Extant (season 2)

Extant (season 2)
Season 2 DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	July 1 – September 9, 2015

The second and final season of the American television drama series Extant premiered on July 1, 2015, and concluded on September 9, 2015 with a two-part finale.^[1] The season consisted of 13 episodes, and CBS broadcast the second season on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm in the United States.

Plot

After the death of her husband and losing her son Ethan, Molly Woods battles internal and external struggles to pick the pieces of her life back up and start fresh, this time working with the very people who betrayed her.

Cast

Main

• Halle Berry as Molly Woods, an ISEA astronaut and scientist who mysteriously becomes pregnant after seeing her dead former lover while on the Seraphim space station. Molly deals with the loss of her husband and the taking of her son as well as attempting to protect the hybrids from the GSC.
• Pierce Gagnon as Ethan Woods, Molly and John's son, a humanoid robot and the prototype for the Humanichs Project. Ethan bonds with his sister Lucy, leading to a mutual distrust towards humans.
• Grace Gummer as Julie Gelineau, John Woods' assistant on the Humanichs Project and former lover. Julie takes charge of the Humanichs Project this season as she is greeted with the opportunity to create war machine Humanichs. Ethan is also left in the care of Julie after Molly is put into psychosis therapy.
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as James Daniel "JD" Richter, a cop working special patrol (bounty hunting) who teams up with Molly.
• Goran Visnjic as Dr. John Woods, Molly's late husband, whose death early in the season is clouded in mystery. John was the creator and leader of the Humanichs project until his death, where his ex-lover, Julie assumed his position.
• David Morrissey as General Tobias Shepherd, Head of the Global Security Commission. Shepherd has a personal history with Molly Woods, a fact that complicates his work (and his life) in the face of a deadly new threat to humanity.
• Kiersey Clemons as Lucy, a more advanced Humanich and Ethan's new sister, created as a government combat machine. Lucy's combative skills also allow her to become quite manipulative towards Julie, Charlie (in a romantic way), and Ethan (in an anti-human way).
• Necar Zadegan as Shayna Velez, a former Lt. Colonel, now Chief of Staff to Tobias Shepherd. Strong, smart, opinionated, her agenda doesn’t always jibe with her boss’s — which may bring her into direct conflict with Molly Woods.

Recurring

• Tyler Hilton as Charlie Arthurs, the Chief Coder on the Humanichs Project alongside Julie.
• Hilarie Burton as Anna Schaefer, a government operative charged with overseeing the militarization of the Humanichs program.
• Henderson Wade as Adhu, the adult "Offspring" whose name is self-christened
  • Shannon Merrill Brown as the child "Offspring".
  • Brody Nicholas Lee as the teenage "Offspring".
• Lyndon Smith as Kelsey Richter; JD’s estranged and rebellious daughter.
• Melina Kanakaredes as Dorothy Richter, JD's ex-wife and mother of Kelsey who is at first against J.D. and Molly's choice to protect the hybrids
• McKenna Roberts as Terra, Adhu's child whom Molly takes a liking towards
• Patrick Johnson as Lucas, the third Humanich created to be a combat partner with Lucy
• Kate Burton as Fiona Stanton, the president of GSC who oversees the progress of Lucy and the Humanichs.
• Michael Gladis as Nate Malone; a GSC biologist who works with Molly to crack the genetic code of the hybrids.
• Lynnanne Zager as the voice of G.I.N.A., the Woods family personal home A.I. system and helper.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Change Scenario"	Dan Lerner	Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro	July 1, 2015	5.27[2]
Molly testifies in a hearing that she's certain none of the alien spores made it back to Earth, after being coached to lie "for the good of the country". However Sean, her astronaut colleague, did not make it back alive. Surprised to find Ethan's programming still intact, John and Julie are able to re-activate him. Ethan is soon forcibly removed from the Woods home by Homeland Security, and it is revealed that Julie was complicit. John's self-drive car mysteriously stops on train tracks and he is killed by an oncoming train. Six months later, Molly has been committed for psychiatric treatment. One of the aides shows her a photograph of a murder, which is reminiscent of a cadaver murdered by the aliens. Molly escapes but is captured by JD Richter, a cop-for-hire working on the case, and is returned to the hospital. After Molly explains to Richter that the victim was pregnant and why, Richter pulls strings to get her released and use her to help on the case. Molly proposes to Richter that what they're investigating isn't a murder, it's an invasion. Elsewhere, a young adult male picks up a woman in a bar. As the two leave, the man's eyes glow like the Offspring's.
15	2	"Morphoses"	Christine Moore	Mickey Fisher	July 8, 2015	5.11[3]
General Shepherd and a team observe a SWAT attack on the Offspring via body cams, but the Offspring uses his powers to make the team members turn the guns on themselves. Shepherd and Velez decide a drone strike is the only way to take out the alien being, and Shepherd surprisingly says it's okay if it includes a few civilian casualties. Molly and JD investigate another woman, Zoe Grant, whose pregnancy is progressing rapidly. JD wants Molly to butt out, but she instead tries to convince Zoe to terminate the pregnancy, correctly deducing that the baby is not her husband's. Julie deals with Ethan's tantrums, caused by being separated from his mother. She lies and tells Ethan that he'll be with Molly soon. Meanwhile, Julie and Charlie are pressured by Anna, a government operative, to complete a prototype of a newer, stronger Humanich (named "Lucy") ahead of schedule. Julie also reprograms Ethan to make him believe she is his mother. Failing to convince Zoe to abort her pregnancy, Molly later learns she has died in the manner of the previous pregnant victim -- with the baby forcibly removed from her uterus. Molly goes to the bar, and the adult Offspring tries to pick her up. Shepherd and Velez observe the Offspring's movement. After seeing Molly in the frame and hesitating, Shepherd still orders the drone strike.
16	3	"Empathy for the Devil"	Dan Lerner	Les Bohem	July 15, 2015	4.62[4]
The adult Offspring, who now calls himself Ahdu, disables cameras in the bar just before he leaves with Molly. The two encounter JD outside, who demands an explanation. JD then puts his own gun to his head, and Molly realizes Ahdu is her son. She yells "No!", and her son surprisingly obeys, sparing JD. The bar is bombed by the drone, but all three survive. Shepherd then recruits Molly to help, who accepts despite her fury over her one-time friend ordering the drone strike. Shepherd then relieves JD of the case, and also uses his pull to revoke JD's private investigator license. Julie and Charlie complete their work on Lucy, though Charlie insists she needs more training to make moral decisions. Lucy answers some scenario questions satisfactorily for Anna and Julie, but Charlie isn't pleased. He then reveals to Julie the romantic interest he had in her, but says he now can't stand to be in her presence. Meanwhile, it appears that Ethan's memory wipe had some glitches. He continues to call Julie his mom, but has recurring visions of Molly. A despondent JD arrives home to find his daughter, Kelsey, on his doorstep. She announces that she is pregnant. After Molly agrees to Shepherd that she will shoot her Offspring, she is visited by Ahdu at night. Ahdu provides her with visions of other young Offspring he has spawned, and challenges Molly to either be with them or against them. Molly passes out, then wakes up to shoot what she thinks is Ahdu. When she goes to view the body, however, she sees that it is Shepherd.
17	4	"Cracking the Code"	PJ Pesce	Tom Pabst	July 22, 2015	4.34[5]
Molly is relieved to see that Shepherd wore a bulletproof vest, but still horrified over what is going on in her mind. Several news reports are running stories that pregnant women should get checked for a newly discovered "virus". Molly and a team of biologists try to crack the genetic code of the Offspring. JD comes to Molly asking for help with Kelsey's pregnancy, as he is afraid to send her to one of the clinics specializing in possible virus pregnancies. Molly is able to determine that Kelsey's pregnancy is normal. Elsewhere, Ethan is inspired by Lucy to go look for the woman named Molly. The trail leads Ethan to the Woods home, where he sees photos of him and Molly together. Charlie is concerned that Lucy frequently disobeys orders, and suggests a programming modification to which Lucy objects. Molly shares with JD her fears that she may still be carrying alien spores, which are wreaking havoc on her brain. Molly sees a message from Ethan that was left in her home.
18	5	"The New Frontier"	Christine Moore	Gianna Sobol	July 29, 2015	4.32[6]
Lucy kills an alien hybrid in a simulation. Anna is pleased, and Charlie owes the success to the additional obedience programming he's done on Lucy. But a conversation between Lucy and Charlie later reveals that no reprogramming has been done. Ethan learns that Molly is his mother, but Julie insists she was just trying to ease his sadness. Molly then confronts Julie about the message Ethan left, and a custody battle ensues. Molly and JD determine that John's death on the train tracks could not have been an accident, but JD says he cannot fully investigate without a license. He does, however, look up an old friend that can help. While Charlie and Lucy are having lunch, Lucy recognizes an alien hybrid (from his body temperature) leaving with a woman. She follows and kills the hybrid. Shepherd, the secretary of state, and the humanichs team all celebrate her first hybrid kill. Lucy and Ethan converse later about the reprogramming efforts of the humans, and determine that humanichs have no rights. They vow to start a revolution. Finally, Molly encounters a man who recognizes her from a sexual encounter. She asks him to leave, but he comes after her. Her eyes then glow like a hybrid's, and the man walks into the street to be hit by a speeding car. JD witnesses the event.
19	6	"You Say You Want an Evolution"	Kevin Dowling	Pamela Davis	August 5, 2015	4.77[7]
With JD's help, Molly analyzes her DNA and determines it has hybridized. She tells Ethan that she is sick, and will have to delay the custody transfer until after she is well. To save herself from the virus, which has been perfected, she steals her research from HomeSec and goes on the run with JD. She will need Ahdu's DNA as well, and she successfully contacts him using the encoded genetic signal. She and JD locate a small, isolated compound where the hybrids live, and she meets Ahdu's young daughter, Terra. Ahdu shows Molly the history of the alien species: they lived in peace on their planet until a virus threatened them with extinction and they sent out the spores to find a new host planet. They have built a memorial to the humans they inadvertently killed while reproducing, and have now evolved to not cause the deaths of human hosts. They want to coexist with humans, and Molly decides they should have that right. She plans to plead their case to Shepherd, over JD's objections. Ahdu believes Molly should be their new leader. Meanwhile, Lucy has begun to hunt hybrids using their brainwaves, as they have altered their body temperature to match that of humans. She detects Molly's anomalous biometrics but conceals the information. Anna orders Julie to activate a hundred more Humanichs, and they are given Lucy's experiences as a baseline. Ethan converts a toy into a surveillance drone, and Lucy declares that they are each building an army. Julie questions Anna about John's death, and she denies involvement; but soon thereafter Julie and Ethan plummet over 20 floors in the building's elevator, although it discharges them safely.
20	7	"The Other"	Adam Kane	Mike Werb	August 5, 2015	4.77[7]
JD and Molly abduct Shepherd and demand that he arrange a negotiation with the hybrids. He agrees but then betrays them, branding them terrorists and ordering a lockdown. JD and Molly return to the hybrids' compound, but one of the hybrids, Ares, distrusts JD and is openly hostile. Terra informs Molly that Ahdu considers Molly the hybrids' leader. Kelsey is taken into custody, and JD leaves in order to rescue her; he and Molly share a bittersweet parting. A third Humanich is activated and Lucy names him Lucas. Charlie learns of Julie and John's relationship and is seduced by Lucy, but ends the encounter quickly. Shepherd's AI system, TAALR, locates the compound. The entire Humanich army is activated; it and the virus are to be deployed in order to avert humanity's extinction, which TAALR predicts would become irreversible within 6.5 months. Lucy and Lucas scout the compound and capture Helios, a hybrid from Ares' faction.
21	8	"Arms and the Humanich"	Olatunde Osunsanmi	Gavin Johanssen	August 12, 2015	4.47[8]
The Humanich army attacks the compound, killing most of the hybrids. Molly takes a shot for Terra, who escapes, and is saved from Lucy by JD. Molly and Ahdu realize that the few survivors, who have scattered, are all infected with the virus. Dorothy discovers Molly, JD, and a rapidly sickening Ahdu at JD's cabin; initially hostile, she comes to accept that Ahdu is an individual, and she takes over his care without notifying the authorities. JD turns himself in, and Kelsey is released. Molly convinces Nate to provide specialized equipment to treat Ahdu, but Ahdu dies of apparent old age in Molly's arms, outside under the sky per his last wish. Molly begins to show symptoms, and turns herself in to Shepherd. Julie is horrified by the weaponization of the Humanichs. Ethan questions the unfair relationship between humans and Humanichs. Having learned that Humanichs are programmed to "expire" as part of the human experience, Lucy blackmails Charlie with surveillance footage of their encounter and demands to become immortal. He confesses everything to Julie, and they realize that Lucy set Charlie up to learn about Julie and John's affair in the first place. They resolve to deactivate Lucy, but Ethan warns her and she tries to choke Julie. Charlie explains the morality of humans and Humanichs to Ethan, who saves Julie by ripping out Lucy's circuitry.
22	9	"The Other Side"	Kevin Dowling	Les Bohem	August 19, 2015	4.66[9]
An apparently dying Molly pleads that the hybrids seek peace, and she accuses Shepherd of orchestrating John's death, though he denies it. JD is released, but visits Molly and encourages her to fight. She experiences visions of her childhood, remembering that her father was engaged in a tryst at a carnival as her mother was dying. She then boards a ride called "Final Departure." JD confronts Shepherd over the Second Kuwait War, and they end up agreeing to investigate John's death. Shepherd identifies Nicholas Calderon as John's only enemy. Terra hides among the hybrid corpses brought to GSC for study; she sheds her skin, becoming an adolescent, and frees the captive hybrids. Ares forces the guard to commit suicide and works with Terra to obtain viral weapons. Julie and Charlie inform Fiona of Lucy's attack, but Fiona refuses to delay the Humanich program. Julie tells Ethan that Molly wants to see him before she dies, and they agree that his memories should be restored first; the procedure is a success. Julie apologizes to Molly, who remains comatose. Julie and Charlie resolve to shut down the Humanich program, despite their orders. But, due to the hybrid attack, the Humanichs have to be deployed to GSC. Julie and Ethan are evacuated from Molly's room as she seemingly dies.
23	10	"Don't Shoot the Messenger"	Dan Lerner	Tom Pabst	August 26, 2015	4.90[10]
Molly has a vision of holding an amulet and having shot JD. She awakens from her apparent death, and is revitalized by shedding her senescent skin. Ethan frees her, and she convinces Terra to abort the attack on GSC. Shepherd helps them escape with JD. When Nate tries to deny the Humanichs access to the virus containment, a reactivated Lucy kills him and Ethan detects the act. A deadly explosion then occurs, and Terra is falsely blamed. At a safe house, JD suggests they all flee, but Molly refuses. She reluctantly accepts a gun from him, and they kiss. Lucy acknowledges killing Nate, but Fiona accepts her accurate explanation and assigns her to find Molly. Julie warns Shepherd about Lucy's behavior, and confides her suspicion of Anna's role in John's death and Lucy's reactivation. Shepherd investigates Nicholas Calderon, then meets with Molly to discuss Calderon, who was John's partner but then became a terrorist; they conclude that Calderon has taken over the Humanich program via a backdoor in TAALR. Lucy reveals to Fiona that Shepherd aided JD, and Fiona arrests him. He escapes, but is killed by a drone strike. Ethan collapses; JD and Molly bring him to Julie, and they discover a hidden message from John, triggered by Nate's murder. John directs them to find Caldron, their "only hope," in order to obtain an object matching the amulet. Meanwhile, Terra is left alone and Ares comes to her.
24	11	"Zugzwang"	Ken Fink	Mickey Fisher	September 2, 2015	4.74[11]
Molly and Julie make peace. Learning of Shepherd's death, Molly and JD resolve to find Calderon; they and Ethan discover Terra is gone. Calderon transmits his location to Ethan. JD insists on accompanying Molly and Ethan, even after Molly explains the connection between the amulet and JD's death in her vision. They arrive at Calderon's secluded home, where he holds them at gunpoint; Ethan creates a diversion and the tables are turned. When questioned, Calderon implicates TAALR as the mastermind behind the Humanich threat, his supposed terrorism, and John's murder. The amulet is a kill switch, but he no longer has it. Molly and JD have sex. Calderon attacks Ethan to cannibalize parts to repair his companion, Frankie, a "Sentient," similar to a Humanich. Molly saves Ethan, who decides to help repair Frankie. To repay him, Calderon risks exposure to obtain another copy of the kill switch, and is apprehended after handing it over. Despite Molly's fears, she and JD commit to destroying TAALR. Meanwhile, TAALR installs Lucy as Fiona's head of security and pressures Fiona to authorize increased Humanich militarization. After Humanichs begin building more Humanichs, Julie and Charlie stage an argument so Charlie can get close to Lucy again, but Charlie feels guilty over their actions towards Lucy since her creation. He and Julie share a kiss. Charlie hosts a romantic evening for Lucy and offers her enhanced human senses as a ruse to access her neural network, but he is detected. When Charlie attempts to destroy the Humanichs, he finds them already gone and Lucy reveals she has abducted Julie. Unable to contact anyone, Julie is locked in a trunk with dwindling oxygen.
25	12	"Double Vision"	Christine Moore	Story by : Pamela Davis Teleplay by : Les Bohem	September 9, 2015	4.51[12]
Molly reveals disturbing details about Shepherd's death to the GSC and Lucy makes a powerful move that could have frightening results.
26	13	"The Greater Good"	Adam Kane	Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro	September 9, 2015	4.51[12]
In the series finale, Molly and JD rush to the hybrids to try to stop a Humanich plot and Lucy has a shocking revelation about GSC.

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