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

I didn't come home alone.

My husband created a lifelike android called a humanich.

His name is ethan. He's the prototype.

This is a story about earth.

Ethan!

A story about family.

A story about surviving.

Previously on extant: Kryger: I'm sorry, molly.

I can't let you stand in the way. Harmon! No...

Harmon!

Girl: He wants you to help him.

If you take him, I can come, too.

Don't shoot me! I know where your family is.

My family is at home. No, they're not.

Oh, my god.

Stop!

He needs him.

Don't worry, daddy.

Everything is going to be fine.

Director sparks is out there somewhere with your baby.

I want you to bring it back to me.

With everything you've done to me?

John, sparks is out there with the baby.

Yasumoto is gonna send somebody with me.

I just wish you'd come to me instead.

I know. I'm sorry.

Be careful.

I will.

Sorry.

I'm gonna need to take that.

We don't want anyone tracking us.

We need to talk.

Of course.

I-I just spoke to my wife.

She said that you've sent someone to go with her

T-t-to meet this thing.

Yes.

Dr. Mason.

He's extremely capable.

Tha-that's not the point.

I come to you for help.

I-I-I tell you about this... Situation,

The danger of this thing,

And you sent my wife off t-to meet it?

It's her child.

It's half her child.

Yet she sees it as her child.

She saw it in the ultrasound.

It has a human form.

That's not the half I'm worried about.

The decision was not mine alone.

Molly has her own opinion in the matter.

She's not thinking rationally.

You helped an emotionally fragile woman

Put herself in danger.

I think ethan and I had better go.

I wish you wouldn't.

As you indicated,

Alan sparks is still out there.

And, thanks to you, so is my wife.

As I said, dr. Mason is a worthy companion.

I'd feel so much better with you and ethan here.

Your safety is important to me.

And, of course, to molly.

Big-picture people,

They lose sight of what really matters.

What does that mean?

I think that yasumoto went about all this

In completely the wrong way.

We'll bring your baby back.

And it won't be a lab-rat situation this time.

It'll be done on your terms.

Thank you.

So, you were doing bio-research on the seraphim?

Worms.

(chuckles softly)

Viability in orbit?

Exactly.

Everybody thinks the answers are out there.

We have all the proof we need right in front of us.

I was just down in caracas.

Found these microfossils embedded in meteorites,

With all the biomarkers of terrestrial cyanobacteria.

I mean, these life forms, they're coming to us.

We don't need to go to them.

I can't imagine what this must mean to you.

Finally getting a chance to see your child.

(labored breathing) woman: Ma'am?

Ma'am, look at me. Focus.

Breathe.

The baby's crowning now.

I'm gonna need suction. Ma'am, what is your name?

Molly... (groans)

Oh. Oh, god.

I'm seven-months pregnant.

It is too soon, it's too soon...

Molly, listen to me. You're going to have your baby now.

You don't have time to make it to a hospital.

I need you to work with me, okay? Okay, okay, okay.

Oh, god.

Marcus!

Marcus!

Marcus! Oh, no, no!

No! Marcus! No!

No, no, no, no, no, no...

Molly, I need you to focus.

No! Look at me.

Your baby's coming.

Push! Marcus!

Hey, honey.

I hate to have to tell you this.

The baby didn't make it.

We tried everything we could.

He was just...

Too little.

"he"?

It was a boy?

I'm so sorry.

No.

Oh, god. No, no, no.

Oh, sweetheart, come here.

No...

No.

We're about halfway there.

Another hour, maybe. Tops.

Anya?

The last time we were here, she was seven.

I remember she fell in trying to grab a lily pad.

You were so worried she'd get an infection.

It's not fair, alan, bringing me back here.

(sniffles)

I brought mrs. Wimberley's truck.

My car barely made it up the hill.

Anya, after you see what I want to show you...

...If you still want to go, I promise I'll bring you back.

You sure?

Drones don't lie.

This is anya sparks's car.

Sparks must have figured out someone could find it.

Had her meet him here, picked her up.

Yeah, the drones didn't think of that.

Now what do you want to do?

They must be hiding someplace in these hills.

Well, you used to be a cop.

Time to act like one.

It looks like a kidnapping case.

This man took a small child.

You should talk to sheriff dugan when he gets back.

Sheriff dugan is currently on a call.

You can wait around for him, if you'd like.

When do you expect him?

Any minute, unless he stopped off

For a burger at jay jay's.

It's not every day

We get to host a couple of feds.

We'll check back later.

Coming?

Alan, why did you drag me up here?

It won't make any sense if I tell you.

I just have to show you.

This...

This place has too many memories.

I never should have come.

Please,

Anya.

You've come this far already.

You know me.

I've never had the kind of faith that helped with anything.

But seeing this...

Just promise me you'll give it a chance.

Give what a chance?

Okay, enough.

Mommy.

Sparks: She's real.

It's not possible.

You can touch her.

It's not possible.

I was gone...

...But now I'm back.

Oh!

Sheriff dugan,

There were two federal agents here

About a kidnapping.

They should still be in town

If you'd like to try and find them.

A kidnapping?

Your drone footage from the wimberley woods

Shows a man who matches their description

Of the kidnapper. I've notified nancy.

And if you'd like,

I can cross ... (gunshot)

What'd you want to go and do that for, dugan?

I'm gonna need a bin number for the requisition form

If it's not blown all to crap.

(grunting)

Mason: Nobody gets it, do they?

Gets what?

The miracle of all this. Life...

Somewhere else in the universe.

Life that we can...

I mean...

You had a child with it.

So, what was it like?

Your encounter.

I guess the reason I'm asking is

I've heard some pretty hairy stories.

It must've been terrifying.

(quiet laugh)

No. It wasn't.

(laughs)

I'm sorry.

I mean, if this is hard to talk about.

I just, I-I want to know what to expect.

No. It's-it's not hard.

I saw someone.

He died a very long time ago.

And-and just to see him again was...

Well, it was beautiful.

This was marcus dawson?

From the academy?

He, uh...

Died in a car accident, right?

I'm sorry.

Yasumoto gave me your file.

I read through it on the flight.

Yeah. It was him.

You see, that's the real miracle here.

The fact that they can bring back

The people that you've lost.

Well, I didn't just lose him.

I lost our baby in that same crash.

I'm sorry.

That's, um... That's tough.

And I think that's exactly why he came to me.

It's not just that we get to see the people that we lost.

(stammers)

It's like we get to start again.

You know, we-we-we get to go down a new path.

If that is your child's gift,

To guide us down these alternate pathways,

Then this is truly what I've always dreamt of seeing.

A moment of punctuated equilibrium.

An evolutionary leap forward.

Your child could be that leap.

(quiet laugh)

Well, you know...

You know, I'm not one of these blue marble ladies.

So... "blue marble ladies"?

Well, you know, astronauts go to space

And they see the earth and...

It looks like a big, beautiful blue marble.

And then they start to think

That everything is all peace and love. (laughs)

Well, the universe doesn't care about us or our survival,

So I never bought into any of that.

I mean, 99.9% of every species

That has ever existed has now gone extinct.

Cheerful world view.

My point is we care about our survival

Even against those odds.

We're still here.

I mean, that's what evolution is, right?

Maybe...

Every bad thing that's happened

Is just a result of him trying to live,

Trying to protect himself.

Exactly.

And that's why we need a different approach.

(engines humming nearby)

We should get going. You ready?

We'll take the check.

Woman: Right away.

Thank you.

Kryger: When you get out of town, there could be 20 miles

Of forest in every direction.

We know sparks made it this far.

And traveling with the offspring,

This forest is as good a place to hide as any.

The drones should be able to give us a location soon.

We can't wait for that. He could be moving.

Well, if you want to poke around the woods

On your own, be my guest.

Or we could just ask him.

Man you're looking for, I know where he is.

Come with me.

Just the two of you

Working this alone?

We work out of the anderson office.

Call came in, we headed right out.

When it involves a child, you can't be too careful.

Anderson?

You know steve tillman?

Steve? Yeah.

Good man.

You hear that?

Loose contactor. I got to pull over.

I'm just gonna take a look.

Contactor's in the back.

(foliage ruffling nearby)

We always knew... Intelligent people knew

That we weren't the only thinking,

Feeling beings in the universe.

And this

Is what you found?

We aimed our ships towards something.

And this is what happened.

But how does it do... What it does?

I don't know.

It's half human.

It seems to be able to find them for us.

The people we've lost.

Connect us to them.

Bring them back.

We need to keep it safe.

Not just so that katie can stay with us,

But so that everyone can have this gift.

Mommy?

Yes?

You won't make me go back to that dark place,

Where dead people go?

It was lonely there.

No, darling.

I won't ever let you go back there.

Never.

How long till mom comes back?

She should be done with her research

And meeting us at home soon.

As long as we're here, there are a few diagnostics

I want to run down in the lab.

Will odin be there?

You two really seem to be hitting it off, huh?

I like him. He knows about things.

Man: I'm sorry, sir.

I'm afraid I'm gonna have

To ask you to remain here.

Heat sensors, huh?

Mr. Yasumoto gave explicit instructions.

Until the immediate threat is contained,

He really doesn't think it's a good idea

For you to leave the office.

We were just going to run downstairs to my lab.

What's an immediate threat?

Nothing. Just a misunderstanding

Mr. Yasumoto is helping us clear up.

That's right, son. Just a misunderstanding.

It's just so much easier for us to keep an eye

On you up here. I'm sure you can understand.

It's for your safety.

Please.

(birds chirping)

Just the two of us, right?

You're taking me to meet him?

Of course. That's the idea here.

And that's it?

We get your baby.

We bring the two of you back.

Then mr. Yasumoto puts all of his resources

At your disposal.

What...?

Something's wrong.

I know it's hard to get back trust

Once it's been broken, but...

It's trying to send me a message.

Uh, those trucks that passed the diner,

Where were they going?

I really don't know what you're talking about.

(birds squawking)

You had better stop this car.

Something's wrong.

Listen, molly, I understand.

You have every reason to be cautious.

But you have to believe me when I...

Take a seat anywhere you want.

I'll be with you in a sec.

Can I use your phone, please?

Weren't you just in here?

Yes, but I'm having an emergency.

I need to call my husband.

Please.

Fine. Thank you.

You can have some privacy up there. Okay.

If you do that, you're going to lose in three moves.

You learned fast.

It's simple.

(phone ringing)

Mom?

Hi, ethan. I learned how to play chess.

Molly: That's great. Can you give dad the phone, please?

Okay.

Ethan, can you please put dad on the phone?

I need to talk to him in private.

Is it another secret?

I need to talk to him

About something, okay?

Is this about me?

No. It is not about...

Ethan. Can you please, please just give dad the phone?

Come on.

Hey. What's going on?

Okay, look. John, I don't have

A lot of time, okay? So listen.

The man I'm with, dr. Mason,

The baby doesn't want me to be with him.

Okay? I have no idea why,

And it really doesn't matter right now,

But he sent a flock of birds

To attack him so I could get away.

John... I am not having a good feeling about this right now.

I really think you and ethan should get out of there.

Is this something to do with yasumoto?

I don't know.

But if it does, you shouldn't be there.

Hey. You got to go.

Someone's looking for you.

Okay.

John, I gotta go.

Hurry. Thank you.

(gasps) oh! Sorry.

This is for your own good.

Come on.

(sighs)

Have you played this before?

My dad just showed me.

It's easy.

Well, people don't think so.

You just have to look at the connections.

Nothing serious, I hope.

Oh.

Alan!

Anya: I can't find her.

She's gone.

No, no, no, no. She's not gone.

I'll take care of this.

Just wait here.

I'll take care of it, anya.

Katie?

Kate?

Katie.

Katie: Daddy?

You're here.

Molly's coming.

What?

When?

He needs your help to complete his mission.

He needs you to get molly to do something that has to be done.

Far away.

I'm not sure I understand.

He needs to do something to her,

And he needs to be stronger to do it.

Stronger?

He's going to need

To feed again.

Like what he did with that sheriff.

You won't see me again

Unless you help him.

(coughing)

I'm all right. It comes and goes.

You have to pull it together.

We don't have time for you to detox.

If you go soft, I'll leave you.

That's why I left molly.

I thought you said you got split up.

(sighs)

You left her in there to die?

I didn't have any choice.

You didn't see what it made me see.

Well, did it make you leave a friend to die,

Or was that your call?

I don't know what you imagine.

Some kind of second coming or the care

And feeding of your new pet alien.

Either way, you don't have a clue.

That thing has to be stopped. (rustling nearby)

Connections must have come loose.

I really appreciate this.

Yeah, rough roads out here, man.

Happens all the time.

Uh, my wallet's just inside.

Oh, we got a pot of coffee on.

I bet you'd like a cup.

Yes, I would.

(muffled screaming)

(muffled screaming continues)

Is this what it takes for it to do what it does?

(muffled screaming)

There are two kinds of feedings.

I bring it food, and it seems to grow

At an exceptional rate.

And then there's this.

(muffled screaming)

What its other half needs.

They don't die, but they are different after.

You try to make your peace with it.

Mommy.

Look what I made.

(muffled screaming)

Everything comes at a cost.

We can have our katie back.

I don't care about the rest.

(muffled screaming)

(indistinct radio chatter)

I promise you,

They're just here as a backup.

We just want to make sure we do this right.

You go in there with all these guys,

It's not gonna go right.

I hope you told them to say good-bye to their families.

Molly, I'm not the enemy here.

I care about exactly what you care about.

(sighs)

Look, I'm sorry about this.

I really believe that this is the best way to do it.

With force and more armed men?

I don't think that's the way to do it.

Like I said before, it's just a contingency.

Molly.

Your baby... It's half yours

And half this... Other.

And yes, it's trying to protect you.

And yes, it wants you, but this other...

Frankly, it would be presumptuous

To believe that it thinks like we do.

Because he wants to live?

And needs his mother?

I guess I'm presumptuous.

And I guess I'm cautious.

Look, we both want the same thing.

We both want to keep your baby safe.

I'll keep my baby safe.

Anya: "'I won't,' said alice.

"'off with her head!" the queen shouted

"at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.

"'who cares for you?" said alice.

"she had grown to her full size by this time.

Both: 'you're nothing but a pack of cards!'"

(laughs)

Anya: "at this point,

"the whole pack rose up into the air

"and they came flying down on her.

She gave a little scream, half of fright..."

She's here.

It's time.

Go talk to your offspring.

You want to meet your son?

Go ahead.

He's waiting.

(steady beeping)

So, you're doing fine.

No permanent damage was done.

Marcus is in intensive care.

But the bleeding's stopped.

He's tough.

He's gonna pull through.

Good.

The baby?

(crying)

Right there.

(chuckles)

It was close for a while, but he's a tough one, too,

And he's doing great.

(chuckles)

Do you want to touch him?

Come on.

I'll help you up.

Come on.

You're doing good.

Here we go.

Aw.

Oh, my gosh.

This is what you always dreamed of seeing.

You're beautiful.

I'm gonna let the two of you get acquainted.

I'm gonna come back and check on you later, okay?

Okay.

Hi.

(gurgling)

(chuckles)

Hi.

Hi, little guy.

You're just beautiful.

(birds chirping)

(man groaning)

(continues groaning)

Please. Please.

You'd better hold tight, 'cause the second

You let me go, I'll kill you!

I'll kill both of you!

You know who we're looking for.

I know. I know!

Tell us where he is.

You want to find him?

(panting): Yeah...

I'm happy to tell you.

Yeah...

He'd want to find you.

He'd be happy to meet you.

(continues panting)

How are you doing?

I'm okay.

(sighs)

I want to apologize to you.

For what?

Well... (sighs)

...Sometimes when you're a father...

It's...

Difficult to admit to yourself

That your kids are growing up.

That they have minds of their own.

That they're their own people.

Because that means someday they won't need you.

You're growing up--

And that, more than anything, is what I want for you.

It's just...

I was having trouble with it for a while.

You've acted like

You're mad at me a lot lately.

And I'm really sorry for that.

Here it is.

I'm going to ask you to do something

That's very hard

And very grown-up.

Okay?

Mr. Yasumoto doesn't want us

To leave this place.

Why doesn't he want us to leave?

I don't know.

But I need you to go find julie,

Tell her this and tell her

To get you out of the building.

How am I gonna get downstairs?

I'm gonna have to turn down your warmers,

So you can get past the sensors.

It'll be okay for as long as

It takes you to get downstairs.

Once you are in the lab,

Just ask julie to turn them back on.

I know how to turn them on myself.

Wow. (laughs)

I guess you do.

You really think I can do this?

I knowyou can do this.

Are you ready?

(medical device beeping steadily, baby cooing)

(door slams shut, alarm sounds)

Female voice (over p.A.): Warning. Oxygen flow restricted.

(baby crying)

Heart rate decreasing.

Warning. No. No.

Immediate action required. No, no, no.

(monitor rapidly beeping)

(baby continues crying) let me out!

(screaming): Help! Let me out!

(whimpering): Somebody help!

Oh!

(over p.A.): Molly, it's ben.

I'm here to help.

Ben?

There's nothing to worry about.

It's an rds issue that just needs

A ventilation adjustment.

I can walk you through the procedure.

Okay. O-okay, ben.

Tell me what to do.

It's just some code.

I'll dictate-- you enter.

It's going to be fine.

Ben: Start with your access code.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Then your operation code.

It's going to be fine.

Good. Now...

P-thred... Underscore exit...

And you're done.

Okay.

The code has been accepted.

(sighs)

Congratulations, molly.

Your baby is going to be fine.

Oh.

Oh, god.

(baby cooing, molly sighs)

(rumbling, glass clinking) what was that, ben?

Ben: There's been a remote adjustment to our course.

It was a debris avoidance protocol

Ordered by an isea admin.

Mm. Next time, maybe a little heads-up?

What's the new course?

Actually, we're headed towards earth.

But don't get your hopes up.

It's only temporary.

Funny.

(clears throat) excuse me.

Dr. Woods.

I, uh... (chuckles)

I had a little issue with ethan I wanted to tell you about.

Everything's okay, I hope?

Uh, well, he's been acting sort of moody.

First, I thought it was a programming problem, but, uh,

Then, uh-- you're-you're gonna appreciate this,

Ms. Dodd-- uh, it was a kid thing, you know, something

I had to fix with patience, not-not with, uh, parts.

I don't know if-if you've run into this sort of thing

In your work. The employees

Who needed to be given more responsibilities, who

Stopped thriving without those responsibilities...

Most people truly need their independence, or

The illusion of it, to thrive. John: That's exactly my point.

I mean, I'm not sure, with ethan anyway,

That the illusion would be enough.

(birds singing)

(whooshing)

(elevator bell dings)

Hey, little guy.

What's going on?

I need to find julie.

We're in trouble.

Okay, well, she's already left.

I can take you to her.

Is this like big "t" trouble or little "t" trouble?

Big, I think.

Okay, we better go, then, right?

You can tell me about the big "t" on the way.

(elevator bell dings)

(beep, elevator bell dings)

I put the offspring in the car.

Molly's given us what we need.

We have to go.

For molly?

No.

It's better if we bring her. He wants his mom.

I need you to put molly in the car.

They must be in there.

We blow the propane tank under the cabin

And burn this thing to the ground.

You still don't get it, do you?

It keeps getting stronger and stronger.

It has to be stopped.

That is not your call to make.

(door opening)

Molly.

You shoot me if you have to.

I have to make this right.

(guns cocking)

Let her go!

(echoing): Let her go!

I said, let her go!

Something's wrong.

Where-where... Where's my baby?

I want my baby! (gunfire)

(groaning)

(panting) harmon?

(gunshot, molly gasps)

Harmon. Oh, god. Oh, god.

Breathe. Breathe. The baby's not here.

Molly, it used you to get here for a reason.

It's getting stronger. You brought it here.

You have to stop it.

(panting) uh...

Harmon. Harmon! Harmon!

Oh, god.

Oh, god.

Harmon. Harmon.

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