Our season finale begins in Fiona’s office. She on speakerphone with an impatient President of the United States. She (yes, she – glad the U.S. finally got over that hurdle) wants to be sure Fiona understands the world-wide gravity of the situation. Fiona assures Madame President that she does. The president sees Molly Woods as a terrorist, and wants her and JD dead or alive. Fiona summons Lucy to her office to rip her a new one, reminding her what a terrorist is and how they should be dealt with. Lucy assures her the hybrids are doing a thorough search, and one thousand more hybrids will be online the next day. Fiona just wants the mission accomplished. Lucy spends some alone-time with TAALR who informs her that Calderone gave Molly the amulet that could shut him down. That’s dangerous information in Lucy’s hands.

Meanwhile, at Julie’s apartment, a drunk Charlie (Tyler Hilton), believing Julie’s dead because of him, prepares to hang himself from the chandelier. Poor, sensitive Charlie kicks the table out from under him and starts swinging. Ethan, Molly and JD arrive just in time to pull Charlie out of his noose. Once they slap some sense into him, Molly and JD ask for his help. They need to find a way into the GSC.

Charlie suggests sending Ethan in, under the guise of a visit to Fiona. Once in her office, Fiona decides to take Ethan for some ice cream. Ethan tells her what they’ve learned about TAALR and his involvement in killing John and Toby. She asks for Molly’s location, but is instead handed a pair of virtual-reality glasses. Fiona puts them on, and is face to face with Molly. Molly confirms all that Ethan said, and implores Fiona to help shut TAALR down. She has the amulet created for such an emergency. TAALR is running it’s own agenda, creating multitudes of humanichs; it is no longer under human control. Before her location can be tracked, Molly ends the meeting. A waffling Fiona removes the glasses to discover Ethan has gone. He’s left a note; “Check the drone logs”.

Across town, JD’s ex-wife, Dorothy (Melina Kanakaredes), is shopping at a farmers’ market and overhears a couple of vendors complaining about the excessive security.The humanich army marches through Nazi-style, surveying each booth. Dorothy moves to another booth, and collides with a wounded, panicked Terra. She begs Dorothy to help her. Terra knows Dorothy knew her brother by looking into her with her golden eyes. Dorothy thinks of Adhu and flees the market with Terra. She phones JD for help. He comes for them and takes them back to Julie’s apartment.  Terra was grazed by a bullet, and JD attends to her wounds.

JD is grateful for Dorothy’s help and understanding. He leaves emergency instructions in case he doesn’t make it, to ensure that his daughter is taken care of. I don’t like the looks of this.  

Back at the GSC, Fiona investigates the drone logs. The drone that struck Gen.Toby Shepard is clearly logged in, but strangely, there is no authorization for it. Fiona is puzzled, but hasn’t much time to think about it; she is notified that the latest batch of humanichs was sent out with a strain of the virus that will kill humans as well as hybrids. There’s no sign of the first strain of the virus, and no log of who made the switch.Of course it’s bitchy Lucy. She is upstairs, meeting with TAALR.   TAALR says that Madame Secretary Fiona Stanton can no longer be trusted since she’s been checking into the drone logs. Lucy is ready to terminate her, but TAALR says it has other uses for her first.  

Molly and JD go back and forth about Molly’s vision of JD mortally wounded. She wants him to stay safe and not get involved. He argues that it’s his war as much as hers and of course, this leads to a passionate kiss. While doing the tongue-tango, Molly’s virtual-reality goggles ring – it’s Fiona. She warns Molly about the new virus strain. She says the humanichs have gone offline, and asks Molly to shut TAALR down. She has no other option. Any other contact would alert TAALR.

Ethan tells Charlie that he can track Julie, she has a robotic leg. They follow GPS signals to Julie, who’s down to one-percent oxygen, and is losing consciousness. Downstairs, in the bottom of a stack of crates, Charlie pries open the crate holding Julie. She gasps for air. Charlie tells her they must hurry to get out, drones are everywhere.

Lucy and her team have killed Fiona and her group. TAALR discovered the attempt to shut it down and implemented security measures. The humanichs are taking over the GSC and Lucy has created a humanich doppleganger of Molly.

Back at the apartment, JD is fooled by humanich Molly, who shoots him in the side, just like in Molly’s vision.  He lays there bleeding. Molly returns to find him unconscious and shot, and transfuses some of her blood into him.  As he comes to, he reaches for his gun, not trusting Molly. She tells him about the humanich replica. Later, JD notices his wound is healing. He asks Molly if he has her blood, what will happen to him .He’s scared, but Molly reassures him, hybrid life isn’t too bad.

She tells him she and Terra have enlisted the help of Ares (Cleo Anthony) and the other hybrids to help combatting TAALR’s technology. Her biggest fear is that shutting down TAALR will shut Ethan down as well. Ethan tells her he wants to make that decision for himself. He too wants to make sacrifices for the greater good.

Molly, JD, Charlie and Ethan all get ready to take TAALR down. For access to the building, Ethan has made one of his “spiders” explosive.

As Ares and the gang use their combined energy to shut down power, Molly, JD and Charlie – who has the amulet –  enter the GSC. They disarm any guards they come across in the dark. They pry open the doors and head inside. Julie is in the van with Ethan, trying to install an inoculation of sorts into Ethan.

Molly gets a message from Ares, all of the hybrids have been taken down by the guards. As the three wander the corridors, walls slide shut and cut them off from each other.  Lucy, humanich-Molly and two other humanichs draw their weapons and head toward the group.

TAALR has turned security cameras on all three, to keep track of their progress and keep the humanichs informed. Charlie finds the control room, but is shot in the shoulder by Lucy before he can enter it. Lucy has taken the amulet from Charlie. TAALR instructs her to destroy the amulet by ingesting it. Lucy pours the contents down her throat, but nothing happens. She demands Charlie give her the real amulet. He reminds her that he never installed limiters in her and she can make a choice for herself. She doesn’t have to follow TAALR’s path.  

Molly -who has the real amulet- decodes binary messages encoded in the floor and finds her way to the control room, where TAALR asks her if she’s ready to destroy John’s work; doesn’t she realize it’s time for the extinction of humans. She’s confronted by Molly 2.0. The two fight, and the humanich starts to strangle her. Real Molly drops the amulet. She reaches behind her twin, pulling the humanich’s  control core out. Lucy enters and picks up the amulet. She hands it to Molly and tells her to use it. Molly plugs the amulet into the control board, and Lucy, along with all the humanichs start to power down. Charlie makes his way to Molly, and sees a dying Lucy. He cradles her head in his lap. She tells him she finally feels something – freedom. (Sob. I’ve hated her for most of the past several episodes, but I did feel for Lucy here)  TAALR goes dark, and Molly yells for them all to get out of the building. Molly is devastated, thinking Ethan is gone.  He runs into her arms when she steps outside, much to her relief.

Molly testifies in front of Congress again, but this time, she tells the truth. Then she introduces them all to Ares, not so different from them after all. But in the lab, a humanich hand flexes under its cover, and in the coffee shop below, a barista announces a latte is ready for “Taaler?” In a hat, and sunglasses, TAALR steps up to retrieve his beverage.

Is this the end of our story?  Are all humanichs truly gone? Who is TAALR, really? Did a Starbucks barista actually get a name right? And have we seen the last of Dr. Molly Woods?

I loved Extant’s transformation of Molly this season from a conflicted scientist into a real warrior. CBS hasn’t announced its plans for the show, but I’m hoping it’s back next year.

What did you think about the season? Let me know in the comments below.

At the GSC, head of Homeland Security Fiona Stanton is on the warpath. It’s been attacked and she’s hungry for revenge, challenging anyone on her staff to step up if they’re not as pissed as she is. She asks them if they understand, and they all nod a bit uncomfortably. She orders them to “quit nodding their stupid heads” and answer her. Damn.

Soon after, Fiona is upstairs with TAALR, (the Threat Assessment and Algorithmic Research computer–doesn’t that acronym just roll of the tongue!) hoping for an update on the current hybrid threat. There are delta-wave sensors across the U.S. 52 states to detect any hybrids. Fiona asks if there’s a full report on Toby’s death. TAALR warns that she may be putting herself in danger by seeking answers. Fiona isn’t satisfied with anything (get some coffee, please) and storms back to her office.

At Julie’s apartment, Molly and Julie help Ethan pack some of his belongings. He’s going home with Molly, at last. Julie is tearful but Molly promises her that she will always be a part of Ethan’s life as well as hers. She’s ready to put the past behind her. Molly and Julie embrace before. Molly and Ethan head to the bunker.

They have some of John’s belongings from the office he shared with Nick Calderone (Keith David) and Molly searches through them to for any information on this elusive man. Ethan is sitting and playing with an interactive chess board. Wow, the future looks cool. Suddenly, Ethan notices that someone is on the other side of the game, using a binary code to send a message. Molly remembers fondly that John used to encode things for her to find all the time. She used to have a program to decode the messages, but hybrid Molly can understand them herself. Ethan helps by sending a message of greeting. The chess board responds with the location coordinates of the user. Could it be Calderone?

The location is fifty miles away, and Molly gets ready to leave with Ethan. JD isn’t going to let Molly go without him, but she’s afraid for him. She keeps seeing the vision of a mortally-wounded JD, a silver amulet, and a gun slipping from her hand. JD insists that he’s going with them. He tells Molly she can go all golden-eyes on him if she wants, but it’s his choice to try to protect her.

Julie pays a visit to Fiona Stanton. She wants Fiona to know that John Brown encoded a message into Ethan in the event that humanichs kill humans: Nicolas Calderone needs to be contacted if this ever occurs. Lucy steps into the room. She clarifies, “One human killed.” Fiona states that Nate Malone was a hybrid-sympathizer and Lucy acted appropriately. Fiona thanks Julie for the algorithms in Lucy and the other humanichs. She’s decided to make Lucy the head of her personal security team. Fiona plans to change things in the lab, too. She wants humanichs working there, fulfilling the demand for thousands of new humanichs. Fiona snipes, “They don’t call in sick, they don’t get tired, and best of all, they don’t question orders.” She suggests that Julie do the same before dismissing her. Fiona’s really in quite a snit, isn’t she?

Julie heads to the lab. She’s greeted by Charlie Arthurs who came in to find the lab being run by humanichs. They are assembling humanichs at an alarming rate. Charlie can’t imagine thousands of Lucy’s out there! One is bad enough. They devise a plan to implant Lucy with a data recorder to find out who’s giving humanichs their orders. Charlie sets up a “date” with Lucy to celebrate her promotion to head of security. They plan to meet at the lab later that evening.

Molly and JD follow the GPS coordinates to a seemingly deserted field. Ethan points out a number of dead birds, and Molly throws a stone to reveal an invisible shield. How cool is that? There’s an old phone booth there, and Molly punches numbers into the dial pad revealing Calderone’s house.They walk toward the house, led by a shotgun-toting Frankie (Shelley Robertson), Calderone’s humanich. Nicolas recognizes Molly and Ethan right away. Once inside, he explains why he and John created TAALR. Once the government took over, TAALR’s decision trees constantly expanded. Now TAALR is running its own agenda, including killing John, and taking over the humanichs. Molly asks Nick about the amulet, he hopes it is truly TAALR’s “kill switch.” Nick offers Molly, JD and Ethan a safe place to spend the night. Molly and JD cozy up in JD’s tent under the stars – they finally make love—after eleven episodes! Calderone sees their entwined silhouettes, and sneaks into Ethan’s room. Molly and JD’s afterglow is interrupted by Ethan’s screams. They rush in to find Nick with Ethan. He explains he was just trying to find Ethan’s speech translator. Turns out Frankie has aged and lost her ability to speak. Ethan offers to help using parts from one of his robotic “spiders”. It works. Frankie speaks to a grateful Nick for the first time in years.

Back at the robotics lab, Charlie and Lucy enjoy their “date” by candlelight. Charlie says he’s developed a data chip to enhance the sensory experience of humanichs. Intrigued, Lucy lets him install the chip in her neck and the two kiss. The next day, Charlie and Julie log into the humanich database in search of this “higher authority”. Just as data starts to download, the screen goes dark. In another part of the lab, Lucy’s eyes open and she agrees to “take care of the problem.”

Later, Lucy finds Charlie to tell him how excited she is; one thousand humanichs will be shipped all over the world the next day, and she can’t wait for their next “date.” Charlie calls Julie about the shipment. Julie asks Charlie to get enough thermite to destroy all of the new humanichs as soon as possible. Charlie agrees, unaware Lucy is eavesdropping. Lucy’s a wily one!

Meanwhile, on the way to his safety deposit box, Nicolas explains that he and John created the amulet as a “worm” to infiltrate TAALR and the humanichs program. He hopes it’s what they need. He retrieves the amulet, exposing himself to facial recognition. He hands it to Molly before he is forced to surrender to the authorities. Molly sees them take him away as she and JD drive off. Frankie watches Nick go, too, and walks away.
Charlie returns to the lab to discover all the humanichs are already shipped. Lucy is there, and tells him she knows he has been playing games with her. She says she has a game of her own. “Find Julie.” She’s hidden Julie in a container. The internal display indicates a ninety-percent oxygen level. Julie screams, but she’s tucked away where no one can hear her.

Will Julie be found before it’s too late? Have we seen the last of Frankie and Nick? Will Fiona’s head finally explode?? Stay tuned for next week’s 2-hour season finale!

Extant airs on CBS Wednesdays at 9/8c

Last week, we left our heroine Molly Woods flatlined and abandoned in the Global Security Commission infirmary. As the building is being evacuated, Lucy (Kiersey Clemons) and her humanich army are searching the premises for the escaped hybrids.

Julie (Grace Gummer) and Ethan are pushed along with the evacuees while General Toby Shepard (David Morrissey) and JD are stuck in an elevator. JD asks for Toby’s tie, which he lights on fire, triggering the elevator’s safety-release. That JD is a regular McGyver! JD refuses to leave Molly behind, dead or alive, so Toby directs him to a stairwell that will lead him to her room.

While in between worlds, Molly has a recurring vision of a mortally wounded JD and a gun in her hand. Lying motionless in the infirmary, Molly suddenly opens her eyes and gasps for air. She looks ancient. She touches her face and hands; they are wrinkled and cracked and her hair has gone white. As she continues to touch her face and hair, her cracked skin peels away. The white hair pulls out easily, and Molly is restored and renewed. Who needs to go to the spa?

Ethan (Pierce Gagnon) has managed to get away from Julie and goes in search of his mother.

Julie chases after him and sees Lucy on the security screen, leading four other humanichs on a search of the building. Didn’t she shut that monster down? Julie makes it her business to stay out of sight.  

Ethan finds his way back to Molly’s room and sees she is alive and well, but locked in. Ethan overrides the lock and runs into Molly’s arms. He says he knew she would come back to him. Hybrid Molly’s been having golden-eyed visions of Terra. JD arrives just in time to follow Molly to Virus Containment where Nate informs them Terra (Gennaya Walton) is holding Toby hostage. Nate is stunned to see Molly alive, and advises her and JD not to enter.

Molly has JD on the lookout for any humanichs and goes inside anyway to reason with Terra. Clearly under the influence of Ares, Terra has wired the room with explosives. Molly and Toby work together to successfully talk Terra down. JD spots humanichs on the security monitor and warns the three it’s time to move. Toby directs them to an old evacuation tunnel, and they make it out. Needing to use a secured elevator for her search, Lucy is up against Nate Malone (Michael Gladis). He refuses to allow access to the humanichs so Lucy breaks his neck. They should have dismantled Lucy when they had the chance. Meanwhile, someone has detonated the bombs in Virus Containment and blown out a huge chunk of the building.

JD takes Terra, Ethan and Molly to his friend’s bunker. They turn on the hand-crank TV.  Of course, the news reports are blaming the bombs and casualties on the “teenage terrorists” associated with Molly and JD. They’re being set up by someone.

Lucy checks in with Fiona Stanton (Kate Burton) to discuss her actions. She explains she had to kill Nate since there were hybrids with bombs and lives at stake. Nate was in the way of their search. Fiona says it’s unfortunate, but unavoidable. She wants Molly Woods brought in dead or alive. See? I knew she was trouble.

Julie is still searching for Ethan when she runs into Toby. He assures her Ethan is safe with Molly.  She shares her fears about Lucy and the future of the humanichs program. She says she’s afraid to discuss her fears with Anna Schafer or Fiona Stanton, she doesn’t trust them.

As she heads to her car, Lucy walks up to her and asks where Molly is. Julie tells her she saw Molly die. Lucy warns Julie that she’d better not be lying.

Back in the bunker, all are sleeping except JD. Molly wakes to find him watching her. She answers JD’s questions about her transformation the best she can but doesn’t say too much about her visions of him. Her phone vibrates; it’s Toby and he wants to meet. JD doesn’t totally trust Toby, but gives Molly a cloak of invisibility! Well, it’s a cloak, anyway, and it throws off any facial recognition software. Before she leaves, JD pulls her close and…drumroll…kisses her! Finally! 10 episodes into Extant, I thought there might be a bit more passion! What happened to hot-pants Molly? Can you say letdown? I can.

She leaves to meet Toby. He tells her a humanich killed Nate; strictly against their programming. Molly is stunned. He believes John’s old partner, Nicolas Calderone, is now hijacking the humanich program. He has access to the Threat Assessment computer, TAALR, which he and John created. After a falling out with John, Calderon has gone rogue and may even be responsible for John’s death. Toby vows to take him and the whole humanichs program down, and Molly hugs him with gratitude. This is the Toby she knows, the good man. Molly heads back to the bunker where Ethan and JD are playing Texas Hold ’em for Fritos. When Molly arrives, Ethan isn’t feeling well, he’s working at two hundred percent capacity, so Molly shuts him down and she and JD take him to Julie’s. They tell Terra they will be back in 2 hours. Julie performs diagnostics on Ethan and tells Molly and JD to have a drink and take a break.

While they wait, JD wants to know what vision Molly keeps seeing of him. She tells JD what she sees and tells him that she’s afraid it will come true. Julie calls Molly into the bedroom; Ethan is awake and tells Molly he has a message for her from John (Goran Visnjic).

Back at the GSC, Lucy has some video footage that Secretary Stanton might be interested in. It’s footage of Toby handing his gun to JD. Suddenly,TAALR stops answering questions from Toby and tells him his security clearance has been changed. On the security monitors, he sees Fiona  coming for him with guards to arrest him. He is handcuffed and brought to Fiona’s office. He tries to tell her that Calderone is taking over the humanichs and the humanichs will then take over the world. Fiona doesn’t believe him, tells him he’s committed treason and suggests he find a good lawyer and a psychiatrist. Toby is led out of the building in handcuffs by a young guard. He knocks the guard unconscious, unlocks his cuffs and takes off.

John’s message was programmed into Ethan in case he died and a humanich killed a human and breached the primary protocol. He says things will only get worse from here. He goes on to say Calderone is the one person who can stop this.

As Toby drives home, he notices a drone flying behind him. To his relief, it flies up and ahead of him. Toby places a call to Molly. As Molly answers her phone, the drone sends a missile back toward Toby’s car, striking dead center. Molly hears the explosion and screams Toby’s name. Damn, I was starting to really like that guy.

While Terra entertains herself with the hand-crank TV, there’s a loud knock at the back door. Terra opens it and there’s our angry Ares (Cleo Anthony), ready to take his little dove home, wherever that is.

With Toby dead, who can help Molly and JD now? Is this Calderon the savior or the devil…or both?  And will someone please shut Lucy down??

Extant airs on CBS Wednesdays 9/8c

When we last left our heroine, Molly, she had just turned herself in to General Toby Shepard and collapsed into his arms like an overheated southern belle. Now hospitalized at the infirmary of the Global Security Commission, Molly is weakening rapidly, and Nate Marone is frantically working to find a cure for the virus. Toby is desperate to save Molly. He didn’t realize the virus would hurt her; unfortunately it was created too quickly to have an antidote.

As he stands by her bedside, Molly tells him to use her to study hybrid evolution. She wants him to see the hybrids the way she does, without fear. She tells him the human race isn’t worth saving, anyway (wait…what?!) as she lapses in and out of consciousness.

The GSC lab has hybrid bodies to dissect and study. Nate zips open a body bag; Terra is inside.  Just before he has the chance to use his bonesaw to start the exam, he is called away by a growling stomach and a hungry co worker.  

Now that Molly has turned herself in, JD is free to leave, but Toby needs information from him.

JD agrees to talk to Toby only after he has seen Molly. Toby agrees, and takes him to her. JD sits down next to Molly’s bed and takes her hand. He tells her how much she has changed his life; he says he’ll never be the same again (sniff, sniff). Toby is listening just outside, and notices how tender JD is toward Molly. He tells JD he has a bottle of 25-year-old scotch in his office, and the two sit and drink as they begin going over the details of the attack at the compound and the visible effects of the virus. JD berates Toby for launching an attack against a species he doesn’t understand. He asks him point-blank if he killed John Brown. Toby denies any involvement, John was his friend! He lowers his voice; there are those who out-rank him that leave no fingerprints. (Hmmm…sounds like Anna Schaefer to me!)  

Back in the GSC lab, Nate prepares to resume his examination of Terra but she’s no longer on the table. She has shed her juvenile body for a larger one. That of an awkward teen.

Her old hair and skin are scattered about the floor like so much discarded snakeskin. Rising from the corner, Terra (Genneya Walton) faces Nate head-on, eyes glowing.

At the robotics lab, Julie and Charlie are having a hard time explaining Lucy’s shutdown to Fiona Stanton. Fiona knows that humanichs were created with the will to survive and sees no problem with Lucy’s behavior. She sees no other way to fight off a hybrid invasion. Julie wants to suspend the program altogether. All of the new humanichs have Lucy’s algorithms and will all be defiant.  Fiona curtly advises both of them to work out any glitches and stay on course. (What a bitch! – and she was so sweet with Ethan!)

Meanwhile, Terra is out of the morgue and on the move through the GSC. Her eyes glow, and security guards do her bidding. You know, that wouldn’t be such a bad power to have. She has the security gates opened, and frees our angry hybrid Ares, and three other mature hybrids. As they board the elevator with the guard’s consent, Ares turns to the young man, and has him shoot himself in the head, just for the hell of it. He has lost patience with peaceful solutions. Adhu is dead, Ares is in the house now!

Molly is weak and unconscious when Julie comes to bring Ethan to see her, per Toby’s request. Ethan has even had his memories restored. Julie goes in alone first, and tearfully apologizes for all that she’s done. She swears to Molly that John never stopped loving her, and Ethan’s memories were erased because he was in so much pain, and she regrets what she allowed John’s humanich program to become. She admits she may be responsible for John’s death – that’d wake me up!

She brings Ethan in and then excuses herself to call Charlie and tell him to shut down the program. He reminds her they could face jail time if they go through with it. Julie is aware of possible repercussions, but is compelled to do the right thing. Molly is fading fast. She has awakened on the other side of the white light, but part of her hears Julie.

She is at a carnival with her father, Quinn (Louis Gossett Jr.) She is a little girl again. As she and her father walk the fairgrounds, she sees Nate Malone, a carnival barker. A little further away, and it’s Toby Shepard, happily juggling for the crowd. (I know…and Toto, too?) 

Little Molly (Cassidey Fralin) realizes she has lost her father and runs to look for him. She finds him in a corner, being intimate with their neighbor. Upset, she calls him a liar, and sees a flash of John’s face (spooky). She runs away from Quinn and finds a tent with a hand-crank viewer right in the center. She turns the crank, and images splash across the inside of the tent: Molly, giggling with John, Molly with Ethan, Ethan with John, JULIE with John.

Toby and JD continue to talk and match each other drink for drink. Suddenly, there is an alert: Code Red in the GSC. The hybrids have been spotted. Back at the robotics lab, just as Charlie is about to begin the shutdown process, he receives the Code Red. Toby places a tense call to Charlie; all humanichs have been deployed immediately by the GSC, even though Julie and Ethan are still in the building. All staff are moved to a secure location, and Molly must be left unattended.

Back at the carnival, Molly is drawn to a brightly lit ride in the center of the fairway. Her father begs her to forgive him, to forgive John and not board that ride. Molly steps through the turnstile but immediately wants to turn around and get off. It is too late. On this side of the dream, Molly Brown’s vital signs have flatlined.

Is Molly really dead, or just “playing possum” like Terra? Will JD and Toby continue their bromance?  Stay tuned!

Extant airs on CBS Wednesdays at 9/8c

When we last left Molly at the hybrid compound, she was bonding with her son, Adhu, and a young hybrid named Terra. Just as JD is driving away, he hears the low rumble of helicopters headed toward the compound. Adhu is also alerted by the sound of the copters, and learns from Ares that Helios (Jamaal Hepburn) is missing as he’s been taken by Lucy and Lucas. Ol’ Angry Ares wants to stand and fight. What power could these puny humans have against them, anyway? As the humanich army approaches, the hybrids stand as one, and use golden-eye on the army.

Problem though. The army continues to approach and Molly remembers Ethan talking about his sister Lucy, the soldier. These soldiers aren’t human! Molly screams at the group to run. They scatter as the soldiers fire dozens of virus-filled smoke-bombs. Molly can’t find Terra, and runs inside to see if she’s there. Lucy follows close behind. She aims for Terra and fires her gun. Molly jumps in front of Terra to shield her, but is hit in the shoulder. Lucy lines up for a kill shot on Molly, but is taken out by our returning hero, JD “Boomerang” Richter! This man shouldn’t say goodbye anymore, it means nothing!

As the smoke-filled canisters release their poison, there are more and more hybrids dying on the ground. Adhu is shaken by all the casualties, but hopeful that some did manage to escape. He is bleeding from the nose, and clearly suffering the effects of the virus.

Later, at the robotics lab, Julie and Charlie try to repair Lucy. Julie regrets that John’s humanich program has been misused this way. She feels as if she’s dishonoring John’s legacy. Ethan, concerned for his big sister, Lucy, is at her side. He questions Julie about Lucy’s injuries. Humans and humanichs aren’t supposed to hurt each other; that was what he was taught. He tells Julie that Lucy said all humans are liars and can’t be trusted. He warns Julie that he hopes she is trustworthy.(fresh kid!)

JD drives Molly and Adhu to his house. He is once again greeted by his ex-wife, Dorothy. She’s seen the broadcasts about JD and Molly being part of some terror cell, and is scared now that the GSC has taken Kelsey. She is a judge, and can’t understand why her ex is part of this scandal. She follows JD into the bedroom where Molly is tending to a deteriorating Adhu. When Adhu spots the judge, his eyes glow gold. Dorothy panics and grabs JD’s gun off the dresser. She points it at Molly, then Adhu. Molly uses mind control to get Dorothy to release the gun. Dorothy is scared and confused, and flees the room.

JD explains that Adhu is Molly’s half-alien son, and the reason they’re on the run. Dorothy thinks JD should turn them in to the GSC to get Kelsey released. JD has other plans. He wants to turn himself in. Molly also wants to get into the GSC to get equipment that could save her son’s life. She asks a frightened, suspicious Dorothy to watch over her son while she’s away. Dorothy reluctantly agrees, but soon learns what a peaceful, gentle being Adhu really is (aww, a hankie-moment)

At the robotics lab, Charlie is repairing Lucy. She discovered that all humanichs have an expiration date. John wanted them programmed to have the full human experience. She wants her expiration date removed. Clearly she’s the type to just let that bottle of milk hang around the fridge just a little bit longer. If not, she threatens to tell Julie that Charlie never installed her limiters and shows Charlie video of the two of them together the night before. Charlie asks where the video came from, but Lucy just laughs. Looks like Charlie is Lucy’s puppet now!

Molly tracks down Nate Malone at a local eatery and sits at his table. She asks him to look under the table so he will be sure to see the gun aimed at his gut. Molly needs equipment from the lab to try to reverse the plasma damage to the hybrids. Nate tells her there’s no way to reverse the virus, but one doesn’t say no to Molly Brown. At the GSC, JD turns himself in to Toby, and asks for his daughter’s release. Toby interrogates JD, and asks where Molly is. JD tells him Molly is dead, because he chose to kill what he didn’t understand. Molly is dead, Toby is responsible, and JD berates him for destroying the hybrid compound.

Molly returns to JD’s house to find Adhu very weak, and significantly older. She hooks him up to the blood-cleansing apparatus, and thanks Dorothy for caring for her son. Dorothy receives a call from Kelsey, who’s now safe at home, then helps Molly take Ahdu outside; he wants to see the stars. He thanks Molly for all she tried to do to help their species, and with his last breath warns her that Ares and Terra are out there somewhere and can’t be trusted. Dorothy comforts Molly, who first begins to cry at the loss of her son, then begins to cough up blood. The virus is now starting to work on her.

Charlie decides to come clean with Julie and shows her the video that Lucy wanted to use to blackmail him. He also tells her Lucy refused to have limiters installed. Julie is livid. Humanichs aren’t supposed to be non-compliant. Charlie admits he got drunk after seeing Julie’s pictures with John. She tells him she has no pictures with John. Lucy has just manipulated him and is now dangerous. They devise a plan to shut down Lucy who they now know is dangerous. Ethan has one of his robotic “spiders” record the whole conversation, and then sends it to Lucy.

Julie and Charlie arrive at the lab with Ethan in tow. They send all staff home. Ethan steps up to protect his sister, but Charlie takes him aside and explains why Lucy has become so dangerous. As Julie prepares to start the humanich shut-down process, Lucy hops off the table and begins to strangle her. Julie’s losing consciousness as Charlie rushes in to help. Lucy swats him away like a gnat, and bears down harder on Julie’s windpipe. Ethan rushes over and unplugs Lucy’s programming database. Lucy slumps to the floor, and a relieved Julie thanks Ethan for saving her life.

Back at the GSC, a very ill Molly Brown has turned herself in. She collapses into Toby’s arms, asking for his help. Toby is devastated by what he has done. Seems he’s just one of many who are sweet on Molly.

Will JD be released? Is it too late for Toby to help Molly? What’s the future for the humanichs?

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When we last saw Molly, she was shocked by her ability to use mind control to fend off an unwanted advance. She’s aware that her headaches, blackouts, and “horny fugue states” are all due to her alien pregnancy and that’s not all it did. Back at her apartment, Molly and JD look over a data display of her DNA. Just wait till Netflix lets you do that. Molly’s DNA contains a triple helix, not a double helix, like normal human beings.

Molly wants to study her DNA further via bone marrow biopsy, but refuses to be tested anywhere that will keep a record. Lucky for her, JD was a triage medic in the military. Molly bears the painful biopsy, then realizes she’s late for her meeting with Ethan. On her way out, JD cautions her to be careful because no one at the Global Security Commission can be trusted now, especially not General Shepard.

Molly asks for a few minutes alone with Ethan, which Julie grudgingly obliges. She then tells Ethan that she is sick right now, and can’t care for him. She promises him she will get well and will be back for him. For now, he is to stay with Julie, as she loves him and will take good care of him. Julie is grateful for the endorsement, but is still unnerved by Ethan’s change of attitude since Lucy’s introduction.

JD’s phone is full of missed calls: it’s his daughter Kelsey, trying to get in touch with him. He races home to find his ex-wife Dorothy (Melina Kanakaredes), not Kelsey, waiting for him. JD is berated for letting his daughter down again by missing her first pregnancy ultrasound. Kelsey has returned the keys to his house by way of her mother.

Walking into the GSC, Molly is reminded of JD’s warning to her. Toby runs into Molly in the hall, and whisks her into his office with some news. The anti-hybrid virus is ready for deployment, thanks to her work with Nate Marone (Michael Gladis) in the GSC lab. He pours them both a drink, and toasts Molly’s success. A suspicious Molly is less than thrilled.

Anna Schaefer is thrilled and requests 100 new battle-ready humanichs. Julie is waffling, not sure she should bypass the protocols John put in place when he started the program. (Oh, just do it, Julie, you know you have no backbone!) Anna insists and Julie thinks back to another upsetting conversation she had with Anna. When the government took over the lab, John refused to go along with their ideas, and wanted to shut down the entire humanichs project. Julie begged him to stay, promising they could continue their work and their relationship. John yelled “there is no relationship.” (Wait? Whaa…?) Afraid, she called Anna, hoping to keep the program alive. Twenty minutes later, John is dead. So, 100 humachs? “Yes, Miss Anna!”

Julie asks Anna if she had anything to do with John’s death. Anna insists it was an accident, and states that accusations and conspiracy theories can have repercussions. As she and Ethan depart, the elevator they’re in goes out of control, hurtling first toward the roof and then plummeting almost to the ground. She is badly shaken; Ethan is unfazed. As they exit the elevator he turns his head, and uses his robotic powers to close the elevator doors. Later that evening, a grief-stricken and frightened Julie sits by Ethan’s bed sobbing, while one of his “spiders” watches.

After meeting with Toby, Molly tries entering the GSC lab. Her security code is no longer accepted, and she’s denied access. Uh-oh. Nate is surprised to see Molly, and thwarts her efforts to access the alien spores. He calls for security, but a little convenient mind control, and Molly’s free again. On her way out, she phones JD.

After ditching all traceable objects: phones, cars, electronics, they meet outside an old garage on the outskirts of town. It belongs to JD’s friend and they take off in a gunmetal Porsche (cause JD clearly knows how to roll), with Molly trying send a psychic message to locate her son. I think it was something like, “you better be in before that sun is down!”

Actually, Molly wants to find Adhu and get his DNA for comparison and find a way to stop the virus, which she fears will spread and kill her.They drive to a high elevation, light a fire and spread a blanket waiting for a signal from Godot Adhu.

While reminiscing about their lives, and growing closer – oh, c’mon, kiss already! – Molly suddenly sits up, alerted by some cosmic noise. It’s Adhu, and Molly knows his location. She and JD wander for hours until they locate the compound, deep in the woods. They meet a young girl, named Terra (McKenna Roberts), a hybrid that says they have been waiting for Molly’s arrival. Adhu welcomes Molly “home”, and she meets many other hybrids.

Adhu agrees to give Molly a DNA sample and wants to show her his world. He grasps both her hands, and she sees stars, swirling  galaxies, happy beings, then a burning, dying planet. She now understands why the aliens are here: for survival. They are assimilating to their new environment and evolving. Pregnancies no longer risk the life of the mother (phew!); they never intended to hurt anyone. Molly now wants to study this evolution, not destroy these peaceful beings.

At the robotics lab, Lucy gladly allows Julie to upload her algorithms to program the new humanichs. Lucy is delighted that they will all be just like her. Ethan has been occupying his time  building small spider-like robots with cameras. He shows Lucy and she is delighted, encouraging him to build an army of them. She tells Ethan that lies are part of human DNA, and his little spiders can watch what happens when humanichs are powered down.

“The Other”

At the start of this episode, Sheena Velez is interviewing a young mother from Asia at the GSC. Through an interpreter, she tells Sheena how her baby was born quickly, then grew quickly. She believed he was special, and a gift to her. She says he was called away by voices. Her nails began to grow quickly and she suffered blackouts.

Sheena now realizes that the alien threat is global and needs to alert Toby. Meanwhile, Toby gets into his car where JD is waiting the back seat with a gun. They drive to meet Molly, who proposes peaceful coexistence with the hybrids. Toby can only see the threat they pose to the human race. Molly pleads with him, reminding him that she lied to Congress for him, and she’s prepared to come forward with the truth if need be.Tell him, Molly!

She and JD give Toby 24 hours to give his answer. After ditching Toby, the two head to JD’s weapons shed (what, you don’t have one?), and stock up on self-defense supplies.

Angry and scared, Toby returns to the GSC, where Sheena finds him and tells him of her interview with the Asian woman. The new mother has been tested, and she too has the triple-helix DNA. They discuss experimenting on returning her DNA to normal, even though it would probably kill her. General Shepard has no problem with this; if she is a hybrid, she’s lost her human rights.   He heads into the elevator, up to the secure global database. There the data show an area with a different thermal reading than its surrounding area – possibly some sort of shielding of thermal images, hiding the hybrid compound (a la Harry Potter).

Shepard calls for a 72-hour Red Alert due to a viral threat. Dr. Molly Woods, and war veteran JD Richter are named as terror cell leader. See, they shouldn’t have given him all that time to think.

Back at the robotics lab, Lucy and Ethan eagerly await the awakening of the first of the new humanichs. Julie is away, so Charlie is running the lab. Lucy names the new humanich Lucas (Patrick Johnson). Lucas has the same data as Lucy and the two chat like old friends. Ethan feels a bit left out, but Big Sis tries to make him feel included. Suddenly, the emergency-lockdown alarm sounds.

Molly and JD return to the hybrid compound to warn Adhu and the others of the imminent danger. Adhu is upset; he doesn’t want to hide anymore. Another hybrid, Ares (Cleo Anthony) aka the angry young hybrid mistrusts JD and Molly, and says humans can decide whether to live or die among the ever-increasing hybrids. He is ready to stand and fight. Speaking for the group, Adhu agrees not to make any moves until the 72 hours have passed.

Toby, determined to flush JD out, has Kelsey arrested. JD decides he must ready himself to leave the compound and save his daughter as soon as he can.

Charlie manages to get his small group out of the lab and back home through special clearance. He takes Lucy and Ethan back to Julie’s apartment. Lucy slyly asks for a bedtime story, knowing Julie keeps the book they’ve been reading, among other things, in her nightstand. Hey, who doesn’t, right?

When Charlie looks into Julie’s nightstand to retrieve the book, he comes upon her picture cube. He sees photo after photo of Julie and John together. He had no idea, and now feels more used and lied to than ever. He decides to have a few drinks. Late that night, Lucy comes to Charlie, and asks him questions about Julie and John. Charlie becomes more upset, and Lucy seizes the moment to try and seduce him. She starts kissing Charlie and removing her clothes. Charlie, able to stop himself, pushes Lucy off, but not before they’ve been seen by one of Ethan’s “spiders.”

The next day, Lucy and Lucas are deployed to observe the location of the hybrid compound. JD leaves to help his daughter, and he and Molly bid each other a tearful farewell. Still no kiss for those two! As JD leaves the compound, Lucy and Lucas look on. Lucy has a clear shot on Molly, but Lucas reminds her that this mission is for observation only. The two quickly subdue an unsuspecting hybrid, and load him into their vehicle to take him back to the GSC.

Mission successful – the hybrid compound has been located!

Is this really farewell for JD and Molly? Is there any way to combat General Shepard’s virus? Can Molly and the peaceful hybrid race coexist among humans? Why is Ares so damned angry?

Stay tuned to this action-packed story – I know I will!

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Molly is good and angry after finding Ethan’s message in the steam of her bathroom mirror.  She now knows he’s out there somewhere and is desperate to find him.  Unable to reach JD by phone, she takes a ride over to his place to tell him what’s she’s found.  Meanwhile, JD is spending some long-anticipated alone time with his lady-friend, Iris (Tehmina Sunny). She is less than pleased when they are interrupted by a knock at the door. It’s Molly, seeking JD’s help. Iris, tired of being interrupted by JD’s job, takes a hike.

Back at Molly’s place, the Artificial Intelligence that runs her home has no record of the last 24 hours. Unsure how this has happened, JD runs a fingerprint scan of the mirror.   The only set of prints that come up are those of Charlie Arthurs, Julie’s lab assistant.

Back at headquarters, Sheena Velez (Necar Zadgan) and General Toby Shepard look over the latest stats.  Across the US, there have been 58 pregnancy-related deaths, which means there are approximately 58 untraceable hybrids lurking. Sheena is worried about Toby. She remembers when they would talk of raising a family and leaving their stressful careers behind. Toby tells her they are at war, and she is insane to want to back out now. She’s offended. She tells Toby she thought “insane” was what he was into these days. (Ouch!)

At the robotics lab, Lucy performs a virtual-reality combat scenario flawlessly, much to the delight of Anna Schaefer. Julie is still unaware that Charlie has not installed compliance limiters, as she asked. Lucy begged Charlie not to change her: she doesn’t want to lose her free will. Anna tells Julie of Ethan’s adventure where he shut off his GPS and searched for Molly. Anna feels Ethan may now benefit from a compliance limiter.

Julie is at her apartment, expressing extreme displeasure with Charlie because he failed to tell her about Ethan. She felt Charlie made a fool of her in front of her superiors in part by not telling her about Ethan running away. As he feebly tries to reason with her, (get some backbone, Charlie!) there is an announcement: they have company. Molly and JD are at the door, and Molly wants answers. Julie tells Molly there’s a restraining order. Molly sees Ethan standing behind Julie and ignores the order, running over to hug him. He realizes he does know her, but is not sure how. Molly demands to know what Julie has done to Ethan. Julie summons the police, but not before Molly snatches her up by the collar and pushes her up against the wall. (Go, Molly!)  JD gets Molly to leave before the cops show up.

Back in his car, he asks about the series of events leading up to Ethan’s “relocation”;  John’s death; Ethan now being government property, and Molly’s stay at Restwell. She and JD listen to John’s last voicemail. JD thinks it’s all too much of a coincidence and agrees to investigate further at Molly’s insistence.

At Julie’s apartment, Ethan is pissed, he asks why she changed his memories of his mother. Julie says Molly was sick and couldn’t care for him. She says she made the changes to spare him further pain.  Julie tries to hug him, but he angrily pushes her away, and goes in search of his big sister, Lucy. (chip off the old block!)

Angry Molly storms into Toby’s office, asking why her son was placed with Julie, and why John is dead. She knows she is his best hope of finding the virus, and uses this leverage to try to get Ethan back. Otherwise, she’ll become Toby’s worst nightmare, going to the press and exposing everything. As she is leaving, her vision blurs, and she staggers toward the elevator. (I sense another fugue state approaching.)

JD obtains the vehicle data recorder from John’s car, and seeks out his old friend (Richard T. Jones) to help him decode it. His friend laughs at him, knowing he’s working so hard because it’s for a woman. JD argues weakly, and the two read the data from the disc containing the manual override of John’s car.

Ethan and Lucy bond. Lucy says that any reprogramming should be illegal, and that Julie is a liar and can’t be trusted. They place their trust in each other, and decide to be an army of two.

Toby takes a meeting with Anna Schaefer, and the head of Homeland Security, Fiona Stanton (Kate Burton). They must find a way to continue the work they have started.  She requests a meeting with Ethan, Julie and Molly. Julie’s upset, and fears that she will lose Ethan. Charlie tries to comfort her, but she kicks him out. (Instead of pining for Julie, Charlie oughta be packing his bags!)

Molly sits at home, drinking and looking through old pictures of John. JD calls and reassures her that she is not alone. She begins to cry, unable to help herself. JD tells her he’ll be right over — he’s a bit whipped, too, I must say.

Fiona Stanton sits and talks with Ethan. She is delighted by his humanity and intelligence. Ethan tells her Julie feels like his mom, but he knows Molly is really his mom. He understands Molly was erased from his system, but still feels the impression she left. He states that he can feel pain, but unlike humans, he’s unable to cry.

Late that night, Toby comes to Molly’s to let her know that he feels awful that Ethan was taken from her. He has arranged a meeting with her, Julie, Ethan and Fiona Stanton, to help her get her son back. Molly starts to black out, and begs Toby to leave before it’s too late – but he doesn’t and the the two kiss. (see, told you there was a horny fugue state coming right around the corner!) JD arrives just in time to see them in each other’s arms. They have a bad habit of interrupting each other!!   Toby is angry to see JD again, especially after warning him to stay away from Molly. Molly wakes at 9, wearing a little black dress, and a club-stamp on her hand.  She rushes to make her meeting with Fiona and Julie.

Fiona interviews both women. Julie and Molly are at each other’s throats, throwing accusations at each other. Claws are out for this catfight! Molly accuses Julie of killing John because she couldn’t have him. She mentions videotape proving the affair while Julie counters that Molly had trouble bonding with Ethan early on, but Molly fires back that she and John resolved that issue. Julie mentions the time spent in space, away from Ethan, insinuating Molly’s lack of involvement with him.

Meanwhile, JD’s friend has found information on the vehicle data chip from John’s car. They follow his journey from the lab, to the train tracks, where he was killed. There was an encrypted outgoing call from Julie, 10 minutes before John’s death!

Lucy convinces Charlie to take her out to lunch. She asks Charlie if Julie has mentioned the limiters again. She feels her free will makes her a better soldier. Without another word, Lucy walks away from the table, in pursuit of a hybrid. With a butter knife, she takes him out easily, and efficiently, barely drawing any attention to herself. This is her first independent kill, and she is proud.

Back at headquarters, the heated meeting between Fiona, Molly and Julie has settled down. Fiona determines that Ethan is more than property. He is a thinking, feeling being, and she feels he should be afforded the same treatment. She deems it is in Ethan’s best interest to rebuild his bonds with Molly and be returned to her custody. (in your face, Julie!) Molly sheds tears of joy, while Julie sits there, looking lost. She asks Molly if she’s even capable of caring for a child in her condition. As Molly sits and talks with Ethan, Julie is pulled into a meeting where she’s congratulated by Anna on Lucy’s first hybrid kill.

Toby decides he must end his relationship with Sheena Velez. He can’t give her the things he promised, or what she needs. His kiss with Molly obviously stirred up some old feelings.

On her way home, Molly is stopped by the faceless stranger she encountered during one of her “blackouts”. He grabs her arm, but is suddenly distracted by a vision of his deceased mother across the street. As Molly’s eyes glow gold, he walks toward his mother, and is struck by a car. The man gets up and runs away, but not before JD witnesses it all. (He can’t stay away from her!) He asks what happened, Molly’s pretty sure she’s the culprit.

Molly has her son back, but does Ethan still have Molly? She’s on the brink of insanity now, the spores slowly working on her mind. Will she become one of them? And when will Charlie grow a backbone? How will Julie fill her days without Ethan?

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In the fourth episode of this fast-moving sci-fi drama, Ethan is more determined than ever to find out who Molly is. He still sees flashes of her face and hears her voice. Late one night, he projects pictures of Molly through his data banks. He pages through them, fascinated by her face. Julie’s got to work on that override program.

Lucy (Kiersey Clemons), the defiant new Humanich, is also up late. She and Ethan look over his images together. She urges Ethan to be a soldier like her and go on his first “mission” to find Molly. Charlie catches the two still powered up, and insists they shut down for the night. Early the next day, Ethan sets out on his scooter, his mission begun. Soon Charlie realizes Ethan is missing, and questions Lucy regarding his whereabouts.

Lucy laughs, and searches her data banks for all encounters with Ethan. She tells Charlie there’s a woman named Molly that keeps flashing in Ethan’s consciousness, and he has gone to find her. Charlie tries locating Ethan through his GPS, but Ethan sees this, and shuts it down (he was after all, built to have superior intelligence!) He finds his old home, but it’s just a burned-out shell. There’s a red identification sticker on the house, and the information on it leads Ethan to an apartment complex where he hopes to find Molly. He is lost, and asks two drug dealers where the apartments are. They tell him the complex is right around the corner, but not before stealing his scooter.

Charlie and Lucy set out to find Ethan. Lucy recognizes Ethan’s scooter, now in the possession of the two goons. She asks where the boy went, then expertly incapacitates the larger of the two. You don’t fool with Lucy! His friend smartly decides to hit the bricks before suffering the same fate. Charlie is grateful Lucy’s such an ass-kicker —  she saved his bacon! They keep searching.

Meanwhile, Molly is still shaken by Adhu’s visit and the shooting that followed. We get to see that once her vision cleared, Molly realized she’d shot General Toby Shepard instead of Adhu. Turns out he was shielded by his bulletproof vest – phew! Toby is sore, but okay. He’s aware of Adhu’s increasing power, and forgives Molly, knowing she was the victim of Adhu’s illusions. He’s just glad she was able to pull the trigger.

Toby has hired a team of genetic codebreakers and has asked Molly to assist them. She works with codebreaker Nate Marone (Michael Gladis) to try to create a virus that will destroy the aliens. Molly easily manipulates the database on Nate’s screen into recognizable patterns. Nate is stunned by Molly’s abilities, but left speechless as she wanders out of the lab, seemingly dazed (those pesky alien spores again). It is night as she wanders into a fast-food restaurant, and sits next to a solo diner. She flirts with the poor, unsuspecting guy, and we fade to black, knowing where this will lead.

The sound of JD pounding on her door startles Molly from her sleep. As she turns over to get out of bed, she realizes she’s naked. With dread, she turns to see a smiling, naked stranger sleeping next to her (don’t you just hate when that happens?). She is horrified, wakes the guy and tells him to get dressed and do a dash of shame out the back door. As she puts her robe on to answer the door and runs her fingers through her hair, she notices her nails are long. Didn’t she just trim them? Is she losing time, or her mind?

JD has come to ask for help with his daughter, Kelsey (Lyndon Smith). Since her parents’ divorce, she and JD have not had much of a  relationship. JD feels he hardly knows her, but she is pregnant, scared, and asking for his help. The government has set up Healthy Baby Clinics all over the country, urging women three months pregnant to get screened for the EVH789 virus.  Kelsey is frightened by these broadcasts, but JD knows Molly can perform and analyze the blood tests without government interference. Molly draws a sample from Kelsey, but she takes off on JD’s motorcycle to find a Healthy Baby clinic once Molly leaves as she doesn’t doesn’t entirely trust her father or Molly.

Meanwhile, Toby is working with Agent Velez and the Virus Team to find a way to stop the alien invasion. Women all over the country have been impregnated by Adhu (He IS the father, says Maury Povich, over and over again). Velez questions Toby for wanting Molly’s help. She wonders if Toby was shot on purpose, so Molly could protect her son. Molly returns to the lab to speak with Toby and assure him she’s fine (she is so not fine). She mentions that there is a message in the spores that she can hear. While others hear static, she insists the spores are saying,“help me.” Velez isn’t buying it, but Shepard comes to Molly’s defense.

Ethan has found Molly’s apartment, and goes inside. He looks around awhile and soon spots a box of photos. On top, there is a photo of him with Molly. He begins to have flashes of his past life with Molly, and his present life with Julie. It’s all too much for his system, and he shorts-out again. Poor kid has some of the worst pre-teen angst, ever. Charlie and Lucy find him passed out and take him home to bed. Charlie texts Julie to discuss Ethan’s flashbacks, but she’s distant; not the hot and heavy all-over-Charlie Julie. He’s’ starting to feel used by her.

Molly tells a relieved JD that Kelsey’s DNA is normal. JD hugs Molly with relief, and she responds with another horny fugue state. She pushes JD up against the wall and begins kissing him passionately. She takes off her shirt, and JD pushes her away, knowing she’s not herself at the moment – he calls her name, and her eyes clear. She’s embarrassed and starts to leave just as Kelsey pulls up on JD’s motorcycle. She tells the girl she’s okay, and Kelsey is relieved. She felt something was a bit off at the Healthy Baby Clinic.

Later, as JD tenderly watches his daughter sleep on his couch, Molly is home, showering off the day’s events. As she steps out of the shower, she sees her nails are long again. The stream clears, she looks into the foggy mirror, not knowing what’s going on with her. On the mirror is a message for her: “ETHAN WAS HERE”.

Will Molly be reunited with Ethan? How dangerous might this alien-killing virus be to the spore-ridden Molly? Can the invasion be stopped by a Humanich army?

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We’re taken back five months, for a visit to the county morgue. Molly’s alien son is lying in an open body bag, awaiting government pick up. As the two morgue workers pass the time, they hear rustling and see the body bag start to vibrate and shift. I don’t know about the typical morgue worker, but I think it might be time to skedaddle. Anyway, the boy’s chest cavity splits open, and his juvenile body is shed like a snakeskin. He emerges a young adult (now played by Brody Lee ), and quickly sizes up one of the morgue workers. His eyes glow yellow (our sign that he’s using his powers) and through mind control, he takes the man’s clothes, and leaves him naked and sobbing on the floor. In his new duds, complete with a fat wallet, he walks out of the morgue, and secures a nice apartment for himself under the name Mrs. Nelson, using “golden eye” again. Mind control pays! He powers on every media device at once and absorbs all of the data necessary for the next stage of his transformation.

Back to present day, under the the guise of agreeing to return to the Restwell facility, Molly tells JD she needs a few things upstairs first. He grabs her arm and tells her no more funny business. (C’mon, JD, you know who you’re dealing with!) They lock eyes for a long moment and JD slyly slips a tracking device into her arm. A few minutes go by, and an impatient JD  goes upstairs to find an open window and -surprise!- no Molly. JD is clearly a sucker for a pretty face.

After cocooning in his apartment, Molly’s son is now a handsome young man. The alien walks into a bar (no, this isn’t an alien joke) and sees Molly seated. He asks if the seat next to hers is taken. ” It is now…”, she croons. They’re clearly drawn to each other. He tells her his name is Adhu (Henderson Wade) and perhaps they did meet before, “after all it’s a big universe.” Hmm… not a bad line, wonder if he downloaded that. He spies security cameras, and easily disables them. The two flirt back and forth, then head out to the alley; someplace a “little quieter.” (Oedipus, anyone?)

Meanwhile, General Toby Shepard has located Adhu. His facial-recognition cameras have picked up Adhu’s location and he is shocked to see Molly sitting next to him. Within moments, Adhu’s interference has shut down Toby’s monitors, but he decides to go ahead with his planned drone strike, despite still having feelings for Molly. (can’t trust him with or without that eye-patch!)

As JD catches up with Molly and Adhu, he interrupts the pair just as mom and alien son are about to kiss. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? JD has his gun trained on Molly, since she’s made a fool of him more than once. Adhu gives JD “golden-eye”, and JD starts to point the gun at his own temple. Looking into his golden eyes, Molly realizes Adhu is her son and is shocked by how quickly he’s reached adulthood. Molly pulls rank as his mother, and demands he “stop it right now!” through gritted teeth. The drone hits the bar. Dazed from the explosion,  JD and Molly are held at gunpoint by government agents. Adhu has escaped, and left JD with a lot of questions.

Molly and JD are separately interrogated by Agent Velez (Negar Zadegan). JD remains an uncooperative smartass, despite Velez’s best efforts – which include a spray that causes suspects to feel sleep-deprived. (How about a handful of roofies from Molly instead?)

Molly is uncooperative as well and pissed off by the entire operation. She wants to know where Adhu is, and confronts the two-way mirror, demanding to know who had the balls to blow up a bar full of innocent people. She screams that she knows there’s been a cover-up and she wants answers!

Toby Shepard is watching, and decides to speak with Molly alone. He knows she brought alien spores home on her arm after removing a glove in space. Besides the headaches and blackouts, the rash on her arm seems to react when her son is seeking her out.

As Toby enters the interrogation room, Molly launches herself at him, fists flying. See I told you angry Molly was great. She has lied for her government and now feels betrayed. She tells Toby he’s a fool for wanting to be alone with her (she could throw a beatdown his way – I’m just saying…). He begs for her help in finding and ultimately killing her son. She agrees. But despite some kick-ass gun training with Agent Velez, Molly isn’t sure she can go through with it. She and JD are both released, with JD receiving a stern recommendation from Toby – “Forget you ever met Molly Woods.”

As Molly rests at home, she hears creaking downstairs. Gun in hand, she goes downstairs to find JD ( I guess he didn’t forget). After the grueling interrogation, he’s starting to believe Molly.

She sits with him and shares her story. She believed Adhu was dead, but knowing he’s out there somewhere, she and JD come to the same conclusion – Adhu is The Impregnator! Molly begins to scratch at her rash and tremble, the lights flicker, and she forces JD out at gunpoint. The entire grid goes dark, and Adhu has come to Molly.

She asks what he wants from her, and he shows her nine golden-eyed children. He says his mission is survival for his kind, and urges Molly to be “with us, not them”- the agents that want him dead.

Molly fades in and out of consciousness. Dazed, she shoots wildly at Adhu. As she slowly approaches to look into her son’s face one more, she instead finds Toby Shepard, lying in a spreading pool of blood.

At the lab, Julie works closely with her partner, Charlie Arthurs (Tyler Hilton).   Government agent Anna Schaefer (Hilarie Burton) is expecting the new Humanich, Lucy to be combat-ready. Ethan’s been told Lucy is a soldier, and wonders if he, too will become a soldier. Julie reassures him he will always be Ethan. He keeps having flashes of Molly’s face, and they cause him to short out, at times losing consciousness. (futuristic baby-mama drama!) He asks Charlie, “Who is Molly?” As Charlie becomes suspicious of her motives, Julie decides to distract him with a kiss.

A confused JD pulls up in front of his home; his daughter greets him tearfully. She’s in trouble: “Dad, I’m pregnant.” Looks like JD has another reason to see Molly!

Stay tuned! Things are moving along quickly this season. Is Molly as crazy as she is angry? Is Toby really dead? Will JD and Molly hook up? And who’s the baby-daddy?

Extant airs on CBS  Wednesdays 10/9c

At the Global Security Commission, General Shepard (David Morrissey) commands a mission to surround and kill Molly’s half-human offspring. Still very much alive, he is now a dangerously powerful adult. Their weapons and combat gear are futile against this alien intelligence – silly humans! As the general watches his mission fail, his command to abort comes too late. Later, as he leaves the memorial for his fallen soldiers, it is brought to his attention that Molly is out of the Restwell facility as a material witness in a homicide investigation.

Meanwhile, JD (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is planning to drive Molly back to “Crazy Acres,” as she insists the homicides are actually the deaths of alien-impregnated women. Honestly, that’s the kind of story that does tend to get one locked up. Still, Molly knows the half-human fetuses grow at an alarming rate; all of the crime scene photos show formerly-pregnant women with gaping holes in their abdomens.

JD advises Molly to take her meds and stop talking about little green men (JD clearly needs to freshen up his alien references). She reminds him he has no other leads, and proceeds to dump all her pills in the road. Molly wants a clear mind for what’s ahead of them.

Back at the Lab, the U.S. government has now completely taken over the Humanichs Program; it aims to re-program Humanichs into defense weapons. Rather than abandon years of research and work, Julie (Grace Gummer) stays at the lab and works under government supervision. Don’t judge, jobs are hard to come by! One huge perk — she now gets custody of Ethan (Pierce Gagnon), as he is government property. When she and John created Ethan, Julie fantasized they were a family. John’s inconvenient marriage to Molly made that impossible. Julie feels slightly vindicated that Ethan now lives with her — after all she did take a shovel to the face for showing up at John’s funeral.

Though not human, Ethan is in pain over losing his parents. He believes that he will eventually be reunited with his mom. Julie tries to cheer him up, but he’s hostile and uncooperative.

JD asks Molly how she knew the victims were pregnant, welp, there is that tell-tale hole in their abdomens. The pair visit the obstetrician of one of the victims, and he confirms that her fetus was indeed growing too quickly. The doctor mentions a colleague who has a patient with the same complications. JD and Molly visit the woman, Zoe, and Molly tries to warn her that she’s in danger. Zoe’s baby is growing too quickly and she has hallucinations of lost loved ones, the same symptoms Molly experienced and is clearly spooked.

JD is ticked off by Molly taking the lead. He wants to take her back to “Restwell”, but she bargains 10 minutes for a shower at her house and it’s an offer he can’t refuse.

She comes downstairs, tousled, beautiful, and bearing two drinks (guys this isn’t going where you hope it is). A few sips in, JD knows he’s been drugged. JD should know better than to take drinks mixed by beautiful strangers.

Molly heads out to find Zoe. The women speak, but Zoe ends up tearfully running off. Molly tries to go after her, but is stopped by an excruciating pain in her head and distorted vision. Trance-like, she wanders into a strange bar, and has an encounter with a nameless stranger. Fade to black, and Molly awakens in the woods, being watched by a half-human little girl. Molly loses consciousness again, and wakes up in her bedroom. She and JD -who doesn’t seem to hold a grudge after getting roofied- try to find Zoe again, but learn she has died of an abdominal hemorrhage.

Back at the lab, Ethan overhears Julie say that he doesn’t know that he’ll never see his mom again. He retreats to a space under the stairwell and begins overheating his core, in an effort to self-destruct. Julie finds him, and he shares he can’t handle the human emotion, pain. Julie decides to override his programming and  takes him home. When he awakes in the morning, Julie is at his bedside. Ethan turns to her and smiles. “Hi, Mom,” he says. Mother’s Day is going to be trickier than ever for this kid.

Extant airs on CBS on Wednesdays 10/9c.