"I went to space on a 13-month solo mission." "I didn't come home alone." "My husband created a lifelike android called a Humanich." "His name is Ethan." "He's the prototype." "This is a story about Earth." "Ethan!" "A story about family." "A story about surviving." "Previously on Extant..." " Turn around, hands in the air!" " Shh." "He's sleeping." "Show her to me." "Kryger reached out to me last night." "He broke into the ISEA." "I don't know what he took." "Why are you telling me all this?" "Tell Sparks; he'll know what to do." "Alan." "It's my nightmare." " Where did you see it?" " On your belly." " Absalom." "Dose and a half." " He's out." "He stole the Aruna transmission file." "I tried decoding it, but it wasn't ISEA code." "This is Katie Sparks from the Aruna Station." "The virus has entered the ship." "Uh..." "Dad, I'm gonna die up here." "She was pregnant, too." "He knew what was up there, and he sent me anyway." "Capsule is 200 meters out." "Range rate: 0.05." "Ben, you know what to do." "Copy." "Initiating final approach." "Meteor collision." "Functional cargo blocked." "Escape vehicle damaged." "Rapid oxygen loss." "Leak detected." "T-res to bingo pressure?" "Two minutes, 15 seconds." "Initiate de-press protocol." " Shutting IMV valves." " Securing the hatches fore and aft!" "Equalizing available atmosphere." "Ben!" "If we isolated the leak, why is the alarm still...?" "Aah!" "My ears!" "We're losing pressure!" "Damn it, Ben, you said you shut the IMV valve!" "The meteor collision must have caused a system malfunction." "Enter manual override code." "Okay." "Come on." "T-res one minute." " Come on." " Don oxygen mask." "Aah!" "Damn it, come on!" "T-res 30 seconds." "29, 28..." "Come on!" "Twenty-s..." "Leak isolated." "Oxygen reserves active." "Nice work, Molly." "That was a close one." "Yeah, I'll say." "Seriously?" "A broken oxygen mask?" "I know we got to be ready for anything, but come on." "Nice, Molly." "May I have your attention." "This evening, at 6:54 p.m.," "Mission Specialist Derek Pearce received a distress call from the Aruna Station, reporting an oxygen fire." "Several minutes after the initial comm, an on board explosion disabled all contact between mission control... and the Aruna crew." "At this time, we believe..." "We believe there are no survivors." "Go home." "Be with your families." "We'll provide more details as they become available." "Alan." "Alan." "I'm so sorry about Katie." "If there's anything I can do, I..." "There's nothing anyone can do." "Whatever you do, do not recover the ship." "I repeat... do not recover the ship." "Sparks knew about this." "He knew this happened to his very own daughter." "And he sent me up there anyway." "Do you think he knew Katie was pregnant?" "She didn't even know she was pregnant." "But he knew something was up there." "And he sent me on a fishing expedition." "And then you come back pregnant." "That's..." "That's how I know it's still alive." "Think about it, Sam." "Why would they go through all this trouble just to abort the baby?" "They're keeping it somewhere, and when I find it," "I'm gonna be able to prove what they did to me." "What Sparks did to me." "Molly, they took that baby out of your body without leaving any physical evidence." "I don't know how you expect to be able to find it now." "I'm not going to find it." "Sparks is gonna tell me exactly where it is." "But why?" "We can't even prove that he saw the Aruna video." "But somebody can." "Derek Pearce." "He was the Aruna mission specialist." "He would have been the one to receive Katie's distress call." "And you think that he'll admit that Sparks was behind this entire cover-up?" "If he wants to save himself." "I'm gonna need your help." "Anything." "Okay." "Go through the entire Aruna crew's medical history." "There had to be some major anomalies in the scans, the tether scores, something." "Sparks would have had to sign off on anything unusual." "You know if I go through those records, he's gonna find out." "Good." "I want him to know I'm up to something." "I want him to lose sleep at night." "Why?" "I want to make him sweat." "Evening, sir." "Everything go as planned?" "Not exactly." "But I managed to locate the target." "And?" "Harmon Kryger won't be causing us any more trouble." "Were you able to recover the Aruna file?" "No, sir." "But I am working on a strong lead." " Morning." " Morning." "Did you get any sleep?" "Every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was..." "Katie Sparks." "Are you ready yet?" "I don't want to be late." "School doesn't start for an hour, E." "We got plenty of time." " First day back." " He's nervous." "Mm." "I don't blame him." "I mean, after all he's been through since his shutdown?" "Well, that's exactly why he needs to go back." "Ethan needs to spend some time around normal kids with a normal life." "What's that?" "This... is normal life." "Look." "A surprise for Ethan." "It's being delivered later." "Are you ready yet?" "In a minute, kiddo." "Are you going to see Derek Pearce today?" "Yup." "The sooner he starts talking, the sooner Sparks's nightmare begins." "And ours ends." "Hey." "It has to end." "Yeah." "Search "Aruna."" "I need the medical records from the final mission." "Where's the Aruna file?" "I cou..." "I could..." "I couldn't open it." "So where is it?" "Why would I keep it if I... if I couldn't open it?" "Visitor." "Back door." "Mom." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I tried calling, and when you didn't call back, I..." "May I come in?" "Of course." "May I help you?" "Derek." "Hi." "Molly Woods, from the ISEA." "I'm wondering if maybe we can talk?" "About the Aruna?" "Molly, uh..." "Uh, I'm kind of tied up right now." "It'll just take a second." "I really can't." "Sorry." "Okay." "I'm sorry." "I didn't know he spoke Japanese." "Neither did I." "Hey." "Where'd you learn to do that?" "I don't know." "I wanted to thank you." "Apparently, your information about Molly's meeting with Harmon Kryger proved quite useful." "Did it?" "That's good." "I'm glad to know you're on board." "On board?" "Well, that you can be trusted to act in the best interest of this organization." "And in your own best interest." "Which, really, are one and the same, considering what's at stake." "Considering that..." " Yes." " One more thing:" "I noticed you were looking into the Aruna astronaut"" "medical records." "Why is that?" "Molly asked for them." "And you gave them to her?" "You said you wanted her to trust me again." "What did she want them for?" "I really don't know, sir." "Find out." "And in the future, if Molly asks you for anything, anything at all, you're to run it by me first." "Understood?" "Understood." "What?" "No, it's not our second date." "Please, if you think picking me up at the gym counts as a first date, there's not gonna be a second one." "Surprise me." "Odin?" "Maybe." " You okay?" " I'm fine." " Why?" " God, your pupils have turned into cartoon hearts." " Shut up!" " They're just beating right out" " of your sockets." "Cartoon..." " I think you know where you can shove that." ""Surprise me."" "Can anyone here tell me how Ethan suddenly speaks Japanese?" " What?" " This morning," "I dropped him off at school, and he heard two Japanese girls talking about him." "And he talked back in Japanese." "All right, little man's on fire." "But the question is:" "what's fueling that fire?" "Well, his neural net's programmed to basic Japanese." "Yeah, but that's not nearly enough to explain this." "Linguistically, it's-it's like saying Ethan had a stepladder and-and used it to reach the moon." "But maybe he doesn't see it as linguistic but mathematical, like translation as code-breaking." " Yeah, he is good at that." " Maybe I was wrong." "Maybe that school is good for Ethan." "But at this rate, pretty soon he'll be smarter than all of his teachers." "Well, I mean, so was I. I turned out pretty good." "But we designed Ethan to-to learn at the same rate as his peers." "We sent him to school to learn like other kids, to-to learn to be like other kids." "And other kids don't just start speaking Japanese without being taught." "Be cool if they did, though." "No, it would be terrifying." "It wouldn't be human." "I don't get it." "I built Ethan;" "I-I thought I understood everything about him." "Gina, look up the purchase price of Derek Pearce's apartment." "Seems a bit pricey for an ex-mission specialist." "Especially one without a pension." "That property was purchased for exactly one dollar." "What?" "One dollar?" "Well, that can't be." "Check again." "Derek Pearce." "Grand Avenue." "Penthouse A." "He bought it for one dollar." "Multiple property records confirm." "From who?" "Previous owner was Claypool Industries." "Sending you a full purchase history now." "Okay, well, according to this," "Claypool Industries bought the property for $5.2 million, and then six days later, Pearce bought it for one dollar." "So Claypool bought the property and then put it in Pearce's name." "Gina, look up Claypool Industries." "One listing." "Claypool Industries Mining and Ore." "No current address." "Why would a mining company buy a luxury apartment for Derek Pearce?" "I'm guessing that's a rhetorical question." "You could say that." "Gina, compose e-mail." "To Derek Pearce." "What is Claypool Industries?" "Message send." "Incoming V-Chron from John." "Open." "So, uh, hey." "This might seem weird, but did you, by any chance, teach Ethan to speak Japanese?" "Uh, no." "I only know a few words from my time on the I.S.S. Why?" "Long story short, Ethan speaks Japanese." "Out of nowhere." "Charlie put it in the lab report, and now Yasumoto wants to see it for himself." "At dinner." "Tonight." "With the three of us." "Seriously?" "Sorry." "Okay." "Thank you." "I'll see you later." "Gina, compose e-mail." "Derek Pearce." "Subject:" "What is this?" "Message send." "New message." "Open." "I'm concerned, Gordon." "You haven't answered my calls." "You look awful." "Your house is a mess." " Are you using again?" " What?" "No." "No, I'm just... working a lot." "That's what your dad said before..." "He was exactly your age when he got sick, you know." "I'm not sick." "Maybe neither was he." " What?" " Mom, what if Dad wasn't crazy?" " What if he was right?" " Right?" "What he did cost him and us everything." "I don't mean what he did." "I mean what he believed." "That the voice of God was speaking to him, telling him to land a commercial airliner in the middle of a cornfield, hundreds of miles off course?" "He was sick, Gordon." "He was very, very sick." "It's a miracle that people weren't killed." "A miracle, huh?" "Maybe God was up there with him." "Please." "There's more in Heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in our philosophy." "There's no shame in it." "Not in being sick." "But if there were something wrong and you didn't admit it, that would be a shame." "I'm fine." "I'm just worn out." "Okay." "I'll go." "I'll let you get some rest." "But promise me this:" "that if you do need help, you'll ask for it." "Dr. Barton arriving." " Sam." " Hey." "I found something in the Aruna records." "Okay, but I'm on my way out." "Pearce agreed to meet me." "Molly, you got to see this." "I checked the crew members' brain scans." "At first glance, they all look completely normal." "Okay, on second glance?" "They're all exactly the same." "Somebody must've substituted the same scan across the board." "But they didn't touch the tethers, so look at this." "The naphthalene levels were elevated to a man..." "or a woman, in Katie's case." " Naphthalene?" " We started testing for it after astronauts on the first mining missions started coming back with hemolytic anemia." "But the Aruna wasn't a mining mission." "Well, it wasn't supposed to be." "Wait a minute." "Pearce's apartment was bought by a mining company..." "Claypool Industries." "Maybe buying his silence is what put them out of business." "Why would they cover up the mining?" "The ISEA partners with mining missions all the time." "Because they didn't want anybody to know what they were searching for." "It must be pretty valuable." "Not compared to what they found." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Ma'am, I'm gonna have to ask you to step back." "What happened?" "Jumper from the penthouse." "You're sure there's nothing you're not telling me." "You didn't learn Japanese from a book or a translation app or something?" "Maybe it came from the secret part of me." "What?" "The part that belongs only to me." "There you are." "We'd better get going." "I don't want to be late to Yasumoto's." "Okay, Ethan." "Go to the car." "W-We're gonna meet you there." "What's wrong?" "What did Pearce say?" "He's dead." "I think they killed him." "What?" "You mean because you were asking questions?" "What-what happened?" "He jumped." "Or else he was pushed." "Oh, God, John, I'm scared." "Th-This has to stop." "That video is enough to bring Sparks down." "But maybe it's not." "They made me look like I was crazy once." " They can do that again." " And putting yourself in danger like this, putting all of us in danger, that doesn't seem crazy to you?" "We-we can't do this any longer." "It's too risky." "Yeah, I know it's risky." "But no risk, no reward." "Come on." "Ethan's waiting." "Drink it." "It's just water." "There's more in Heaven and Earth." "Damn right there is." "I've seen it." "You've seen it, too, haven't you?" "It's hard to forget, huh?" "I'm sure the Absalom will help, for a while." "You don't know me." "I know that you let Sparks think that you killed me." "I know the fact that you haven't means that you've got doubts." " Watch it." " Real doubts." "About Sparks." "About what he did to Molly and to me." "About what he's asking you to do." "I said watch it!" "Damn it!" "Hello again." "Hello." "Um... you met Ethan." "And, uh, this is my wife Molly." "Hello." "Hi." "Come in." "Please." "Molly, this is, uh, Femi Dodd." "She's a board member at Yasumoto Corp." "The first time we met," "I, uh..." "I called her an idiot." "John." "Welcome." "Thank you." "I-If I'd known you two were, uh..." "I definitely wouldn't have called you an idiot." "Apology accepted." "You must be Molly." "Mr. Yasumoto." "I've heard so much about you." "And I about you." "The possibilities are limitless." " No?" " Well, I'm not sure I'd say "limitless."" "But making sense of the independent activity in Ethan's brain could be a huge step toward understanding the nature of human consciousness." "Right?" "Not to mention a potential path to immortality." "I-Immortality?" "I don't understand." "I think Mr. Yasumoto is referring to the theory that once the neural pathways are fully decoded, it would be possible to copy a human brain and upload it to a Humanich's body." "So it's possible, then?" "Theoretically, but..." "Just because we can do it does not mean we should do it." "For once, I agree with Ms. Dodd." "And anyway, to suggest that understanding Ethan's cognitive leaps is akin to understanding human consciousness, it's not just premature, it's-it's wrong." "After all, human beings can't learn a language in a single day, so Ethan shouldn't be able to, either." "I-I think we should install some sort of governing mechanism." "What?" "Slow down his development." "But that goes against everything you've ever said." "So you think Ethan's progress should be allowed to continue?" "Well, I don't know." "But I do know that we're not gods." "We're just parents." "And all we can do is give him the best of ourselves." "And then whatever happens happens, right?" " We just have to wait and see." " To "wait and see"" "is to expose Ethan to needless risk." "Well, no risk, no reward." "Yeah, it was tough when I was young, but... these days the supers are so good, it's..." "I hardly even notice anymore." "Yeah, well, I wish I could say the same." "Well, it's still new." "It'll get easier." "So you're not..." "I don't know... resentful?" "Honestly, I'm..." "I'm almost grateful." "If it wasn't for my legs," "I wouldn't have started designing prosthetics, or gotten involved in the Humanichs Project." "You love your work, huh?" "Well, some days more than others." "Yeah?" "Today wasn't one of those days?" "It's just my boss." "He's like... threatened by progress all of a sudden." " You know what I mean?" " Yeah." "Yeah, I do." "And he lets his personal feelings cloud his professional judgment, which drives me insane." "Sorry, we don't have to talk about my dumb office drama." "Oh, no, it's okay." "No." "I like it." "I'd like to talk more about it actually." "Really?" "Sure." "I mean, take Ethan." "How do you guys... how do you guys control him?" "We don't." "Especially not lately." "Actually the goal is to try to get him to start thinking for himself." "So, you're saying that someday he could have complete free will?" "Can you imagine?" " We have to talk." " Not now." "Now!" "Pearce is dead." "You could be next." "If this is about taking Sparks down, you have what you need." "It's time to go public with the Aruna video and let the chips fall where they may." "It's about more than that." "I want to see it." "See what?" " The baby." " What?" "Whatever it is, John, it's half mine." "It was inside of me." "Not you." "Me." "I brought it here." "And every indication is it's still alive." "I don't believe this." "And if it's out there..." "I'm gonna find it." "Dad?" "I'm gonna die up here." "I just want..." "Whatever you do... do not recover the ship." "I repeat... do not recover the ship!" "What kind of father sends his daughter into harm's way like that, Alan?" "And then lies and covers the whole thing up?" "I know the Aruna was a secret mining mission, and that Claypool bought Pearce an apartment to keep him quiet." "How much did they give you?" "Well, enough to get Pearce killed, I guess, right?" "What was his life worth?" "And what about my baby?" "How much did you get for that?" "Careful, Molly." "You're out of your depth here." "What about Katie's baby?" "Yeah." "She was pregnant when she died." "Just like I was." "Guess you're the one out of your depth here, Alan." "What do you want?" "I want to know where my baby is." "I don't know." "But I can find it." "No." "I'll find it." "I got this far all by myself." "Before you go to bed tonight... get down on your knees and pray for Katie's forgiveness." "Tonight and every night for the rest of your life." "It's not nearly gonna be enough." "But it's gonna be worth a try." "Hey, wh-what are you doing up?" "Did Julie adjust your sleep cycle?" "No." "I just woke up." "Is that for me?" "Yeah." "Will you teach me to ride it?" "Sure, sure." "We're gonna take it for a spin in the morning." "No." "Now." "Ethan, it's dark out." "We'll-we'll wait for morning." "Please?" "Well, screw it." "Let's go." "Yes!" "You want to come in?" "Next time." "Okay, I'm gonna hold on to help you balance, but steering, pedaling... that's all you, okay?" " You think you can handle it?" " Yup." "This is how my dad taught me, and I fell a lot." "But I didn't give up." "Okay?" "Okay." "Remember... keep your eyes straight ahead." "Not down on the ground, okay?" "Dad, let go." "What?" "Let go." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Did you want to teach me more?" "No." "No." "I mean, I-I did, but, uh..." "I just want to watch you ride now." "Ethan?" "Ethan!" "Ethan!" "What's wrong?" "You can't go off on your own like that." "Sorry." "Come on, let's-let's go back inside." "It's late." "We must prepare ourselves for the battle ahead." "There will be violence." "Casualties." "But I, for one, am ready to fight for a better world." "That's what I thought I was fighting for overseas." "And then... then the drone strikes began." "See, I lost my arm in combat, but... my opponent wasn't on the battlefield." "Uh-uh." "He..." "or she... was sat in a nice, little air-conditioned room thousands of miles away, pushing buttons and watching the carnage unfold on-screen!" "When we outsource war to machines, we outsource our humanity to technology." "We have... lost our souls to machines." "We talk of making a difference, but so far that's all it's been: talk." "Power outages and rolling blackouts... these half-measures are wholly ineffective." "We need more." "We need a reckoning." "Starting right here." "Sorry I'm late." "Actually, your timing is perfect." "Can I help you?" "Yeah, um, I'd like to go" " to Claypool Industries." " Oh." "Gone." " I-I know it's late." " I'm sorry, but..." " No, no." "I mean, they're gone." "The fifth floor's been empty since I started here." "Okay, well, you know what?" "Uh, the thing is, um..." "I told my boss that I would take a look at all the empty offices." "He's expecting a full report from me first thing in the morning." "So... do you think" "I could take just a quick little peek upstairs?" "I'm really not supposed to leave my post." "I know." "I know you're not." "But I would be so grateful if you did." "Okay, come on." "Thank you." "Katie." "Katie, it's me." "Please, Katie." "Please forgive me." "You gotta believe me." "I..." "I had no idea." "I'm sorry." "Oh, Katie, I'm so sorry." "Dad?" "Katie..." "All righty." "Here we are." "Take your time;" "look around." "I gotta get back downstairs." " Thanks." " All right." "Security breach." "Code Black." "Threat currently isolated on five; requesting backup." "Hi, Daddy." "Security breach, Code Black." "Fifth floor." "Repeat: security breach," "Code Black, fifth floor." "No!" "You've made a mistake!" "I can help you." "Yeah?" "And how are you gonna help me?" "You don't know what you've unleashed." "I do." "You think it was the hand of God reaching down?" "You're wrong!" "I've seen it!" "And it felt a hell of a lot more like it was reaching up." "Phone call from Director Sparks." "One word, and this is all over." "You understand?" "Put him through." "Yes, sir?" "Get down here." "Molly Woods is in the building." "Have security forces been mobilized?" "Yes." "Go, go." "I..." "Shh." "It's me." "You can go with them or you can come with me... your choice." "Back." "Shh." "Here." "You take her." " Wait, wait!" "No!" " Take her!" "No!" "Wait!" "Not this!" "No, wait, wait, wait!" " Let's go." " No, no!" "Move, move, move!" "Get in the car." "Move!" "Kryger?" "Go, go, go." "Hey." "It's me." "Oh, God..." "I wish I could talk to you." "Listen, I'm sorry." "It's just, uh..." "I can't control much right now, but I can still control Ethan." "And I have to go in and slow him down." "It's for his own protection." "I hope you'll understand." "I love you."