As children play, they're watched by a bearded man, yeah okay how else am I supposed to describe him, short of calling him a perv, which he wasn't! A girl, Harper (Abby Ryder Fortson) goes back home with her mother, Amanda (Autumn Reeser) and speaks wit her imaginary friend. Her mother calls her for lunch, oh and how easy for Harper to have gotten hold of those knives in the knife block, it was not only within reachable height, but then she was going to sit there and eat! She meanwhile raids the toolbox as she's been told to and makes her mother climb the treehouse. Where she steps on the marked spot and falls through it cos Harper tells her to. Now how can a child not be old enough to know the outcome of that and what would happen, also who does that to their parents, imaginary friend telling them to do it or not. Yeah okay I know it's just a show and such things do happen in real life!
Harper isn't the only child affected as there are others who are either influenced by the children themselves or by the 'unknown' Drill, as all their imaginary friends have this name. Agent Clare Bennigan (Lily Rabe) is called in as she's a child expert and also investigated such cases before, where children mysteriously blew up buildings. She's also a mother and her son, Henry (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) can't hear or speak. As she leaves him at a baseball game. She's also lost her husband, his father, Sean three months ago and yeah figured out very early and I mean very early on, that her dead husband was the one watching Harper in the playground.
In Mali, Africa, Wes Lawrence (Barry Sloane) is called to the site of some wreckage in the desert, which is unexplainable. He's called back home and said bearded man, oh let me just call him Sean (Milo Ventimiglia) is admitted to hospital, where he has countless number of tattoos and also speaks in Arabic. Which is completely irrelevant, but was there for just that added stereotypical factor. His doctor Maria Benavidez (Catalina Davis) asks for someone to translate and later that night, he leaves the hospital and goes to the playground wearing doctor's scrubs. Pretty soon Drill makes his way to Henry and allows him to hear again, but it's their secret, also that he will bring back his father to him, which is all he wants really.
Clare is assigned a new partner, Jessup Rollins (Derek Webster) who understandably doesn't want her taking the lead and doing things her way but she's the one who's had experiences with these cases and finally there's the reveal that the man is her husband, Sean cos of the photos around. An airforce pilot whose plane crashed and was found miles away in the desert. He finds another tattoo on his arm of the treehouse and presumably that's why he was at the playground. As we also get to find out that Wes and Clare have history of an affair and now Wes is back home with his wife Lena (Kristen Connolly) also with a daughter, Minx (Kylie Rogers) who's also communicating with Drill.
As for the title, a clue for those who needed to know the show was more sci-fi than supernatural, hence the 'X', yeah that's just me being pedantic, ridiculous or both! But I would've preferred more supernatural than aliens although it was obvious alien invasion was on the horizon. Also the plane was "grabbed from the sky and ripped to "shreds" by something. Thus the alien connection. Though as more children turn up and are manipulated by Drill getting the others to talk to them or even Drill communicating himself with them, it's apparent the show is about the children more so than the adults. I do have to say that I got a feeling of deja vu whilst watching this and as my mind wandered, I thought of how Barry Sloane looks much younger in this than he did in Revenge! Or whether I prefer Milo with a beard or sans beard. I was still watching though and yes I can multi-task and still be amenable to this show! Ha.
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