Falling Skies

He's looking for you, Tom

Previously on Falling Skies...

We're gonna need all the allies we can get.

Those bastards aren't gonna quit until they find us, again.

You ever taken one down?

I have.

I am the only shot you got to survive.

Why would the Espheni leave this place alone?

How the hell did this happen?

Your daughter's very special.

Shouldn't we give her the chance to prove she's on our side...

that she's still one of us?

Worst-case scenario, what happens?

Worst-case...

She kills you all.

Lexi? Are you all right?

Her eyes.

What happened to her eyes?

Lexi?! Lexi! Oh!

Lexi?

Honey?

Lexi?

Mom?

I'm here. We're both here.

It's me.

Tom Mason?

You remember.

I'm your father.

Lexi!

Is there anything you need?

We're so glad you're all right, that you're back with us.

I have to go. Go, Lexi?

No, you can't go anywhere

until I've had a chance to calm everybody down out there.

I could hear them. Their fear, their hatred.

They wanted to hurt me. No.

We didn't know what was going on in there.

People were afraid that you were gonna come out...

different, dangerous.

The faithful never believed that, not for a second.

I am different.

I tried to help those who lived here

to make peace with their enemies,

but I see now there's no use.

Humans cannot let go of their warlike ways.

So it's time for me to leave here.

I don't understand.

You spoke to me when you were in the cocoon.

You said you would always need your family.

You misunderstood. Not this family.

Your hearts are filled with violence.

I try to show you another path,

but you don't have the courage to change.

There's nothing more I can do.

For any of you.

Wait, please.

Lexi... I never gave up on the dream.

For that, I will always be grateful to you, Lourdes.

Lexi, you're right. They are afraid of you.

They may try to hurt you. Let them try.

Lexi. Lexi.

Lexi, wait!

Lexi!

Don't take another step. I mean it.

Pope, trust me. Don't do it.

If she wanted to hurt us, she would have done it by now.

At every step, you people respond with violence.

You Masons are always so damn eager

to make excuses for one of your own.

I'm leaving. Don't try to stop me.

Lexi, wait. Please, take me with you.

Before I met you, I'd lost everything.

I-I didn't know who I was anymore,

and you saved me.

You're in so much pain.

These last few months,

you've given me a reason to go on.

Without you, I can't...

I won't. I'm afraid.

Poor Lourdes.

Would you like me to set you free?

Oh, thank you, Lexi.

You know I'll always be beside you.

Yes. Always in my heart, Lourdes.

Breathe deeply.

Wait. What are you... what are you doing?

Don't be scared.

Lexi! Lexi, stop it! Lexi!

I'm not doing this!

Just let go.

I'm not ready.

You're free.

Somebody take a shot! Aah!

- Lourdes! Lourdes! - Lourdes!

Where did she go?!

She's gone.

It's not fair.

She was so young.

She was just a frightened med student

when she came to work with me.

But she became so much more than just a friend.

She was my kid sister.

And I loved her.

Goodbye, Lourdes.

I'm so sorry, Hal.

Yeah, well, I think it might be a little late for that, Dad.

I tried to warn you, and you wouldn't listen.

'Cause she's a Mason.

She a Mason now? Lexi still family?!

Yes, she is.

Well, that's a problem, isn't it?

I'm sorry.

He's wrong.

He's not wrong. I made a promise to everybody.

That if Lexi came out dangerous, I would deal with it.

But I am so...

conditioned to protect and defend

and rationalize and excuse by rote.

It's... It's poisonous,

because regardless of the fact that I love her,

we need to look at this, Anne, right now.

How could she do it?

I don't know.

Did you see her face?

Lourdes was begging for her life,

and it looks almost as if she's enjoying it.

Oh, stop. I'm not gonna stop!

This is our daughter!

Those monsters, they took control of her,

they're to blame.

Lexi didn't do that! You know it!

And it is because we love her

that we are the only ones that can save her, Tom!

Please.

I hope you're right.

I love you.

I love you, too.

I just... I need you to make me a promise.

Just don't quit on us.

I'm not gonna quit.

Couldn't if I tried.

This equipment is not capable

of that kind of analysis.

All I can confirm

is that Lexi has gone through a transformation.

Is there any sign that she's being controlled,

the way the Espheni do with the harnesses or the eye worms?

This cocoon is like nothing we've ever encountered,

and Espheni biotech

is still far beyond our capacity to understand.

We'd settle for a theory.

Come on. We're grasping at straws here.

Well, I believe that Lexi has changed at the cellular level.

Her human and Espheni DNA strands have conjoined

and become something new and altogether different.

It doesn't explain her becoming an evil thing

capable of killing Lourdes.

Lexi isn't evil. I don't accept that.

Well, I don't accept it, either. I don't...

I don't want to.

I've come to know your daughter these past few months,

and I've come to care for her.

It pains me to think that she lost touch with her humanity.

She didn't.

If she did, then it makes the situation far...

You didn't hear me.

I said she didn't lose touch with her humanity.

She is in there, Roger. Help us.

There's no definitive proof.

No. And it just...

makes the situation far more dangerous.

What your daughter did to Lourdes,

how she did it...

indicates she's mastering her abilities.

She's becoming more powerful.

And this could be only the tip of the iceberg.

We have a problem.

What happened?

Anthony was out on security sweep.

Apparently, he was ambushed.

My recon team and I found him on our way back to camp.

Who did this to you?

The cockroaches.

I was with Bennett. They burned him alive.

Where did this happen?

Just across the bridge on the other side of the river.

The skitters were on us before we could react.

They took us to their Overlord.

What do you mean they burned him alive, Anthony?

Overlord ordered the skitters

to hit him with some kind of flame jet.

I can still hear his screams.

And that bastard, he just watched.

His face was all messed up, like he'd been burned, too.

The Overlord from the ghetto... the one you torched...

he's finally tracked us down.

This is why I have returned, Tom Mason.

Our recon drones alerted us to a large Espheni force

gathering just across the river to the north.

Tell them how you got away.