As the military has a briefing with President Winters (Martin Cummins) Sean (Milo Ventimiglia) argues for the rock to be destroyed cos it's going to destroy them otherwise. However Wes (Barry Sloane) disagrees, they should study it cos they have it here and he asks the President to make a decision but he won't do that until he sees it. Exactly what Drill wanted in his manipulation, go straight to those in power. Naturally the President had to have a daughter who likes playing with the Dr Jess doll and she makes a call and leaves the doll behind in the car. He gets to see the rock and decides that he doesn't want it destroyed. Dr Tully (Gwynyth Walsh) also wants to study it some more. As part of his freedom, Frommer (David Andrews) wants Sean to be a part of the study and to help them otherwise he threatens to send him to Gitmo.
Sean returns home and has an awkward moment with Claire (Lily Rabe) but prefers to spend time with Henry (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) and sleeps on the couch, leaving her tablet around which Sean has a look at, okay I said it before and I'll say it gain, any ol' excuse to go shirtless! ha. Including the obligatory tighty-whities this time round! He makes pancakes for Henry and tells him he's got to look after his mother when he's not here and has to go back, so he can help protect everyone. Henry's disappointed and Claire doesn't want him to go either. His decision has nothing to do with Wes. She goes after Wes and demands to know what's happening and why Sean's gone, but it wasn't his decision. She wants to see him cos she didn't get to talk and he arranges it. Claire gets an FBI vest from Jessup (Derek Webster) and tells him she needs it to protect Henry, surprised she couldn't obtain that herself. s an FBI agent, she's not every resourceful is she. Inside it she puts some tools so she can smuggle them in.
She's allowed to see Sean who's convinced Tully to help him since he's seen the rock and it's been in his mind. He had flashes, visions of returning home but no one was there, the playground was empty and so were the schools. Seems everyone was gone but this concentrated more on there being no children around. Claire gives him the tools and Tully helps them, Sean says they need to create an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) which will destroy the rock.
Meanwhile Lena (Kristen Connolly) plays a dangerous game with Drill, a game involving asking him questions which he will answer and Minx (Kylie Rogers) tells her he wants to play. They communicate through the lights and the President's wife's phone goes missing, as her daughter says she gave it back to her. He also finds her doll in the car which Wes finds out is a tracking device so Drill knows where the rock is, after the phone rings in the closet. En route Lena tells him that Drill has gone after a very important child and this of course was the President's daughter. Lena also asks Drill to leave Minx alone and she'll do whatever he wants.
As Drill travels via the electric cables and pylons, they try to rearrange the magnets, but the place is put on lockdown and Tully is shot. Sean tells Claire to leave with Wes and he'll have to finish it himself cos Drill is here. Saying he forgives her. He manages to destroy the rock, but it's not that easy since we know Drill couldn't be destroyed so easily. Wes tells them to go on the run and he can't handle this and fix it already. Frommer gets Jessup to bring him Henry. As Minx watches Lena she tells her she wanted something from Minx, well he wants something in return and he's here with them.
There's not much happening again and it's just played out in little parts when you think they could've gone through it faster. Surely they couldn't have thought Drill would be so easily destroyed especially since it consumed all that radiation from the meltdown, it's more powerful than they think. Now it's communicated through the rock, it's probably getting its reinforcements or its family.
Some funny speech between Tully and Sean when they talk of bugs and higher intelligence, well somewhere out there is an even higher intelligence if it can communicate in such a way and without being seen, except on a thermal imaging camera. But what she underestimates was that being a military man, he knows the threat they're dealing with but also he's had it inside his mind.
Quite a few similarities and EMP also makes me think of Dark Angel and a few people associated with this who were also involved with the show. Also Martin Cummins, the thorn in Max's butt in season 2 makes an appearance as the President.
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