“A New World” is episode eleven of season one of Extant.
In the previous episode, “A Pack of Cards”, John sent Ethan to find Julie, but Ethan found Odin instead who said he’d take Ethan to Julie. John is tracking Ethan with his phone. He also heads to get a drink of tea, but a guard tells him one will be sent up. It’s no trouble. And no choice. Yasumoto watches, then checks his skin in the mirror. Then how long he has left. 8 days.
Sparks shot Kryger in the previous episode and Kern tells Molly they have to leave. She checks the unconscious Mason first, explaining to Kern who mason is and that Yasumoto is behind everything. Molly calls Yasumoto and tells him to call his men off; don’t send them after Sparks. Yasumoto says he can’t. Molly tells him they will die, just like at Claypool. Yasumoto says he can’t wait any longer and hangs up. Molly wants to get to the Offspring before Yasumoto’s men do, but they are surrounded by gunmen before they can leave.
Yasumoto’s men are tracking Sparks, with a sniper in place. Sparks feels bad about shooting Kryger, when they arrive at a roadblock. Molly can hear this over the other men’s’ comms, and tells the soldiers surrounding her and Kern that the Offspring will think they are going to hurt him. And the sniper opens fire at the other soldiers. Molly and Kern can hear this and Molly says the Offspring will come for them next. She’s his mother. They bolt. At the checkpoint, only two men are left. Both are killed.
Molly asks Kern how he got there. He tracked Anya. When they got to the cabins, Molly looked like she was in a trance. Molly explains what she saw, and the accident in which she lost Marcus and her baby – Kern knows about that – but this time she didn’t lose the baby. She had to save him and could. Kern says the Offspring is getting stronger. They arrive at the roadblock too, and Molly calls Yasumoto and tells him all he got all his men killed. Yasumoto sent them for her, and the Offspring’s, protection. Molly doesn’t want to help any more. Yasumoto says she has no choice but to bring him the baby. She wants to see her family again, doesn’t she? Take that any way she wants.
Yasumoto is with another man and opens a safe. There’s one vial of something left inside. Apparently, Yasumoto’s aging is accelerating and the other says that the last dose, which Yasumoto wants preparing, will only sustain him for a matter of weeks. John is on the room; he says he shut Ethan down. However, he also recorded the entire conversation and translates it from Japanese into English.
Molly tells Kern that the baby doesn’t want anything to do with Yasumoto. Kern suggests going to the ISEA. Molly doesn’t trust them, but Kern tells her there’s one person he knows is clean. Ryan Jackson, the acting director. Sparks kept a tight circle of people in the know, and Jackson wasn’t in it. They need the baby as proof, then Jackson can expose Yasumoto.
They spot Sparks’ car outside a diner and enter. The owner is unconscious. Kern calls for an ambulance and Molly hears a noise and finds a girl. The girl explains that Anya came in and wanted the other’s car, and the other turned her stun gun on herself.
John gets into Yasumoto’s safe as Yasumoto is being told Ethan is missing. Yasumoto confronts John. Ethan is home with Odin, who tells him that John was thinking of shutting Ethan down because he’s learning too fast. Odin can’t be trusted, though.
Kern asks Molly what she thinks the Offspring is after. She thinks he wants his mother, that he’s alone and scared. Kern hopes she’s right. He’s not so sure. He’s right not to be sure; Molly doesn’t seem to remember giving the Offspring her ISEA passwords, which were then used to move the Seraphim. The Offspring is not acting like someone alone, scared and wanting their mother. It’s acting like something with a plan. Yasumoto ends up revealing some things about what’s really going on.