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Let’s Talk About ‘The Alien Within’:
- The future looks bleak for an elderly Harry.
- Mike and Liv find irrefutable proof that Hawthorne Creek is toxic, and it’s linked to the Galvan/Powell Group.
- It’s Halloween and Harry loves decorating, while Asta worries that the unknown aliens are Insectoids.
- Sahar is still upset with Max, but they may have bigger problems with a new lunch lady.
- D’Arcy has decided that she needs to compete again but is Harry the right person to seek encouragement from?
- Ben and Kate are thrilled to show off a model and plans for the new resort to a less than thrilled group of townspeople.
- Harry decides to return to his alien form and live in the snow-covered mountains … but he didn’t really think out the whole eating situation.
- Detective Torres returns to Jessup, hoping Sheriff Mike would ask her to stay but he’s got other things on his mind.
- Harry attempts to kidnap Sahar but she turns the tables and ‘adult-naps’ him.
- Baby shows up at school and Max brings him home.
- Asta, D’Arcy and friends borrow Kate and show her what Patience really means, hoping she will talk Ben out of building a resort that would destroy the town they all know and love.
- Baby returns to the RV to look for Sahar.
- A package from New York may hold the key to Goliath’s true identity.
The future for Harry and planet Earth is not a rosy one just 60 years out from the present. The planet is burning and an elderly Harry is the only inhabitant left to witness it. A long dead Asta is the only memory he has to hold on to before everything changed, but is this an unchangeable outcome for the planet? Is there something else that Goliath had to tell Harry a key to changing the planet’s fate?
In the present day, Harry is still looking for Baby, hoping that because they speak the same language will make it easier to find him so that he can get the rest of Goliath’s message. It’s also Halloween in Patience and Harry loves the way humans decorate with other dead humans. He even has a backstory for the skeleton he’s using as a decoration — a grocery store worker who was murdered. But Asta has no time to think about Halloween, she’s more concerned about the other aliens on the planet. Are they Insectoids, she wonders? She does not want to be squashed by a giant bug because that’s what she read on the internet. Harry tells her that is ridiculous because Insectoids don’t squash other beings, they prefer to eat them while they are still alive and struggling. Well, that’s comforting. But he still won’t know exactly who they are until he gets that message. He’s also upset that his alien call did not attract the baby, and Asta said that was because Harry isn’t as alien as he used to be. Also not helpful in this situation.
Meanwhile, Max is trying to regain Sahar’s trust after telling Harry about Baby, and she agrees to give him one more chance. But she also notices something strange about the new lunch lady. She spoke directly to Max by name even though she’d never been there before. Max just assumes it’s because everyone at school knows him, but Sahar also noticed the woman’s military grade watch. She doesn’t know the woman is General Wright, or that David Logan has tapped into the school’s security cameras and is watching them closely. Back at the RV, they find that Baby has not returned and Max suddenly has a stomach ache. Did the lunch lady put a tracking device in Max’s food? He’s going to have to poop it out … but he doesn’t have to go. Sahar offers him a suppository — which he thinks he has to swallow — but if Max can save the world with his butt, he will put that thing where it belongs. They are also unaware that David is watching them at the RV, listening to the conversation about luring the alien back.
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After Asta reminded him that he’s not as alien as he used to be, Harry reverts back to his natural form and decides to live in the snow-covered mountains that remind him of the frozen terrain of his home planet. Except … there’s no food in the mountains and he’s already hungry. Aliens can live in cabins with meat freezers. Except alien Harry is much taller than an average human so after bumping his head one too many times into door frames and exposed ceiling beams, he returns to his human form and will act like an alien. And if the baby will only come to the human girl, he’ll do what an alien does and kidnap the girl. Back at school, Sahar is surprised in the rest room by Harry, who has been waiting in a stall for her. Instead of putting up a fight, she agrees to go with him, throwing his whole kidnapping scheme out the window from which he crawled in. He needs her as bait and she needs him as bait so she turns the tables and ‘adult-naps’ him, jumping out of the window and expecting Harry to follow. What they don’t know is that Baby has shown up at the school looking for his ‘mother’. Max finds him, but David Logan does as well, using facial recognition that results in IDing Bobby Smallwood. There is no doubt now that this kid is the alien … but not the alien they’ve actually been looking for, but they don’t know that.
Heading back to the RV, Harry tells himself that humanity is a virus and it overcame Goliath because he was weak. But Harry is not weak, and if Halloween is a time for monsters then he will be that monster. Sahar interrupts his thought and says she’s hungry and talks Harry into stopping for pizza. Max is also trying to reach Sahar by walkie talkie because he’s brought Baby home with him. While he’s trying to figure out what to do, his parents (dressed as Sonny & Cher) burst into the room and see Max and his new friend. Max panics a little and introduces him as Bobby. Max surprises them when he says he’s not going trick-or-treating, which he loved the year before when he was ten. He says he’s eleven now and squashes the idea. They leave the boys alone and Max keeps trying to reach Sahar but Baby takes off out the window.
Baby makes his way back to the RV where he hears his ‘mommy’ calling for him. Entering the RV, he is surprised by General Wright’s troops. They had used a recording of Sahar and have now secured the RV and are airlifting it out of the forest just as Harry and Sahar arrive, helplessly watching the baby being abducted. Sahar blames herself for making Harry stop for pizza, but he takes the blame for wanting to stop for pizza. Sahar said she just wanted one more day with the baby and she starts to cry, something that Harry finds curious as he’s never seen her cry before. Harry tries to maintain his alien cool, thinking about what Goliath would have done to the crying child. Harry just likes to see kids cry but when Sahar turns and embraces him it’s almost too much for his human side to bear.
Later, Asta comes to the cabin because of a gibberish 911 text she received from Harry. She thought that maybe he had a stroke but he’s sitting there about to eat a just delivered pizza. She never responded so he got one for himself. She’ll have to order her own. He says his message was very clear, he was using abbreviations like the kids do. Asta says she still doesn’t understand what the message said. Harry explains the meaning of ‘911 MiBstblnwahcybi?Wa! LagtkttgtbbsichtroG’smbfiagte (pizza emoji) Wa?Hmbp’:
‘Men in Black stole the baby last night with a helicopter can you believe it? What assholes! I am going to kill them to get the baby back so I can hear the rest of Goliath’s message but first I am going to eat (that’s a pizza emoji). Want any? Hit me back playa.’
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Okay, that clears things up, but what about all of the unopened mail on the table? Harry doesn’t care about the human’s mail but she sees a package from the Darvell Gallery in New York City. It must be from Violinda. Inside there is a note that reads: ‘I wanted my baby to have this book, so that he can get to know his father through his work.’ It’s a book of prints of Goliath’s work, but one painting in particular intrigues Asta. But before we know what it is, Harry flashes forward to the 60 years ahead we saw at the top of the episode. In alien form, he walks through the burning landscape, although we still don’t know how this happened. He speaks about understanding human attachments and how he was attached to his human form until it no longer served him. We move 300 years into the future and Harry’s alien form has grown old watching the planet die. He muses about how some humans are so attached to their home that they would do anything to protect it. He understands that now because this planet is his home, and he will walk forever if he has to, searching for a way to save it. Then he sees an electrical field in the sky. It appears to be a portal as two birds fly though and suddenly burst into flames. Harry believes he is on one of the planet’s energy lines, and that if there is one portal there must be others. If he can find another one, perhaps he can change the planet’s fate. Harry walks further into the future, now 500 years have gone by and he finally finds another portal. He’s shocked when a hand reaches through and suddenly pulls back.
But in the present day, Asta and Harry view Goliath’s painting … of them, from behind, looking at the mountains in front of them. Asta notices that she is barefoot and she recalls that this moment is from the day Harry fought Jimmy. How could Goliath have known about this? Asta tries to put some pieces together and she talks about how Harry told her that the signal from Goliath was sent to him and that he was the only one who could understand the murals. And now this? 500 years in the future we see the alien Harry step through the portal and right into Season 2 Episode 7, the Tapajos National Forest in Brazil, 33 years prior to Harry’s arrival in Patience. It was there he encountered the park ranger, painting a sign, the appearance of the alien startling him so much that he fell and hit his head on a rock, killing himself instantly. The alien picked up the paintbrush and assumed the man’s human form. In the present, Asta says none of this information about Goliath makes sense unless … Harry is Goliath.
This is a lot to wrap our heads around!
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