prepping for extraction
when the incubator
developed a leak.
The cloud appears to be generating
on its own
from inside
the containment chamber.
Get inside
and find out what's going on.
Engage manual override.
I'm a few steps in.
Visibility is limited.
The source of the leak
is not immediately apparent.
It's a particulate emission
of some sort.
There's a similar substance
adhering to the walls.
I've got a sample.
I'm moving towards the tank.
It's definitely the source.
I can't make out the leak.
Sir, you're not gonna believe this.
What's happening?
Offspring heart rate
dropping. Respiration too.
Revive team, move in.
Revive team, hold.
Heart rate right at 60 BPM.
Davis, report.
Davis?
- Did we lose comms?
- No, sir. Comms are good.
Davis isn't responding.
Dr. Davis? Dr. Davis?
We have a problem.
I appear to be outside
my designated service area.
Turn the lights on, will you?
Why can't we fix him now?
It's bedtime.
I'm not tired. I wanna fix him.
It's not up to you, Ethan.
We'll fix it in the morning.
I appear to be outside
my designated service area. Please...
Why did you do that?
He needs our help.
Lights. Inside.
Okay, five minutes.
- You ever hijack a truck?
- No.
But I have docked a spaceship.
Same diff.
They called off everything.
They're not moving the Offspring.
- Why?
- Something happened to it,
or is happening to it,
but they never got it to the mobile unit.
- Okay, now what?
- We're scrubbing this.
No. It can't be over.
You heard the man.
We're finished, we're done.
No, we're not.
Maybe I can get you down there.
What? I'm sorry,
didn't you say that was impossible?
We have a honey bomb
on the main transformer.
I can blow it.
I can use the threat to clear the lab.
Let's just shoot each other here
and save them the trouble.
- Just let him talk.
- The IR defenses
will go dark on the outside.
I can override a service door.
The first-floor camera system reboots
in sectors, from the outside in.
If you can stay ahead of the reboot,
you'll be able to move undetected
to the central elevator
that serves the lab.
It runs on its own power.
And you won't be able to call it
if you're not authorized,
so I'll get to security, I'll send it up.
No way. This is suicide.
Even if we do get down there, how
are we gonna bring the Offspring up?
Tupperware?
We're not bringing it up, are we?
I need to see him.
I need to know
what he's trying to say to me.
You don't have to go.
Molly, you remember what it did
to both of us up there. Do you really...?
Do you really wanna go
through that again?
I can't walk away now.
Screw it.
Screw it, I'm already dead.
If you go, I go.
Okay. Good.
I need a minute, okay?
Molly?
Take your shoes off
and go get ready for bed.
We'll be in to check on you
in a minute. Molly?
- G.I.N.A., lock up for the night.
- Doors locked.
- Hey, shoes.
- Why?
It's been a long day, Ethan.
You want me to take my shoes off
because it's been a long day?
I want you to take your shoes off
because they're muddy, okay?
Molly?
John, I'm sorry this is a message,
but if I heard your voice,
I don't think I could say this.
I can't let it go.
I don't expect you
to understand that.
- Molly?
- But if I don't come back,
in time, I hope that you'll realize
that I didn't have a choice.
And please don't come after me.
I don't wanna risk Ethan
losing both of us.
I love you.
Bye.
Incoming V-Chron from Molly.
John, I'm sorry this is a message.
But if I don't come back,
in time, I hope that you'll realize
that I didn't have a choice.
And don't come after me.
I don't wanna risk Ethan
losing both of us.
I love you.
Bye.
Let's do it.
Thanks for coming
on such short notice.
We had just finished dinner
when you called.
I hope you don't mind. This...
- Odin, John. John, Odin.
- Hey.
Uh, hey, sorry if I ruined your plans.
Not at all. Glad we could help out.
What's going on?
Uh, it's Molly. I think...
I think she's in a tough situation.
It's okay. Go.
Do what you need to do.
If anything suspicious happens,
just call the police, okay?
- Okay.
- Dad?
Hey. There's nothing to worry about.
Julie and her friend are gonna
stay here till I come back, okay?
Is this about Mom?
No. No. Don't worry.
Just... Just go back to bed.
Hey. It'll be okay.
- Thank you.
- Of course.
Hey. Remember Odin?
Here, put this on.
What's happening?
The camera Kern mounted
picks up their infrared security.
All seems quiet.
- Security's down.
- Let's go.
What the hell is going on?
Twenty seconds to Sector 2.
My guys say the main power
transformer overloaded and exploded.
Check it out.
I wanna know exactly what happened.
And find me Kern.
Here we go. Sector 1's back.
Emergency protocol.
This is not a drill.
We have five minutes to evacuate.
Sir.
Director Sparks needs to see you
right now.
- I'm gonna take him.
- Stick to the plan.
Nowak, get upstairs.
- Where have you been?
- Dealing with Molly Woods.
She's been taken care of.
- It's not here.
- We can't wait.
Come on. Wait, wait, wait.
What are you doing?
Getting us a ride. I have his prints.
How do you know the room is clear?
Would you rather stay here?
Fire's spreading.
You should evacuate with the others.
I'm not leaving.
If this fire gets out of control,
we're gonna wanna put
as much space between us and this
before the hook and ladders
show up.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Are you sure you're ready
to meet this thing?
I'm ready.
Thanks for coming with me.
Just remember not to trust
anything you see down there.
You won't know what's real or not.
Don't worry. I'm real.
Sir, we need to move.
Okay, let's go.
I thought we were evacuating.
Who's coming down?
Gordon Kern.
We're not going anywhere.
- They cut the power.
- Kern.
We're out of here.
He doesn't move.
I trusted you, Gordon.
- You're making a huge mistake.
- Perhaps.
But you made an even greater one.
- Fan out. This is your target.
- Yes, sir.
Here, take my hand.
Molly!
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
What the hell's going on down there?
Oh, my God.
- Why?
- I'm... I'm sorry, Molly.
I couldn't let that thing live.
Where is it?
Where did it go?
Molly, if you
can hear this, get the hell out.
Molly?
I didn't want it to end like this.
I lost Katie once.
I can't lose her again.
No. No.
- I'm sorry, Molly.
- No.
Oh, no, no, no. Katie.
No, wait, Katie.
Oh, Katie.
No!
Katie!
Dad.
He needs our help.
---
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.
Previously on Extant:
Turn around! Hands in the air!
Shh.
- He's sleeping.
- Show her to me.
Kryger reached out to me. He broke
into ISEA. I don't know what he took.
- Why are you telling me?
- Tell Sparks. He'll know what to do.
Alan.
It's my nightmare.
- Where did you see it?
- On your belly.
- Absalom. Dose and a half.
- He's out.
He stole the Aruna transmission file.
I tried decoding it,
but it wasn't ISEA code.
This is Katie Sparks
from the Aruna Station.
The virus has entered the ship.
Unh.
Dad, I'm gonna die up here.
She was pregnant too.
He knew what was up there,
and he sent me anyway.
Capsule is 200 meters out.
0.05.
Ben, you know what to do.
Copy. Initiating final approach.
Meteor collision.
Functional cargo blocked.
Escape vehicle damaged.
Rapid oxygen loss. Leak detected.
T-res to bingo pressure?
Two minutes, 15 seconds.
Initiate de-press protocol.
Shutting IMV valves.
Securing the hatches fore and aft.
Equalizing available atmosphere.
Ben, if we isolated the leak,
why is the alarm still...?
Aah! My ears!
We're losing pressure!
Damn it, Ben.
You said you shut the IMV valve!
The meteor collision must have
caused a system malfunction.
Enter manual override code.
Okay.
Come on.
- T-res one minute.
- Come on.
Don oxygen mask.
- Aah! Damn it, come on!
- T-res 30 seconds.
- Twenty-nine, 28...
- Come on!
...27... Leak isolated.
Oxygen reserves active.
Nice work, Molly.
That was a close one.
Yeah, I'll say.
Seriously? A broken oxygen mask?
I know we gotta be ready
for anything, but come on.
- Molly.
- Nice, Molly.
May I have your attention?
This evening at 6:54 p.m.
Mission Specialist Derek Pearce
received a distress call
from the Aruna Station
reporting an oxygen fire.
Several minutes
after the initial comm,
an onboard explosion
disabled all contact
between mission control
and the Aruna crew.
At this time, we believe...
We believe there are no survivors.
Go home.
Be with your families.
We'll provide more details
as they become available.
Alan. Alan.
I'm so sorry about Katie.
If there's anything I can do...
There's nothing anyone can do.
Whatever you do,
do not recover the ship.
I repeat. Do not recover the ship.
Sparks knew about this.
He knew this happened
to his very own daughter.
And he sent me up there anyway.
Do you think he knew Katie
was pregnant?
She didn't even know
she was pregnant.
But he knew something
was up there.
And he sent me
on a fishing expedition.
And then you come back pregnant.
That's...
That's how I know it's still alive.
Think about it, Sam.
Why would they go through
all this trouble just to abort the baby?
They're keeping it somewhere,
and when I find it,
I'm gonna be able to prove
what they did to me.
What Sparks did to me.
Molly, they took that baby
out of your body
without leaving
any physical evidence.
I don't know how you expect
to be able to find it now.
I'm not going to find it.
Sparks is gonna tell me
exactly where it is.
But why? We can't even prove
that he saw the Aruna video.
But somebody can.
Derek Pearce.
He was the Aruna mission specialist.
He would have been the one
to receive Katie's distress call.
And you think that he'll admit
that Sparks was behind
this entire cover-up?
If he wants to save himself.
I'm gonna need your help.
- Anything.
- Okay.
Go through the entire
Aruna crew's medical history.
There had to be
some major anomalies
in the scans, the tether scores,
something.
Sparks would have had to sign off
on anything unusual.
You know if I go through
those records, he's gonna find out.
Good. I want him to know
I'm up to something.
I want him to lose sleep at night.
Why?
I wanna make him sweat.
Evening, sir.
Everything go as planned?
Not exactly.
- But I managed to locate the target.
- And?
Harmon Kryger won't be causing us
any more trouble.
Were you able
to recover the Aruna file?
No, sir.
But I am working on a strong lead.
- Morning.
- Morning.
- Did you get any sleep?
- Whew.
Every time I closed my eyes,
all I could see was Katie Sparks.
Are you ready yet?
I don't want to be late.
School doesn't start for an hour, E.
We got plenty of time.
First day back. He's nervous.
I don't blame him. I mean, after all he's
been through since his shutdown?
Well, that's exactly why
he needs to go back.
Ethan needs to spend some time
around normal kids with a normal life.
What's that?
This is normal life.
Look. A surprise for Ethan.
It's being delivered later.
Are you ready yet?
In a minute, kiddo.
- Are you going to see Derek Pearce?
- Yup.
The sooner he starts talking,
the sooner Sparks' nightmare begins.
And ours ends.
Hey, it has to end.
Yeah.
Search Aruna.
I need the medical records
from the final mission.
Where's the Aruna file?
- I could... I couldn't open it.
- So where is it?
Why would I keep it if I...?
If I couldn't open it?
Visitor. Back door.
Mom.
- What are you doing here?
- Well, I tried calling,
and when you didn't call back, I...
May I come in?
Of course.
- May I help you?
- Derek.
Hi. Molly Woods from the ISEA.
I'm wondering if maybe we can talk.
About the Aruna.
Molly, I'm kind of tied up right now.
It'll just take a second.
I really can't. Sorry.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know he spoke Japanese.
Neither did I.
Hey, where did you learn to do that?
I don't know.
I wanted to thank you.
Apparently, your information
about Molly's meeting
with Harmon Kryger
proved quite useful.
Did it?
That's good.
- I'm glad to know you're on board.
- On board?
Well, that you can be trusted to act
in the best interest of this organization.
And in your own best interest.
Which, really,
are one and the same,
considering what's at stake.
- Considering that, yes.
- One more thing.
I noticed you were looking into
the Aruna astronauts' medical records.
Why is that?
- Molly asked for them.
- And you gave them to her?
You said you wanted her
to trust me again.
What did she want them for?
I really don't know, sir.
Find out.
And in the future,
if Molly asks you for anything,
anything at all,
you're to run it by me first.
Understood?
Understood.
What? No, it's not our second date.
Please, if you think picking me up
at the gym counts as a first date,
there's not gonna be a second one.
Surprise me.
Odin?
Maybe.
- You okay?
- I'm fine. Why?
God, your pupils have turned
into cartoon hearts.
- Shut up.
- They're beating out of your sockets.
- Cartoon...
- You know where you can shove that.
"Surprise me."
Can anyone here tell me how Ethan
suddenly speaks Japanese?
- What?
- I dropped him off at school,
and he heard two Japanese girls
talking about him.
And he talked back in Japanese.
All right, little man's on fire.
But the question is,
what's fueling that fire?
Well, his neural net's programmed
with basic Japanese.
Yeah, but that's not nearly enough
to explain this.
Linguistically, it's like saying
Ethan had a stepladder
and used it to reach the moon.
But maybe he doesn't see it
as linguistic
but mathematical,
like translation as code-breaking.
He is good at that.
Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe that school is good for Ethan.
But at this rate, pretty soon he'll be
smarter than all of his teachers.
Well, I mean, so was I.
I turned out pretty good.
But we designed Ethan
to learn at the same rate as his peers.
We sent him to school to learn
like other kids,
to learn to be like other kids.
And other kids don't just start speaking
Japanese without being taught.
- Be cool if they did, though.
- No, it would be terrifying.
It wouldn't be human.
I don't get it.
I built Ethan. I thought I understood
everything about him.
G.I.N.A., look up the purchase price
of Derek Pearce's apartment.
Seems a bit pricy
for an ex-mission specialist.
Especially one without a pension.
That property
was purchased for exactly $1.
What? One dollar?
Well, that can't be. Check again.
Derek Pearce. Grand Avenue.
Penthouse A.
He bought it for $1.
Multiple property records confirm.
From who?
Previous owner
was Claypool Industries.
Sending you
a full purchase history now.
Okay, well, according to this,
Claypool Industries
bought the property for 5.2 million,
and then six days later,
Pearce bought it for $1.
So Claypool bought the property
and then put it in Pearce's name.
G.I.N.A.,
look up Claypool Industries.
One listing.
Claypool Industries Mining and Ore.
No current address.
Why would a mining company buy
a luxury apartment for Derek Pearce?
I'm guessing
that's a rhetorical question.
You could say that. Heh.
G.I.N.A., compose e-mail.
To Derek Pearce.
What is Claypool Industries?
Message send.
- Incoming V-Chron from John.
- Open.
So, uh, hey.
This might seem weird,
but did you, by any chance,
teach Ethan to speak Japanese?
Uh, no.
I only know a few words
from my time on the ISS. Why?
Long story short, Ethan speaks
Japanese out of nowhere.
Charlie put it in the lab report,
and now Yasumoto wants to see it
for himself at dinner.
Tonight. With the three of us.
- Seriously?
- Sorry.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
I'll see you later.
G.I.N.A., compose e-mail.
- Derek Pearce.
- What is this?
Message send.
- New message.
- Open.
I'm concerned, Gordon.
You haven't answered my calls.
You look awful.
Your house is a mess.
- Are you using again?
- What?
No.
No, I'm just working a lot.
That's what your dad said before...
He was exactly your age
when he got sick, you know.
I'm not sick.
- Maybe neither was he.
- What?
Mom, what if Dad wasn't crazy?
- What if he was right?
- Right?
What he did cost him and us
everything.
I don't mean what he did.
I mean what he believed.
That the voice of God
was speaking to him,
telling him to land a commercial airliner
in the middle of a cornfield,
hundreds of miles off course?
He was sick, Gordon.
He was very, very sick.
It's a miracle that people weren't killed.
A miracle, huh?
Maybe God was up there with him.
Please.
There's more in heaven and earth
than can be dreamt of
in our philosophy.
There's no shame in it.
Not in being sick.
But if there were something wrong
and you didn't admit it,
that would be a shame.
I'm fine.
I'm just worn out.
Okay. I'll go.
I'll let you get some rest.
But promise me this:
That if you do need help,
you'll ask for it.
Dr. Barton arriving.
- Sam.
- Hey.
I found something
in the Aruna records.
Okay, but I'm on my way out.
Pearce agreed to meet me.
Molly, you gotta see this. I checked
the crew members' brain scans.
At first glance,
they all look completely normal.
- Okay, on second glance?
- They're all exactly the same.
Somebody must've substituted
the same scan across the board.
But they didn't touch the tethers,
so look at this.
The naphthalene levels were elevated
to a man, or a woman in Katie's case.
- Naphthalene?
- We started testing for it
after astronauts
on the first mining missions
started coming back
with hemolytic anemia.
But the Aruna
wasn't a mining mission.
Well, it wasn't supposed to be.
Wait a minute. Pearce's apartment
was bought by a mining company,
Claypool Industries.
Maybe buying his silence
is what put them out of business.
Why would they cover up
the mining?
The ISEA partners
with mining missions all the time.
Because they didn't want anybody
to know what they were searching for.
It must be pretty valuable.
Not compared to what they found.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Ma'am, I'm gonna have
to ask you to step back.
- What happened?
- A jumper from the penthouse.
You're sure
there's nothing you're not telling me.
You didn't learn Japanese from a book
or a translation app or something?
Maybe it came
from the secret part of me.
- What?
- The part that belongs only to me.
There you are. We'd better get going.
Don't wanna be late to Yasumoto's.
Okay, Ethan. Go to the car.
We're gonna meet you there.
What's wrong?
What did Pearce say?
He's dead.
I think they killed him.
What?
You mean
because you were asking questions?
- What... What happened?
- He jumped.
Or else he was pushed.
- Oh, God, John, I'm scared.
- This has to stop.
That video's enough
to bring Sparks down.
But maybe it's not.
They made me look
like I was crazy once.
- They can do that again.
- And putting yourself in danger,
putting all of us in danger,
that doesn't seem crazy to you?
We... We can't do this any longer.
It's too risky.
Yeah, I know it's risky.
But no risk, no reward.
Come on. Ethan's waiting.
Drink it. It's just water.
There's more in heaven and earth.
Damn right there is.
I've seen it.
You've seen it too, haven't you?
It's hard to forget, huh?
I'm sure the Absalom will help,
for a while.
You don't know me.
I know that you let Sparks think
that you killed me.
I know the fact that you haven't
means you've got doubts.
- Watch it.
- Real doubts about Sparks,
about what he did to Molly and to me,
about what he's asking you to do.
I said, watch it!
Damn it!
Hello again.
Hello.
Um, you've met Ethan.
And this is my wife, Molly.
- Hello.
- Hi. Come in. Please.
Molly, this is Femi Dodd.
She's a board member
at Yasumoto Corp.
The first time we met, I, uh...
I called her an idiot.
John.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
If I'd known you two were, uh...
I definitely wouldn't
have called you an idiot.
Apology accepted.
You must be Molly.
Mr. Yasumoto.
- I've heard so much about you.
- And I about you.
The possibilities are limitless.
- No?
- Well, I'm not sure I'd say "limitless."
But making sense of the independent
activity in Ethan's brain
could be a huge step
toward understanding
the nature of human consciousness.
Right? Not to mention
a potential path to immortality.
Immortality? I don't understand.
I think Mr. Yasumoto
is referring to the theory
that once the neural pathways
are fully decoded,
it would be possible
to copy a human brain
and upload it to a Humanich's body.
- So it's possible, then?
- Theoretically, but...
Just because we can do it
does not mean we should do it.
For once, I agree with Miss Dodd.
And anyway, to suggest that
understanding Ethan's cognitive leaps
is akin to understanding
human consciousness,
it's not just premature, it's...
It's wrong.
After all, human beings
can't learn a language in a single day,
so Ethan shouldn't be able to either.
I think we should install some sort
of governing mechanism.
- What?
- Slow down his development.
But that goes against everything
you've ever said.
So you think Ethan's progress
should be allowed to continue?
Well, I don't know.
But I do know that we're not gods.
We're just parents.
And all we can do
is give him the best of ourselves.
And then whatever happens
happens, right?
We just have to wait and see.
To wait and see is to expose Ethan
to needless risk.
Well, no risk, no reward.
Yeah, it was tough
when I was young,
but these days
the supers are so good, it's...
I hardly even notice anymore.
Yeah, well,
I wish I could say the same.
Well, it's still new. It'll get easier.
So you're not,
I don't know, resentful?
Honestly, I'm... I'm almost grateful.
If it wasn't for my legs, I wouldn't
have started designing prosthetics
or gotten involved
in the Humanichs Project.
- You love your work, huh?
- Well, some days more than others.
Yeah?
Today wasn't one of those days?
It's just my boss. He's, like,
threatened by progress all of a sudden.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah. Yeah, I do.
- And he lets his personal feelings
cloud his professional judgment,
which drives me insane.
Sorry, we don't have to talk
about my dumb office drama.
Oh, no, it's okay. No. I like it.
I'd like to talk more about it, actually.
Really?
Sure. I mean, take Ethan.
How do you guys...?
How do you guys control him?
We don't. Especially not lately.
Actually, the goal is to try to get him
to start thinking for himself.
So you're saying that someday
he could have complete free will?
Can you imagine?
We have to talk.
- Not now.
- Now.
Pearce is dead. You could be next.
If this is about taking Sparks down,
you have what you need.
It's time to go public
with the Aruna video
and let the chips fall
where they may.
It's about more than that.
I wanna see it.
See what?
- The baby.
- What?
Whatever it is, John, it's half mine.
It was inside of me.
Not you. Me.
I brought it here.
And every indication is it's still alive.
I don't believe this.
And if it's out there,
I'm gonna find it.
Dad...
...I'm gonna die up here.
I just want...
Whatever you do,
do not recover the ship.
I repeat. Do not recover the ship.
What kind of father sends his daughter
into harm's way like that, Alan?
And then lies
and covers the whole thing up?
I know the Aruna
was a secret mining mission.
And that Claypool bought Pearce
an apartment to keep him quiet.
How much did they give you?
Well, enough to get Pearce killed,
I guess, right?
What was his life worth?
And what about my baby?
How much did you get for that?
Careful, Molly.
- You're out of your depth here.
- What about Katie's baby?
Yeah.
She was pregnant when she died.
Just like I was.
Guess you're the one
out of your depth here, Alan.
What do you want?
I wanna know where my baby is.
I don't know.
But I can find it.
No. I'll find it.
I got this far all by myself.
Before you go to bed tonight,
get down on your knees
and pray for Katie's forgiveness.
Tonight and every night
for the rest of your life.
It's not nearly gonna be enough.
But it's gonna be worth a try.
Hey, what are you doing up?
Did Julie adjust your sleep cycle?
No. I just woke up.
Is that for me?
- Yeah.
- Will you teach me to ride it?
Sure, sure. We're gonna take it
for a spin in the morning.
No. Now.
Ethan, it's dark out.
We'll... We'll wait for morning.
Please?
Well, screw it. Let's go.
Yes!
Do you wanna come in?
Next time.
Okay, I'm gonna hold on
to help you balance,
but steering, pedaling,
that's all you, okay?
- You think you can handle it?
- Yup.
This is how my dad taught me,
and I fell a lot.
But I didn't give up. Okay? Okay.
Remember,
keep your eyes straight ahead.
Not down on the ground, okay?
- Dad, let go.
- What?
Let go.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Did you want to teach me more?
No. No.
I mean, I did, but, uh...
I just wanna watch you ride now.
Ethan?
Ethan!
Ethan!
What's wrong?
You can't go off
on your own like that.
Sorry.
Come on, let's... Let's go back inside.
It's late.
We must prepare ourselves
for the battle ahead.
There will be violence.
Casualties.
But I, for one, am ready
to fight for a better world.
That's what I thought
I was fighting for overseas.
And then...
Then the drone strikes began.
See, I lost my arm in combat,
but my opponent
wasn't on the battlefield.
Uh-uh.
He or she
was sat in a nice little air-conditioned
room thousands of miles away,
pushing buttons and watching
the carnage unfold on-screen.
When we outsource war
to machines,
we outsource our humanity
to technology.
We have lost our souls to machines.
We talk of making a difference,
but so far that's all it's been: Talk.
Power outages
and rolling blackouts,
these half measures
are wholly ineffective.
We need more.
We need a reckoning.
Starting right here.
Sorry I'm late.
Actually, your timing is perfect.
- Can I help you?
- Yeah.
- I'd like to go to Claypool Industries.
- Oh. Gone.
- I know it's late, I'm sorry, but...
- No, no. I mean they're gone.
The fifth floor's been empty
since I started.
Okay, well, you know what?
The thing is, um,
I told my boss that I would take a look
at all the empty offices.
He's expecting a full report from me
first thing in the morning.
So do you think I could take
just a quick little peek upstairs?
I'm really not supposed
to leave my post.
I know. I know you're not.
But I would be so grateful if you did.
- Okay, come on.
- Thank you.
Katie.
Katie, it's me.
Please, Katie.
Please forgive me.
You gotta believe me, hon.
I... I had no idea.
I'm sorry.
Oh, Katie, I'm so sorry.
Dad?
Katie?
Alrighty. Here we are.
Take your time, look around.
I gotta get back downstairs.
- Thanks.
- All right.
Security breach. Code black.
Threat currently isolated on five.
Requesting backup.
Hi, Daddy.
Security breach.
Code black. Fifth floor.
Repeat. Security breach.
Code black. Fifth floor.
No!
You've made a mistake.
- I can help you.
- Yeah?
And how are you gonna help me?
You don't know
what you've unleashed. I do.
You think it was the hand of God
reaching down? You're wrong!
I've seen it.
And it felt a hell of a lot more
like it was reaching up.
Phone call from Director Sparks.
One word and this is all over.
You understand?
Put him through. Yes, sir?
Get down here.
Molly Woods is in the building.
- Have security forces been mobilized?
- Yes.
- Come on, let's go.
- Go.
Go, go.
Shh. It's me.
You can go with them
or you can come with me. Your choice.
Back. Shh.
- Here. You take her.
- Wait, wait! No!
- Take her.
- No, wait! No, not this!
- No, wait, wait, wait! No! No, not this!
- Let's go.
Move, move, move.
Get in the car. Move!
Kryger?
Go, go, go.
Hey, it's me.
Oh, God. I wish I could talk to you.
Listen. I'm sorry.
It's just, uh...
I can't control much right now,
but I can still control Ethan.
And I have to go in
and slow him down.
It's for his own protection.
I hope you'll understand.
I love you.
G.I.N.A., Oasis Mode.
Windows on Seclude. How do you
know they didn't follow us here?
I'd know if we were seen.
It's my job to activate a team to follow.
No, we got away clean.
- We're safe here. You can trust me.
- You want me to trust you?
Tell me everything, the truth.
When Sparks came to pick you up,
you were right to run to Vaspar.
He was bringing you in
to extract the Offspring.
- The Offspring?
- That's what we call it.
When you fled, we had to improvise.
Sparks may seem
like the man in charge,
but there's somebody else who's
pulling the strings outside the ISEA.
- Who?
- I don't know.
But whoever he is, he outfitted
the hospital ship with a surgical team.
They erased all the evidence
of your pregnancy,
and then they put you back
on the island.
And Ethan?
He was used
to lure you into the woods.
And the baby? It's alive?
It's a he.
Huh.
You're lucky, Odin. I don't usually let in
handsome foreigners until after 2.
- John?
- Why did you do it?
- Do what?
- Reset Ethan's access protocols.
What are you talking about?
You've been against
installing governors
in Ethan since I brought it up.
Now all of a sudden, I can't get in?
Wait. So you actually tried to slow him
down and he blocked your access?
No, no, no, you blocked my access.
I may not agree with intentionally
limiting his natural development,
but I would not go behind your back
to stop you.
Wow.
I guess you thought I would.
But how would he even do it?
I mean, we built in safeguards
to prevent him from interfering
with the coding process.
I don't know. Why would
the most advanced Al stop you
from hobbling his mind?
I didn't mean to...
- Are you alone?
- What if I'm not?
- I should go.
- Yeah.
He's in an artificial womb
about 20 floors below
where you were poking around.
It's not gonna be a baby for long.
It's growing fast.
They're treating an alien intelligence
far beyond our comprehension
like a lab rat.
Molly, I know what you're thinking.
You are not its mother.
You were its host.
He sent me a message tonight.
He scattered a flock of birds
in the shape of the pattern.
It's trying to speak to us.
And it wants to communicate
through you.
I'm sorry.
It made me flush my mother
into space.
It ain't the baby Jesus.
Whatever he is, I brought him here.
And I'm gonna get him out.
You think you're getting back into that
building after what happened today?
It's impossible.
If Sparks is running a rogue operation,
just go to the ISEA and tell them.
Tell them what? Without proof
of the baby, we got nothing.
We have the Aruna file.
They killed Derek Pearce
because I sent him an e-mail.
What do you think will happen
if I go in there with just my story
- and the Aruna file?
- What choice do we have, huh?
Sparks reports to the board.
You walk into the morning meeting,
you play them the file.
They can't all be in on it.
And what if Sparks buries the truth
of the baby before they see it?
They're never gonna know
what he did.
But it'll be over.
And we'll be safe.
Hey, hold up.
You don't believe this, do you?
That this thing is trying
to communicate with Molly?
It chose her for a reason.
But the way it's being treated,
that may change everything.
I was an Air Force MP
all the way through Second Korea.
I was stationed at all kinds of hellholes
across this rock,
and there is one thing
that has never changed.
If you lock someone in a box
who doesn't belong there,
he's got a lot to say
when you finally let him out.
Sparks is going about this
the wrong way.
- He's gonna get people hurt.
- Don't have to convince me.
I almost got my ticket punched.
- I never intended on killing you.
- Could've fooled me.
- No one's stopping you from walking.
- Leave you alone with Molly? Hell, no.
Right now she's the only friend I have
on this planet.
And this whole switching-sides thing
seems rather convenient.
I stick around to make sure
you don't pull another 180.
Your call. But you can trust me.
No offense, but the only person I trust
is me at this point.
Claypool has been compromised.
Molly Woods breached the upper floor
and managed to escape.
- How is this possible?
- I don't know.
But with her getting this close,
I believe the entire operation is at risk.
I also believe
that it's time to eliminate that risk.
For so long,
you've wanted to protect her.
And now?
Molly's a very smart woman.
She's a viable threat
to the Offspring.
But she is its mother.
There could be consequences
if we eliminate her.
We must ensure
its continued growth.
Even at the risk
of being discovered?
It's a risk we must manage.
I'm dying, Alan.
The substance that sustains me
has nearly been exhausted.
Despite my best efforts,
I have failed to reproduce it.
We could do another mission.
We could learn from the mistakes
we made with the Aruna.
Why send another mining expedition
when we have in our possession
perhaps something more valuable?
Billions were spent
locating the source of the substance,
and we encounter the entity
in the same location?
It can't be coincidence.
It's all the more reason to protect it.
Yes, there are many reasons.
You yourself have one.
Sir?
I've seen the surveillance footage.
At first, it was difficult to understand
what was happening.
But it became clear
you were able to see Katie.
That she had come back to life
for you.
What a wonderful gift
you've been given.
What is it like?
A miracle.
I can only imagine.
I need the Offspring to stay alive.
You need it to have a reason to live.
What would you like for me
to do, sir?
Relocate the Offspring
to the contingency site immediately.
But Molly Woods
is not to be harmed.
When we know the Offspring
has no use for its mother,
you can do what you wish.
Place call.
Anya Sparks.
Alan? Alan, what's wrong?
Nothing. I just needed to talk.
Oh, you know, it's late.
It's just, I was thinking of Katie.
You're the only one in the world
who understands.
I understand that calling me
makes you feel better. I do.
But it just makes me feel worse.
If Katie was...
We'd still be together.
A family.
But she's not.
That's not gonna change.
Good night, Alan.
You sure you don't want me
to come with you to the meeting?
Nope. I've worked for the ISEA
for almost 20 years now,
and, you know,
what we have should be enough.
I'm sorry, Molly.
It wasn't just the baby
they took from you.
They took everything.
Space. The stars.
Not everything.
Yes. We still have breakfast.
I got your message
about Ethan's governors.
I think you're making a mistake.
Well, it's a moot point.
He locked me out.
- I don't understand.
- Well, that makes two of us.
I've lost all access
to Ethan's neural net.
- How is that even possible?
- I have no idea.
Ethan! Breakfast!
I checked his room.
He's not up there.
I thought he was down here.
No?
Ethan?
His bike is gone.
- Where's he going?
- He's at the park. I'll get him.
You go do what you gotta do.
Okay.
Oh, check this out.
- Oh, yeah.
- All right.
Yeah!
Nice bike.
Thanks. My dad gave it to me.
- You live around here?
- No, I live a few miles that way.
Oh. So you came here
to give us your bike?
No. I came to ride. I like to ride.
Hope you like to walk, loser.
Hey.
You want some more?
Ethan. Hey.
Thank God. What happened?
Let me see.
- Did you fall off the bike?
- No.
Then what?
I told you last night, you can't just
go riding off on your own like that.
What were you thinking?
I don't know. I just wanted to explore.
We need to get you back to the lab.
Come on.
Damage detected.
Please contact the nearest
maintenance facility
at your earliest convenience.
I wanna take him home.
It's a busted-up sweeper bot.
It doesn't work anymore.
I wanna take it.
By the time I got to Claypool,
the team had already let her slip away.
They executed
the containment scenario.
She just got the better of us.
We're abandoning Claypool.
- Sir?
- Tonight.
We're moving the Offspring
to the contingency site.
The teams know what to do.
Yes, sir.
And, Gordon, taking into account
last night's break-in,
our investor would like
that security threat eliminated
before we move the Offspring.
I thought you convinced him
that she might be necessary.
She crossed the line.
We can't take any more chances.
Come with me.
They're moving the Offspring.
We don't have to go in.
They're bringing it out.
- Tonight.
- We can get him?
Mm.
The truck carrying the mobile incubator
will be heavily guarded.
If all goes to plan,
if we can pull this off,
we'll have a few hours
to get the Offspring to the ISEA.
I'm sorry,
but the word "offspring" just...
- It feels so...
- Alien.
Look, I don't know how we astronauts
are gonna pull off a truck heist...
There's a vulnerability
in Claypool's infrastructure.
I'll detonate an explosive
on the main transformer
as soon as the Offspring truck
is clear of the building.
With the power cut,
the system will drop the garage gates
to protect the building.
We can then split the truck off
from its security convoy.
- What about the guys driving?
- We'll neutralize them.
Oh, we're neutralizing now, are we?
We're not. I am.
- Can you drive a truck?
- Yeah.
Then worry about that.
The rest is on me.
No, well, we're all at risk here.
Sparks gave me an order to kill you
before they move it.
This is our only chance.
Okay, Rabbit, let's fix you.
So they just grabbed your bike
for no reason?
I could have stopped them
if I was stronger.
Don't move, and don't be so hard
on yourself. It was two against one.
I should be stronger.
Damage detected.
Please contact
the nearest maintenance facility
at your earliest convenience.
They were hurting the bot.
Seriously, if you keep moving,
I'm gonna turn your mouth off.
Can you help me fix him?
Got my hands full fixing you.
Are they gonna throw him away?
He looks pretty beat-up.
I don't think he's able
to perform his function anymore.
What's my function?
We made you
so that you could find
your own function.
That's why you're special.
Nobody wakes up on this planet
and knows their purpose.
But I'm sure you'll find yours.
He's come a long way since then.
I'm sorry.
For accusing me
of locking you out of Ethan,
or for barging into my apartment
in the middle of the night?
You choose.
You shouldn't fret over Ethan
rebelling against his programmer.
You wanted a kid, you got one.
It doesn't concern you we no longer
have access to his programming?
I can't speak to your concerns
as a parent,
but we set out to create a machine
that approximated a human,
and he just asked me
what his function is.
Ethan is questioning
his own existence, John.
It doesn't get much more human
than that.
Hey,
sorry I missed the facial lesions.
John said Little Man was a trooper.
He was much more than that.
He's changing, Charlie.
He's thinking about things.
Not just processing, but thinking.
Great. We're making a neurotic.
That seems like cause
for celebration.
You wanna get a drink or...?
Was gonna get some food.
You eat? Of course you eat. I mean,
you hungry? Look at me, I'm thinking.
I'm actually meeting someone.
- Orion?
- Odin.
You've been spending a lot of time
with this all-father of the gods.
- What do you know about this guy?
- I know he minds his own business.
But I bet if you ran a search on him,
Mr. Perfect wouldn't seem
so perfect.
You ran a search on him?
I mean, if I did,
I'd just be looking out for you.
If you did, it wouldn't feel that way.
What's happening in there?
My transport team
was prepping for extraction
when the incubator
developed a leak.
The cloud appears to be generating
on its own
from inside
the containment chamber.
Get inside
and find out what's going on.
Engage manual override.
I'm a few steps in.
Visibility is limited.
The source of the leak
is not immediately apparent.
It's a particulate emission
of some sort.
There's a similar substance
adhering to the walls.
I've got a sample.
I'm moving towards the tank.
It's definitely the source.
I can't make out the leak.
Sir, you're not gonna believe this.
What's happening?
Offspring heart rate
dropping. Respiration too.
Revive team, move in.
Revive team, hold.
Heart rate right at 60 BPM.
Davis, report.
Davis?
- Did we lose comms?
- No, sir. Comms are good.
Davis isn't responding.
Dr. Davis? Dr. Davis?
We have a problem.
I appear to be outside
my designated service area.
Turn the lights on, will you?
Why can't we fix him now?
It's bedtime.
I'm not tired. I wanna fix him.
It's not up to you, Ethan.
We'll fix it in the morning.
I appear to be outside
my designated service area. Please...
Why did you do that?
He needs our help.
Lights. Inside.
Okay, five minutes.
- You ever hijack a truck?
- No.
But I have docked a spaceship.
Same diff.
They called off everything.
They're not moving the Offspring.
- Why?
- Something happened to it,
or is happening to it,
but they never got it to the mobile unit.
- Okay, now what?
- We're scrubbing this.
No. It can't be over.
You heard the man.
We're finished, we're done.
No, we're not.
Maybe I can get you down there.
What? I'm sorry,
didn't you say that was impossible?
We have a honey bomb
on the main transformer.
I can blow it.
I can use the threat to clear the lab.
Let's just shoot each other here
and save them the trouble.
- Just let him talk.
- The IR defenses
will go dark on the outside.
I can override a service door.
The first-floor camera system reboots
in sectors, from the outside in.
If you can stay ahead of the reboot,
you'll be able to move undetected
to the central elevator
that serves the lab.
It runs on its own power.
And you won't be able to call it
if you're not authorized,
so I'll get to security, I'll send it up.
No way. This is suicide.
Even if we do get down there, how
are we gonna bring the Offspring up?
Tupperware?
We're not bringing it up, are we?
I need to see him.
I need to know
what he's trying to say to me.
You don't have to go.
Molly, you remember what it did
to both of us up there. Do you really...?
Do you really wanna go
through that again?
I can't walk away now.
Screw it.
Screw it, I'm already dead.
If you go, I go.
Okay. Good.
I need a minute, okay?
Molly?
Take your shoes off
and go get ready for bed.
We'll be in to check on you
in a minute. Molly?
- G.I.N.A., lock up for the night.
- Doors locked.
- Hey, shoes.
- Why?
It's been a long day, Ethan.
You want me to take my shoes off
because it's been a long day?
I want you to take your shoes off
because they're muddy, okay?
Molly?
John, I'm sorry this is a message,
but if I heard your voice,
I don't think I could say this.
I can't let it go.
I don't expect you
to understand that.
- Molly?
- But if I don't come back,
in time, I hope that you'll realize
that I didn't have a choice.
And please don't come after me.
I don't wanna risk Ethan
losing both of us.
I love you.
Bye.
Incoming V-Chron from Molly.
John, I'm sorry this is a message.
But if I don't come back,
in time, I hope that you'll realize
that I didn't have a choice.
And don't come after me.
I don't wanna risk Ethan
losing both of us.
I love you.
Bye.
Let's do it.
Thanks for coming
on such short notice.
We had just finished dinner
when you called.
I hope you don't mind. This...
- Odin, John. John, Odin.
- Hey.
Uh, hey, sorry if I ruined your plans.
Not at all. Glad we could help out.
What's going on?
Uh, it's Molly. I think...
I think she's in a tough situation.
It's okay. Go.
Do what you need to do.
If anything suspicious happens,
just call the police, okay?
- Okay.
- Dad?
Hey. There's nothing to worry about.
Julie and her friend are gonna
stay here till I come back, okay?
Is this about Mom?
No. No. Don't worry.
Just... Just go back to bed.
Hey. It'll be okay.
- Thank you.
- Of course.
Hey. Remember Odin?
Here, put this on.
What's happening?
The camera Kern mounted
picks up their infrared security.
All seems quiet.
- Security's down.
- Let's go.
What the hell is going on?
Twenty seconds to Sector 2.
My guys say the main power
transformer overloaded and exploded.
Check it out.
I wanna know exactly what happened.
And find me Kern.
Here we go. Sector 1's back.
Emergency protocol.
This is not a drill.
We have five minutes to evacuate.
Sir.
Director Sparks needs to see you
right now.
- I'm gonna take him.
- Stick to the plan.
Nowak, get upstairs.
- Where have you been?
- Dealing with Molly Woods.
She's been taken care of.
- It's not here.
- We can't wait.
Come on. Wait, wait, wait.
What are you doing?
Getting us a ride. I have his prints.
How do you know the room is clear?
Would you rather stay here?
Fire's spreading.
You should evacuate with the others.
I'm not leaving.
If this fire gets out of control,
we're gonna wanna put
as much space between us and this
before the hook and ladders
show up.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Are you sure you're ready
to meet this thing?
I'm ready.
Thanks for coming with me.
Just remember not to trust
anything you see down there.
You won't know what's real or not.
Don't worry. I'm real.
Sir, we need to move.
Okay, let's go.
I thought we were evacuating.
Who's coming down?
Gordon Kern.
We're not going anywhere.
- They cut the power.
- Kern.
We're out of here.
He doesn't move.
I trusted you, Gordon.
- You're making a huge mistake.
- Perhaps.
But you made an even greater one.
- Fan out. This is your target.
- Yes, sir.
Here, take my hand.
Molly!
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
What the hell's going on down there?
Oh, my God.
- Why?
- I'm... I'm sorry, Molly.
I couldn't let that thing live.
Where is it?
Where did it go?
Molly, if you
can hear this, get the hell out.
Molly?
I didn't want it to end like this.
I lost Katie once.
I can't lose her again.
No. No.
- I'm sorry, Molly.
- No.
Oh, no, no, no. Katie.
No, wait, Katie.
Oh, Katie.
No!
Katie!
Dad.
He needs our help.