Wreckage started falling on NBC’s schedule on Monday night this week. You’ll stay tuned to the new science fiction drama of Fringe chief JH Wyman?
Wreckage Jonathan Tucker stars (Kingdom) and Riann Steele (The magicians) such as Bryan Beneventi and Finola Jones, agents of the CIA and MI6, respectively, who were partners in the mission to track the wreckage – tiny and very large – of a shipwreck of an alien ship sighted six months earlier by Finola’s astrophysical father.
The first episode begins at a New York hotel, where a businessman is selling not one, but two pieces of rubble found for a bearded man (Ash, played by Scroobius Pip) and his partner. When the feds take action, having learned of the deal, the three men disperse. Ash and his friend at one point apparently disappearing after turning a corner; soon after, his salesman hits the roof of a car parked in front. Meanwhile, a hotel maid is faced with one of the pieces of rubble that was to be sold, and when she touches it, she and her cart disappear on the floor … and collapse into a ballroom 14 floors below. And yet, the roof above is immaculate.
Finola compares the piece of rubble found to one in Manchester, in its composition, although its color is darker. Finola’s boss, Priya (Anjali Jay), checks in and we have our first tip that MI6 and the CIA may not have identical schedules. Likewise, Bryan calls his own colleague, Maddox (Norbert Leo Butz), who asks how the interim partnership is going.
Elsewhere, a (scary) young man is driving through a rural area with a woman he calls his mother. When the woman’s eye begins to bleed, the car stops and she appears to be lifeless. The boy opens the driver’s door, pulls it out and then watches as its lifeless form floats – several inches above the ground – across the road, toward a nearby field.
During the jet trip to this new wreckage event, we received some discernment in Bryan (a Afghan War veteran whose mission is to ensure that the good guys get any alien technology before anyone else) and Finola (who believes that the wreckage will not only cure diseases, but change the course of humanity). It is during this exchange that we also learn how Finola’s late father, through a Hubble telescope, She first found the wreckage of the alien ship, although she claims that she did not get her job because of her surname.
Bryan, Finola and their team find the “floating” woman trapped in some barbed wire and, when released, the body floats not in the direction of the wind, but towards a piece of land where several other bodies are floating / rotating in a circle . Bringing the lifeless bodies to an airport hangar for examination, they find nothing they have in common. Looking for one of the deceased’s closest relatives, Bryan and Finola find the man’s wife also dead / floating in the yard, not far from a considerable mass of rubble. Inside the couple’s house, Bryan sees that his son, Kieran, is the same boy who was seen at a gas station with the first woman floating. They interview the couple’s daughter, Isla, who is at a nearby boarding school, and she asks if they are making some kind of bad joke – because Kieran died seven months ago in a car accident!
Bryan wonders, did the wreckage “pull the boy’s body off the ground and put meat on his bones?” No, Finola says, because the boy was cremated. Putting together several clues (at first Isla was urged to run home in search of unbelievable news, but was soon told to stay away), Bryan and Finola discovered that Kieran came back, by any means, and started using his parents as “batteries” it drained quickly. He’s out there doing the same thing to strangers now.
After a close encounter with the mass of debris in the back, Finola realizes that it almost feeds on sadness, as he showed her a glimpse of her dead mother. What’s more, the other bodies in the hangar suddenly started chanting their mother’s name! Kieran, they suppose, is a manifestation of his own mother’s pain.
Meanwhile, the mysterious Ash and his friend appear near the mass of wreckage in the yard. As soon as they are spotted by Bryan’s colleague Tom, they put something in their mouths to “dematerialize” and then rematerialize away, under an overpass. Ash’s friend, unfortunately, partially materialized inside a cement pillar, so Ash shoots him out of his misery.
Upon learning of another lady who disappeared after being approached by Kieran, Finola and Bryan realize that the boy is taking these people the same way he died, always stopping at the same convenience store as the gas station. Running over there, Bryan confronts the second lady and tries to convince her that Kieran is not really his son. Finola, however, tries to speak to Kieran in the car near the gas pump. (“Kieran, you don’t belong here,” she says. “I’m wanted here,” he says.) While Finola is overwhelmed with emotion, the lady inside the convenience store begins to bleed an eye. And as soon as we see Finola touch Kieran’s hand – and thus become the last target on his swing / energy source – the older woman falls to the floor and floats. Bryan runs outside, but sees that Finola, Kieran and the car are gone.
Suspecting Kieran’s mother’s pain is fueling all of this, Bryan begs Isla to make peace with his seemingly lifeless mother in the hangar. Isla does just that, saying a lot of things that she clearly needed to say / her mother needed to hear, until suddenly Mom’s eyes opened and she gasped – just like all the other bodies / “batteries” found. At that very moment, standing close to the field before, Finola herself breathlessly leaves her state of escape, and Kieran is gone.
Back on board the jet, Bryan learns from Maddox that Ash’s ill-fated friend was an English citizen and former SAS – and that he and Ash arrived from Heathrow not long ago with a third person: George Jones, as in Finola’s dead father, who is traveling under a pseudonym. Maddox makes it clear that MI6 must no be informed of this information, to which Bryan comments: “Do you know what you are asking me to do? It’s her dad. ”After reassuring Bryan that he can handle the lie of omission, we see Maddox drive a cart to a huge hangar, where scientists in clothing for hazardous materials are carefully adding the last fragments found to what is beginning to take the shape of a alien ship hull…
What did you think of this first piece from NBC’s Wreckage?