Tonight on CBS their new drama Salvation airs with an all new Wednesday, July 12, 2017, episode and we have your Salvation recap below! On tonight’s Salvation season 1 episode 1 called “pilot” as per the CBS synopsis, “An MIT grad student discovers an asteroid is set to collide with Earth in just 186 days. He joins forces with a tech billionaire and the U.S. government to try and stop it, and they stumble onto a gigantic conspiracy. Series premiere.”
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Everyone was going about their daily lives and some were even considering what to do after college. However, one MIT Grad student had come across something he never expected to find. He had seemingly been creating a map of space that’s primary function was supposed to detailed any significant changes though the one day it decided to finally work it had picked up on a huge asteroid that was heading straight for Earth. So Liam Cole had known what that would mean and he had gone to his professor just to double-check his findings.
Though the professor hadn’t been too sure about what Liam had found. He had thought that it could be another dud and had asked for time to look things over that night yet whatever the professor found must have been conclusive because he didn’t show up to school the next day and his house had been found trashed. So Liam had tried to call it and get the police to take his concerns seriously except the operator thought he was drugs and he hadn’t the time to argue with her. Some goons in a back SUV had started chasing him and there was only on place eh thought he could hide.
Liam had remembered that the famous tech genius Darius Tanz was in town and that he was staying a hotel near the campus. So Liam knew that if he could just get close enough to Darius that the goons would stop chasing him and he could possibly talk Darius into hearing him out. Yet, throwing himself into Darius’s elevator had set the billionaire’s security team on him and so Liam had had to explain fast. He said that there was an asteroid heading to earth in 185 days and that it would destroy everything.
Liam had go on to describe as a planet killer and he had all his data backed up on a flash drive in case Darius didn’t believe him. But Darius did have a reason to believe the young grad student. He had recently been asked by the DOD to expedite a nuclear he was building for them and he figured out pretty quickly that they must have asked for it so soon in order to use against the asteroid. So Darius grabbed Liam and the two went to go see the Deputy of Defense who Darius knew personally and assumed wouldn’t lie to them.
So Darius’s assumption turned out to be right. He had gotten answers Harris Edwards and he hadn’t been the only one because Harris’s press secretary had also been brought into the loop as well. Grace Burrows had spent the couple of months making excuses in the press for one thing or another and so she had been surprised to find out that this entire time she had been covering up an asteroid. But what had made the surprise hurt had been the fact that she was also Harris’s girlfriend and the two were discussing a future together all the while he kept world-ending secret to himself.
Grace still worked for him however and so she hadn’t let her own panic show as Harris began telling Darius and Liam about NASA’s plans. He said that NASA had quickly realized the nukes would still cause damage if they were to fragment the asteroid and that the plan was a second option. With the first option being a satellite that would change the gravitational pull and force the asteroid on a course away from earth. So Harris had assured the group that they had everything well in hand and that there was no need to share of this with the public.
Harris had explained that it would only cause mass panic and that they were going to solve the problem anyways. However, neither Darius nor Liam truly believed a word Harris said. So Darius decided to come up with a plan. He had thrown a party and had invited everyone in the area including both Harris and Grace. And he had done all of that in order to get a chance to pitch an idea to Grace.
Grace had a high-level clearance and access to both information as well as resources he might need. So Darius had wanted Grace to spy for him. He told her that the government’s plan was going to work and that Harris wouldn’t tell her about it even if she was his girlfriend because he was bureaucrat before anything else. Though while Grace had been surprised that Darius had learned the truth about her and Harris, she had also wanted to know if he had a plan of his own and he did. Darius has been working on building an ark for years.
The ark was a ship that was designed to take 160 souls as well as both animal and plant life to Mars where the hope was that they would eventually colonize the plan. Darius had said that he had done the calculations and that 160 people were all he needed to rebuild the human race, but he said with more resources he could possible increase that number to thousands rather than hundreds. Yet, Grace and Liam hadn’t felt comfortable with merely saving hundreds. They had wanted Darius to come up with a plan that would everyone.
But Darius told them that he didn’t have a plan for that and so the others couldn’t stand to sign up. Both Grace and Liam had told Darius that they wouldn’t help him with his plan and then the two had walked off. So Darius was going to go ahead with his plan on his own except Liam and Grace realized that they couldn’t just give up. Liam had felt bad about walking away without thinking about the better good and so he had gone back to work with Darius however Grace later had realized that Darius was right about NASA’s plan.
She had been told by Harris that the practice run was a success though she had also been wise enough to check it out for herself and had found out that the rocket had instead crashed. So she remembered her daughter that had recently graduated and she decided that she wanted to fight for Zoe and everyone’s else futures. However, she didn’t want to follow through with Darius plan. She had gone back to his office and had told him that rather than flee that maybe he should come up with the tech that would stop the asteroid.
So the three had come together to work on saving earth and they knew that certain things would have to be sacrificed…
THE END!
