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The town of Patience, Colorado is brining up some very complicated feelings for alien Harry, especially now that he’s been appointed as the town’s new doctor. Sheriff Thompson is still trying to solve the ‘murder’ but no one seems to be listening to Harry that doc was poisoned and his wounds were the result of an attempt at performing an tracheotomy on himself. And it only gets more complicated when his widow shows up to clean out his office while Asta does all she can to preserve the ‘crime scene’. But Sheriff Thompson says he has all he needs, so it seems Asta is simply reluctant to let the doctor’s memory go. In a flahsback we do get to see the kind of relationship the two had, and Asta reveals to Harry that doc was like a father to her. And Harry even shows some empathy by asking Asta is she wants to play a card game, noticing her fiddling with a deck (she and the doctor apparently enjoyed some intense games of cards). Harry is starting to wonder if he’s becoming ‘infected’ with human emotions and he’s not quite sure how to deal with that.
But in the end, it doesn’t matter because once he finds his device he’ll wipe out humanity and be on his way. But the longer he stays in Patience, it may be harder for him to carry out that mission. Harry has found a piece of his ship, but now he’s a bit worried about the coming spring thaw. He still hasn’t found what he’s looking for but a hapless hiker just might have. Attempting to take a selfie at the edge of a snowy cliff, the hiker slipped but before he hit the ground something stopped him, holding him in place in mid air … with no way to get free of whatever is holding him. We’ll get back to him shortly.
Harry’s interaction with Asta and Ben, the mayor who is imposing himself on Harry for a therapy session (Harry seems to have a vast medical background), have left him with an empty feeling inside and he isn’t sure if it’s emotion or hunger. He ducks into the local bar but after he’s there he realizes he isn’t hungry. What he does find is a connection with D’arcy, the bartender he danced with after indulging in a bit too much liquor. D’arcy asks Harry some jokey questions (‘Have you ever killed anyone?’) to which Harry responds honestly (‘Yes’) but she thinks he’s just playing along and then basically tells him they’ve got a date to go bowling the next night. Great … but what’s bowling, Harry wonders.
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Harry begins seeing patients, and believes he can wing it with his scientific knowledge from his home world … and YouTube. One of his new patients, Judy, seems to have a complicated relationship with D’arcy. Walking into the bar while Harry is there, the two women exchange heated, hilarious insults but at the end arrange a get-together. Later while bowling, we see that Judy works at the food counter. Harry and D’arcy also run into the Sheriff, who lets Harry know they are ‘in my house’ now, which Harry assumes means Thompson actually lives at the bowling alley. When talk about how a murder can look like an accident comes up, Harry realizes this is exaclt how he can handle his problem of Max, the mayor’s son who can see Harry’s true identity … and who has hung ‘wanted posters’ featuring his alien appearance all over town (drawing courtesy of Deputy Baker). Harry cuts the brakes on the boy’s bike and the next day Ben comes to the office with an ’emergency’ … to wish Harry promptly offers his condolences. No, Max isn’t dead, he just had a gash that needs stitches, and the kid refuses novocaine, practically daring alien Harry to give him more stitches than he actually needs. This kid is going to be a bigger problem for Harry than he imagined, but at least his parents just think he has an over-active imagination.
Asta spends some time at home with her father, but when he met Harry earlier he had an odd reaction. Asta says he always feels some way about the men she’s been around but her dad tells her this time he felt absolutely nothing from Harry, and that really freaked him out. Her dad, Dan, also knows that Asta has to let go of Doc Hodges for herself and to release his spirit. He cuts some of her hair to honor the dead, and he urges her to burn the scrubs she was wearing the night he died so his spirit can move on. Later, Asta reveals a piece of shocking news — Dan isn’t her real father. He’s her stepfather, so that leaves us to wonder … was Doctor Hodges her real father? Is that why she had such a connection to him?
Harry makes a trip to the mine again and discovers a vein of ore that he chips out and manages to fashion it into something that creates a force field of sorts that causes objects to float above it. Back to that hiker, a couple is walking through the snow and stops, looking up with horror on their faces. They see the hiker, now several weeks later, still floating but a dessicated husk, with two dead birds in mid-flight also hovering above the ground. And directly under the floating bodies is a large black disk. Presumably the item Harry is desperate to find. So who will get to it first? Harry or Sheriff Thompson?
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Resident Alien airs Wednesday at 10:00 PM on Syfy.
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