Salvation Recap 8/2/17: Season 1 Episode 4 “The Human Strain”

Salvation Recap 8/2/17: Season 1 Episode 4 "The Human Strain"

Tonight on CBS their new drama Salvation airs with an all new Wednesday, August 2, 2017, episode and we have your Salvation recap below!  On tonight’s Salvation season 1 episode 4 called “The Human Strain” as per the CBS synopsis, “Darius must reveal one of his most closely guarded secrets to prove to Harris and Grace that he’s not a traitor. Meanwhile, Liam helps Jillian adjust to her new job at Tanz.”

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Darius never gave up on his evacuation plans. He was still building the ark and he was still looking for two hundred of the most “worthy” to help him rebuild the human race. However, it wasn’t clear if he hacked NASA and destroyed Earth’s last chance at survival just to achieve his goal. Darius disappeared not long after NASA failed to blow up the asteroid and he wasn’t returning any of Grace’s phone calls. So Grace eventual showed Harris the text she received from Darius. Darius had said that “its not over and that he still had one more move”. And so everyone was left wondering if that move had been treason!

It was treason, after all, to work against one’s own country much less what’s in the best interest of billions. But neither Grace nor Harris truly knew if Darius was a traitor or if he was talking about something else. Darius as it turns out, had gone to New York to go shopping and had bought several pieces of high-priced art. So that doesn’t sound like a man that just hacked into NASA yet Harris didn’t have any time to waste and so she signed all the necessary orders. He sent people to search Tanz Industries and he picked up Darius at the airport without bothering to read the other man’s rights in this scenario.

Which meant that Darius was going to be taken to an offsite and forced to yield to interrogation. Yet, Harris for his part had tried to keep things from going to directly to torture and had instead tried to level with Darius. He asked him what the text meant and if hacking NASA like he allegedly hacked many of his competitors was part of a grudge, but Darius denied everything. He said that he didn’t hack the building and that he wanted to talk to Grace. So Harris was going to deny the request until his people came back with their findings and changed his mind.

Harris’s team had found evidence that the hack came from Darius Industries and so they believed that proved Darius to be guilty. But as they would need more than a day to free up their systems, they couldn’t wait around on the chance that Darius would undo what he did voluntarily. So Grace was sent in and she did her best to reason with him. She said that the government has proof and that there was no way to deny his crime though Darius it seems still had something to say. He said if the hack came from his company that it must mean he has a mole and that no one was safe unless she investigates who the mole is.

Though only Grace even consider investigating the mole theory. Harris and the others wanted to torture Harris until he gave them what they wanted and so only Grace went to Tanz Industries. She had been warned by Darius to find Liam and therefore that was the first thing she did however she ran into Darius’s friend Lazlo Simms that wanted to know how she got access to certain parts of the building. He said that the A.I. that greeted her would have only have opened the doors for Darius and no one else. So Grace downplayed what happened as a malfunction and looked for answers later.

Grace looked through her belongings because she remembered seeing blood on the floor and so she found a chip that Darius must have placed on her without her knowledge. However, she took the chip to Liam and Liam said that it was technology that the super wealthy used to monitor the movements. So they found out where Darius was. He was in an offsite building where he kept the ark. The ark was being stacked packed with things like the Gutenberg bible as well other valuables pieces of art and history. And the building proved to be Darius’s alibi because he didn’t have access to any sort of computer or tech that could connect to the outside world with him.

So the one reason Darius chose to stay silent was because of the uranium. The uranium that Grace stole and that was being used to build the ark. But knowing that Grace was innocent had helped her talk to Harris and she convinced Harris to let Darius go. Darius was the only person that knew where someone could use a computer that wasn’t connected in the Tanz building to hack NASA. So Darius was free and he figured out where the hidden computer was. He told Liam to check behind the arcade games and that’s where Liam found it. The minicomputer that was sending out a signal and destroying everything! And so Liam turned the computer off.

He turned it off and NASA’s probe came back online. Yet, it was too late because the probe had drifted too close to Jupiter and had got swept in by the planet’s gravity. So NASA failed at destroying the asteroid and now the only options left were the original A&B. Plan A was to get the EMDrive up and running so Liam went back to working on that and had learned something along the way. He realized that they needed a sterner substance to maintain the drive so he talked to his girlfriend and she had given him the idea to use the crystals that had been found in space. And as Liam was working on EMDrive while everyone else needed someone to blame for the probe.

Grace suspected Lazlo had been behind the hack even if Darius didn’t. So she and Harris went to go arrest Lazlo except they later found Lazlo dead. He had been found with a gun wound to the head and it had looked like a suicide. Though Darius knew better. He knew Lazlo would never betray him so he suspected that Lazlo was murdered and had continued working on Plan B – the ark that named “Salvation”.

Darius was mourning his friend. However, he no longer trusted the people around him and so he was moving the base of his operations. Darius had the Professor and Liam take the EM Drive in an unmarked car when no one was looking and he was transferring all three to safety on an offsite. So Darius had promised Liam that he would look after Jillian as he searched for the mole and he had tried to do so by putting in place several protocols that would have made it even hard for him to break in, but the one thing that Darius wasn’t counting on was Grace or the government intruding when he wasn’t ready for them.

Darius had wanted to keep the fact that the EM Drive worked a secret until he figure out who the mole was. But Grace’s reappearance had changed everything and so he wanted to know what the government had to say that was so important. And it turns out they were taking away his funding. The government feels like they wasted a billion dollars on his project just to have it failed. So they wanted their money or at least what’s left of it back and Grace was unfortunately the errand boy on this one because many feel like that Grace was the one that talked them into listening to Darius in the first place.

Yet, there was a condition in it for Grace. She was told to get that money back or that she would be removed from the task force. So Grace really needed Darius to comply and he was set on being argumentative than he was on helping. He said that it was just like the government to pull the rug out right when he needed them. Darius told Grace that the EMDrive was working and that they would need funding to build a bigger version of their current model though Grace said that she would need proof before she could believe him about the EMDrive.

Grace explained that he lied to her one too many times for her to believe him without any sort of proof and so she wasn’t going to vouch for him if he was lying again. Though Darius had said that he was telling the truth and that he would take her to the offsite, but he lied. He instead took a detour to Lalzo’s house to check on Lazlo’s computer. He said that they needed to know what Lazlo was looking into on the night he was murdered and that it would lead them to mole. So Grace did get a little upset with him and she only calmed down because they did find something.

Lazlo had found footage of someone breaking into the arcade game and so Darius knew how he could use the blurred image to find the mole. He sent it to his assistant to have it run by TESS his AI and as they were waiting for results they met Lazlo’s sister Theresa. Theresa hadn’t heard from her brother in a while so she came by to check on him and Darius thought the least he could do was tell her the truth. He told her that Lazlo was gone and did his best to comfort his first love that went by the nickname Tess.

Tess, Lazlo, and Darius all grew up together and they used to use a Treehouse as their special spot. Sort of like how Darius built an overgrown treehouse to live it and keep his personal information. However, after they said goodbye to Tess, the results came in and the mole was revealed to be Professor Croft. Croft was working with Russian Intelligence and he had told them that they were moving the EMDrive so he got them to steal it and kidnap Liam. So Liam quickly realized that his professor had betrayed him.

Liam realized it after he the professor broke his glasses during the transfer and said he couldn’t get a new pair because his glasses were one of a kind. Yet, Liam remembered seeing the glasses left behind after the professor’s home was trashed. So it made no sense for someone on the run to go back to his house for his glasses, but a mole staging a scene made everything fit and so Liam tried to escape without the professor. Except he was caught! The professor hadn’t wanted to leave Liam behind or kill him. He actually wanted Liam to work with him in Russia.

The professor said that men like them have stood by while others like Darius have made billions off of other people’s work and that they could finally be recognized as geniuses if Liam followed him. But Liam was very clear when he said that he would never betray his country. He said that they didn’t know what Russia was going to do with the technology and he had a point. Russia had apparently hacked every other probe out there and now there was nothing left besides the EM Drive to stop an extinction level event.

Though Darius and Grace knowing the truth, had tried to find out where Liam was seeing as he didn’t make it to the offsite. So they went to NASA and had used the services there to find out where Liam and the EMDrive where however they were too late to save the EMDrive. The professor had already made off with it and so all they found was a heartbroken Liam and a dead professor. Liam had killed him in order to get to the EMDrive and it had been for nothing because the professor had given the Russians everything. The professor had taken all of the information and put it on a drive that he then gave the Russians.

So now Russia holds the fate of the world.

THE END!