- Hal comes up with a risky new plan to rescue captured teenagers from the aliens, but it might require putting someone at risk.
- Tom wants to rescue all the children from the hospital, but Weaver says that he shall retrieve only Ben. Hal plots a plan to infiltrate wearing a Rick's harness and rescuing Ben, and Weaver approves. Tom and Hal go to the location with their team and they bring Ben and five other kids back to the school.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Hal comes back from patrol with Maggie. She knew where the local dealer kept his stash. They bring back pills and heroin. Anne wants to get it ready for the harnessed kids Tom plans to bring Ben back. She wants Tom to know there are no guarantees. Tom understands his son could die, but he just wants to get him first.
The next day Tom relays news from a recon team that the second group of harnessed kids didn't come back last night. He shows Weaver his plan. Hal suggests just one person go in at night while the other skitters are sleeping. Weaver likes the plan more than confronting them.
Anne brings the captive skitter water. Dr. Harris (Steven Weber) mocks her for taking care of it.
In the chow line, a pregnant citizen named Sarah tells Maggie she's uneasy having a captive skitter nearby.
Uncle Scott shows Tom the radios that they picked up the skitter frequency on. Scott says they only work when the skitters are transmitting, so he can't use it as an early warning system.
Weaver listens to Scott transmit an old Jimmy Cliff song. It gets to him and Weaver goes and grabs the record.
Tom and Hal work on skitter target practice with crossbows. Maggie offers a few pointers. She's also familiar with the hospital where Ben is being kept and suggests a new access door.
Scott pulls Anne aside to talk about something.
The skitter makes weird noises in captivity. Harris notices a new one and goes over to investigate. He sees that it's blinking rapidly and opens the access door. He shines a light in its eyes.
Scott reminds Anne of a camping trip to the lake they went on years ago. He wants to put up something of Sam. They're interrupted by ferocious skitter noise.
They race to the room to find skitter throttling Harris through the cage. Anne shocks it and it releases Harris. But it's too late. Harris is dead.
Weaver tells someone to send word to Porter. He wants to kill the skitter, but Anne tells him she was making progress. He gives her 24 hours and says he's going to kill it.
Hal finds Rick sitting alone in the courtyard. He asks him about being with the skitters. Rick says they always stuck together, but says they were allowed to go to the bathroom alone if they had to. Rick says if they try to get Ben the skitters will kill them all.
Lourdes invites Maggie to Sara's baby shower. Maggie wants nothing to do with it and scoffs at the idea.
Tom contemplates the missing children bulletin board. He tells Anne he's confident she can remove Ben's harness herself. Tom asks if her son is on the board. Tom knows that her son is dead, but suggest she put a photo up anyway.
Tom finds Hal briefing Weaver on a new plan. He wants to strap Rick's harness to his back and walk right in. Tom thinks it's crazy. "I don't know what's crazy any more, we're fighting aliens from outer space," Weaver says.
Tom tries to convince Hal not to go. Hal isn't sure it'll work, but says it's the best plan. Weaver pops pills as they debate. Weaver leaves it up to Tom. He says that until they figure out how to kill them without making any noise it's moot.
Tom brings the problem to Anne, who tells them about the spot in the soft palette. She tells them she doesn't want Hal going on a theory. So she picks up a scalpel, opens the skitter crate door and jabs the scalpel down it's throat until it stops moving. Dead.
She removes her bloody arm and walks to the bulletin board of children. She tells Tom that he shouldn't think it was hard for her to kill it because all she had to do was think about her family.
But she tells Tom the truth is she has no photos or mementos of them. She says "all I have is this" and slams her bloody hand on the wall, leaving her mark.
Later that night, Tom, Maggie and Hal sneak up to the hospital. Hal has the harness strapped to his back. Tom asks him what the distress signal is. "I yell 'Help!' as loud as I can," Hal jokes.
Tom tells his son he has total confidence in him and reminds him he has 15 minutes. Hal runs off and the others hide as a mech walks by.
Hal creeps down an empty hallway, making the turns he memorized. He hides as a skitter leads a line of harnessed children, including Ben, down a hallway and falls in line behind them, walking trancelike. He follows them into a room.
They all like down in unison. The skitter crouches over them and pets them. He's stroking Hal's head as Hal lies there.
Outside, Tom gets impatient after 20 minutes have gone by. He wants to go check on him. They creep closer as a mech patrols outside. Maggie suggest another way in.
Inside, the skitter has gone to sleep literally standing over his harnessed kids.
Hal slowly takes out a knife.
In the hallway, Maggie and Tom creep silently.
Hal is raising his knife when Ben sees him. The skitter wakes up. Hal jabs his knife in but the skitter doesn't go quietly. Tom appears in the doorway and helps shoot it with a crossbow.
Tom announces they're taking all the kids. He gives Anthony and Dai the signal and they lift the kids out the window.
Back at the high school HQ, Anne prepares to do all the surgeries in a row. Lourdes serves as nurse since she was in med-school.
Tom helps remove the harness. They notice Ben's pulse is dropping but it picks back up when they get the harness off.
Scott reports another of the kid's pulses is getting weaker and weaker, going into withdrawal. They race to get the harness removed and the kid hooked up to IV drugs. They get it removed but the kid fades quickly. They can't revive him.
Anne doesn't know what went wrong. They saved five kids, but she's upset they lost one.
Hal examines his chewed up arm in the hallway. Maggie walks by and he thanks her. He remarks that she knew the hospital really well and knew all the drug dealers. She confesses that she had cancer when she was 16 and a doctor told her to smoke pot. She says the doctors gave her a 50/50 chance.
Tom tells Hal that Ben is still unconscious. He tells Hal he was incredibly brave and he's proud of him.
Later, at Sarah's baby shower, they've set up candles and a hung a sign. Anne hangs back for a while and joins in. The women all their wishes for the baby.
Anne listens with her stethoscope and lets Sarah listen.
Tom, Matt and Hal stand watch over Ben, reunited.
Weaver sees the happy family and then goes and puts on the Jimmy Cliff song. "Many rivers to cross, but I can't seem to find my way over...."
Anne heads back to the surgery classroom. Tom takes her hands and tells her she saved Ben. Hal calls to Tom. Ben is waking up. He recognizes his dad.
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