Season, Episode # & Title: Extant 1.03 – “Wish You Were Here”
Original Air Date: July 23, 2014
Written By: Mickey Fisher
Directed By: Holly Dale
The following is the recap of “Extant” 1.03 – “Wish You Were Here”:
- At night, Kern sneaks into to the animal hospital where Sam had performed Molly‘s ultrasound. He retrieves the record of Molly‘s ultrasound and takes it ISEA Director Sparks. Kern knew where to look because he used vehicle surveillance to track Sam at the hospital. Kern warns Sparks that Molly needs to be “contained” before she tells anyone else about her pregnancy. Sparks does not want to quarantine Molly, but prefers to tell her something more believable than the truth.
- We learn that Molly was at one time expecting a baby with former boyfriend, Marcus Rawlins. Molly lost both Marcus and her unborn baby in an automobile accident.
- While John is asleep next to her in bed, Molly has a flashback to the time when she and John were still trying for their own biological child. She is upset that her fertility treatments have not worked and wants to give up. John, however, convinces Molly to accept Ethan as their child, even though he is an android. At first Molly is reluctant, but she agrees. Molly also then John that she has signed up to go on a mission on the Seraphim, but is unsure if or when she will be selected to go.
- In the present day, John plans a birthday party for Molly, celebrating the birthday that she missed wile she was away for 13 months on the Seraphim. It is also Ethan‘s first day at school – John and Molly prepare to take Ethan to his orientation.
