Extant Episodes 5 Thru 6 Recaps: What On Earth Is Wrong And Nightmares

Episode 5 "What On Earth Is Wrong" featured an unexpected turn. Yasumoto's doctors take the alien baby and remove all traces of Molly's pregnancy. OK then. I thought that would be end game. Meanwhile Dr Barton plays dumb when Molly seeks confirmation of her story. Sam is being blackmailed by Director Sparks. Her brother (who is in a metal hospital) is doomed if she talks.

After being in a coma for a while, Robot Boy regains consciousness. An argument erupts between John and coworker/ possible love interest Julie (ie Meryl Steep Jr). We see Julie has two artificial legs. No wonder she feels so close to Ethan.

We finally get a look at the aliens. They are sparkly blue energy streams. I was hoping for a scary looking alien but who know what they could turn into.

Episode 6 is entitled "Nightmares" because Ethan has one. He was never programmed for dreams or nightmares so what does it all mean? The scene with Molly trying to comfort Ethan was touching. Great acting all around.

Meanwhile Gordon (the head of security at ISEA) goes to a drug den/hair salon. He orders some gas (sorry I dont remember the name). As soon as he's unconscious Kryger appears. He copies Gordon's fingerprints and is later able to break into ISEA and steal the Aruna file.

Thanks to some robot skin (no I dont know how that works), Molly is able spy on Sam and learns that she had no choice but to remain silent. They later make up during an EEG.

Over at the alien nursery, one scientist goes crazy and kills a coworker. We see the strange symbol on the back of his head. Was he trying to kill the baby too? Mental note: stay away from that baby!

Gordon confronts Alan about bringing an astronaut that is still in orbit back to earth. Alan will have none of it.

Ethan is able to decode the flash drive that Kryger gave Molly. We see footage of Alan's daughter Katie on the spaceship Aruna. The alien entity attacked them as well. They all killed each other. Katie has that strange symbol on her stomach too. We're not sure if she is really dead or escaped in a pod and is still floating through space.

Julie meets a guy (Odin) with an artificial arm at the gym. She invites him back to the lab. He's definitely a plant but I'm not sure what his objective is. He is WAY too interested in Ethan.

Points To Ponder:

Where is Yasumoto these days? We havent seen him in two weeks.
What does that wierd symbol mean? We saw it on Molly's and Katie's stomachs. Kryger also saw it in space and then drew it on his trailer wall. Ethan also drew it after his nightmare. It apparently causes people to hallucinate and do crazy stuff (like kill other people).
Did the alien do something to Ethan too? He seems to be more human. His cognitive abilities are heightened as is evidenced by his completing the video game more quickly and decoding the ISEA file.
And I've said it before but I'll say it again. I STILL think John is in on the whole plot. When he discovered Molly and Robot Boy in the woods, who did he run to first-- Robot Boy of course

Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). The show is picking up speed. Two episodes will air each nite on August 20 and August 27. I believe there were 13 episodes originally planned for season 1 so not sure when the other three will be.