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This week’s episode begins with a fabulous montage of Alien Harry enjoying life in Patience set to the tune of the theme to Cheers that end with an intense depiction of why Harry is here in the first place. And then Harry discovers … he can now dream. What we learn from this is he’s only going to destroy the humans. Not animals or buildings or anything else. But will he have the heart when the time comes?
Harry’s heart is definitely getting in the way of his mission now. First, he’s invited to dinner at the mayor’s house, but he believes this will just result in young Max screaming and throwing food at him. Harry wants Asta to come with him so she can talk and he can ‘be alone’, but she’s busy so she pushes D’Arcy off on him. She pretends she can’t go but is really all about having another date with Harry. Things get complicated when it is learned that D’Arcy dated Ben, twice, when they were kids, dreaming of the day they would live in the house he currently resides in with his wife. Talk about an awkward dinner conversation.
Max, meanwhile, has a scheme going with his new friend Sahar. While Harry is in the house, Sahar roots around in his truck to see if she can find his keys. She does and manages to get copies made, but when Harry attempts to leave, Max has to improvise to keep him there until Sahar returns. He shows Harry and D’Arcy a model of the solar system he and his dad made, including the two moons of Mars (Harry helpfully notes one of them is not a moon), and then reads them a book report, putting a drunk D’Arcy right to sleep. They leave and Harry can’t seem to find his keys … but he does and Sahar signals Max that their plan worked. Now on to Phase II.
Asta’s grandmother is having back pain which Doc usually treated with a cortisone shot, so she drags Harry to a family gathering so he can do it. Her dad isn’t thrilled to have the man he senses nothing from along for the ride. When they arrive at the Ute Reservation, Harry is warmly welcomed by everyone (pass me a tissue please) and realizes it’s not food that brings people together, it’s the sense of family and community. Grandma gives Harry her seal of approval, and when Asta is holding her sister’s baby, Grandma says it’s time she has one of her own.
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To which Harry replies she does. A 17-year-old named Jay. It’s a bombshell for the family who know Jay but never knew she was Asta’s daughter. Her father is particularly upset because Asta said he already raised one kid that wasn’t his and she didn’t want her daughter to be a second. He told her that he never said she had to leave, and fully expected her to come home with a baby. He didn’t like how her boyfriend treated her, but he would have never turned her out because of the baby. That was all on her. Asking if they were going to be okay, he assured her that even if they’re not okay, they’ll be okay.
Meanwhile, Harry is bonding with the young men, playing several rounds of basketball until he couldn’t take it anymore, thinking his state of being overheated was how it was all going to end for him and wondering if the boys were cyborgs. Asta finds Harry laying in the grass, staring at the stars. She doesn’t know he’s looking at his planet’s sun. He asks if he’s supposed to apologize now, and he does but she tells him he actually helped the family by revealing her secret. He tells Asta he just wants to go home, revealing that he had a wife, she died and he took a job that would take him away from their home so he didn’t have to live with her memory around him. But now he’s lonely and wants to go back.
But things get infinitely more complicated for Harry. First, he’s unaware that two people working for ‘the general’ are hunting an alien (they are unaware that he’s right under their noses — or standing right next to one of them at a men’s room urinal). Second, he discovers Max and Sahar in his basement, unfortunately still alive but unconscious. Sahar touched the floating apple and zapped both of them, and Harry stuffs them into duffel bags to dispose of them somehow. But his third complication is waiting for him upstairs. A woman. With keys. Who turns out to be … the real Harry’s wife. Shocked, Harry drops both duffel bags. Ouch.
One other development this week comes from Deputy Liv, who is at the end of her rope with the sexist Sheriff. Finding a door knob during their search at the lake, he quickly dismisses her with the notion that it’s from a sunken houseboat. She vents to D’Arcy at the bar about him, and D’Arcy tells Liv what a great person she is, and not to let the Sheriff diminish her. She again tries to bring up the door knob with him, but he won’t even hear her out so she marks it as evidence anyway. But is the door knob evidence for the crime they are currently investigating?
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Resident Alien airs Wednesday at 10:00 PM on Syfy.
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