Molly wants to find her baby. What she plans to do with it when she finds it, I'm not sure. Sparks wants the Offspring because of its projection of Katie. He has still not accepted that his daughter is really dead. Yasumoto wants the Offspring to prevent his death. Kryger wants to kill it so others wont be harmed. John just wants Molly to care about him and Ethan as much as she does her job. Odin wants to kill Ethan because he hates AI. Julie just wants a boyfriend. And we're not sure what the Offsrping wants. That's basically it in a nutshell.
Here's the specifics of what happened:
Sparks steals the baby and runs off to a campground with his imaginary daughter. He calls his ex-wife Anya so Yasumoto and company are able to track her to his location.
Julie and Odin babysit Ethan. Ethan shows Odin how to change his batteries. They begin to bond. Little does Julie know that Odin plans to kill Ethan as part of his I-Hate-Technology campaign.
Molly This Man Cannot Be Trusted
Meanwhile Molly spends some time trying to escape the secured building through the elevator shaft. She eventually whacks one of Yasumoto's henchman. Yasumoto calls and says they need to talk. He comes clean about removing the baby from her. But now they're on the same side. They both want to find the baby. Yasumoto sends Molly off with someone named Dr Mason. He should not be trusted.
And These Two Guys Cant Be Trusted Either. Basically No One Can Be Trusted.
We see a flashback to when Molly was in the car accident and Marcus was killed. She delivered the baby but it was too small to survive. Dr Sam had to break the news to Molly. That was an excellent scene for both actors. I smell an Emmy nomination.
Back at the campsite, Sparks talks to his old friend Esther. She hears something in his cabin and goes to investigate with her shotgun. The baby makes her see an image of her dead husband Earl. Sparks then struggles with her and Esther is accidentally killed. Why did you have to kilil Esther? Next a cop visits the camp but Spark knocks him out too. I thought the cop would be baby food since FakeKatie says "he's hungry". Instead we see him back at the police station where he shoots another officer and a robot. It seems the Offspring is controlling his actions.
The birds descend upon Molly and Dr Mason's van and force them off the road. (Remember birds are a recurring theme for some reason.) Molly makes a run for it but ends up back with Mason (after making a quick call to John). FakeKatie tells Sparks he wont see her again unless he finds someone else for the baby to feed on.
Molly and Mason arrive at the camp site. Mason gets whacked in the head by the guy who was previously baby food. Sparks tells Molly that the baby is waiting to see her. The Offspring shows Molly a different reality in which Marcus and their baby lived after the car accident.
Sparks leads Molly away in a stupor and has enter what looks like coordinates for the space station into a computer. What's that about? Sparks gets his gun and is going to shoot Molly but FakeKatie stops him saying "Its better if we bring her with us. He wants his mother."
Just then Kryger and Kern arrive. There's a shootout. Harmon is killed (I think). Sparks, Anya, FakeKatie and the Offspring escape in the car. And we still havent seen what the baby looks like.
Favorite Quotes:
- "Im not one of those blue marble ladies."- Molly referring to astronauts who come back to earth and think everything is about love and peace.
- "Everything comes with a price"- Sparks to Anya while smiling at FakeKatie as they hear screams in the background.
- "99.9% of all the earth's species are extinct"- Molly to Mason.
Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). There are two episodes to go till the end of the season. I really hope we get some answers soon. I havent heard of this show going into a season 2. I dont think there's enough plot to be able to sustain that. Let me know if you think otherwise.
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