How far would you go to protect your family? Would you do exactly what your family wanted you to do, no matter what? These were two of the main questions raised in the final two episodes of CBS' "Extant."

Molly and the offspring were forced to confront and deal with these family issues. For Molly, her family was flexible and forgiving -- the offspring's one was not. But we finally got to meet the offspring.

This is Part 1 of my review of the final two episodes of "Extant." This episode is titled "Before the Blood."

As was mentioned in my previous report on last week's episode, I will be looking at standout characters that elevated this episode --sorry Kern (Maury Sterling), you took a backseat this time around.

It was four characters -- Halle Berry's Molly Woods, Ethan (Pierce Gagnon), Katie (Tessa Ferrer) and the offspring (Shannon Brown) -- that were strikingly good over a week ago.

On Earth -- while at the International Space Exploration Agency (ISEA) -- Sparks (Michael O'Neil) refused to talk or share any more information about the offspring's plan. Sparks thought that he succeeded by not telling the ISEA anything. But Molly was determined to convince Sparks that he had made a mistake. She even showed him that the offspring had killed his wife Anya (Jeannetta Arnette), but Sparks did not budge.

Sparks believed and said that "life breaks us." Meaning, once we are broken by life's challenges, such as the death of a loved one, we cannot be repaired.

Meanwhile, back at the Woods household, Odin (Charlie Bewley) had successfully manipulated Ethan into thinking that his father, John (Goran Visnjic), desperately wanted to shut him down. Odin convinced Ethan that John did not want to see his son exceed his programming. Every diagnostic test that John, Julie (Grace Gummer) and Charlie (Tyler Hilton) wanted to run on Ethan, Ethan refused. Soon Julie and Charlie start to suspect that Odin was not such a good influence on him after all.

Unbeknownst to them all, Odin had planted a bomb in Ethan's back. And Ethan holds the detonator. Every time we see Ethan almost press the detonator button, we breathe a sigh of relief that Ethan has lived.

Speaking of living and dying, Katie, Sparks' adult astronaut daughter, is alive. Back on the Seraphim, Glass (Enver Gjokaj) received an outer space communication from a French crew stating that they had picked up a survivor from the Aruna station, Katie. She was found in an escape pod -- in stasis -- for 23 months.

Ferrer's Katie was brilliant; she expressed naiveté, secrecy and vulnerability all at the same time. Glass did not know what to do with himself.

Back on Earth, Molly soon realized that she was not getting anywhere with Sparks. Molly then enlisted the help of her friend Dr. Sam Barton (Camryn Manheim) to help her extract a memory. This was a very cool scene: It could be described as a wave of memory, wrapped in a hallucination. Molly discovered that she unknowingly entered commands from Earth to the onboard Seraphim computer. The commands made the Seraphim station think that it would be hit by a meteor shower, so it moved.

Now that the ISEA became aware that the Seraphim station had moved from its current position, they were left with two challenges and one choice to solve it all. One challenge was to get the Seraphim back into its position. And the second was to figure out how they were going to deal with Katie. The one choice was Molly: she had the experience in both dealing with these creatures and working on the Seraphim.

As Molly argued with John about whether to go to outer space again or not, the offspring payed a visit to the Woods family home. The offspring looked like a child version of Michael Jackson, but in a "Thriller" video. The offspring had glowing eyes and black curly hair, and he is African-American. He told Molly that his family made him do it, "I cannot stop them, they are too strong."

Sibling rivalry? When the offspring appeared, he tried to control everyone in the house, but it did not work on Ethan. Ethan is indeed the key to saving humanity. Ethan does his best to protect his mother. But Molly convinces the offspring to stop it and tell her what he wants.

Everyone learns something. Molly is heading to outer space to save the world. Sparks wises up and begs Molly to bring his daughter back to him safely. Katie died a long time ago, Glass found her body in the escape pod. Julie soon learns about the bomb in Ethan and that Odin is an anti-technology terrorist. And the offspring might stop them all.