CBS' 'Extant' Spoilers & Recap Starring Halle Berry: Episodes 7 And 8 Review, Part 2
CBS' "Extant" delivered more action and more surprises in their two back-to-back episodes of 7 and 8. They were titled "More in Heaven" and "Incursion" respectively. This is Part 2 of my review for CBS' "Extant" back-to-back episodes last Wednesday. Let us preview "Incursion."
The title of episode eight, "Incursion," says it all. An explosion, a planned attack on the International Space Exploration Agency (ISEA), an alien baby or offspring and the return of Yasumoto (Hiroyuki Sanada).
Molly (Halle Berry), Kern (Maury Sterling), and Kryger (Brad Beyer) are all working together and have an evolving plan to take down the ISEA.
Why didn't these three actors have more scenes together at the start of the series? They are all great together. Molly is eager and willing to see her "son" at all costs; Kern is willing to make the hard choices because he did it against Molly and her family. Kern was behind the abduction of Molly and Ethan; he was also responsible for the extraction of Molly's baby, and the subsequent cover up. Kern is both a hero and an anti-hero.
While Kreger has some trepidation about the whole plan and relationship with Kern. But Kryger is willing to get the job done.
They are all funny. Kern calls the baby an offspring, Molly says "I don't know about that," but Kreger calls it an alien baby. Problem solved. And they are all conflicted. Do they want to rescue, see or destroy the baby? Molly wants to see it, while Kryger wants to kill it.
The MKK Team (Molly, Kryger, Kevin) (#MKK) original plan was to attack the armed truck convoy that carried the baby. The baby would have been inside a metal mobile container. But the plan changes after Sparks (Michael O'Neil) meets with Yasumoto.
We finally learn more clearly that Yasumoto is indeed dying. He needs the baby alive to sustain his life. Yasumoto says to Sparks that none of this would have happened if they did not start drilling. Where did they drill? In space? Perhaps.
Anyway, Yasumoto and Sparks' original plan was to move the baby to a mining facility, and also eliminate Molly. Unfortunately the baby is growing rapidly. But what is he growing up to become?
The MKK Team (#MKK) decides that they can take the child in the ISEA facility. Kern's job is to blow up the power room and escort Sparks out of the lab, this will allow Molly and Kryger to take the child. Kryger asks, "How are we going to take it, in tupperware?" Ha! They decide on moving the baby in the same mobile metal container.
Meanwhile, John (Goran Visnjic) is trying to understand Ethan's (Pierce Gagnon) rapid development. And Ethan is trying to understand who he is. He asks Julie (Grace Gummer), "Why did you make me?" Julie replies, "We made you so you could find your own function." Ethan is finding himself, just like a human child.
Back at the ISEA lab, everything goes wrong for the MKK Team. Molly and Kryger get stuck in an elevator, and they are almost shot to death. Kern has to run for his life from Sparks. The baby is no longer a child. It is perhaps full grown and running around the lower level of the building.
Sparks tries to corner Kern in the lower level of the building, but Kern gets away. This is where it gets really confusing -- brace yourselves. After Sparks loses track of Kern, he then discovers Molly running around instead. But it cannot be Molly because Kern just spoke to her and she was in the upper level.
Now that Sparks has cornered "Molly," he shoots her dead. Racked with guilt, Sparks turns her over to check, but then she is transformed into his dead daughter. Yeah, weird. As Sparks walks away, his dead daughter gets up. She tells Sparks that "we must help him." Him who? Is this the child?
What does this mean for everyone? For the Woods family -- Molly, John and Ethan -- the ISEA, and Kryger, Kern and Yasumoto?
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