The Event

The Event – Everything Will Change

     I am not surprised Michael Buchanan is a sleeper alien.  I didn’t really think about the implications of this though:  that makes Leila and Samantha, his daughters, either alien children, or more likely hybrids.  Their mother, Michael’s wife, was murdered when Michael and Samantha were kidnapped, which makes me think she was human.  My guess now is that all the children (and I believe they were also all girls) that were being held in the facility are hybrid children.  And their blood or some kind of body fluids, are being extracted from them as an anti-aging compound, the one Dempsey was injecting into himself.  What I don’t understand is what the bad guy was going to inject into Leila and why it aged him.  Perhaps it was to make her age more normally than she would otherwise?

     The other big development is that Thomas and Isabel lied to Sophia about the money Thomas has made for the cause, and they went off Sophia’s radar, unavailable to her.  They then proceeded to launch a missile, which the President was afraid was a nuclear missile aimed at the US.  Instead it was sent into space and it launched a satellite that sent a message “home”.  What that message said we don’t know, but based on what Thomas and Isabel said, it may have been a call to come to Earth.  They also mentioned that a large number of people will die, so it may also have been a call to arms. 

     This was the last episode for a few weeks, while the show prepares for their back 13 episodes.  I am hearing that the writers and execs are taking some audience commentary into account and will be doing fewer flashbacks, and tightening up the plot in some ways.  I am actually looking forward to the show coming back, and am really intrigued about what is going to happen next.  For the first time since the show started, I am also interested in what is going on with Leila’s storyline!