CBS 'Extant' Episode Recap & Spoilers 2014: Molly, Sparks, & Yasumoto Star in Final Episode
These are the last remaining episodes of the CBS summer hit TV series "Extant." No risk, no reward! CBS has definitely won with the entire cast especially with Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg at the helm. This is my review of Episode 11. This episode is titled "A New World."
This episode marks the three last remaining episodes in the 13-episode mini-series. It has really been a roller-coaster of craziness, sadness, drama, excitement and lots of suspense. Since these are the last remaining shows, I am going to stick to five standout characters that have helped or hindered the story's arch. Sorry, Dr. Mason (Owain Yeoman), but you served no purpose to the story. In this episode, the five characters that stood out were Molly, Sparks, Yasumoto, John and the unseen offspring.
As Berry's Molly pointed out at the opening credits, "Extant" is a story about space, but mainly about family. Molly, Yasumoto (Hiroyuki Sanada) and Sparks (Michael O'Neil) are all driven by family as well as their pursuit to either control, manipulate or mother the offspring -- no longer will it be called alien baby.
It is for Yasumotos's family that he has rabidly pursued the offspring and its origins. It is through Yasumoto's flashback story that we discover that the creature -- or at least parts of it -- came to Earth via a meteorite. Yasumoto was a young and poor miner living in Japan. While digging with a mining crew, he accidentally fell into a crater that housed the space rock.
As he lay there bloodied, alone and trapped with a broken arm, a yellowish liquid ooze dripped from the space rock. Do not touch the ooze! Yasumoto felt compelled to touch it. When he did, the ooze healed his broken bones. Eureka! After a month trapped in the crater, the other miners found him unharmed and healed. The executives at Claypool bought him a stake in the company, and, as Yasumoto put it, "I outlived them all."
Yasumoto's extended lifespan gave him the acquired wealth, the access to technology and research, and the patience to search for the offspring and utilize its applications. Yasumoto has been searching for the being for almost a century and a half. But he lost because the International Space Exploration Agency (ISEA) and the Molly and Kern (Maury Sterling) Team (MK Team) were able to stop him.
Unfortunately, Kryger (Brad Beyer) did not make it. Kryger died in Molly's arms. It was at the beginning of this episode that Kryger got shot during a shootout with Sparks and a bunch of people controlled by the offspring.
Meanwhile, John (Goran Visnjic) got wise again. John learned from Molly that Yasumoto could not be trusted. Instead of freaking out John used Yasumoto's tactics against him. John spied on Yasumoto; stole the liquid ooze that prolonged Yasumoto's lifespan; and John helped his son Ethan (Pierce Gagnon) to escape. Ethan was "safe" and sound with Odin (Charlie Bewley) at the Woods family home.
Sparks has lost it. He has been manipulating the ISEA and his poor ex-wife Anya (Jeannetta Arnette) for far too long. Sparks is forced by the offspring to pick a side. Sparks chooses the offspring, so he sets in motion a plan that delays everyone. Sparks allows himself to be captured and delays the ISEA and the MK Team's investigation.
Meanwhile, Odin is slowly poisoning the mind of Ethan against his father. Odin makes Ethan believe that all John wants to do is shut him down, so that Ethan does not exceed his programming. Unbeknownst to Ethan, Odin has placed a bomb inside the body of this innocent boy. Yes, Ethan is an innocent. All this time we thought that Ethan was a psychopathic kid robot, but he is growing and becoming an intelligent being.
Ethan is probably the only being that could stop the offspring without being manipulated.
Molly has been through a lot all season. First she was accused of going crazy, hallucinating, faking a pregnancy, fighting off Black Ops soldiers and getting abducted. Now, as she tells John, she must finish this matter.
But what is the long game of the offspring? We see that it apparently killed Anya and left her in a tunnel. And we finally get a glimpse of the offspring; it looks humanoid.
But then we see a million miles above the Earth another space station. On board there is astronaut Shawn Glass (Enver Gjokaj). Glass is about to receive some visitors from a crew on a spaceship. This French crew found an escape pod from the Aruna station. This was the station where Katie (Tessa Ferrer) -- Sparks' adult astronaut daughter -- had died. Then in walks Katie. What the heck!?
Ethan is the key stopping the offspring, but he has a bomb in his back so how can he help? Molly and anyone who gets near the offspring is mentally controlled into doing something else or ends up dead. All Molly wants to do is find her baby. Yasumoto and Sparks are out of time: neither the offspring nor the ooze can help them.
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