The penultimate episode of Debris‘ first season, “A Message From Ground Control,” puts Bryan and Finola in a haunted house like situation, where secrets will be revealed and a hell of season finale gets teed up…
I Come in Peace | Agents for Orbital are locking up pieces of Debris in cases in a warehouse, but the pieces start coming to life and one shoots through the guy’s head and rejoins the engines of the alien ship in the hangar. In Virginia, Bryan (Jonathan Tucker) and Finola (Riann Steele) join George (Tyrone Benskin) at an abandoned radio station where George will use the files provided by Ferris to track a piece of Debris that can locate all other Debris pieces all over the world.
Bryan and Finola get called to Langley, where Maddox (Norbert Leo Butz) and Gordon (Thomas Cadrot) inform them that the warehouse is blacked out and a few men are missing. When they go in in HAZMAT suits, they find the men immobilized, but they come to life and start lining up the cases full of Debris, which are sucked through a portal and the Debris is missing when it comes out of the portal.
Line Up | The men inside start lining up in a still line and one of the techs watching the Debris cases gets thrown through the air when he tries to move a case and ends up falling in line with the rest of them. After a moment, one of the men suddenly drops dead and Finola thinks that the others will be next. She calls George, who’s suggests reversing the polarity of the devices that they’re using to try to diffuse the Debris, which stops the cases from being sucked in.
Finola and Bryan get a second Debris reading from below and head downstairs to find a huge chunk of Debris on the ceiling in a secret lab with schematics for Debris fueled weapons and a bomb compiled from George’s notes. She confronts Maddox about this and he doesn’t deny weaponizing the Debris, but says that George didn’t know about it.
A Familiar Face | The affected Orbital men start trying to remove the Debris diffusers, but one of them is disintegrated when he tries to do this. Bryan locks them up in a room, but then he sees Mariel from last week’s episode and he reaches out for her hand. Down below, Anson Ash (Scroobius Pip) breaks out of his cell, just as Bryan goes to Finola and tells her that after touching Mariel, he understands the Debris’ plan and that they need to let it complete whatever it’s doing. Ash electrocutes himself with defibrillators, which teleports him to some motel, where he steals a woman’s car.
Bryan convinces Finola to shut off the diffusers and bring the piece from the floor below to the portal. This creates a ball of light that transfixes Finola before it vanishes, which frees the men in the trance. George calls and says he’s found the piece of Debris they’re looking for, as Maddox gets a call from his Russian contact saying that she has what he’s looking for and Ash meets an Influx agent who says that George has found the Debris.
Debris airs Mondays at 10pm on NBC.