Extant

Hideki Yasumoto:
I spent the money on research to discover the origin of that rock. It took 25 years to find the rest of that asteroid and its orbit. Another 29 years before we landed on the moon.

Molly Woods:
That's a long time to wait.

Hideki Yasumoto:
Over 140 years.

Hideki Yasumoto:
The deeper we explored in space, the closer we got to that asteroid, until finally we sent the Aruna. We found something far more extraordinary than the substance. We made contact with the architect of eternal life.

Alan Sparks:
We always knew. Intelligent people knew that we weren't the only thinking, feeling beings in the universe.

Anya Sparks:
And this is what you found.

Alan Sparks:
We aimed our ships towards something. And this is what happened.

Anya Sparks:
But how does it do what it does?

Alan Sparks:
I don't know.

Femi Dodd:
[looking at the chessboard] Have you played this before?

Ethan Woods:
My dad just showed me. It's easy.

Femi Dodd:
Well, people don't think so.

Ethan Woods:
You just have to look at the connections.

Odin James:
Hey, little guy! What's going on?

Ethan Woods:
I need to find Julie. We're in trouble.

Odin James:
Okay, well, she's already left. I can take you to her. Is this like big T-trouble or little T-trouble?

Ethan Woods:
Big, I think.

Dr. Mason:
[of the army unit] I promise you. They're just here as a backup. We just want to make sure we do this right.

Molly Woods:
You go in there with all these guys, it's not gonna go right. I hope you told them to say goodbye to their families.

Dr. Mason:
Molly. Your baby, it's half yours and half this other. And yes, it's trying to protect you. And yes, it wants you, but this other - frankly, it would be presumptuous to believe that it thinks like we do.

Molly Woods:
Because he wants to live? And needs his mother? I guess I'm presumptuous.

Dr. Mason:
And I guess I'm cautious. Look, we both want the same thing. We both want to keep your baby safe.

Molly Woods:
*I'll* keep my baby safe!

[Molly is about to go on a rescue mission in space]

Ryan Jackson:
If you're the praying type, say a prayer for Dr. Woods. If you're superstitious, cross your fingers. Throw a pinch of salt. If you don't believe in anything, believe in her.

Ethan Woods:
Why isn't anyone helping her?

John Woods:
They can't get into the ISEA.

Ethan Woods:
Because he's in there?

John Woods:
Yeah, he can, uh... get into people's minds and make them do things they don't wanna do.

Ethan Woods:
How?

John Woods:
Well, he has special powers. He does something to our brains that we can't understand.

[Ethan thinks about that for a moment]

Ethan Woods:
Not mine.

Molly Woods:
Okay, I'm gonna set the detonators on high-shear sep-bolts; put a timer on 'em. When I get back, we're only gonna have a couple of minutes before it goes off. So we're gonna have to launch the Odessa as soon as possible.

Ben:
I'll set the prelaunch protocol. You only have 23 minutes.

Molly Woods:
Okay, well, wish me luck.

Ben:
I'll apply the rules of probability.

Molly Woods:
Oh, God, forget it.

Ethan Woods:
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

John Woods:
Hey, I understand. I-I'm asking you to do something you're not designed to do. I'm asking you to do the worst thing possible for a machine, to be shut down. But you're not... you're not just a machine. You're capable of so much more. You have to see yourself as human as I see you. You have to take a leap of faith.

[Ethan has just received the confirmation that Odin has put a bomb into him]

Ethan Woods:
I thought that he was my friend.

John Woods:
That's the other part of trust. You know, sometimes people are gonna let you down. Every now and then, you're gonna be disappointed. Just like you were disappointed in your mom for yelling at you.

Ethan Woods:
I was trying to protect her.

John Woods:
I know.

Ethan Woods:
Is she gonna die?

John Woods:
No!

Ethan Woods:
Am I?

[Ethan's core is beginning to heat up]

Ethan Woods:
[to the offspring] You should really run now.

[the offspring starts to slowly back off]

Ethan Woods:
RUN!

Molly Woods:
[voice-over] No one could explain how it happened. John set out to create a more human machine, but in the end, what he created was much more than that. In those final moments, Ethan taught us something about what it means to be human - how our connection to each other and our ability to love and sacrifice transcends our physical forms. I've never been a big believer in miracles, but there is one I've come to embrace. Something time and space have revealed to me over and over again. Whether by divine creation or cosmic accident, we made it here. We exist. And that's a gift, rare and beautiful.

John Woods:
Ethan? Where are you?

Ethan Woods:
I'm here. I'm everywhere.

Ryan Jackson:
D'you believe in UFOs as a kid?

Molly Woods:
Believe in 'em? I wanted to fly 'em.

[Sam is preparing Molly for an injection]

Molly Woods:
Are you gonna... put that in my neck?

Sam Barton:
It's a memory enhancer, Molly. I can't really inject it into your ass.

Katie Sparks:
You want some help? I'm handy.

Sean Glass:
You are helping. You're here. [sighs] When they know you have whatever it is that makes you good at these solo missions, they... can't send you on enough of 'em. You get so used to being alone, you forget there's another way to be. I know it seems obvious, but I'm basically trained to not connect to people. It's nice to know I'm not great at that.

Ethan Woods:
I know what you're trying to do. I know my mom and dad want to shut me down.

Julie Gelineau:
Shut you down? Why would they wanna do that?

Ethan Woods:
So that he can re-program me, so I'm like other kids.

Julie Gelineau:
No way, Ethan. No one wants to shut you down. Your parents love you. We all love you.

Ethan Woods:
But I'm a machine.

Julie Gelineau:
We're all machines. I'm half motors, half muscles. Who cares what we are? If you can love something, then you can be loved. That's how it works.

[Kryger is determined to kill the alien]

Harmon Kryger:
This thing gets out in the world, more people will die.

Molly Woods:
Well, that's not your call to make. It's alive. It's a living thing, okay? It's...

Harmon Kryger:
It's your baby? It is NOT your baby. It's a nightmare!

[Odin has changed Ethan's power core without anyone else's supervision]

Odin James:
He walked me through it! It was easy, it's like changing the oil on my bike.

Julie Gelineau:
He's a kid, he's not a bike!

Odin James:
I'm sorry. Really. Don't get mad. You look really cute when you're mad.

[Sparks is about to bash the Sheriff's head in]

Young Katie Sparks:
Stop! He needs him.

Alan Sparks:
Why?

Young Katie Sparks:
He's hungry.

Alan Sparks:
I can get him food.

Young Katie Sparks:
Not that kind of hungry.

Molly Woods:
You know the hardest thing about being in space?

John Woods:
Uhm?

Molly Woods:
The coffee is awful!

John Woods:
That's the hardest thing?

Molly Woods:
[laughs] Absolutely!

Femi Dodd:
I am not worried about the robots destroying us, Dr. Woods. I think we're perfectly capable of doing that ourselves!

Harmon Kryger:
We thought we were doing experiments? *We* were the experiments.

[Julie is fixing Ethan, who has been damaged by two older kids]

Ethan Woods:
They were hurting the bot.

Julie Gelineau:
Seriously, if you keep moving, I will turn your mouth off.

Harmon Kryger:
You ever hijacked a truck?

Molly Woods:
No; but I have docked a spaceship.

Harmon Kryger:
Same diff.

[Kern is outlining his plan to get Molly and Harmon through the security system]

Harmon Kryger:
No way! This is suicide! Even if we do get the hell there, how are we gonna bring the offspring up? Tupperware?

Gordon Kern:
I was an Air Force MP all the way through Second Korea. I was stationed in all kinds of hellholes across this rock, and there is one thing that has never changed: if you lock someone in a box who doesn't belong there, he's got a lot to say when you finally let him out.

Molly Woods:
Thanks for coming with me.

Harmon Kryger:
Just remember not to trust anything you see down there. You won't know what's real or not.

[Molly gives him a look]

Harmon Kryger:
Don't worry, I'm real.

John Woods:
I'm sorry, Molly. It wasn't just the baby they took from you. They took everything - space, the stars...

Molly Woods:
[looking tenderly at John] Not everything.

John Woods:
Yes. We still have breakfast!

Charlie Arthurs:
[referring to Odin] You've been spending a lot of time with this all-father of the gods. What do you actually know about this guy?

Julie Gelineau:
I know he minds his own business.

Charlie Arthurs:
Yeah, but I bet if you ran a search on him, Mr. Perfect wouldn't seem so perfect.

Julie Gelineau:
You ran a search on him?

Charlie Arthurs:
I mean, if I did, I'd just be looking out for you.

Julie Gelineau:
If you did, it wouldn't feel that way.

Ethan Woods:
What's my function?

[Julia smiles subtly]

Julie Gelineau:
[softly] We made you... so that you could find your own function. That's why you're special. Nobody wakes up on this planet and knows their purpose. But I'm sure you'll find yours.

Julie Gelineau:
You shouldn't fret over Ethan rebelling against his programmer. You wanted a kid, you got one.

John Woods:
It doesn't concern you we no longer have access to his programming?

Julie Gelineau:
I can't speak to your concerns as a parent, but... We set out to create a machine that approximated a human, and he just asked me what his function is. Ethan is questioning his own existence, John. It doesn't get much more human than that.

[two Japanese girls are talking to each other in their own language about Ethan]

Ethan Woods:
[in Japanese] I can hear you, you know. I'm standing right here.

Japanese Girl #1:
[to John] I'm sorry, I didn't know he spoke Japanese.

John Woods:
Neither did I. Hey, where'd you learn to do that?

Ethan Woods:
I don't know.

[the lab team are discussing Ethan's rapid progress]

Julie Gelineau:
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe that school *is* good for Ethan.

John Woods:
But at this rate, pretty soon he'll be smarter than all of his teachers.

Charlie Arthurs:
Well, I mean, so was I. I turned out pretty good.

Molly Woods:
[about Claypool Industries] They don't want anybody to know what they were searching for.

Sam Barton:
It must be pretty valuable.

Molly Woods:
Not compared to what they found.

Molly Woods:
I wanna see it.

John Woods:
See what?

Molly Woods:
The baby.

John Woods:
What?

Molly Woods:
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.

John Woods:
I don't believe this.

Molly Woods:
And if it's out there... I'm gonna find it.

Katie Sparks:
Whatever you do, do NOT recover this ship! I repeat: do NOT recover this ship!

Molly Woods:
[to Alan] 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.

Molly Woods:
No risk, no reward.

Gordon Kern:
[loosely quoting Shakespeare] There's more in heaven and earth than can be dreamt of in our philosophy.

Harmon Kryger:
There's more in heaven and earth... Damn right there is.

[Ethan shouts in his sleep]

Molly Woods:
Ethan! Wake up, honey! Ethan! You were having a dream.

John Woods:
That's impossible. He's not programmed to dream.

Ethan Woods:
Mom, mom!

Molly Woods:
You're okay honey! You were having a nightmare.

Ethan Woods:
How could I see if my eyes weren't open?

Molly Woods:
Because it was not real, okay?

Sean Glass:
Yes, in fact I am having homicidal thoughts. Thank you for asking. I want to kill whoever dehydrated the turkey chili, because... it blows.

Charlie Arthurs:
Late!

[turns around and sees John and Ethan enter the lab]

Charlie Arthurs:
Oh. Hey. Sorry boss, I thought you were, uh, Julie. What's with this delinquent? Playin' hooky?

John Woods:
[to Ethan] Come on, tell him what happened.

Charlie Arthurs:
What happened?

Ethan Woods:
I had a dream.

Charlie Arthurs:
Shut - up!

Ethan Woods:
It was a bad dream.

Charlie Arthurs:
Are you kidding me?

Ethan Woods:
Nope.

John Woods:
He woke up screaming.

Charlie Arthurs:
Dude! I mean... uh, are you... okay? I'm sorry. It's amazing.

John Woods:
Worth taking a look.

Charlie Arthurs:
Yeah... Um, come on pal, let's, uh, let's go probe those brains.

John Woods:
Where's Julie?

Charlie Arthurs:
Late. Has that ever happened in the history of ever?

[Julie is vigorously pummeling a punch bag]

Odin James:
You're good.

Julie Gelineau:
I have a lot of brothers.

Femi Dodd:
Believe it or not, Dr. Woods, there are plenty of people in this world who still believe there is more to us that can be explained by science.

John Woods:
Well... those people are idiots.

Femi Dodd:
I am one of those idiots.

John Woods:
I'm sorry.

Femi Dodd:
I accept your apology.

John Woods:
No. I mean I'm sorry you are one of those idiots.

Cass Hendy:
So what's your secret?

Molly Woods:
A lot a V-Chrons

Cass Hendy:
And no alcohol?

Molly Woods:
No, I have not had a drink in thirteen months

Cass Hendy:
What?

Sam Barton:
Can't risk any DUI when you're in space

Sam Barton:
You were on the Seraphim station for 13 month, a solo mission?

Molly Woods:
Yes

Sam Barton:
You were alone the whole time?

Molly Woods:
Well that's why they call it a solo mission!

Sam Barton:
There has to be some kind of explanation!

Molly Woods:
How about: you made a mistake?

Molly Woods:
Damn it!

B.E.N.:
Five dollars for the swear jar.

Molly Woods:
Put it on my tab.

B.E.N.:
Of course.

Quinn:
You're not planning to stay long, do you?

John Woods:
It is a bit of an impromptu visit. Just one day, we'll be back soon

Quinn:
Yeah? That's what I said forty years ago!

Quinn:
You start school yet?

Ethan Woods:
I only went one day

Quinn:
Ah. Make any friends?

Ethan Woods:
A girl

Quinn:
Ah! Of course you did! Chip of the old block

Molly Woods:
Okay, look Daddy! Ethan wouldn't just get out the car and run off. What did you do to him?

Quinn:
Nothing!

Molly Woods:
Daddy!

Quinn:
Well... I might have snapped at him back at town

Molly Woods:
You did what?

Quinn:
I thought that the kid would not gonna be reacting like that. He is a robot!

John Woods:
They covered up everything!

Molly Woods:
Everything they knew about!

Alan Sparks:
What the hell is it?

Chief Tech Davis:
It's a boy

Charlie Arthurs:
We have to contain this, before she tells anybody else.

Alan Sparks:
I'll take care of Molly.

Charlie Arthurs:
What are you going to tell her?

Alan Sparks:
Something more believable than the truth.

John Woods:
Congratulations. Your daughter made friends with the toaster.