Extant ‘Re-Entry’ RECAP: Molly returns to earth with a bump! Here’s everything we learned from last night’s episode…
Last night, CBS’ highly anticipated new space drama, Extant premiered. We were pretty excited about the premiere of the drama, and we weren’t really disappointed.
Much like any new show, we got the background of what was going on, but there were a few odd surprises along the way. Head on inside for all the details.
So, to begin with, Molly Woods (Halle Berry) is an astronaut, and she’s just come back to earth after being on a 13-month solo mission in space. But, she came back to earth with a bump – literally.
The first episode posed a lot of questions, which we’re hoping will be answered as the first season goes on, but we’re willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks.
Molly Returns
The episode opened with a very normal looking boy flying a spaceship in his room, but then he heard someone hurling in the bathroom. When he goes to see, we discover Molly is throwing up in the bathroom, and we all know why. But, when the boy asks, Molly tells him that she’s just readjusting to being back on earth after being in space for such a long time. The boy, who we discover is her son, Ethan, is worried that she won’t be able to make it to her ‘Welcome Back’ party later in the day, but she’s fine and is able to. Her friends pester her about having a drink, but she says she can’t, and luckily, her doctor is on hand to say that she’s not allowed to touch a drop until her medical results come back.
However, we started to get the eebie jeebies when Molly took out the trash at the beginning of the episode, and a shadowed figure was in the alleyway. Who this figure was will be explained further down this article, but when she turns back around to get a good look, the figure has disappeared.
The boy isn’t a boy…
Back upstairs in Ethan’s room, the boy is concerned that things aren’t the same with Molly, but his dad, John, reassures him that she just needs time to get back to normal.
“I think I need a flip,” Ethan tells John. He turns over, and john opens up a flap on his back, which is when we discover that not everything is at it seems.
The start and finish of it is: Ethan isn’t a human, instead he’s a humanic. A humanic is a type of Android, that is in a human body, and looks like a human, except, the inner workings are that of a robot. These robots are a lot more advanced than the robots we know, mind, as they’re able to learn as a real child does, and they’re able to act just like a human.
John needs funding to produce more humanics
John wants to secure funding so that he can make more humanics, but it doesn’t go well at the board meeting. He unfortunately doesn’t get the funding from the board to go ahead and manufacture some more children – yes, it’s as weird as it sounds – as he couldn’t give them the answers they wanted to hear.
WHO is that?
Later on, we see Molly looking through a scrapbook, and for those who saw the premiere episode trailer, you’ll have noticed a familiar looking guy – Marcus. From what we understand, Marcus was Molly’s former husband, and John says that if he was still around, there wouldn’t be a ‘them’ or an Ethan for that matter.
Molly is pregnant
Well, we all knew this already, it’s the whole premise of the series. So, Molly is told by her doctor that she’s mysteriously pregnant. She’s quizzed about whether she was always alone on board the space station, whether any international bodies docked, and whether there are any oddities at all. Molly says there were none. She asks her doctor to hold off posting her results to the main director, until she can get her head around everything.
Flashback time!
So, we finally got a proper flashback to the spaceship. Molly is doing her work, when Ben, the computer on board the spaceship, tells her that she has a video message from Ethan and John. Molly says that she wants to see it, but half way through, due to a solar flare, the picture cuts out. Ben says that he’s going to reset, but the system cannot reset the systems on the spaceship, so Molly is left in the dark. As she goes to the control center of the spaceship, she fiddles with a few knobs and manages to get the power up and running again, but between moving back and forth, she catches something – or someone – in the corner of her eye through one of the windows. You’ll never guess who it is… it’s Marcus. We thought Marcus was dead, or gone, anyway. What’s he doing on board the spaceship?
Molly opens one of the doors and lets him in, after he writes ‘Help Me’ on the window. But, it seems Marcus is struggling. He seems emotionless, and he can’t speak properly – he just mimics and repeats everything Molly says to him. They put their hands on each others faces, Molly begins to cry, and she seemingly falls to sleep. When she wakes up, Marcus has gone, but, before opening the door, she turned on a camera, which was attached to her space suit, so will that have caught anything?
Nobody believes Molly
Molly has to meet with the new deputy director, and the director of the company that she works for now that she has returned to earth. They have a few concerns, about a gap in the data caused by the outage. She explains to the pair that the security and life support came up as soon as she switched the power back on, but the communication system was down for 13 hours following the outage. She says that she doesn’t know why it would not come back up. They’re not too concerned anyway, but one thing that they do want to know about, is why some of the surveillance footage has been deleted from the logs.
Deny, Deny, Deny…
Molly wakes up on the floor of the space ship, after her weird encounter with Marcus. She quickly locks herself into one of the main rooms on the spaceship, and begins to look over the footage on the system, including the camera she had attached to her space suit, but Marcus is nowhere to be seen. He just seems to be like some anomaly. He was there, but the cameras haven’t picked him up from any angle. We see Molly in the same position as she was in when she was talking to him, but there’s no other person. She’s a little freaked out by it all, and so she deletes the footage from the system. When questioned about it, she said that she usually makes copies of the logs, but in this particular instance, she deleted the log instead of copying it. The deputy director doesn’t believe Molly and he has a plan…
John gets the funding
In the end, John gets the funding from the company he pitched the humanics to, but the only reason he gets it is because the deputy director of the company Molly works for wants to keep a close eye on the family. Giving John the funding will buy them time with the family, so they can work out what is going on… but will they?
Ethan does a runner
Ethan and Molly go out for ice cream, in a bid for her to bond with her son again. He decides he wants Molly’s ice cream, so she gives it to him, but someone selling balloons comes over to her, gives her a balloon and tells her someone has already paid for it for her. A note is attached to the bottom reading: “I know what happened to you. Contact soon”. Molly tries to get out of there as quickly as she possibly can, and in the process, she knocks Ethan’s Ice Cream out of his hand. He throws a paddy and does a runner. Molly finds him in the woods, stood over a dead bird. The robot/android/son killed a bird, and Molly is a little weirded out by everything that is happening. Back at home, John and Molly argue about how Ethan doesn’t know love, he has settings, and programmed data for him to look like he knows what love is, but really, he doesn’t. But, John warns that this is the only chance they will have to have a child, as Molly is supposedly infertile…
All eyes on Molly
The shadowy figure we met at the beginning of the episode is Molly’s former colleague, Harmon Kreiger. Everyone thinks that he committed suicide shortly after returning to earth, when he came back from his solo space mission, but he clearly isn’t dead. When Molly meets him in an alley that night, he tells her not to trust “them”, don’t trust anyone.
“I’ll find you. Until then, be careful. Don’t trust them. Anybody…,” he tells her.
Houston, we got a problem… We’ve got so many questions to ask, but it was a steady premiere episode. We’re pretty excited to see where it goes in the coming weeks.
Did you watch last night’s premiere episode of Extant? What did you think of it? Let us know in the comments, below…
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