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The Event: “Arrival” Season Finale with Science and “Physics of the Impossible” Analysis!

Hello The Event fans,

We have seen Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) and Vicky Roberts (Taylor Q Cole) fight the billionaire James Dempsey (Hal Holbrook), who we thought was evil, but turned out to be from a line of people called ‘Sentinels’ who are here to protect Earth and its people from the Others.

When Dempsey saw Sean was worthy of being one of them, he turned over the tools he had, told them what was going on with the Aliens and committed suicide. Sean and Vicky went on an international scale to fight the “Others” in releasing a biological weapon to kill humanity and make room for their people to come to Earth, escaping a Supernova.

We saw them finally meeting Blake Sterling (Zeljko Ivanek) and Simon Lee (Ian Anthony Dale) where they all joined forces to fight Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes), Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) and the plan to kill everyone here.

Sophia had three main points of initiating the virus among the world’s population. A food processing plant would get to six states and infect the eastern seaboard, the Government engraving plant where all currency is printed would spread it on a national level and the international terminal at Dulles Airport in Washington D.C. would make the disease go global. Soon, the disease would be worldwide and in five weeks the human population would be dead.

President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood) was saved by a counter-agent which Simon Lee was able to smuggle within a bouquet of flowers which Christina Martinez (Lisa Vidal) picked up for the President in the hospitals’ florist’s shop. Christina got the medication to Elias and he was recovering from the strokes he had had in the last episode. Blake and Simon were know in Sean and Vicky, they got information from Dr. Liu’s laptop and were trying to find a way to stop the plans to release the virus. Sean found Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) in the medical sector of the alien’s Evacuation Center, we left them there as Leila, behind a protective plastic wall was talking with Sean.

Sophia was talking with Gerard on the final preparations at the site of the Portal array in Tibet. With everything ‘All Set and Ready”, she ordered the activation of the Portal. The effects of the activation reminded me of a ‘Wormhole’ being created.

“ARRIVAL”

“Leila?… Leila?” Sean’s distant voice is calling softly to Leila through the plastic. “Sterling’s called a specialist at the CDC…Under the radar… they said they’ll be here any minute. OK?” Sean tries to keep her awake. Leila tells him they have to stop Sophia. She tells him that it is too late for her. Sean points out that Simon told them his people are immune to it. She has their DNA so he remains more optimistic than she is right now. As Leila tells Sean to find Samantha (Her little sister as remembered in past episodes) and make sure she is okay, she starts to fade off as the CDC and some others come in to take her to a facility where she will be cared for.

Now, Sterling, Simon and Vicky are looking over the laptop and finds the graphics of the planned spread of the Bio-weapon. Using a reverse time line, they will know when the attack will take place. They find the locations and details about the specialized aerosol containers. Blake tells them “That means they’re either on their way, or already in place!” Cue Exit by the three to find Sean and get a move on.

Sophia and Carlos, in an SUV are traveling through the city and Carlos is appraising Sophia of what is happening with their plans. Sophia tells him; “All right. …Pull over here.” Carlos asks “Is there a problem?” to which Sophia replies “It’ll be safer when we’re stopped” Carlos pulls over and they both get out. Just as Carlos asked “Sophia, what are we doing here?” a rather large earthquake happens.

Cars veer, collide, people screaming or yelling etc. After this dies off, Carlos asked “How did you know?” Sophia replies “Gerard. He says the portal would impact the Earth’s procession. We’d feel the effects along the thirty eighth parallel as the time grew near. The Portal is creating a door in the fabric of space and we just cracked it open.”

Carlos seems to sense her unease “Sophia, I know you have mixed feeling about what we’re doing to the native population… Think of the alternative!” Sophia tells Carlos “Our people will be arriving soon.” Sighing, she finishes “I don’t have time for self-doubt. We have to get this done!”. Music plays as we see a shot overlooking the Earth and the blue cloud out past the stratosphere growing in size.

We are now hearing a newscaster saying a “Small Earthquake measuring four point six on the Richter scale was felt along the East coast today. There have been no reports of any injuries or deaths…” OKAY! I live in Southern California and know Earthquakes quite well. They have awakened me a number of times like an arrogant lover in the early morning hours. The effect scene of the earthquake making cars move and veer and so on, made ME think more of a magnitude six point five up to an eight perhaps, at the actual epicenter. I have easily slept through a three or lower four, without difficulty.

Martinez is on the phone to Blake They discuss what Sophia’s plans are. Martinez tells him Jarvis is fighting his reinstatement as President and Martinez is demanding a vote by the cabinet, but until that happens, Martinez cannot issue any orders. When they both find time is not on their side, Martinez says that they can launch contained operations at the food center and the bureau of Engraving, but shutting down an airport is another matter. Blake comes back into where Vicky, Sean and Simon are readying for their part. They discuss how to stop the airport becoming the ‘Ground Zero’ of the bio-weapon.

Martinez comes to see Jarvis in the office as everything is being made ready for the cabinet. Martinez tries to reason with Jarvis and tells him what Sophia is planning. Jarvis will not believe him and instead, accuses Martinez of trying to make him look inept in front of the cabinet. Martinez feels defeated as Jarvis dismisses him and goes in to his office, immediately calling Sophia. Jarvis tells her what just happened with Martinez, and of course Sophia tells him that the plans are not true.

She strokes his ego by telling him “Tomorrow, there will be a New World Order, with your guiding hand. You only need to hang on, for one more day. Do you understand?” She asks and he says yes. She continues “We must not let anyone get in our way. Can you do that?” again, Jarvis says yes. Sophia nails it with “I chose you! Because of your strength, your power…use it!”. She uses that soft ‘little girl’ type voice and Jarvis totally buys it. As they hang up, Sophia tells Carlos as he drives; “We may have a problem. They know… Somehow, they know.”

In a hangar at Dulles, Sophia enters and her operative takes the two bags she is carrying to get them through security. He gives them a card to get them through and she can pick up her bags once inside the terminal. Sophia tells the operative that they can not wait. That now their plan is known. She tells them they must release the virus immediately. We see the operative walking off with the bags.

A newscaster is out on location by Mount Shasta. reporting that volcanic experts are stumped by the finding of new lava flows from this once thought to be dormant volcano. We see smoke and steam rising from the summit off in a distance behind her. She is saying there is no official notice of any evacuations as yet. The TV screen retreats back to let us see we are in the White House, and Christina is preparing Elias’ medications as he enters with Peel.

They discuss Blake and Simon being on the way, and two civilians, whom we know are Sean and Vicky even think the chances of success is small. Christina brings the medications to Elias trying once again to talk him out of going for reinstatement. “It looks worse than it is” he tells her. Christina admonishes him and reminds him of what the doctors said. “You could… You could die…” she says painfully.

In the Food Processing plant we see a canister of the bio-weapon being prepared and also coming up the corridor are Military personnel. A tactical unit to stop the virus being released. Shouts of “Freeze!” and a short burst of gunfire results in Sophia’s operative falling-presumably dead- onto cases of produce.

Next, we see two operatives in the Bureau of Engraving talking about getting the set up done and accessing the control room to switch over to the infected canisters. Right at that time, the tactical squad comes in and lays those two to rest as well. Devon, one of Sophia’s people gets away for a time.

Then, we are at the International terminal at Dulles as Sean, Blake, Simon and Vicky come speeding into the parking lot. After a short debrief, they split up. Sean and Vicky into the Terminal to find Sophia, Blake and Simon to the secured off-limits are to search for the toxin. As the Operative at the terminal chats to another TSA agent the (human) agent says “Confiscate anything interesting? …Whoa…” he laughs as he pulls out some ‘sexy’ handcuffs. “Mind if I keep these? Me and the wife like to keeps things invigorating”.

The other, posing as a TSA man said “OOOOH, To Much Information, you know what? Just keep ’em!” and continues with the cart – and the canisters- onto an elevator. Sophia got caught for a ‘random check at the search area. She gets wanded and released.The iPhone rings as she is finishing at TSA, and it is Devon. He is on the phone to Sophia telling her they have been caught it is up to her now. As we see the Tactical team yell “Freeze” and of course Devon moves, Sophia and we all hear short gunfire as Devon is taken out.

Now, at the Capital, the cabinet has convened for the possibility of reinstating Elias Martinez back into the Presidency. As Martinez enters the room, all stand and applaud for him. As he enters he look dazed and passes out.

Back at Dulles Blake and Simon try to ask a TSA agent about anyone also with TSA credentials passing him. They had to pull a gun to get him to say “Yeah, Delgado just came by with a cart full of stuff.” Off they went to find this ‘Delgado’ agent. Sophia and Carlos come into the security area and use the card to gain access to the off-limits area. Blake and Simon do get to ‘Delgado’ and gunfire erupts. Simon Lee gets hit and Delgado runs off. Blake gets over to Simon, who is okay as he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

Meanwhile Sean and Vicky slam their way into a secured zone behind someone else who was going in. Delgado and Sophia do meet up and she retrieves the canisters from him. As Sophia issues final orders Sean and Vicky see them all and again, more gunfire. Delgado is hit. Gun play between Carlos, Sean and Vicky ensues as Sophia gets away. Sean goes after her. Just as it looks like Carlos will release the virus from his canister, he is shot from behind… by Blake Sterling.

The Cabinet is reconvening now, as it seems Martinez is not present, Madame Speaker is about to withdraw his petition. Just as she is saying this, Martinez comes in to the room, …Again, to applause… “Madame Speaker”, he says…”Let’s begin”. Sean is, at this same time in Dulles chasing down Sophia.

We come back to the Cabinet meeting as Jarvis addresses them and shows dossiers about Elias Martinez’s medical condition. Jarvis reminds them how Martinez needs ‘Months’ of rehabilitation, how he was in a vegetative state and that even though Martinez wants to do “…the right thing for his country, but according to the medical evidence, to take office now would not be in the best interest of anyone…especially not himself.” Martinez looks at all in the room, and tells them he has to come back to save everyone from a tragedy of major proportion. He then makes the large accusation about Jarvis. Jarvis finally burst out “He’s LYING!!” on which Martinez brings out a small recorder and plays it for them all.

We hear Jarvis and Martinez from earlier about the poison, about Sophia and so on. “Amid Jarvis’ claims of this being a set-up, Martinez says “Madame Speaker, we must take a vote… NOW!” We then see them all leaving and Martinez… Excuse me, PRESIDENT Martinez is ordering the Dulles Airport to be locked down, and Blake Sterling and General Ambruster are to be reinstated. Peel asked “What about Jarvis?” President Martinez looks at him and say “Who?” –I’m thinking “BURN!! Yeah! Get ’em Elias!”

We are back in Dulles Airport and I can see Sophia’s fire-red hair glinting in the crowds as she is making her way to a place appropriate to release the virus. If I can see that hair, we know Sean does too. the chase is on.

Ironically, or perhaps deliberately, Sophia holes up in a lounge belonging to Avias Air. As we recall, this was the carrier of the original airplane that traveled the wormhole and crashed in episodes one and two. As she is in there, Sean comes to the door and is calling to her, trying to break the door down. Vicky sees the boards all over announcing the lock down of all flights and the airport itself being shut down.

Sean is at the lounge door talking through it to Sophia. He tells her what has happened to her other locations and this is now of no use. He asks her “Do these people deserve to die?” Sophia replies with her voice breaking “Did my people deserve to die? On those buses, did my SON deserve to die?”

Sean replies “No.” Sophia repeats “No” and starts to connect the virus canister to what appears to be a timer. “You don’t want this!” cries Sean through the door… “You don’t know me” Sophia mutters. Vicky is with Sean outside in the terminal and is looking around at the chaos. Sean continues, reminding Sophia she was not always like this.

When they had met before, she had said her people came here in peace. It ends there with Sean saying he knew about the Nova, about Sophia being forced to do things to try to save her people. There has been too much pain. But there does not have to be any more pain…. “No one else needs to get hurt” he says. Sophia finally disarms the devise and comes up to handcuffs and arrest.

At the CDC, Leila is laying in her bed, in the bio-hazard sector and the specialist who came for her at the Evacuation center and Dr. Lius’ section earlier comes to talk to her. “You should know the spread of the virus has been stopped. At least in part because of someone you know… Sean Walker” Relief from Leila when told he is okay. “There’s something else, Leila.” The specialist continues “Something we found in your labs.”

Okay, Hold up. I can hear it without it being said… Leila is Pregnant. We should realize the show’s timeline in it’s reality has only been about two months. I know she is not even ‘Showing’ yet. But I cannot help thinking Dr. Liu dropped the ball on THIS! Blood work shows pregnancy at six weeks if not before.

Back at Dulles, there are screening canopies up outside as the Hazard team is in containing the virus left in the Avias Air lounge. Simon and Sean are out there sitting down and talking. Simon tells Sean “Look, this isn’t over yet. I don’t know how, but Sophia’s still bringing our people here… Sean, what you need to know is; Our people were here before. We were here first.” Sean looking a bit confused replies “I don’t…I don’t understand..”… Simon continued “This place was our home before it was yours.”

Sean asked “Why did you…Leave?” Simon replied “Because my people believe that if we stay here, something will happen…to all of us. We call it The Event. It’s a rebirth. The next step for our people, will change… Evolve into something else. Something greater. But your people won’t survive it.” “Why not? What’s going to happen?” asks Sean. Simon looks at Sean and seems lost for words. Blake comes to tell Simon their transport is here. “Simon, Simon! Sean beseeches. Simon for an answer. Simon only tells him all the “…answers are in that scroll. About where we come from, and about how this all ends.”

At the White House, Blake and Simon enter to see President Martinez. Simon is thanked for his role in saving Martinez’s life. They start to speak about Sophia’s plan of bringing her people here and how many of them. That rumors have the Portal array being somewhere in Asia, but a precise location is not known. Blake speculates along with the other when Agent Peel comes in with the hourly logs from every department and he sees the time that Jarvis ordered to redirect a satellite from its’ view of Tibet.

Next we observe that they are in the ‘War Room’ And viewing the streaming data from that satellite. An area between the Indian Sub-Continent and the Tibetan plateau. A communication cites unusual electromagnetic activity and the image hones in on the location. Watching the videos, they see it. The Portal Array. Simon tells them the electromagnetic readings they are getting means it has been activated. “What does that mean?” asked Agent Peel. Martinez looks at them as he says “It means they’re coming”.

In the serene scene of space, above the Earth and off to the distant side, the Moon, we see the bright, blue haze growing larger and larger. We are pulled into the ‘wormhole’ and are almost in a sea of vibrant blue plasma-like surroundings. We are back in the ‘War Room’ as communications are going on about this Portal. Someone gets up to hear the news from all over the world. Tremors are happening on devastating scale. Peel walks in on a phone. Hanging up, he tells them “Sophia’s a few minutes away.”

Back in a lobby at the CDC, Vicky comes in with a coffee and offers Sean some. Sean declines the offer and tells her “I really appreciate you waiting with me but you don’t have..” Just as the specialist walks in “Mr. Walker, you’ve been clear to see Leila in the observation area. I’ll take you there.” As Sean starts to follow her, Vicky calls him back for a minute: “I didn’t join this fight willingly, I know that. But, you forcing me to is the reason my family’s safe. And, because of you, I’m no longer ashamed to face them”

She whispers “Thank you.” An embrace happens and Sean goes off with the specialist. We reach the observation area and Sean sees Leila and they talk a bit. He still thinks they may still help Leila. Leila tells Sean that she is pregnant. Of course he is actually overjoyed. “You’re BOTH going to be OK!”

Back at the White House, Sophia is brought in to Martinez’s office. Elias tells Sophia “We’ve identified the Portal array in Tibet. We know it’s bringing your people here.” Simon interjects “I’ve told them…everything I know about the Portal.” President Martinez asks “How do we stop it, Sophia? How do we shut it down?” “You can’t” Sophia replies. “Do you have a pre-determined landing site?” Martinez asked. “You know I won’t answer that.” replies Sophia.

“Sophia, it’s over! You know you’ve lost. We stopped you.” Sophia, looks down for a minute saying “You might find this hard to believe, but the truth is I ordered the spread of the virus as an act of mercy. We will still need to make room for our people here on Earth or another way only now, the choice left open to us will be…far from humane” Elias stared at her demanding “what the Hell’s that supposed to mean?” Sophia softly says “I’m sorry, Mr. President” “Sorry about what?” Asked Martinez Sophia, smiling says “It’s too late.” as an earthquake begins.

We are traveling up into the blue plasma-like wormhole and the noise seems to be indicating great speed. As the sound effects play, we then see scenes of streets filled with people panicking and looking up. Vicky stops her car and stands out in the street, also looking up.

Sean and Lila in the CDC Feel the quake and get up to look out the window at a bright light. Martinez and all in the office come out to the balcony and are looking up at the spectacle. Even Simon, who is one of “Them” seems incredulous at what he is seeing.

Out on the White House lawn, Christina takes her son in her arms and holds him from the wind storm and noise.

We then see it, an ENTIRE PLANET has appeared, scorched and floating in the plasma.

— OK, Stanton Friedman (Nuclear Physicist) I am not, but parking a planet between Earth and the moon would mean instant devastation of Earth. Even within the Roche limit which this appears to be, the larger body would take from the smaller body…The larger body’s gravity would totally skew Earth’s Gravity! We see some nice scenes of our cities showing the new arrival and earth in space, with this new planet here.

Over in the White House lawn, Christina and her son holding each other as Christina looks up to see the planet. We see parts of it appear to be burning, most likely from the effects of their Supernova. Her little boy asks “What is it?” Christina still looking amazed and stunned answers;

“Home!”

My Take…For what it is worth:

I doubt many people saw THAT coming. Laws of Physics aside, this is a Science FICTION. If it says so in the script, it will be played. But then I wonder why Sophia seemed so anxious to control the virus after a sufficient amount of humanity had been killed off by this.

Why was it always implied that they were going to ‘Move here’ from their world far off in the Sculptor Galaxy? It seemed that Sophia was always looking at ‘After” the native population was winnowed. Why the heck bother? At first, when I saw it was an actual PLANET being brought here, I thought they would plop it down outside our solar system and arrange transport on craft or with smaller portals to bring their people to this world’s surface. Of course, if another network picks up the series that could still happen, by defying the laws of conventional physics.

Then again, we are dealing with Alien Technology. Seems that they can do anything they want to and bend any Physical law that they please.

I wonder if the Others’ “Event” is like that of the theological “Rapture” that conventionalist theories speak of? In that, the chosen ones would be taken to heaven and others who did not live a certain way would be left behind to see the New World Order under one they call the “Beast”. It mainly sounds like a totalitarian, Fascist state and later, the Earth itself is destroyed in the end. Why would humans not survive the Others’ “Event”? There are many unanswered questions in this cliffhanger of a finale.

There is an interesting book by a man called Michio Kaku; “Physics of the Impossible”. it is available here and a Google search will net you just about anything on this book.

Aside of the Roche Limit, let us look at the Lagrangian Point

— A contour plot of the effective potential of a two-body system due to gravity and momentum at one point in time. Objects revolving with the same orbital period as the larger bodies will tend to move according to the contour lines showing equipotential surfaces. The arrows in the graphic indicate the gradients of the potential around the five Lagrange points — downhill toward them (red) or away from them (blue), but at the points themselves these forces are balanced.

The five Lagrange points (marked in green) at two objects orbiting each other (here a yellow sun and blue earth) Lagrange points are the stationary solutions of the circular restricted three-body problem. For example, given two massive bodies in circular orbits around their common center of mass, there are five positions in space where a third body, of comparatively negligible mass, could be placed which would then maintain its position relative to the two massive bodies. As seen in a rotating reference frame with the same period as the two co-orbiting bodies, the gravitational fields of two massive bodies combined with the satellite’s circular motion are in balance at the Lagrangian points, allowing the third body to be stationary with respect to the first two bodies

I, for one, am heartbroken this show could not be given a second season. Lately I am seeing a trend here where invasion shows seem to end with us feeling like “We are really screwed”. It used to be that Eartheaons always defeated the invading forces. Seems like people are changing their tune now and are either accepting the superiority of “Alien” technology or perhaps there is a need to feel ‘Humbled’ among the species.

I will be one of the first to admit a science fiction where the “Aliens” are actually friendly could be boring. After all, are we to just sit around saying the other is ‘So cool’? No. but I did like a series by Kenneth Johnson called “Alien Nation” because even though it was more like a police drama, it illustrated an ‘Alien’ race living and working side-by-side with Eartheaons. Gee, if only Eartheaons could do that with themselves, this would be a very nice place. In this writer’s opinion, that would be a TRUE “Event”!

I am not sure what will happen in the future for The Event or if any other network will pick it up. I do hope so. In the interim below is the complete “Arrival” episode courtesy of NBC. Enjoy!

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May 26, 2011
The Event: “The Beginning of the End” with “Arrival” Sneak Peek

Hello The Event fans,

Last week we saw the attempt to infect a major shopping center with the disease obtained from a dead WW1 soldier who died from an extremely deadly strain of the Spanish flu.

When that failed due to the daring-do of Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) and Vicky Roberts (Taylor Q. Cole), The Russian air stewardess, Alexandra (Angela Gots) released the disease on a commuter bus, killing all within it. Dr. Liu (Alexandra Bokyun Chun) was able to use the the data retrieved from this to gauge the effect of the strain on ordinary people.

Finding the disease killed the human population too quickly, yet did not effect the Aliens at all, it was decided to use Leila (Sarah Roemer) to Trans-mutate the strain to act more slowly, allowing it to be spread more effectively among the native population.

Simon Lee (Ian Anthony Dale) got to Blake Sterling‘s (Zeljko Ivanek) house and they both escaped in a stolen car. they surmised the best way to reach President Martinez (Blair Underwood) to get the antidote to heal him, is via the First Lady, Christina Martinez (Lisa Vidal).

Acting President Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) ordered an air strike to a warehouse in which Christina had told him Blake and Simon were hiding. Simon and Blake however, had escaped the warehouse and no bodies were found in the wreckage of the storage facility.. Jarvis fired General Ambruster (Blue Deckart) and Agent Peel (Roger Bart) knew Jarvis was not the Commander In Chief they wanted. Upon finding out the warehouse was a diversion and finding out Christina Martinez was in on Blake’s plan, Jarvis knew he was in deep trouble.

We ended with the antidote being hidden by Simon in a bouquet of flowers which Christina had bought for her husband, then, as she prayed softly we saw her remove the filled syringe and give the antidote to Martinez in his hospital room. We saw Jarvis realized he was going to be in deep trouble for his role in the attempt on Martinez’s life, Sophia watching as Dr. Liu infected Leila with a nasal introduction of the infection. Sophia’s home world ever closer to incineration and Sean, with Vicky in pursuit of the Aliens.

The Beginning of the End

We open in a desolate scene of dead humans laying out in a town. All are dead or close to it, as Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes) is walking along, calling out “Hello?” to anyone who might still be alive. She is stopped at a car in which a young girl is still alive, asking if she is a doctor. Her little brother will not wake up and with a small gasp, Sophia sees a toddler laying dead beside the little girl who then asked Sophia “Why is everybody sick?” Sophia has no answer for her and the little girl starts to yell at Sophia “It’s YOUR FAULT!! Why won’t you HELP ME!?” through the closed window of the car and hitting the window.

Sophia wakes up. This was a dream she had been having. It calls into question whether or not Aliens actually dream. I say Why the heck not? I would think any sentient being would be able to dream. Sophia seems horrified by what she dreamt. Sophia wakes on a cot in the Evacuation center they have set up Dr. Liu is saying the trans-mutation of the disease with Leila is successful and apprizing her of the timeline.”In two weeks twenty-five percent of the world’s population. … In five, ninety-eight percent”

Sophia stops her “We…we only have to make room for our own people. There has to be a way to control the disease. To limit the number of deaths”. “There isn’t” Dr. Liu replies “The strength of the pathogen, is uncontrollable.” Sophia looks very remorseful as Dr. Liu finished “Sophia, We need to bring our people here.” Sophia asked then the question “Does need always justify the action?” Shaking her head ‘no’ she adds softly “This goes against everything we believe in” but Dr. Liu says in my almost exact words: “If the situation were reversed, they wouldn’t hesitate to do the same to us”. We see Leila laying there in the room with them bathed in sweat and very sick.

Back in ICU/CCU, Christina Martinez is speaking to her secretary at the doorway as the monitors on President Martinez start to indicate changes in his vitals. The doctor comes in and looks him over stating the EEG levels are showing improvement. Higher level brain activity. Christina says “He’s getting better…” but the doctor is hedging. pointing out it is anomalous brain activity but seems to feel they are not out of the woods yet.

In the Evacuation shelter with Carlos and Sophia among others, Carlos says they have everything in place on their home world and their people are ready to arrive. Gerard has the Portal activated and it must remain on for several more hours. but there is a reconnaissance satellite over Tibet -Where the Portal array is actually located- Gerard, the alien involved there at the Portal site is worried about detection.

Jarvis is on the phone in his office talking to Sophia. “I’m not comfortable blindly doing your bidding. If you want me to do something I need to know why.” Sophia tells him about the Satellite “I know the satellite is shared by NATO, but operated by your NSA. I need it… redirected. The NSA refers to it internally as E3175” she asks Jarvis to repeat that back to her, which he does. She thanks him, using his first name “Raymond”. Jarvis then tells her about Martinez’s improvement in hospital. “Meaning you didn’t stop them getting the counter agent to him” Sophia finishes. Sophia tells Jarvis that he must not let Martinez re-enter the equation as it would jeopardize everything.. for both of them. Jarvis asked for assurance that the American people would be spared. Sophia in a bold-faced lie replies “I give you my word.” They hang up and someone asked Sophia “You know by the time the pathogen is released and people start getting sick that he’ll know he’s been duped.” Sophia answers “By that time, it’ll be too late.”

In a bar, Blake meets up with Simon Lee meet up in a local bar They talk over Martinez’s improvement and Simon tells Blake Sophia had sent a team to Siberia to find the weapon. Blake said that this makes sense. citing a few weeks ago the government found out about ice core samples being analyzed by a scientist. “What was it?” Simon asked. “I don’t know, but I think they found it” Blake surmises. He talked about the Air Moscow flight’s military escort being waved off by Jarvis. They both then see the news on the bar’s television about the Mall evacuation. I had thought the accomplice involved was named “Devon” but it was… as cited by Simon Lee, a guy named “Roman”. Simon tells Blake that Roman is one of their people. Blake murmurs “A Terrorist attack…. and a dead sleeper”

Sean and Vicky are -where else?- in a car driving through Washington. Vicky is looking through the sleeper’s wallet, hoping for clues of where he, or the others may be holed up.

They found an address and go there to find it is what appears to be a sweatshop. They ask the workers there if they have seen this man and all say ‘no’. So off they go to the upper levels of the building. As they both sneak about, Simon grabs Vicky and we now see Sean with a gun to Blake Sterling’s head and Simon with a gun to Vicky’s head. Standoff. Shortly, they all are aware of who the other is, they know now they are on the same side, so to speak.

Next, in Dr. Liu’s sector, Leila is on the bed, restrained and Dr. liu is instructing the others that she needs more data points of how he virus replicates in the culture medium. “Initial indications are good” she says, sounding pleased. Dr. Liu walks over to Leila asking ‘What’s her Status?” The other says “Body temperature is rising, heart rate and blood pressure dropping”.

Dr. Liu tells him “We need to keep her alive for producing the virus. Increase her IV Fluids and give her a corticosteroid.”. Leila -able to speak, says “please… Please don’t do this… kill all those people…” Dr. Liu tells her: “If we had a choice, we wouldn’t, but we don’t. We’re just taking back what is rightfully ours. Your father should have told you… We were here first.”

Sophia is now addressing those in the evacuation center: “We’ve determined the most efficient way to spread the pathogen is by using three parallel distribution channels. The first team will release the pathogen in the immediate region; They will contaminate a food processing facility that ships products to supermarkets In six different states. within days it will spread across the eastern seaboard.”

She continues: ” The second team will contaminate currency at the bureau of Engraving facility in Virginia in time for the monthly reserve bank distribution. This will effectively spread the disease on a nationwide basis.” We see the graphics of the predicted spread.

Sophia concludes: “The third team will release it in the international terminal at Dulles Airport, at a time that will maximize global crossings by infected passengers. In five days, the vast majority of the human population… will be dead.”Sophia looks genuinely saddened, but again, she is driven to save her own people.

She pauses and says “This is the last time we’ll be meeting as a group, until it is all over. But I want each of you, in your own way to honor and mourn the loss of life, but also to remember why we are doing this. For our survival”.

Jarvis is ordering the redirection of the satellite. He is told it will take about two hours to redirect. Jarvis understands and disconnects. Jarvis then goes in to see the doctor who is attending to Martinez. As Jarvis leaves the ICU, he sees Christina coming up the hallway to him, her face a picture of fury. He starts to offer a word of support, only to feel the sting of a resounding slap from Christina. “I know you poisoned him!” She said angrily.

Pointing her finger at him as if to say Shut-Up! She starts to rant at him about almost losing her husband, their son losing his father because of Jarvis. She is going completely “Gangstah” on him, as the kids these days say. She continues to spear at his face with her finger as she says “I will hang you out to dry! I’m going to tell your wife and children what type of a…” Her lava-like explosion is quelled by someone coming in to tell them Martinez is awake. They rush in, except for Jarvis and the preliminary indications show Martinez is indeed recovering, amazingly well. Martinez and Christina visit and kiss, happily. Martinez asks Christina what has been happening and she tells him about Jarvis, Blake and Simon, who got the antidote to her for him.

Sean, Simon, Blake and Vicky are going through cabinets and drawers at the building where we last left them. “Notes, receipts, anything that might lead us to Sophia’s new location.” Simon tells them. Blake remembers Vicky being in the CIA and how she went rogue when he to work in Washington. Of course, Vicky denies all knowledge. They speak of Michael and the escape, when they hear the trash collectors come to get the scheduled collection. They stop the collectors and are delving through all the papers they can find. Blake then gets a phone call from Martinez.Blake hears Elias’ voice and we sense he is crying with relief at hearing President Martinez right now. Blake fills him in on things and Martinez is now determined to get back to the White House.

We are back in the Alien’s Evacuation center and the tanks of the pathogen are being readied for distribution. Carlos calls Sophia, to tell her everyone is ready at the infection sites. We see people we can presume to be of their world putting on badges, uniforms and at lockers etc, as if they are employees. We see a worker among vegetables and fruit and then someone at the Engraving facility having a quibble over a new drying agent being delivered (The pathogen, of course). The ‘human’ demands further confirmation of this order from a district supervisor upon which time the ‘alien’ shoots and kills the human worker. Sophia, on her ever-present iPhone is seeking status reports. All her people in their respective positions reply “In place and Ready” Sophia commands: “Time to begin!”

Sean is now trying to hack into the NSA along with him are Blake, Sterling and Vicky. Blake looks on, impressed; “Ever think about working for the government, Mr. Walker?” he asked. “Not while Vice-President Jarvis in in office” Sean replies. “Well, we have that in common” states Blake.

Sean accesses the site and only needs the key to get in. Sterling tells him they killed his, “…but Agent Peel was kind enough to lend me his”. They are in the site now. They use time stamps from images, Roman’s receipts and triangulate to another location. Simon tells Sean to go forward in time at this new building. They are over the Evacuation center, in my opinion.

Dr Liu is now in her section saying “At five thirty, all distribution channels will be spreading the pathogen. I have live feeds from the CDC that will allow us to follow this is real time.”

Sophia looks at Leila “What about her?” Dr. Liu replies “We’ve harvested enough viral cells from her.” Sophia interjects “No, what about her… her condition?” “It’s unclear how long her immune system will be able to fight off the virus. Could be hours, Days…” Sophia looks at Leila and says softly “She’s suffering.” Dr. Liu replies “It’ll only get worse” Sophia sighs saying “Then, just end it. But do it quickly and painlessly” Uhm, where have we heard THAT before?

In the Alien’s center, they are preparing the pathogen canisters for transport. Sophia asks Carlos: “Well, are you ready?” Carlos replies in the affirmative and we see vehicles leaving the building. At the same time, Sean, Simon Lee, Vicky and Blake are in the car heading to the building. Sean is handing ammunition out and Simon sees the scroll. Asking what it is, Sean tells him it was given to him by “Someone who claimed to have protected us from your people.” Simon, now interested asked what else he had been told. Sean said “I don’t know. He didn’t tell me anything … I have to idea what it is or… what it says.”

Sean looks at Simon asking “Do you?” Simon tells Sean “If you could read it, you’d know more than he was telling you” “About what?” Sean asked. Simon sighs as he drives and replied “About us. Why we’re here, and about what happened”. The discussion stops as the vehicle approaches the large building we presume to be where the Others had been working from. Inside the building, we see Dr. Liu coming in to Leila, with two vials and a syringe on a tray. We see Leila fighting the restraints on her wrists as we hear the appliances being brought out. Cue a window, through which we see Vicky running. It is a window at a Guarded entrance. Vicky uses the “I ran out of gas” ruse to get the two guards to stand down long enough to tell her to move on as Blake fires into the window from the side.

Dr. Liu is filling the syringe, and tapping air bubbles out of it (I ask: WHY do they do this? The shot is to KILL someone. Why care about the air bubble?) as she tells Leila. “There won’t be any pain. The first injection will put you to sleep, so you aren’t awake for the effects of the second one” In other words, a heavy Anesthetic, like Phenobarbital, followed by a Potassium Chloride chaser to stop the heart…abruptly. Leila moans and looks like she is crying.

Now we see a worker in the alien’s building pushing a stack of coolers which I presume are carrying infected specimens. Sean and Simon force this guy to detour and start questioning him about who else is in the building. ‘Five and the prisoner…. a girl.” Dr. Liu starts to give Leila the first injection, but Leila wrestles out of the restraints and goes Kung-Fu on Dr. Liu. Struggle ensues and Leila uses the tranquilizer syringe into Dr. Liu’s neck to knock her out. Finally freed, Leila runs off to one of the plastic-sheeted walls at the same time as Sean reaches the wall on the other side.

She warns Sean, but Sean already knows what Sophia’s plan is. Leila tells him she is infected and she can’t let him come in, or he will die. She tells Sean all their plans are in the laptop over there on a table. “They plan to release it by five-thirty”.

.Jarvis is in the Oval Office as the door opens and Jarvis says “I thought I told you I didn’t want to be disturbed” He see Eli Martinez coming into the office. Martinez walks up to the desk telling Jarvis to “Get out from behind that desk and get the hell out of my office!” Jarvis replies he has every right to be here. The cabinet enacted the twenty-fifth amendment and appointed him as acting President.” Martinez gets closer to Jarvis “I know, you tried to kill me… I know about you and Sophia…”

Jarvis says “I don’t know what you’ve been told, but if you’re talking about the Peace Agreement I’m currently negotiating with Sophia…That wouldn’t have been possible while you were at the helm… Please, Richard, Help me out here” To which Agent Peel responds “You’re on your own here, Raymond” Jarvis continues “Everything that I have done has been to guarantee the safety of the American People…” Martinez interrupts “Is that what you tell yourself so you can sleep at night, Ray? Your actions have only served yourself and ONLY you!” Jarvis levels off at Martinez saying “Whether you like it or not, I am the President of the United States!” Martinez, said “Not for long… Not for long!” “Well, we’ll see about that, Eli.” Jarvis countered There needs to be a vote that you’re capable.” Pointing out the strokes and that he will demand tests to the President’s ability to come back to office.

Blake and Simon are trying to get into Dr. Liu’s Laptop. So far not having any luck. “I’ll take it from here” says Simon getting up to leave. Sean is in the medical sector with Leila as they talk about what if and Sean says they should move. When all this is over, they should move. Maybe to Portland, Bend or anywhere but Boston. “That’d be really nice” Leila said. “But you have to find Sophia… And stop her. Do it for me”

In another part of the building, Simon is reviving Dr. Liu. Simon looks at her and says “Now, you can rationalize all you want to, but deep down you know what you’re doing is wrong.” He sounds sincere in trying to talk to Dr. Liu. His voice was such I would follow him anywhere.

He continues: “According to Leila, all we need to know is on that laptop…over there. So all I need from you, is your password, Doctor. That’s all”. Dr. Liu tells him “Don’t you see? It’s too late. It’s pointless” Simon gets up, sighing “Suit Yourself…” and comes back with a power drill to her and threats, (…His voice no longer sweet and sensitive!) Simon ultimately gets her password for the laptop. They get the data they need…. Now, what to do with this information?

The SUV speeds up the streets with our heroes in it as we see the pallets of money being prepared to be processed at the engraving facility while one of the Others pushes the tank of pathogen to replace a normal one.We then see another of the Aliens in the airport terminal looking at his watch and the schedule of flights.

Sophia on her phone in a car saying “Jarvis has just confirmed the satellite has been diverted. Carlos replies “I’ll have Gerard power it up. Where are we on the pathogen?” “We’re right on schedule, but leave that to us. Your job is to power the array” replies Sophia We now are at the Portal center in Tibet and Gerard saying “We’re ready to activate, on your order” Sophia, smiling says “Proceed”. Gerard tells his colleague at the activation point: “Activate.”

The Portal comes alive with a blue column of light from the ground and we travel up, up, up through the skies where we see a view from space with a blue ball of energy building and coming to life above the Earth….

My Take…For what it’s worth…

We have seen the Aliens begin in this series as a tattered, forlorn group of human-like people from a crash site in Alaska. Detained for over 65 years they don’t age as we do. We find they have been misled and lied to by the powers that be and now the they have escaped their prison in Mount Inostranka and established contact with their world in a galaxy of over eight million light years away (NCG-253) to find their own people are facing certain death from a supernova.

They have gone from those who we might be friends with to a ‘people’ bent on their own survival at any cost, even if it means wiping out the native population on this world to meet that goal. Sophia is, as we are led to believe their actual leader. She is the matriarch of what most thought were a peaceful race. Refraining from harming benevolent civilizations. Sophia, in her desperation and apparent heartache over the killing of her people in Government-ordered attacks now sees this place as hostile. Releasing her people from an oath they took to harm no one, she has started the process of winnowing the native people here to make room for her own people to come here via a Portal array… Sort of what could be called a ‘wormhole’. She seemed shocked that the virus could not be stopped once it started to spread.

We have, in earlier episodes, followed an elderly man by the name of Dr. James Dempsey. (Hal Holbrook) He was a billionaire from working in big Pharmaceuticals and seemed a bit looney, if not downright evil. When he was in the Jura Mountain range (France) at an archeological dig, netting him information about an ancient tribe called “The Sentinels”. The Sentinels, who have been here for over three millennium , as he was telling Vicky Roberts in his house in France, were a group who “Have been given the task to protect the native population of earth from ‘Them’.” (Said as he pointed upward).

Dempsey then ordered Vicky to be killed, apparently knowing full well that a young man called Sean Walker would rescue her. Sean did, in fact, come through and Dempsey told them what was going on between the Sentinels and Sophia’s people. Now in this last episode. Simon and Sean were talking about the scroll Sean had received from Dr. Dempsey just before Dempsey committed suicide.

Their discussion, and what Dr. Liu told Leila in the medical sector leads us to believe the Aliens have been here for centuries. There had apparently been a major conflict between the Sentinels and the Aliens. While in a chamber in the Jura Mountains, we saw a cave paiting and tatoos on Dempsey’s arms as he said the ‘Guardian Angels’ are “Very, very real”.

I’ve heard folks describe the Book of Enoch being relevant to Dempsey’s story. There are a number of historical references to ‘Those from the Heavens’ so regardless of one’s religious beliefs, I include The Book of Enoch in summary for your edification.

A Summary of the Book Of Enoch is as follows:

1. The Book of the Watchers (chs. 1—36). Enoch is a righteous man who has received heavenly visions. The book is a collection of revelations regarding divine judgment. It describes the rebellion of angels. The fallen angels, called “Watchers,” have sexual intercourse with human women, who give birth to a race of wicked giants. The giants lay waste to the earth and humanity, and so become the occasion for the flood, in which they are destroyed. But once their demonic spirits are released from their dead bodies, these demons wreak havoc in the world until the end time of judgment.

2. The Book of the Similitudes (or Parables; chs. 37—71). Enoch again receives heavenly visions, which are interpreted by angels. The primary character of these revelations is the “son of man.” Other titles employed to name this messiah figure are “the Chosen One” (the most common title), God’s “Anointed One,” and “the Righteous One.” This heavenly being is God’s agent for the final judgment and vindication of the righteous.

3. The Book of Astronomical Writings (or Heavenly Luminaries, chs. 72—82). Visions of heavenly and earthly occurrences advocate a 364-day solar calendar, as opposed to the controversial lunar calendar. Enoch describes to his son Methuselah his journey through the stars above the earth, guided by the angel Uriel.

4. The Book of Dream Visions (or Animal Apocalypse, chs. 83—90). Enoch recounts two visions to Methuselah. The first vision is of the sky falling and the earth undergoing cataclysmic disasters as a result. The second vision takes the form of an apocalyptic allegory describing the history of humanity from the creation of Adam to the final judgment. In it, humans are represented as animals and angels are represented as human beings. The apocalypse details the relationship of Jews with Gentiles and the end-time judgment.

5. The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chs. 91—107). This epistle is written by Enoch for later generations. Righteousness and wickedness are contrasted throughout the letter in order to show that goodness and truth will be rewarded by God, but evil and sin will be punished by God. This sober eschatological prophecy admonishes readers about the final divine judgment.

–Of course there are plentiful sources of reading or deeper study of this material if one so wishes to do, I only offered the short version for this review.–

So I am curious. Are we to think perhaps that outside of theological hypotheses that the ones from the sky are in a nuts and bolts reality, Space visitors? Could this be what was meant by Dr. Liu and the Others as “We were here first”? Perhaps the Others started out as peaceful but they obtained too much of the human characteristic of desperation and in a sense Greed, thereby becoming “Fallen Angels”? This is why I so look forward to next weeks Finale. I want to see the people come, see what Sophia has done and punish her severely.

I really do hold to a belief of a truly advanced people existing out there. Maybe not ‘PEOPLE’ as we would know this to mean, but beings of an inner vision arriving and doing the right thing. It is one of the reasons I cannot accept the almost constant Doomsday story lines of many Science Fiction stories. I would like to believe better of any species, really, Reptoid, Humanoid or otherwise. Included below is entire episode “The Beginning of the End” from NBC.

I had hoped those in NBC’s decision making powers would grant a second season, but alas. If not, perhaps another station would pick this show up for a second season. Be sure to watch live, or with On Demand to help the ratings! Monday night, 9/8C tune in for The Event! In the meantime, included below courtesy of NBC is a sneak peek of what appears to be the NBC “The Event” series finale “Arrival”!

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May 18, 2011
The Event: “Some Will Live, Some Will Die”!

Hello The Event fans,

A short recap Has us following Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) and Vicky Roberts (Taylor Cole) on a flight coming back from Russia. They are following a courier who is carrying the infected lungs of a dead World War One soldier in order that the disease could be spread out through the world population.

They want to do this to make room for about two billion of their people they wish to bring here to escape their star’s explosion. Time is getting short, so Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes) is becoming more and more brutal in her plan to get her people here, resulting in their survival. Sophia is not really “Callous” per Se, but she is duty-bound to save her people above anything else. Sophia actually is taking no pleasure whatsoever in doing what she feels she has to do.

We left the last episode with President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood) worsening in his condition in the Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care Unit suffering from a poison which Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) gave him via his morning coffee on instruction of Sophia. Sophia told Jarvis if he did this, Jarvis would become the Acting President and could save his country from the plague with which Sophia would use to winnow the Eartheaon population.

Jarvis became acting president, and he had an argument with Blake Sterling (Zeljko Ivanek) We saw now that Sophia is getting more aggressive with Jarvis, and Jarvis is, I feel, well aware that he is being used by Sophia. At this point, he is in too deep and now must try to save himself. Sean and Vicky had the courier -“Alex” who turned out to be “Alexandra” (Angela Gots) (An Air Moscow Stewardess) in their sights, but Vicky did not take a shot which might have killed Sean, so Alex escaped with an accomplice..

Despite Michael Buchanan’s (Scott Patterson) hardened character about the mission to bring his people here, Simon Lee (Ian Anthony Dale) called him out on what he had become. Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) also had words with him saying she did not recognize him…what he used to be… anymore..

Through the episode last week, Michael began to see sense and helped Simon Lee escape from their Alien compound, getting shot and killed in the process. We left it with Leila crying and yelling at Sophia “YOU killed him!!” as she was being detained by two of the Others. Simon escaped with a vial of antidote for Martinez which Michael had forced Dr Liu to give to him. We saw him go over the fencing and into the woods.

“Some Will Live And Some Will Die”

We open in the community, out by the fence and Sophia with the Others have Leila. Carlos goes and sees Michael. “He’s Gone” I feel he sounded genuinely upset at this fact Michael is dead. Carlos then came to Sophia apologizing for letting her down. Sophia does not seem angry at him though. “It’s not your fault” she tells him. At this point, Leila, crying says “You killed my father…” but Sophia interjects “I’ve known your father longer than you can comprehend. You have no idea what I felt for him.” Leila backs down a bit.

Dr. Liu (Alexandria Bokyun Chun) came up to the group asking if Michael had the vial. She broke the news that Michael had forced her to give him the vial of the antidote. Sophia was shocked “What compound?” Dr. Liu replied “DNA repair enzymes. It can reverse the effect of the poison we gave Martinez” Sophia orders that Leila and Michael’s body be searched. She correctly surmises that Simon Lee could get this to Martinez and then “If Martinez recovers, everything we’ve been working toward will be compromised”. Sophia then orders the evacuation of the compound before Simon has a chance to alert the authorities.

In the ICU/CCU, First Lady Christina Martinez (Lisa Vidal) is talking on the phone to her son. The doctor comes in saying they really have done all they can do.” “So, you’re just going to give up?” Christina asks through tears “No! just… No!” and goes back to Elias’ bedside.

Agent Peel (Roger Bart) comes into the Oval Office, handing Jarvis a list of candidates for Blake’s replacement. Jarvis says “I want the best!” to which Peel replies “You fired the best… With all due respect” Jarvis shuffles the papers saying “Director Sterling was a dangerous man. Things he said about me? He’s not in his right mind! I can’t have a man like that as the head of Intelligence Operations and for you to constantly remind me of his importance only makes you suspect.” He pauses and then apologized to Peel as his phone rings.

Peel is dismissed and Jarvis answers his call. It is Sophia, in a car being driven somewhere as she says to Jarvis “We have a problem. Simon Lee has escaped with a counter-agent” She tells him this will reverse the effects of the poison they gave to Martinez. “you need to focus on finding Simon Lee” Jarvis is arguing with her.

She pretty much tells him he has every resource on the ground to find one man, “USE them. She demands. Then in a softer tone she says “If Martinez recovers they will put you away for the rest of your life!” As Jarvis sits back down at his desk we can see he looks like he is going to be sick. He had better be scared, he blew his loyalties and he knows it.

Sean and Vicky are in their car, trying to track where the Courier and her accomplice went to. Sean is trying to track them on his laptop. The Others have a rental car. From about the mid-nineties, rental cars have had tracking devices on them so the companies could keep track of their cars out in the roads.

Sean is trying to find their car. Vicky, at one point snaps at Sean and then apologized. “You saw how those people died on the ship, if Sophia gets that out here, what could happen?” Sean replied “The Spanish flu killed about 50-100 million people, that was before international travel became so easy…” Vicky says “And this strain’s more virulent?” “Way more” replies Sean “If Sophia released it, I don’t what would be left.” The Tracking worked and they actually do find out the two Others are about fifty miles ahead of them. They speed up a little and go to find out where the disease may be.

We are now in the Aliens’ Evacuation shelter. Sophia is told that Gerard has established contact with their home world and that it is worse than they thought. “Radiation levels have become catastrophic. Our people are dying. We need to make room here-it needs to get done!” Sophia replies “I understand that better than anyone.” She walks into a makeshift lab and computer room. Dr. Liu tells her (Rightfully so) that in order for this to be spread on a global pandemic scale, the host must live long enough to spread the disease.

They watch a video Arron sent from the Irena Bogdanov. Dr Liu pointed out when the contaminant was released to the time everyone on the ship died. It happened too quickly. But, Dr. Liu also said this was in close quarters, the contaminant was in high concentration, she would need a better scenario to gauge the disease’s effects. Sophia tells Dr. Liu “If it’s more reliable data you need I am sure the next field test will provide it.”

Blake Sterling is sitting at his home, reading the newspaper and smoking a cigarette. He hears a noise and quietly gets his gun, going to investigate. He lets the intruder walk into a room and makes his, and the gun’s presence known. The intruder turns around and we see Simon Lee. After the initial confrontation, Blake is still doubting Simon’s credibility. Simon hands him the vial explaining what it would do for Martinez. “I split from from Sophia, for good. Once I realized what she wanted to do…How many people she was willing to murder!”

Blake still does not trust Simon but Simon points out “I was free and clear… ‘Even now I believe we can live in peace with each other… Starting with this…” He hands him the vial and says “If you don’t believe me, shoot me! But get this to Martinez.” Sterling tells Simon to step back from the window. Apparently someone followed Simon to Blake’s house and are out there in their car getting ready for the capture. We see two men in the car, one of whom was Simon’s partner for ten years, as they deploy to the house with others. Heavily armed the team assembles outside and get ready to go in.

Back in the car, Sean at his laptop; “They’re Stopped” he tells Vicky as they tail the Others ahead of them “Ten miles out”… He cross references a map and we then see a large mall parking lot. I know this mall! I am a female in Southern California. I know Malls in General. This, in real-life is the Del Amo Fashion Center, in Torrence, CA. It is near the Palos-Verdes Peninsula. We did Christmas shopping there one year staying ALL DAY LONG. It is a huge indoor mall, and if all this were real, would be a perfect place to release a bio-weapon.

Sean and Vicky search for the courier’s car and find it. They find plans for the mall in the other cars’ trunk and this is for details of the air circulation systems. Alexandra and her accomplice are walking inside the mall and Alex said that Sophia want all records about this operation. They agree to meet on the roof, Alexandra takes the container and they part ways. We see the massive interior of the mall and then we are on the roof, watching “Alex” opening the air circulation machine. She then opens one of the black cases to reveal glass canisters containing the lungs of the dead soldier.

Back at Blake Sterling’s house, the tactical team are outside planning who goes where. They are deep into it when sirens and a multitude of police cars show up. They are blowing a CIA operation and finally one of the officers checked the credentials. After standing down the police tell the covert ops that they had received a call about an armed robbery at this address. Blake and Simon escaped during the melee.

Jarvis is telling Sophia about Blake and Simon getting away. She is angered at this and tells Jarvis they must be stopped. Sophia is speaking to Jarvis like he is a child. Perhaps she is not wrong. That is why she chose to get to him, is it not? I also note the Aliens do not use cases on their iPhone 4’s. Not like they have to worry about warranty and so on, but that actually makes me nervous. Yes, I am a tech geek! In my opinion, it takes a good actor to make us ‘Hate’ or dislike his or her character. When we, the viewers are yelling at our televisions cussing at Jarvis or Sophia or whoever, that just shows that the particular actor is darn good at their job!

“The last thing I thought I’d be doing is stealing a car” Blake tells Simon as he drives them to a warehouse. They decide the First Lady is the least problematic and they should use her to get the antidote to Martinez. Jarvis already suspects Agent Peel and so they will have to figure a way to meet with Christina. Jarvis already suspects Agent Peel.

At this same time, Christina is being blocked from her husband’s room by soldiers enforcing a higher security alert. She is denied her visit. and then she gets a call from Blake: “We need to talk… but not here…” .

At this time, an agent comes into Jarvis’ office telling him there was a call to Christina from Blake Sterling which only lasted twenty four seconds. The call was encrypted so Jarvis orders that to be decrypted. On hearing this could take hours, Jarvis gets up, putting his jacket on and tells his secretary Eva to get a location on the First Lady.

Back at the Mall, we see Alex affixing a canister to a rectangular, bomb-like device and placing it

onto the air circulation system. Sean and Vicky come into the packed mall and split up. Sean went to the roof and Vicky looks around to try to see their quarry. We see the accomplice meanwhile, in the main security center with the real Security guard down and out. The accomplice calls Sophia: “I’ve got you routed into the video surveillance system, you should have a visual on the site now.”

Sophia asks “How much longer until you proceed with the test?” He replies “Alex is arosolizing the virus as we speak”. We see Alex on the roof, having placed some of the contaminant into a pressurized canister onto the bottom of the device she made.

Vicky is now seen running through the mall and she tries a fire alarm switch, which doesn’t work so she gets a security guard to ‘help’. She knew the accomplice most likely disabled the alarm system. The Security man did not believe her, so she had him with her gun to his back, leading him off to do this.

Back in the main security center, the accomplice sites camera four. “That’s the man from Alex’s flight. The one who tried to stop us” Sophia knows who he is. She says “…And I think I know who told him Alex was on the plane. He must’ve figured out we were going to release the virus. You can’t let him stop it!” The accomplice gets up and leaves to stop Sean.

Sean is now on the roof of the mall, looking around and spots Alex with her device at one of the circulation boxes. He starts to venture out onto the area where Alex is and a shot rings out. Alex’s accomplice is trying to stop Sean from stopping them. Sean gets more assertive and comes out shooting at the accomplice who then runs past Alex. Alex shouts “What’s going on?” “Keep working!” he orders as he runs after Sean.

She is soon on her phone reading the riot act to whoever banned her from seeing her husband in the ICU/CCU when Jarvis comes up to her. He said it was a mis-communication and he would straighten out the problem with her seeing Elias. He then gets down to business. He tells Christina that Elias was indeed poisoned and lays the blame on Blake Sterling and Simon. Christina remembered her time with Blake in Elias’ room and how he had told her there was nothing anyone could do. She told Jarvis about Blake’s phone call and she was to meet Blake at a warehouse on Kendal Street.

Sophia, back in the evacuation center, goes to a large panel truck and opens the back to find Leila is in there, restrained. Sophia remarked how hard it was for her to look at Leila and not see Michael “His courage, his resolve… I understand you better than you think. But you have to know how misguided you are I don’t want to hurt anyone. But if you had to choose between saving your family or saving someone Else’s, what would you do? who would you save?” Sophia then said “I need to know what you told Sean Walker.”

Leila denied telling him anything and Sophia wound up getting very angry snapping at Leila “Tell me!”. “Go to Hell!” Leila snapped back. Sophia’s voice became calm and level: “Don’t choose the wrong side on this Leila. Because I will do everything I can to protect my people… my family… OUR family!”

Oh, and yeah, she played the torn loyalties card, but Leila replied “I’m not telling you anything” Sophia gets up and as she leaves tells Leila: “By involving Sean in this you’ve ensured his death. Same way you did with your father.” As Sophia closes the door of the truck’s cargo hold she says “Their blood’s on your hands”.

Meanwhile the gunfight on the roof of the mall is in full swing. The Security guard with Vicky both come into the security center and Vicky gets the man to sound the alarm. It would still take about twenty to twenty five minutes to get all the people out. Vicky asks about shutting down the air circulation, but the guard says “I could shut down the breakers, but there’s a battery back up somewhere. I wouldn’t know how to do it”

Vicky tells this numbskull to hit the alarm and it sounds out sirens with an automated voice instructing patrons to leave the mall by the nearest exit Sean and the accomplice are still shooting it out but Sean is now out of ammo, so he brings hand to hand combat into it with the accomplice. I believe the accomplice’s name is Devon, but am unsure at this point.

They both fight, rolling about and swinging punches. Alex had the bio-bomb attached and armed. Sean finally kills the accomplice and Vicky comes up at this point. After they find the bio-bomb the “how do we disarm this?” questions start as the seconds tick backwards…

In the Briefing room, Jarvis, General Ambruster (Blue Deckert) and Agent Peel, among others see the SUV with Blake and Simon in it going into a warehouse via an IMED Satellite feed. Agent Peel is questioning Jarvis “source” and says that he doubts Blake would ever be involved with traitorous activities against his government. Jarvis is coordinating with the Air Force on this one. He instructs someone to ask Gen. McMillan if the Predator Drone is ready for its’ air strike.

Mr. Peel is appalled: “Air Strike?? You can’t possibly be serious?” Gen. Ambruster says “With all due respect sir, this is a mistake!” “This is an Order!” Growls Jarvis. “Well, I cannot condone it, Sir.” Says Ambruster Jarvis reminds him the He is acting President commander in Chief and if he cannot condone the actions of his commander in chief then he could “Get the Hell Out!!” We see Gen. Ambruster collect his things and walk out. “Anyone else?” asks Jarvis. “Fire when ready” Jarvis instructs and we see the missile, from leaving the drone to the explosion of the warehouse.

We can plainly see that Agent Peel is not happy with Jarvis in office. He knew Blake Sterling and what Blake thought of Jarvis, I feel Peel is finding out Blake Sterling was right all along. I can read his face as Jarvis asks for confirmation of the kills. Bill Smitrovich is good in this role!

Back in the Mall, the alarm is sounding and people are leaving.

We see Alex getting onto a RTD local bus outside of the mall and releasing a pressurized valve on her ‘luggage’. I guess if she could not get the Mall infected, a bus would do. At least the Aliens would have some new data about the disease from the people on the bus. From the picture, I see a camera is also there. Alex will video the reactions of the passengers to the disease for the Others.

At this same point in time, Sean and Vicky are on the roof, trying to think of ways to disarm the bio weapon. Vicky says “I thought you were an expert!” “At… at COMPUTERS! Not this…virus producing…” Sean stammers at her “Ok, Ok…Fine! Just do SOMETHING! we’re running out of time..!”. “OK, the timer’s connected to an actuator that opens a solenoid valve that…” They argue about the timer, power source what have you Finally, Sean shoots the device, in effect killing the power supply to it.

Uh, Are you SURE that is really disarmed? Want to burn it too? A bit of fun overkill…Literally! Good thing Sean did NOT puncture the container!

We see a bus inside the Aliens’ evac center, which I am guessing is just a huge, hollow warehouse I’ve seen trailer-like offices and so on within the large building in this episode. Alongside the bus are the bodies of the people which were on it. Alex is drinking some water and Sophia comes up to her to thank her for the contribution she has made. Alex asked about the device at the mall, and Sophia tells her that it was disarmed. Alex, apologizing, said she should have stayed with it. Sophia said “No, if you had we might have lost everything!!” She walks around the area with the bodies and Others charting and taking notes about the victims.

Sophia now says; “Dr Liu has been studying the video you filmed on board the bus. Now that she’s able to see every minute of how the virus affects humans, as well as having these test subjects to autopsy. we’ll be able to move forward.” Turning back to Alex Sophia continues; “We owe you a debt of gratitude.” Carlos comes in to tell Sophia Dr. Liu needs her in the lab. Sophia goes to see her. As we see Dr Liu in her makeshift Lab, she tells Sophia they may have a way to slow down the virus. “Viruses mutate when they jump from species to species. Like Bird Flu becoming H1N1when it crossed into humans. If we jump the virus into the right species, it’ll mutate on its own and we can screen for the variation we need.”

Sophia asked “What kind of species would that be?” Dr. Liu replies “The virus doesn’t effect us at all, and it kills the human beings too quickly. We need to infect a bridge species who’s DNA lies somewhere in between.” “Sophia gets a small smile on her face as she says “A Hybrid…” Dr. Liu responds: “Yes, and from what I understand, we’re in luck” Yes, of course she means Leila.

Christina and some Secret Service men are entering the hospital. “Give me a minute” Christina tells the men as she enters into a gift/florist shop on the first floor. As they wait, she gets a nice bouquet to take into Elias’ room. We then see them all coming from the elevator to Elias’ room and Christina excuses the Secret Service and goes in, alone. She meets the Doctor who tells her it is hopeless. his last EEG showed no signs of high-functioning brain activity. Nothing to be done. Christina refused the doctor’s words and went into the room, closing the curtains behind her.

Amid the rubble and burning wreck of the warehouse, people searched for bodies. They did not find any bodies, but they DID find a trap door into an underground tunnel. Apparently this led to an outbuilding. Jarvis was told of this news. Also, the earlier phone call from Blake to Christina was decrypted and Jarvis heard it as Blake told Christina “You have to trust me. Jarvis is behind everything that’s happened to your husband but I have a way to save him. I’ll call you on the pay phone in five minutes.”. Christina lied to him. She was in on it in regards to Blake and Simon. He told her about the warehouse…Which she then relayed to Jarvis. it was all a diversion! Jarvis, in his office, alone, whimpering ‘Oh, God…!’

Back in the Hospital, Christina, alone with Elias, flashes back to the florist’s shop, Leaving the Secret Service men outside as she went into the florist’s and seeing Simon Lee there. She begins to pray quietly as she retrieves the syringe from the flowers she brought in and removes the cap. She goes to Elias, lifts his sleeve and injects the contents into his arm as she prays. This is almost ‘sacred’ she wants her husband to get well again. She kisses Elias and he see him sleeping.

Back in the Alien’s Evac center, a portion set out for medical, we see Leila strapped to a gurney and Carlos goes to take her head in his hands. Dr. Liu comes up beside her with a petri dish of a yellow substance and a ‘Q-Tip’ type of applicator.

As Sophia comes in speaking to her, she seems to know what is about to happen. Sophia is talking to her; “In 1918 the Spanish Flu Pandemic killed twenty percent of the world’s population. There were localized strains and mutations. This is one of them. A strain so deadly, it turned entire cities into graveyards…. Overnight.” Leila is struggling against the restraints and Carlos’ hands on her head, also cupping her chin. She is crying “No…Please…!” as Sophia continues: “We worked very hard to find this particular strain. And now you, a Hybrid… a bridge between our people … You’re gonna help us spread it.” Carlos holds Leila’s head steady as Dr. Liu places the applicator, filled with the infectious matter into Leila’s nostrils. Leila looks at Sophia, Sophia’s face becomes blurry and the scene fades out to black.

My Take…For what it is worth…

We leave this week with the Aliens’ home world inching closer to all out destruction by the Supernova. Blake and Simon Lee are working together. Elias Martinez having received the medicine he needs. Jarvis, who I doubt could run a lemonade stand, let alone a country, is a simpering fool, so easily played by those around him, has ordered an air strike on domestic territory and fired General Ambruster. The Aliens are displaced into another refuge where they have their shelter and labs, computers etc… again off the radar for the most part. A busload of people who succumbed to the virulent strain of the virus, and Sean and Vicky having saved a mall full of people. Leila, is now apparently going to be the Aliens’ version of “Typhoid Mary” and be freed to the world so she can spread this disease all around. It kills pure humans too quickly, the Aliens are immune to the disease entirely. Leila, as the Host, would live long enough-if she even gets sick at all, to effectively spread this disease.

While much of this could make sense, and would seem somewhat indicative of what we as a species would do, I’m anxious to see what Sophia’s people are actually like. I personally believe they would be more like Simon Lee. Not only advanced in Technology, but also in Spirit and mentality. If one has ever watched the newer “Twilight Zone” series from the eighties, there was an episode based on an Arthur C. Clarke short story called “The Star”. It was aired in 1985 for Christmas, and dealt with the study of a nebula by astronauts of Earth’s future. On an outlying dead planet, they found a pillar and underneath that was an archive of music, art, writings images what used to be a peaceful, advanced People. Humans who have lived in Peace for over a thousand years.

One of the crew was a Jesuit Priest who was able to analyze data about when the Star in question exploded. The Star exploded, the light of that Supernova reached Earth only visible for a short time at certain co-ordinates . The Priest figured out the time line. He was angry because this had destroyed a peaceful planet and people….yes, people…. so that we could have the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ here on Earth. As he was dwelling in his anger and sadness at his God, one of his colleagues came in with something they had decoded from the lost civilization. The last item placed into the archive and first one retrieved:

“Mourn not for us, for we have known the light. and looked on Beauty, have lived in peace and loved. Grieve but for those who go alone, unwise, to die in darkness and never see the sun”.

I would like to feel that a truly advanced race of people… or otherwise… would realize when their time had come. I hope also when this sun may go nova, that this species can be the same. Sometimes, the price of one’s ‘survival’ is just too high for the other.

Next week is the second to last episode of this fine season. Included below courtesy of NBC Universal is the sneak peek of “The Beginning of the End”.

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May 13, 2011
The Event: Everything Will Change!

Heyla to all of The Event fans!

In anticipation of the new episodes which are returning this Monday, March 07, I am pleased to present to you this somewhat short analysis of episode ten, “everything will change.” This was a very exciting episode that left me with a lot of questions that I am eagerly hoping will be answered when season one continues.

This episode takes us right back to the cornfield where Mr. Berg (Peter Murnik) is laying in the dirt being held at gunpoint by Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) and Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) who really want answers! He tells Sean that he is not going to shoot him in cold blood, and we see Sean really struggling, almost as if Mr. Berg is using some sort of mind control on him. And when Sean puts down his gun and says that he is right, I felt convinced of it, until Sean grabs the syringe that Mr. Berg had brought along to inject into Leila, and he injects Mr. Berg with it instead; which then led me to drop the mind-control idea like a hot potato. The injection causes Mr. Berg to grow very old very fast, and then he cannot breathe very well.

President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood) goes back to visit Vice President Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich). Jarvis, remembering the threats made upon the lives of himself and his family decided against giving President Martinez the name of the man who put him up to trying to assassinate him at Coral Gables back in the Pilot episode. (Doctor James Dempsey) Jarvis pleads memory loss. Martinez does not buy this act, he believes that someone must have gotten to him, and he gives Jarvis an ultimatum, either he gives him the name of the man who wants him dead or he will make sure that Jarvis pays for the crime for the rest of his god given life.

Jarvis does not appreciate being threatened and he turns it back around on the president. It is apparently very important to Jarvis that he remain Vice President, I am sure that staying out of prison or out of the electric chair is also paramount on his mind. Jarvis threatens that if they (meaning Martinez or I imagine anyone connected to him) dares to expose his secrets that he will expose theirs.

He will leak information about Inostranka and the prisoners held there, and he will let the world know that Martinez went along with the cover up. Jarvis claims the president would be eviscerated by the public. He also tells President Martinez that he is just a bit player in the world, and that he is just as vulnerable as any man to the whims of those who possess much more wealth and power than he does.

It starts to get exciting when a national security emergency arises, and Martinez must return to the White House immediately. The NSA (National Security Administration?) has suddenly discovered a missile installation in a country called Amallah. The builders of it were somehow able to cloak their activities from the NSA until today. The Amallahan government also claims to have been unaware that this was being built on their tribal lands. CIA Director Blake Sterling (Zeljko Ivanek) tells the president that Amallah barely has an air force, so there is no way that their government could have built this. Martinez wonders if terrorists could be behind it, and Sterling replies that this puzzles him because none of the terrorist groups they were currently watching would have been able to secretly built this missile installation either.

While the president and his people are busy talking about missiles, a nice little alien tea ceremony is going on with Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes), Simon Lee (Ian Anthony Dale), Thomas (Clifton Collins Jr.), and Isabel (Necar Zadegan) Everyone makes nice and pretends to get along. Sophia talks about how recently they have all been through some challenging moments, but that they will overcome these challenging moments together. And then she moves onto business and asks now that they have collected the key module what else will they need to rebuild the interface. (I love the terminology used here).

Thomas replies that opening the portal to save her from the plane was an improvisation and that interface is nowhere near powerful enough to get them home, so they will need to build a new interface at the same site in order to take advantage of the infrastructure they have already built there. Then Sophia smoothly segues into the real reason for this party by asking Thomas about the financial records. She had previously asked to look at them, Isabel had given them to her, and today Sophia is just making sure that they gave her everything. Thomas and Isabel lie and say that of course they gave her everything.

Thomas claims he needs to take Isabel back to her hotel. (Does this mean that she lives in another state or town and that she had to travel to attend this tea party?) Sophia starts cleaning up after, and I got the feeling that they were in her home. Simon stays behind and Sophia informs him that Thomas was lying about the records, she did some digging on her own and she discovered that he has hidden funds no one knows about. She says that it is true that Thomas has built a nice little infrastructure through the stock market to help them get home, but he is hiding money for his own purpose with Isabel’s help. She tells Simon to find, Stephen Grant (Timothy James Driscoll), Thomas’ secret banker. Simon is to find out where the money came from, and what Thomas intends to do with it.

Down in the parking garage Thomas tells Isabel that his mother knows. Isabel hopes that maybe Sophia was just asking, but Thomas says no, that his mother has a reason for everything she does, that she has a reason for every breath that she takes. Then he says that they need to leave so Sophia doesn’t find out what they are doing. If Sophia finds out their end game she will do everything in her power to stop them. Isabel tells him it is too soon that they do not have everything that they need yet, and Thomas says they will figure it out. He tells Isabel that it has already started but now it is time to escalate their plans, and that she needs to be sure before going with him because a lot of people are going to die when they are through. Thomas what on earth are you up to?

Mr. Burk begs Sean and Leila to take him to Willow Brook Behavioral Hospital; he says that this is the only way. I assume he means for him to live, but Paul Stern (Josh Randall), the father of the little girl who escaped from the people that he works for, makes his way out to them. He says that his wife and Abby are in the car and that they are going to leave before the police get there. He tells Sean and Leila that they should just leave everything alone, that there are some things they do not want to know. Then Dr. Berk dies. I think he ran out of air. So Sean and Leila take his electronic key card with the triangle on it and they drive to Willow Brook to see what there is to see.

Dr. James Dempsey (Hal Holbrook) the evil looking man who sent Mr. Berk after Leila, and who seems to be in charge of this really not-very-nice organization that likes to kill and experiment on people, receives a phone call saying that Mr. Berk has not shown up with the new subject; this must mean Leila. Dr. Dempsey replies that if Mr. Berk does not show up within the hour they must assume he has been compromised. Dempsey asks the nurse, who is calling from Willow Brook, about Samantha, and the nurse replies that she is responding better than expected. We see a short glimpse of her in her bedroom/cell scribbling furiously on the wall.

Sean and Leila arrive at Willow Brook. They walk in through the front door and Leila pretends that a woman named Carolyn Jones is her aunt so they will be allowed to enter the patient wards. Sean searches for a room that fits the keycard he stole from Mr. Burk, but then a security guard catches him, and he kicks both Sean and Leila out. There is a crazy guy who overhears Leila asking her fake Auntie Carolyn if she knows of any little girls living there. When they get kicked out he goes out onto the balcony and he tells them that little girls live under the floor, he can hear them. Leila believes this man, but Sean does not. Then Leila sees a water tower on the roof, and she remembers that Abby told her about seeing a water tower when she escaped.

Simon travels to Winchester, Virginia to find Thomas’ banker dead. It looks like he was shot then his body was left in his bathtub. Simon calls Sophia to tell her. He says there is no sign of forced entry, so Mr. Grant knew his attacker, he says there is no proof Thomas did it, but he and Sophia both believe that Thomas did do it. Sophia tells Simon that Thomas and Isabel have disappeared with the key module. Thomas destroyed the banker’s computer, but Simon will take it to Langley to see what they can salvage. Then he gets called in to work. Sophia puts out word for anyone to contact her if Thomas contacts them –they must find out what he is up to.

Isabel and Thomas find a nice hideout where they can watch the missile launch from Thomas’ laptop. Isabel puts her arms around him and says, “We did it, and now everything is going to change. “ What exactly does she mean by that? Change how? In what way? I hope that we find out when season one returns on Monday.

President Martinez is also keeping an eye on the missile via real satellite imagery on a screen that is slightly larger than Thomas’. He is informed that the missile is uploading propellant to rocket. The rocket is two hours away from launch, the presidents jets will not make it to the installation in time to stop the rocket from launching unless the United States can get flyover permission from the Chinese. A female Aide enters the war room to inform Martinez that the ambassador from Amallah, Mr. Talaky (Bernard White) has arrived. Mr.Talaky explains to President Martinez that the installation was built in a tribal area not under government jurisdiction. He says that their military is mobilizing troops towards the silo, but he can offer no guarantee that they will arrive in time.

He is able to tell the president that the Installation was built by a company that made arrangement with the locals to not cause them any trouble. He says that the company appears to exist in name only. He hands some papers to Blake, it is all the information he was able to obtain about this company. Blake sits down to look it over while President Martinez informs Mr.Talaky that this missile has the capability of reaching the United States with a nuclear payload. The president says that the United States will retaliate against Amallah if the missile reaches us. He says that there is a squadron of F16’s enroute to Amallah right now, and, if their missile strikes his F16’s will attack the Amallah capitol. Mr. Talaky is not very excited about going back to give this news to his president.

While this conversation was going on Blake has a breakthrough. He shows the president the list of the board of directors for the company that built the missile. It is unusually large with ninety-seven members and these members all have the same names as the ninety-seven detainees who were originally held at Inostranka. Blake realizes that the missiles are being controlled by the sleepers. Blake blames Sophia for this while Martinez more correctly blames Thomas.

Sean and Leila sneak back into Willow Brook Hospital at night. They sneak past the man taking out the garbage. Crazy guy said he heard the girls through the floor so they look for a basement, and find an elevator instead. Elevator buttons begin at one, but Sean uses the keycard he stole from Mr. Berk and the card causes the elevator to descend. They walk out into the basement level, everything has been cleaned out. Mr. Berk could not make his appointment, him being dead and all, so Dr. Dempsey ordered everything and everyone to move out. Leila freaks out when she sees the playroom with children’s drawings and toys. She starts running around saying they have to find Samantha even though the place is clearly empty. She does find Samantha’s empty room, however, where she wrote Leila on the wall. Leila is devastated that they arrived there too late.

Simon eventually learns all about the installation, and he calls Sophia to tell her what Thomas did. Then the missile is launched, the NSA is able to track it, and soon discover that the United States is not its target. No radiation is detected, and they learn that the missile is not carrying a nuclear payload. They pick up a signal, a data burst from the missile. They discover that its true purpose is to be a communications satellite, and that its antennas are situated the wrong sending the signal away from earth. They are contacting home? Sending signal hurts everyone’s ears.

Leila and Sean find a room full of burned papers, but they are not fully burned. The fire was likely set hastily. They find a file on Michael Buchanan (Scott Patterson) Leila and Samantha’s father. They find out that he is an alien, and Leila is likely a hybrid, unless of course Michael is not her biological father. I would wager that the girl’s mother was human, and that is why she was killed because she was not interesting enough for them to bother with.

Of course the biggest question is why did Thomas send a signal home? If that is indeed where he sent it? Are there a lot of people who live there? Are they friendly to the ones who left to come to earth? Was he asking for reinforcements for a war? Was he inviting them to all come down and live? Why will this action result in people dying? I can easily see the government deciding to go to war if thousands or millions of these aliens just showed up out of the blue, and were not hiding any longer. Will the aliens start the war? Thomas certainly seems itching for a fight. If they need a new place to live I can understand that, but Sophia seems dead set against settling here. I have a feeling though that after Thomas’ actions in this episode Sophia may have no choice but to go along with the settlement plans. She can only fight so much, after all

Thank you for reading my review of The Event, episode ten, “Everything will change.” The Event returns this Monday, March 07, 2011 8 PM EST/PST on NBC in the United States, with a two-hour mid-season premiere, “And then there were more/Inostranka”. Be sure to tune in live for the continuation of The Event. I know I will be! In the meantime here is the entire tenth episode courtesy of NBC Universal!

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March 6, 2011
The Event: Your World to Take!

Heyla, The Event Fans!

In anticipation of new episodes returning this Monday, I am pleased to present this short analysis of episode 1×9 “Your world to take.” This episode was one of my favorites because we finally have Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes) out of prison, and we get to watch how she operates and how she leads.

We, the viewers, are privileged to be invited to a Sleeper meeting, where Thomas (Clifton Collins Jr.) re-introduces Sophia as the leader to an untold multitude. They all seem to welcome her enthusiastically and to adulate her, however, after the main meeting is over Thomas sets up a much smaller meeting with a few representatives and Simon.

Sophia begins this meeting by saying now that President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood) is aware of the Sleepers presence their days on earth are numbered. From my understanding the main reason that she and the other ninety-seven prisoners stayed at Inostranka these past sixty-six years was so that the sleepers could move about undetected, to be free to find a way home.

As long as the government felt that the scary aliens were all locked up in one place where they could keep their eyes on them they would not be looking for anyone else. This was a good plan, I think, unfortunately, however, while she was locked away Thomas and his girlfriend, Isabel, (Necar Zadegan) have been forging quite a different plan, than what Sophia originally intended.

Sophia compliments Thomas on the infrastructure he has created to help get them home but says they are still missing many raw materials, isotopes, and rare minerals. She wants to collect the things they were able to salvage from their craft wreck, as well as activate a key module to open a portal. (This just sounds really cool. I love portals.) The tension in the room, while Sophia speaks of going home is soon apparent to her, and so she asks them about it; when no one wants to say anything she locks onto Isabel, (who is first introduced in this episode). Everyone seems to be looking to her to speak, so she tells Sophia that a large number of them have decided that they do not want to go home.

Sophia is sympathetic, but she reminds them all of what would happen to the native populations (without actually saying what would happen), but I wonder if what she is talking about could be The Event? She also reminds them of the directives that they all swore to uphold. She says they are not allowed to harm benevolent civilizations. I am not sure how benevolent we humans are since our government locked away every one of them that they could find just because they did not know who these strange people were. I know that they are aliens, but they are people too.

Who gave them these directives? Who is not allowing them to harm anyone? What would happen if they broke their promises? Did Sophia create these directives, or did they leave behind a fully functioning government back home who gave the directives to them before sending them off? Is Sophia just the leader of the group who were sent down to earth, or is she the ruler of them all?

Apparently their home planet is barely viable, which may be why they sent this scouting team down to the earth in the first place. Sophia does not make it sound like they were looking for a new home; perhaps they came looking for something they could use to save their planet from dying? There are other issues, a male representative reminds her. What are these issues? What could be worse than your planet dying? Is there some kind of war going on among their people? Perhaps Sophia is head of one particular warring side? Whatever she is, she gives them all her word that they will survive, and that by her orders they are going home. But are they really?

Thomas and Isabel are together, and are secretly plotting something which involves Thomas killing his mother and seizing control. It is obvious that Isabel is manipulating him, but he does have desires of his own. Thomas believes that Sophia is unaware of their relationship, and he thinks she does not suspect him of disloyalty either. Isabel keeps warning him that his mother is smarter than he is giving her credit for. When did the Thomas/Isabel movement begin? And why do they really want to stay? I think it is clear that Isabel just wants power, and Thomas thinks he knows how to be a better leader than his mother. But is it that simple? Is there more to the story? I am quite looking forward to finding out when season one continues.

Thomas and Sophia fly to where the portal opening key module is located. Thomas uses his code and then Sophia withdraws the key. After which, Thomas tries to shoot her, but he cannot do it. Poor Thomas! The timing of this leads me to believe that he needed this key to move forward with his plan and that is why he waited until after she had it to kill her, and also why he fought so hard to get her out of prison if he just wanted her dead. He likely could have had her killed in prison, or he could have just left her in there. But maybe her influence, even from within prison walls was so strong that he needed her dead before he could move on with his plan.

I suppose that he may have wanted her out because he loves her, and he hoped that he could reason with her, but when he saw she was determined to force them all home decided then that he had to kill her. And he tried it right after she got the key simply because it was a convenient isolated location. But he does make her give it to him before he tells her to turn around so he can shoot her in the back of the head, so I prefer my first idea. I am hoping this key proves vital in the second half of the season.

Thomas tells Sophia that she is irrelevant, and that he is tired of standing behind her and her words, words which he no longer believes in. Could all of this be pinned down to alien ideology? Sophia sees through him and says she knows about Isabel. She believes that this was all Isabel’s plan. I think she likely planted the idea in his head, but I think the wanting to take over and be in charge comes from within Thomas. The not being able to kill his mother seems to suggest that this part of the plan was likely Isabel’s dream though, and not his own.

Although there was a part of me while watching this scene wondered if Sophia was not exerting some kind of mind control over him. She did tell him he was weak in the plane. She even intimated that she regretted putting him in charge while she was away. If mind control would work on anyone, I would think it would work on Thomas.

Sean Walker, (Jason Ritter) and Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) get a tip that could lead them to Leila’s little sister, Samantha Buchanan (Anna Clark). For the past two years little girls in between seven and eight years old have been kidnapped without a trace until one little girl, Abby Stern (Ellery Sprayberry) escaped. How did she escape? Was she let go or allowed to escape (like they did with Leila, as a way to trap Sean?) Or was she just very brave and clever? Her mother tells Leila and Sean that she was picked up at a truck stop, and that a driver had given her a ride there. This could have been luck coupled with the kindness of strangers, or it was a setup.

Sean and Leila find Abby with her parents, Paul Stern (Josh Randall) and Mary Stern (Bonnie Root). They are reluctant to let her talk to them, even when Leila says that her sister, Samantha has also gone missing. They follow them to a gas station where Leila finds Abby and the mother inside. Abby recognized Leila’s name earlier and she wants to help although she is not able to say much. Her face has prematurely aged in a rather alarming way, due to these injections she and all the other little girls are given in a hospital that she says is not for regular people.

She met Samantha right before she escaped; Samantha had not been given the injections yet. I hope that when Leila and Sean finally find Samantha that she will be all right, and will have somehow escaped those horrible injections or if she has received them that she will not have aged somehow. I am assuming the aging thing is a bad side effect, but maybe it is supposed to do that?

Doctor James Dempsey, (Hal Holbrook) sends Mr. Berg (Peter Murnik) after Leila to bring her back and to give her a dose of something. What is this dose for? What is this all about? The little girls seem to be receiving the same injections, could this be an attempt to try and save either humanity or the Extra-terrestrials from whatever the coming event is going to be?

There also seems to be a scary movement going on here, alien against alien. Could be why Paul Stern did not want to let Sean and Leila talk to Abby. When Sean first sees Mr. Berg at the gas station he believes he is after Abby. When Mr. Berg makes his move, Paul Stern gets in the way and gets himself shot, but the rest of them all run, Mrs. Stern with Abby, Sean, and Leila. We get to watch an exciting chase through a cornfield until Sean knocks Mr. Berg to the ground, and they find a flier in his pocket with Leila’s picture on it. Abby and her mother skedaddle, leaving Sean and Leila to deal with Berg.

Vice President Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) wakes up in the hospital, his wife, Erika Jarvis (Kathleen Quinlan) by his side. The car bomb that was meant to prevent him from telling the president about Dr. Dempsey failed. Jarvis is still prepared to tell President Martinez all about it when his wife tells him about the two men who came to their house and threatened to harm her and their children. She asks him what he has done, and is quite understandably upset. He tells her he is sorry, but is he sorry for what he did or just sorry for putting his wife and children in danger? I cannot tell.

After Sophia is done comforting Thomas for not shooting her she gets him to tell her all about what he and Isabel were planning, except that he does not tell her everything, as we learn in the next episode. Sophia confronts Isabel, and Isabel shoot herself in the leg. This is the choice given to her by Sophia, she will either shoot herself to prove her loyalty to Sophia, or she would be ostracized, and not allowed to live among her own kind or have any contact with them. Isabel does shoot herself because being shunned would be a worse punishment for her, I imagine. I love Sophia’s parting words to the sobbing bleeding mess on the ground, “And remember this world isn’t yours or Thomas’.” I think that Isabel got off easy, but I do not think that Isabel would agree, and I wonder if she is going to want revenge in part two of season one?

Thank you for reading my review of The Event, episode nine, “Your World to Take.” The Event returns this Monday, March 07, 2011 8 PM EST/PST on NBC in the United States, with a two-hour mid-season premiere, “And Then There Were More” and “Inostranka”. Be sure to tune in for the continuation of The Event! And courtesy of NBC Universal here is the entire episode for your viewing pleasure!

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By K’Sennia (Angie)

March 6, 2011
The Event: For The Good Of Our Country!

Hello The Event fans,

This episode of The Event opens in the White House as President Martinez (Blair Underwood) listens to the morning news. The newscaster tells the world that the crash was caused by a separatist organization, which released a biological agent, necessitating the emergency downing of the Jet. Michael Buchannan (Scott Patterson) died of his wounds suffered in the crash of Avias 514.

Next we go to the ‘War Room’ setting where President Martinez, Raymond Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) and Blake Sterling (Zeljko Ivanek) talk about capturing Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes), Thomas and the others who are unknown as yet, who they refer to as “The Sleepers”. Blake points out they only knew of all this only days ago, and Vice President Ray Jarvis said this means they dropped the ball.

I watch The Event and cannot help but wonder just how the country and the world would react to the disclosure of EBE (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities) actually living among us for what the series has scripted as sixty-six years, or sixty-six days. I was wondering how such a disclosure would be handled, as well as who would do the actual announcement. What this could mean to the world economy, Theology, Psychology of the masses. The fact the Government would know such a thing and we would not is rather disconcerting.

I recently discovered a book pertaining to this very question called “A.D.-After Disclosure” by Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel. I am planning to begin reading this tomorrow night. I like how this book and the ‘disclosure’ that may be coming in “The Event” actually ties together in a sense.

There follows a scene where Michael Buchannan is in handcuffs and is being questioned by the president about the assassination attempt on he and his family at Coral Gables, FLA. Mr. Buchannan tells the President there had been phone calls and one came in at 1:08 instructing Buchannan to go through with crashing the Avias flight 514 into the resort. Buchannan tells President Martinez “they almost didn’t go through with it”, explaining the people who took him was waiting on a phone call. The call came before they put him onto the plane.

Flash back to the Day of the plane crash: James Dempsey (Hal Holbrook) is in his study and on his phone, speculating with Raymond Jarvis about the President’s plan to disclose the presence of the aliens. Ray is very hesitant about carrying out the plan, because there are many innocent people…. many of them children involved. Dempsey says they are doing this to prevent something worse. They have to stop the President from releasing the detainees, which Dempsey calls a “Dangerous, unknown enemy into our midst”. Dempsey says the plane will be in the air soon and instructs Ray to leave the compound at Coral Gables.

The next scene is where Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) , Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) and Madeline Jackson (Paula Malcomson) are trying to find out about the list of names and numbers Madeline found among Leila’s fathers’ belongings. Dempsey’s Agents came into the building firing away and trying to arrest –or kill- all inside, but Shawn and Leila got out just as an explosive devise detonated. This was apparently a booby trap the computer guy known as Peter who they were getting help from had set so that all his evidence would be destroyed. Shawn and Leila escaped Peter’s loft and wound up outside on a large rooftop-patio, but there were no signs of any of the agents. They both get to the street and start to walk very fast, as Leila speculates what they are to do now.

We notice a figure in dark clothes dropping down from a building behind them, and he shoots Shawn in the shoulder. They start to run and Shawn is hurt. But they hide from their pursuer and clock him unconscious, getting his gun. They hit it out to the street where Shawn gives Leila a crash-course in how to steal a car, and they’re off. Leila want to get help, but they can’t go to a hospital because no one thus far has believed them/ Leila rightfully feels they would not be helped if they went to an Emergency room like any of us might do.

These two are very resourceful. Considering a thief can, in fact steal a car in about 20-30 seconds, I found that to be fairly well played. Given the past history with hospitals in previous episodes, I too would avoid the conventional approach if I could in getting medical help. Leila is refreshingly strong in this series, as most of this type of series has depicted females, especially those who have lost those dear to them as extreme in their anger, or so heartbroken they lose all common sense. Leila seems to be a little of both. So far she has been able to pull some mighty fine escapes off. Shawn Walker seems to keep a clear head, where I would have most likely lost mine by now. Now they have kidnapped a doctor from a nearby hospital and are leaving.

President Martinez in his office, Blake Sterling comes in, Agent Lee is out of ICU and will recover. President Martinez brings up the phone records surrounding the time 1:08, which is when that fateful phone call came clearing the go ahead on Buchannan and Avias flight 514. Ray Jarvis reports in to James Dempsey and says he feel he’s been cut out of the loop. He is showing a lot of fear at being exposed. James Dempsey tells Raymond to make an appointment with his doctor and they will meet up in person, instead of talking on a telephone.

Ray flashes back to the election rally in which he was running against Senator Martinez two years earlier. Ironically, the theme of the rally is “Believe Again!”. This is where James Dempsey and Ray Jarvis discuss bridging the gap to a bi-partisan government.
–Based on the theme of the Event, I liked the use of “Believe Again” as the rally theme. If anyone is into reading about aliens and UFO’s, it is mainly about belief. Even if the writers did not plan that.

Back to the Present day, President Martinez is discussing the phone record on the day of the Avias 514 crash. There seems to be a discrepancy in the phone activity of Raymond Jarvis. Martinez instructs Blake to get Ray back to the White house. When they both go to the receptionist, she tells them Ray went to his doctor, but she doesn’t know any other details as he made the appointment himself.
“Find him.” Martinez orders and walks out.

I felt this was a bit lax. If the Vice President is going to a doctor or anything, it usually means the Secret Service would have to clear the building and know what the VP’s plans were. Could this have not been found out by Martinez himself?

Shawn and Leila are with their hostage doctor and they have gone to a pharmacy. The doctor orders supplies and –surprisingly- the pharmacy has everything he needs. Doctor paid in cash, and they come out to the car to find Shawn is no longer in it. One wonders if he left on his own, or was taken by someone.

I was impressed the pharmacy had all the things they needed. It was well done however, and I was still biting nails.

Back in Dempsey’s luxurious study and Dempsey having a silver service of coffee poured for him by his housekeeper, Audra. Once Audra leaves, a man enters with Ms. Roberts saying “Picked her up outside of Houston”. Ms. Roberts comes in and says “I had to take care of a few things. My mother needed help so I… I was going to report in the morning” Dempsey offers coffee, and she declines. As Dempsey puts something into his coffee, he says it is an herbal sweetener. Then tells Ms. Roberts he needs help with a problem. Sounds like he is of course hiring her to assassinate Raymond Jarvis. Because I watched the whole show first, I do suspect that is no ‘Herbal sweetener’.

Now at the medical center, the Secret Service tells Ray the building has been swept and is cleared for him. They all walk to the doctor’s office and Jarvis goes in alone. He then goes out another door into the back halls of the medical center. We see him in a utility room of sorts and Ms. Roberts comes out holding a gun on him. Two men came in behind Jarvis and one pulls a gun out. Ms. Roberts shoots them both. Holding the gun back on Jarvis’ head and says ‘I want out. Your life for Dempsey’s! You need to come clean, now. Tell them how he was behind trying to kill the President! Dempsey played us both-He sold you and betrayed us, but that is not what this is really about or what he is really after” Jarvis asks “What are you saying?”

Roberts says, “Bury him! That’s the only way either one of us is getting out alive.” One has to wonder what James Dempsey’s stake is in the coming Event. I believe it is more than money, but money is a strong motivator for many, even the very rich as he appears to be.

Leila and the hostage doctor find Shawn in an ally and he is bleeding out rapidly. The doctor instructs Leila as they fight to save him. He used what is called a Marrow infusion to quickly bring up blood volume. I have rarely heard of such a procedure. Of course they save Shawn and he will be OK

The procedure that was used is called INTRAOSSEOUS INFUSION. the process of injection directly into the marrow of a bone. This technique is used in emergency situations to provide fluids and medication when an IV line cannot be used.

The needle is injected through the bone’s hard cortex and into the soft marrow interior which allows immediate access to the vascular system. An IO infusion can be used on adult or pediatric patients when traditional methods of vascular access are difficult or impossible. Often the antero-medial aspect of the tibia is used as it lies just under the skin and can easily be palpated and located. The anterior aspect of the femur, the superior iliac crest and the head of the humerus are other sites that can be used. I was impressed they used this in the show as not many do.

Raymond is under a stairwell and calls the Secret Service to come get him. Then places a call to the President. He is planning to turn himself in. Just as Ray is about to tell Eli who it was behind the entire plot, a blue van parks, driver gets out and walks off, The van explodes. Ray is down on the street.

Dempsey gets a phone call from a man who said ‘It is done, but we had to use the backup plan.’ Dempsey says, ‘So Ms. Roberts didn’t come through.’The caller replies, ‘No sir, looks like she killed Lawner and Fulton’ Dempsey; ‘What a shame…. Thank you’ (Hangs up).

Now, during the phone call, Dempsey was placing the dropper of that ‘herbal sweetener’ into his mouth. After he hung up the phone, he got up and went to a mirror. Looking at his reflection, we see a much younger, vibrant James Dempsey, only for a moment. Is this ‘Herbal Sweetener’ not a ‘sweetener’ at all, but a developing youth serum? Could it be that this is a possible reason Dempsey wants the Event to not take place? We already know the “Others” from Inastronka do not age as we do, and they seem to stay the same age for decades. Have a few of the aliens found a way to bring this to us?

I wonder if the sleepers who are living here have found a way for Eartheaon humans to benefit from their technology of regenerating youth. If so, this could net a vast fortune for a rogue group of the EBE’s. It could also make people like Dempsey stop at nothing to keep the aliens’ presence under wraps.

The Event returns to NBC * PM EST/PST Monday March 07, 2011 for the exciting two hour season 1.5 two episode premiere. And now courtesy of NBC Universal here is the entire eight episode for your enjoyment

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March 6, 2011
The Event: A Matter of Life and Death

Welcome back “The Event” fans!

With all our thanks to NBC Universal, here is a special treat! Behind the Scenes and an extended preview of of tonight’s episode “A Matter of Life and Death” We hope you will enjoy them as much as we did in bringing them here for you!

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Below is a special Behind The Scenes look at The Event. As you will see the quality of the acting, direction, location shooting, cinematography as well as contemporary topics make this series more than enjoyable! After you have watched the extended promotional trailer and Behind The Scenes, we are sure we will see you all tonight after Chuck 9 PM on NBC!.
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October 11, 2010
The Event – Episodes Evaluated – Expect Establishment of an Edifice!

Welcome back “The Event” fans!

This review is not a recap of The Event episodes two and three. I do not favor recaps. Rather this review is an analysis exploring and evaluating some of the theories of the series tied to the storyline, how well portions of the story arc have been depicted, and what if any relationship The Event has with other series in the past. We will also discuss the quality of the acting, direction, location shooting, cinematography as well as topics anchored in the present which make the series more than believable.

For this purpose we will include select images courtesy of NBC for news analysis and review purposes as well as the promotional trailer for episode four “A Matter of Life and Death”. All told The Event establishes an edifice that is to be admired by Wormholeriders News Agency, so lets begin with a few images of the wormhole in The Event shall we?

However, be warned. Certain parts of the series are discussed in detail and should be considered as spoilers if you have not witnessed The Event for yourself. If you do not enjoy spoilers, you should stop reading now. But first lets feast your eyes on yet another couple of images of the wormhole or something most similar!

The Event is an up and coming series which has continued to reveal what effect aliens are having and have had on our world since their imprisonment some 66 years ago on Earth. With an obvious though not directly stated reference to the alleged UFO crash landing events in Roswell New Mexico circa 1947, The Event builds on that belief held by many on Earth. The Roswell incident has captivated many on our planet for over six decades. The Event dovetails this belief factor in today’s viewers very nicely in the opinion of this reviewer. This appears to be true much to the delight of millions of viewers based on recent ratings discussed at the end of this analysis.

Episodes two and three of The Event are analyzed in tandem herein because in the opinion of this reviewer the first three episodes actually act as a movie of sorts with the typical two hour duration. Some commented to me on Twitter that they could not understand what was happening in the pilot. I have watched the first three episodes several times and am convinced that they could be viewed back to back to back to help truly internalize the series single effect to date for those who where not clear on what occurred. Viewing in such a fashion helps sets the tone for what is to come. Fortunately for The Event fans, DVR technology and on-line viewing at NBC allows for just that!

On a side topic, for anyone to assume that humankind is the sole type of intelligent life in the universe is being naïve in the opinion of this reviewer. As recently discussed in our new WHR Science Series, our gifted science writer RedOne68 (Sandra) has produced two fine articles. One is on the subject of life elsewhere in the universe and one is about wormholes. You can read Sandra’s latest article on life in the universe by clicking this hyperlink.

The Event story arc strays from the Roswell incident in New Mexico events in a major way. In this excellent rendition of aliens among us, broadcast on NBC in the United States, the discovery of extra-terrestrials occurs on November 02, 1944 in the Brookes Mountain Range in Alaska (a real place from the real world), some three years before the oft reported Roswell incident. The Roswell incident looms tall amid ongoing, yet unproven, claims of a government cover up ever since 1947 by conspiracy enthusiasts, many of whom may very well be correct in such beliefs.

The basis for such lack of trust in governmental agencies far pre-dates current events and is therefore a solid cornerstone of The Event story arc which continues to be revealed in a series of flashbacks during episodes two and three. As previously mentioned in our first review of The Event, this is a time honored technique in story telling dating back to the earliest years of recorded human history, specifically in modern times as a technique in literature and film.

In episode two, we learn that that during World War 2, an “aircraft of undermined origins” crashed in a remote area of Alaska with 97 survivors not of Earthly characteristics. Being on a war footing, the United States military and “Intelligence” agencies quarantines the area, ‘apprehends’ the 97, but those are not all the survivors. The able bodied leave the crash site while character Sophia Maguire portrayed by Laura Innes prepares the wounded whom are to be interned. The question then becomes where did the others go and what are they going to do in our society?

Initial scientific observations conclude that the non-humans appear to age at a dramatically slower rate than humankind. How much slower than humans the alien’s age leaves open the potential (in the story) that the aliens may have been living on planet Earth for a very long time until the capture of the 97 in 1944.

Just how long the aliens have been on Earth remains to be revealed in future episodes. In the episode two, a briefing to President Martinez (Blair Underwood) occurs over 65 years later. During the briefing the topic turns to the aliens DNA which has been sequenced. This proves the early 1944 hypothesis that although quite similar to humans, they are in fact alien in nature, not of the Earth.

During the current day briefing which tracks the electromagnetic aspects of The Event, a flashback from 13 months earlier is played out that reveals photos from various decades illustrating the aliens whom have hardly aged in their 66 years in captivity by “Intelligence” and military divisions of the Unites States government. The current day President is astounded by these disclosures after the fact and asks “why” the aliens are being detained? Once again the real world ‘plausible deniability’ routine makes for believable story telling. Why? Many politicians throughout history claim to be unaware of various situations being managed by their subordinates.

During these sequences we also are afforded the opportunity to see more of the President’s cabinet in action including Bill Smitrovich (Thirteen Days, Independence Day, The Practice) portraying the Vice President, Raymond Jarvis. Politics aside, Bill Smittrovich’s role is quite similar to the actual reality of today’s White House with Vice President Joe Biden as the seasoned politician whom was to aid the younger Barack Obama as President. This parallel makes the story more believable by tying the plot to real world scenarios that the viewing audience can relate to.

In true to life revelations to the President, the intelligence and military agencies whom have been charged with detaining the aliens since 1944 state that the aliens have a “hidden agenda”. Well of course they do! Why else would they be detained? Or could it be that the governmental agencies suffer from good ole’ human paranoia? Well, we will leave that theory alone for the time being, but I can assure you that the “hidden agenda” is a most effectively implemented in The Event.

With the majority of the aliens in the series (apparently) located in a secure facility in Alaska known as Mount Inostranka, it is discussed that various other factions of the aliens are operating in our society and or have operated and infiltrated our society for many years. No doubt these are the individuals whom were not hurt and escaped the 1944 crash in Alaska.

How far have they are penetrated into our society or how long they have been here has not yet been revealed. However, we do know that at least one of them escaped the detention facility previously. Where there is one whom has escaped, there are likely to be many in the theory of The Event as I interpret them.

We then segue to the series protagonist Jason Ritter portraying Sean Walker in a Yuma Arizona hospital after learning that his girlfriend and fiancé’ Leila Buchanan, portrayed by Sarah Roemer, was not erased from the timeline but was instead kidnapped as a bargaining chip to force the father, Michael Buchanan (Scott Patterson) to crash the airliner into the press event to stop the disclosure to the general public about the alien presence here on Earth.

This aspect of The Event plot is reminiscent of a classic series “The Invaders” circa 1967-1968 where protagonist Sean Walker is akin to architect David Vincent portrayed by Roy Thinnes who knows the secrets of the aliens but is not believed by people he comes into contact with, at least not at first in both series. The Event does an awesome job in this regard.

The initial story arc in The Event is therefore one proven to be highly effective in the entertainment industry, particularly in science fiction; Various alien factions involved with our society in various governmental institutions, each with their own agenda at work. This of course must also delight conspiracy buffs who believe that our rapid advances in technology are due in part to alien knowledge being imparted to select governmental agencies operating Area 51 in Nevada.

Speaking of “The Invaders”, earlier this year SyFy ran “The Invaders” as an all day marathon for two days. I cannot help but believe that “The Invaders” marathon on SyFy was a test of the viewing audience, their enjoyment of this type of series, and whether or not the viewing public would ultimately accept “The Event”. Of interest is that SyFy recently ran “The Event” series pilot to expose their viewers to the series. Is this all a coincidence? Hardly. It represents a well planned market research technique (in my opinion) that NBC Universal should be complimented on.

Back to The Event; In the hospital after the crash of the airliner in the Arizona desert (subsequent to being transported in what I can only describe as a wormhole effect), we learn that the protagonist Jason Ritter who plays the character Sean Walker, has been framed for the murder of a passenger on the cruise ship where he and Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) were vacationing.

In a bizarre but effective twist of plot, when he sincerely wants to disclose what is occurring to law enforcement, we find that he is wanted for the murder of an acquaintance on the cruise ship. Obviously some organization has the ability to affect changes to the computer records. Are they human or are they xenophobic alien factions? Could both be at play? My theory says yes, both are involved to some extent and here is why.

As the “The Event” tale unfolds in episodes two and three, we continue to see flashbacks to the happenings from the pilot episode. Specifically we learn about what the xenophobic factions here on Earth are willing to do suppress the ‘secret’ from being revealed to the general public. This includes attempts at mass murder to apparently extinguish the witnesses. These attempts fail. Quite deliberately by the way. More on that later.

As mentioned, the extent of their xenophobic activities also include kidnapping and murder to stop the truth of an alien presence from being revealed to the general public by the President portrayed by veteran actor Blair Underwood. The xenophobia is a two way street in The Event, human paranoid of alien and visa-versa!

To coin a phrase, the event’s revealed so far include when the President released the de-facto alien leader Sophia Maguire to make a public announcement which set off the entire set of spiraling story arc plot twists in the pilot episode. These flashbacks continue to fill in the story-line unabated through episode two and episode three.

Keep reading and that theory will be divulged or debunked depending on your perspective. During a one on one discussion between Sophia Maguire and the President, she discloses that it was they who saved his life in the first episode when the wormhole appeared in front of the jet airliner just prior to being used as a weapon of mass destruction. The President requests to know how the plane instantly disappeared from the viewing audience’s perspective and appeared in the Arizona desert as depicted above and below.

One theory is that the attack on the airliner (after being transported to the Arizona desert) may not be humans trying to suppress the news of aliens on Earth, but could in fact be aliens whom have infiltrated ‘black ops’ intelligence divisions of the United States government that do not desire their presence and or agenda to be revealed.

When Sophia declines to comment, the President informs her that she and her kind will be returned to the Mount Inostranka detention facility indefinitely. When Sophia declares that such would be a mistake, we are left wondering what else she knows and who of her kind are responsible for what happenings in The Event.

In our first review of the Event I discussed a changing in the time-line from the wormhole effect. I stand by my theory that changes to the time-line are occurring or being affected for as yet some fully explained reason. While apparently not the same type of time-line changes as in Eureka, Fringe or Stargate, nonetheless the movement of an airliner such a vast distance to save the President and all at the press conference is a change in reality with far reaching consequences affecting the President of the United States and perhaps our entire world!

As episode two draws to a conclusion, in a fateful and telling flashback ten years back in time, we learn that Agent Simon Lee (now on the President’s staff) portrayed by Ian Anthony Dale, is an alien when after a blood test he removes a synthetic vein from his arm used to trick the nurse and hence the blood test required for admittance to the Central Intelligence Agency.

This scene provides proof to the viewers that the aliens are in fact infiltrated into our government. Ironically it is agent Lee who is then tasked by Blake Sterling, the President’s advisor (Zeljko Ivanek) to root out all the aliens!

Instead Agent Lee meets with alien brother “Thomas” (Clifton Collins Jr.) who after a hug informs him that “they” have “plans” to use the passengers, give him coordinates, and that Agent Lee will find out what when he gets to the Arizona desert.

Upon arrival in the Arizona desert Agent Lee finds that all the passengers are dead, but were killed after the fact, not from the airliners crash landing! They were apparently killed by a sinister force while either trying to escape or when protecting loved ones during what appears to be their final moments alive on planet Earth.

Before we proceed, a few asked me why if I think so highly of The Event did I give it an “A Minus” grade in the first review at WHR? I focused on their opinions due to the fact that the ‘sell’ to the general audience requires three episodes to really “get” ones head around what is happening. Because of the extensive use of flashbacks to fill in the back story, some found it hard to follow. I heard these constructively critical comments and internalized them. Perhaps it is easier for me to “get” The Event from my acting and entertainment service background to understand that episodes one, two and three were more like acts such as in a well delivered stage play. Each is needed to provide a full single effect for the viewing audience.

Let us now briefly discuss the acting, direction by Jeffery Reiner, special digital effects team lead by Gary D’Amico, and location shooting. The ensemble cast is superb as has been the direction, the writing, the location shooting, computer generated graphics, and the cinematography by Feliks Parnell throughout the first three episodes. Show runner and creator Nick Wauters is to be complimented for assembling such a fine team. I expect my grade to change to a straight “A” once the series resumes in episode four “A Matter of Life and Death” after the setting of the foundation in the initial three.

Additionally the ensemble cast is supplemented with effective guest stars including D.B. Sweeney as “Carter” (24, Life as We Know It, and Jericho), Heather McComb as Agent Collier (Prison Break, Profiler, and X-Files), and Gabriel Olds as Agent Spencer (the Mentalist, Charmed and D.C.). The Event includes many other fine guest actors and actresses. It is these performances which help create the sense of realism that is The Event.

The bodies of the jetliner passengers from the wormhole transported airliner which suddenly appeared in Arizona appear to be dead! Despite the depiction of all the people massacred when attack helicopters used something, perhaps a nerve gas, a conspiracy is afoot! Appearances can be deceiving, yet in in the eyes of the President, when he arrives on the scene with his adviser’s, is that the passengers certainly look like the victims of a massacre.

Jumping ahead to the very end of the third episode, the victims are observed at the end of episode three in a hanger serving as a makeshift morgue. To our utter surprise and relief all are observed waking up from being “dead”! How in the world were the deaths feigned? We do not know. In any event, the scene and angle of filming is brilliant. Why else would people (humans) be resurrected from the “dead” if not for the purpose “Thomas” has alluded to to alien brother Agent Lee? What technology is being utilized to resurrect the dead, and who in our infiltrated government is responsible? Let’s move back a bit in the story to analyze the why shall we?

We quickly learn in episode three that there is a cover up of some sort. This enactment fits nicely with the viewers whom distrust government, a fact directly related to public sentiment in the United States and most of the world after the economic disasters of the past several years (for starters) . One of the passengers aboard the cruise ship is suspected by the protagonist Sean Walker of being part of the conspiracy. This character is later revealed in both name and deed. Later Sean is befriended inadvertently by Agent Collier whom begins to believe his fantastic story. Prior to that, thinking she has fooled Sean Walker, she calls for backup when he leaves the motel room.

In the meantime, the aliens or human xenophobic persons working the kidnapping once again resort to murder when a police officer is killed during a routine traffic stop. We then see that it is the same woman, Vicky Roberts (Taylor Cole) from the cruise ship. And guess who is in the back of the van? Yep, its Sean’s girlfriend Leila Buchanan!

Meanwhile our hero, Sean, has been thinking several steps ahead and observes his plan working. He secrets himself in the trunk of Agent Collier’s car to gain access to the computer room at her headquarters after also having stolen her netbook computer which she states will only work when logging in plugged directly into the network at her headquarters. This was a weak technical detail that caused me to keep my grade from straight “A” status through episode three. Today’s computer encryption technology allows a secure login from anywhere in the world. Perhaps I am being harsh with 30 years of computer experience?

Anyway, so far so good for Sean. However in the story he does not think far enough ahead and is captured. But not until he has attached the computer to the network, uses face recognition technology and uncovers the truth about Vicky Roberts. Agent Collier is there to see that there are literally no less than seven fake identity driver’s licenses! Based on the reality today of identity theft and bogus ID cards, this scene is more than believable, artfully depicted by the director in several cinematic sequences. It is obvious Agent Collier now begins to truly believe what Sean has been saying since the beginning.

Oh and I left out a ‘minor’ detail. The President calmly informed Sophia that of the 97 detainees, one would surely be willing to make a deal for their freedom if she was not willing to cooperate. Sure enough we return to this in episode three when alien “William” played by Omid Abtahi apparently turns on his race and his leader Sophia so long as his alien girlfriend’s freedom from the Inostranka detention facility is part of the deal. Much like any group in real life being detained, there is always someone willing to cut a deal to save themselves at the expense of others.

We will leave that fact of life where it is and return to a quickening paces of action in The Event. Our erstwhile hero Sean Walker and the lovely Agent Collier, who by now has figured out that some rather odd “black ops” are part of the equations is surprised when two “agents” from Washington D.C. show up unexpectedly at her field office to take custody of Sean. Sean sees the goings on through the blinds in Agent Collins office. A very effective cinematic sequence by the director placing the viewer in the perspective of the intended victim is utilized.

We flash to the poor kidnapped Leila Buchanan now being held in a shipping container bound for lord knows where. She briefly attacks Vicky Roberts and informs her that Sean will never stop looking for her.

Back to Sean and a shootout at the field office ensues when they are suspected of not being who they claim. What series of any type would be complete without a little gun play? The agents are of course fakes designed to eliminate Sean from the situation. The fight sequence is well staged and believable. One bad guy is killed and our hero Sean whacks the other. Agent Collins and Sean Walker escape in the bad guy’s vehicle to fight another day!

As we reach the conclusion of the third episode, turncoat alien William is killed by his Alien girlfriend “Maya” whom is delivered to him as “part of the deal” he made to turn on his own kind and leader Sophia. Reflective of most underground organizations, unfortunately for William, the girlfriend remains loyal to the alien cause and count of the aliens under government control in The Event is now reduced to 96 when William crumples after being stabbed to death by his lover. We know then that they are not immortal as William pays the ultimate price for his treachery.

We end this review where I started the analysis of episode three, the makeshift temporary morgue in a military hanger of unknown location. One by one the so-called dead passengers wake up from the dead in a display of alien prowess. The is the question that will be answered in episode four of The Event according to the trailers I have seen.

The Event returns this Monday evening October 10, 2010 on NBC at 9 PM (east / west) in the United States. Good news for the series is that “The Event” has also been announced for premiere in the United Kingdom. We suggest that you tune in to another epic science fiction series unfolding before our very eyes! Your support during the first eight episodes will affect ratings and whether or not we will be treated to more of The Event!

As The Event on NBC is preparing for its fourth episode, half of the episodes produced to date, the series garnered a recent 6.8 viewing rating from the trusted ratings firm Nielson’s. Quite respectable for a new series against stiff Monday evening competition. Nielson’s also provides ratings with time shifted DVR viewing as well as “live” viewing that more accurately reflects how well a program is doing and whether or not a series will survive. The audience for The Event may be considered niche by some in prime time standards, however science fiction series such as Star Trek and Stargate were also considered niche and are now entering their fifth and seconds decades respectively.

I for one am hopeful that NBC will order the back end of “The Event” season one in order to produce a full season of episodes. Why? Because the series (over the first three episodes), has struck a chord about the fascinating subject of whether we are alone in the universe and whether or not visitors have been here on planet Earth now or in the past.

Lastly, the fact that a major American network studio have ventured into the realm of science fiction for new prime time weekly episodic series is welcomed by not only many fans of this genre of entertainment, but by WormholeRiders around the world as well. Therefore we reiterate, tune in again Monday October 10, 2010 at 9 PM local to watch The Event live!

With that said, each episode also stands alone segueing the single effect to a purpose which is simple. The second and third episode effectively establishes the foundations of the story arc being depicted for the viewing audience. In subsequent weeks, now that the foundations have been established, we will resume weekly analysis of “The Event”. Courtesy of NBC we include the promotional trailer for “A Matter of Life and Death”

As always I thank you for reading and for visiting WormholeRiders News Agency. Please feel free to leave a spam free comment or question here. Or as so many of our visitors prefer, visit Team WHR on Twitter or Facebook with your comments or questions.

Best Regards,

Kenn

October 10, 2010
The Event Pilot – Review and Theory Analysis: Wormhole to Where and Why?

Hey Science Fiction Thriller and NBC fans!

WARNING: This is a detailed analysis review of The Event with focus on the quality of the program. This review contains what should be considered spoilers. If you have not seen the pilot episode yourself should STOP reading now until you have seen the pilot episode! Of interest is that SyFy will be airing the pilot today at 8 PM Eastern and Pacific if you would like to see the pilot before reading.

This is not a recap of the pilot. You can find plenty of those types of reviews about The Event on-line. Here you be exposed to what makes up the series fantastic foundation with analysis about the quality of the content and the theory of what is happening in the initial arc of the story. You have been advised. Thank you.

The Event is a new series which continues today, Monday September 27, 2010 at 9 PM Eastern and Pacific on NBC immediately following Chuck! The series pilot was something wonderful in the opinion of this reviewer. As we had been tipped off, WormholeRiders News Agency enjoyed the pilot episode for several reasons.

First because (for goodness sakes) there appears to have been a Wormhole displayed in the pilot episode! Second the series is a science fiction based thriller of high quality. Last but not least because the series contains top notch talent as you can see by the actor and actress names at the top of this news review and report. One of my personal favorites is the likes of Blair Underwood as President Martinez! The Event includes many venerable guest stars including the multi-talented acting legend Hal Holbrook!

WHR expected quite a bit of excitement and special effects. We expected action. We expected solid characters. I can share with you that we were not disappointed. I personally am looking forward to the second episode, really a continuation of the pilot this evening! WormholeRiders News Agency is also excited in seeing veteran actor Hal Holbrook in future episodes as well! All of these ingredients bode well during for the pilot run of The Event.This includes the shocking events which open the series!

So what the heck is going on in The Event? First off is a very real life like fact: The President of the United States has been kept out of the loop on a secret CIA project where detainees of some sort are being held in a secret base in Alaska! Sounds a lot like real life to me. Good Ole’ “Plausible Denial” always goes a long way to make this mirror what we witness in the news every day. We begin the series as we observe above with a devastating series of “events” with people in sheer panic.

The pilot then uses a time honored practice of flashbacks to the roots of The Event jumping back first a number of minutes, then hours and ultimately days into the past to determine how the main series characters of the ensemble cast will be brought together as the series story arc unfolds.

A couple of people commented to me on Twitter that they did not like the flashback technique. I respect their opinion, however I very much appreciate this technique for what it represents, a method to leave vast areas of the story arc open to exploration in the pilot itself, and in future episodes to round out the single effect of the work. It is this single effect that builds the actual foundation of the thriller aspect of The Event that I and based upon the ratings many found to be quite effective. During the course of the pilot we learn part of the back story of the characters using the flashback effect, where they came from, who they know and why they ended up where they were in the conclusion of the episode.

Most interesting to me was the secret detention facility or prison based in Mount Inostranka Alaska, a place which could exist in the real world today. Could this be the replacement for something like Guantanamo Bay Cuba? We all know in our hearts that such places exist. However just like real life we do not really find out who or what is there except that the facility has been in operation for an extended period of time. We observe a flashback some thirteen months into the past with a prisoner being escorted to the facility.

During this sequence we learn from the flashback some 13 months earlier that the prisoner being locked up at the Mount Inostranka facility because he knows what The Event actually is! The powers that be in the CIA are fearful this person (and likely all the others imprisoned there) will reveal what they know to the general public causing mass panic.

In the middle of the pilot we observe the lives of the characters who are innocent of any wrong doing. We take a liking to these persons. The story arc develop touching moments such as the scenes with Sarah Roemer on the beach talking with her father character Michael Buchanan played by Scott Patterson whom later will become obsessed with something that occurs leading up to a disaster that is The Event!

What is the secret? Why are Wormholes suspected by WHR? Well its simple! The theory that holds the most water is that “The Event” (or actually more than once) have perhaps somehow changed history and not for the better by a sinister force. If not actually changing history, the actions perpetrated by this sinister force are observed murdering an innocent to protect the secret that threatens the future of human kind itself!

How do we know from watching the pilot about a wormhole like effect and why are people so upset in The Event? Because one of the series protagonists Sean B. Walker played by Sean Ritter is observed aboard a cruise ship on a planned vacation. While trying to enter his room his card key for the suite no longer works! To make matters worse his girlfriend has disappeared and his suite on board the cruise ship now contains another couple!

What we learn as The Event pilot continues is that the President demands to visit the detention facility at Mount Inostranka in Alaska first hand. He demands to find out has been kept from him as Commander in Chief since he was elected to the office and meets an old ally in the process character Sophia Maguire portrayed by Laura Inness pictured below. She is one of the aliens and is to be part of press announcement about their presence on Earth!

In nearing the conclusion is something many including I suspected in the beginning. Michael Buchanan, father of the missing Leila Buchanan played by Sarah Roemer intends to use the jet airliner he is captain of as a weapon of mass destruction designed to assassinate the President of the United States and or someone in his party in an act of revenge for their complicity of his daughter apparently either being erased from the time-line or kidnapped! But is that really so (that the time-line has been changed?). He is obviously being coerced after his wife was murdered and daughter kidnapped even though a jet fighter is about to shoot him down!

Something not quite revealed is why the airliner vanishes in what appears to be a wormhole, where was it sent and why? Of course not even The President knows so how could we expect such information in the pilot! Ultimately why in the dickens would we tune in for the next seven scheduled episodes!

In closing our first analysis, The Event series has all the makings of a winner. My grade for the pilot is an A- for what was accomplished in the first hour. The question is will it be accepted as such by the viewing public. With the success of episodic series such as Fringe, Stargate and Eureka where alternative realities have proved quite efficacious, NBC has taken a bold step with a major science fiction thriller like The Event. Some indicated they would have preferred to see a two hour series opener, however placing The Event behind Chuck is a wise move to hold the audience against Dancing With The Stars on ABC, which is stiff competition in Monday entertainment.

As always, thank you for visiting WormholeRiders News Agency.

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Best Regards,

Kenn

September 27, 2010
The Event – Extended Sneak Peaks Herald Arrival of New NBC Series Covered by WormholeRiders!

Hey Thriller NBC with a hint of Science Fiction (hopefully) fans!

The Event is a new series premiering today, Monday September 20, 2010 on NBC! The series has been described as something of a new flavor of LOST with a 24’ish tilt and is expected to contain quite a bit of excitement and special effects. While no show could replace LOST, I personally am looking forward to the pilot this evening! WormholeRiders News Agency is also excited in seeing Blair Underwood again as a series regular in The Event with guest starring appearances by veteran actor Hal Holbrook as well! These developments bode well during for the pilot run of The Event.

As described by NBC Universal, Quote: “The Event” is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker (Jason Ritter, “The Class”), an Everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée, Leila (Sarah Roemer, “Disturbia”), and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.

Sean’s quest will send ripples through the lives of an eclectic band of strangers, including newly elected U.S. President Elias Martinez (Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, “In Treatment”); Sophia Maguire (Emmy Award nominee Laura Innes, “ER”), who is the leader of a mysterious group of detainees; and Leila’s shadowy father (Scott Patterson, “Gilmore Girls”). Their futures are on a collision course in a global conspiracy that could ultimately change the fate of mankind.

Ian Anthony Dale (“Daybreak”), Clifton Collins, Jr., Taylor Cole (“The Violent Kind”), Lisa Vidal (“The Division”), Bill Smitrovich (“The Practice”) and Emmy winner Željko Ivanek (“Damages”) also star in the ensemble drama.

“The Event” is a production of Universal Media Studios and Steve Stark Productions. Evan Katz (“24”) serves as executive producer/showrunner; Stark (“Medium,” “Facing Kate”) serves as executive producer; Jeffrey Reiner (“Friday Night Lights,” “Trauma”) is the director/executive producer; and Nick Wauters (“The 4400,” “Eureka”) is creator/co-executive producer.

We thank NBC Universal for the extended sneak peaks and are very much looking forward to the series pilot tonight at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific. Check your local listings for exact air times. As always thank you for visiting WormholeRiders News Agency and we look forward to seeing you on The Other Side of the Wormhole after the series pilot of The Event airs tonight. Please feel free to leave a non spam comment here of by visiting the WHR team or me on twitter by clicking the text links or avatars. Thank you! Best Regards, Kenn

September 20, 2010

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