S1 E8 Pod People

[David]

Pod People

Isobel mind-controlled Kyle into stabbing her with the serum Liz created
last week, which doesn’t just dampen her powers, it causes every cell in her
body to start self-destructing. And while she doesn’t necessarily want to
die, she's willing if that’s what it takes to kill the evil inside of her.
Meanwhile, her husband, Noah is still trying to figure out why his perfectly
healthy wife is on death’s door from an alcohol problem he never saw any
evidence of until last week.

Michael is furious with Liz for making the serum at all, asking her how she’d
feel about a serum designed to make her less Mexican.

Eventually, for whatever reason, Michael starts to distrust her slightly
less, and even shows her the secret underground bunker where he’s hiding his
alien artifacts. Michael’s makeshift lab includes samples of the fluid that
kept him, Max, and Isobel safe in stasis before they hatched from their
pods, and from this Liz figures out a way to synthesize a similar fluid and
heal Isobel by returning her to her pod. The catch is that the process could
take months or even years, which is devastating to Max, and could result in
Isobel losing her memories, which is devastating to her. There’s no
alternative though, so back into her pod Isobel goes.

Because he’s just in the secret-spilling mood this week, Michael also tells
Liz that she was mind-manipulated into leaving town ten years ago. But Liz
isn’t mad; she says Isobel can only exert influence, not full control, and
she was always planning on leaving to travel.


The introduction of Max and Isobel’s adoptive mom (Claudia Black) felt kind
of all-of-a-sudden, especially since no one bothered to tell her about
Isobel’s situation. And why was she never seen until just now?



David