The fourth season of Syfy’s Resident Alien picked up from where the previous season ended. In the season 3 finale, Harry Vanderspeigle and his friend, Asta Twelvetrees, portaled themselves to the Greys’ space station on the moon with the objective of saving their friend, D’Arcy Bloom, and blow up the Greys’ stronghold with the bomb D’Arcy had stolen from Harry. However, when the duo found D’Arcy, she told them the Greys had taken the bomb and hidden it somewhere on the station, so they had no option but to escape. This was when Robert came to their aid and told them the alarm had disengaged the portals up there and they’d need to steal a spaceship to return to Earth. In the midst of such chaos, the shapeshifting Mantid tricked Harry and locked him in his cell and took his form to travel to Earth with D’Arcy, Asta, and also Kate’s baby aboard. Oh, sorry, I forgot about the baby. While D’Arcy was running away from the Greys, she came across Kate, who had been abducted by the aliens. The grieving mother sought D’Arcy’s help to find her baby that the Greys had taken away from her, and finally at the end of season 3, they were able to locate Kate’s child, but the aliens attacked them, so D’Arcy picked up the baby and left, while Kate was taken hostage by the Greys. In season 3’s ending, D’Arcy, Asta, and Mantid Harry reached Earth and continued their mundane lives, believing they were safe, unaware of the fact that a Mantid was hiding in Patience.
Harry Is No Longer An Alien
The beginning of the fourth season explained how Mantid tricked Harry into opening his cell, where he locked Harry in with his son, Bridget, before leaving for Earth in his place. Now Harry, locked in the Greys’ prison cell for almost a month, has been devising a plan to escape with the help of Robert and Bridget. They finally come across a fanboy Grey named Bruce, who loved hearing stories about Earth and wished to visit the planet once. So, Robert and Harry promised Bruce to take him to Earth if he let them go, and that’s what he did. Harry and Bridget finally arrived on Earth to confront the Mantid and stop him from killing his friends, only to find out that Harry had lost all his powers and was no longer an alien, which sets the stage for the main conflict for the fourth season.
D’Arcy Steals Kate’s Baby
In the ending of Resident Alien season 3, D’Arcy arrived at Kate and Ben’s house with the intention of returning their newborn. However, standing on the doorstep, she had a sudden change of heart and left the property with the baby. D’Arcy later explained to Asta that if she had returned the baby to Kate, the Greys would have just abducted it again, and because of the implanted chip in her neck, Kate wouldn’t have even remembered. So, in order to protect the baby from the aliens, D’Arcy decided to look after the baby Daisy herself. But Asta thought it was too dangerous to keep Daisy at their place, and therefore handed her over to her cousin, Kayla, without revealing the truth. Well, she found out anyway, and at the end of season 3, Asta had no other option but to tell Kayla about the aliens living among them. As of now, Kayla has promised to keep it a secret and look after the baby until Asta, Harry, and D’Arcy sort out the mess.
Sheriff Mike Believes in Aliens Now
At the end of season 3, Sheriff Mike Thompson had located the corpses of the Greys who had been following the spaceship on which D’Arcy, Kate, and Mantid had escaped. It seemed like their two spaceships crashed down onto Earth, killing all the Greys inside, except for the one who managed to hide in the nearby warehouse. When Mike arrived at the crash site, he found a Grey inside the warehouse. Given he had seen such extraterrestrial beings for the first time in his life, Mike was quite taken aback. He stuffed the alien inside a bag, put him in his trunk, and brought it back to town for further examination. However, by the time he opened his trunk, the alien had disappeared. At the beginning of season 4, Mike believed that he had been imagining things after coming in contact with a radiation leak, but his deputy, Liv Baker, and Peter Bach, the cyborg man, convinced him otherwise. After a conversation, when Mike went back to check the bag, he found some sticky substance inside, which made him realize that he hadn’t been hallucinating and the alien was real. It just melted into the bag, which was why he couldn’t find it.
Liv further told Mike that their former deputy, Joseph Rainier, was an alien too. I mean, not exactly. Joseph was a hybrid Grey alien, meaning he was half-human and half-alien, and he’d been deployed to Earth to carry out the Greys’ sinister plan to take over the planet on their behalf because they themselves cannot survive on the surface. I’ll talk about Joseph later. Coming back to Mike, he has started believing that the aliens are real, and suspects that it’s Joseph who has been chopping off human heads and leaving behind dead bodies all over town. So, both Liv and Mike began their search for Joseph when they finally came across the Mantid, who was actually responsible for the mysterious deaths in the town.
Bruce Is Dead
At first, Harry believed that the Greys had implanted an inhibitor in his body, because of which he wasn’t able to transform into his alien form and use his powers, which was why he decided to locate Bruce, the Grey, as he would be able to help him disable the device. However, when Harry and Asta found Bruce in Vegas, he was already on his last legs, as the Greys couldn’t survive in the Earth’s environment. Bruce told Harry that they hadn’t blocked his powers. Instead, they had taken them away. While he was on the moon station, they had separated his atomic alien particles, leaving the rest, which meant that Harry was no longer an alien and had been turned into a full-blooded human. While taking his last breath, Bruce told Harry that the only way to get back his alien energy was to trade something equivalent in exchange. The Greys wanted a technology that Harry’s species had left on Earth some 52 years ago, in 1970. The Greys had always been jealous of the capabilities of Harry’s people, and therefore wanted to destroy their home planet completely. At the end of episode 3, Harry dissolved whatever was left of Bruce into the water so the good alien could find some peace.
General Eleanor Travels in Time
In the Resident Alien season 3 finale, Harry revealed Joseph’s real identity to the Air Force general, Eleanor McCallister, and told her that the Greys had a portal device through which they could travel from place to place and jump timelines. This was the exact moment when Eleanor came up with the plan to travel back in time so she could prevent her father, Howard Wright, from taking his own life. In 1970, Harry’s people arrived on Earth in their spaceship, and Eleanor’s father, who likely worked at the lighthouse, spotted the UFO and took numerous pictures to tell the world about the aliens, but no one ever bought his claims. Back when Eleanor was a young girl, she saw the UFOs dropping some sort of device on the beach, but never told anyone about it. After her father killed himself, she blamed the aliens for showing up on that fateful night and destroying her whole life, which was why she made it her life’s mission to hunt down the aliens and rid Earth of all the monsters. So, long story short, Eleanor captured Joseph by the end of season 3 and traded his freedom for the portal device, which she later used to travel in time so she could give the alien device to the FBI agents in order to convince the world that her father was telling the truth. This was the same device that Harry wanted to trade with the Greys to get his powers back.
Harry and D’Arcy, too, used a portal to arrive in 1970, a day after the UFO sightings on the beach, looking for the alien device, but to their misfortune, Eleanor had already gotten her hands on it. She had been living in this timeline for 2 years now, and had been eagerly waiting for this day. On the beach, Harry begged Eleanor to hand over his people’s technology to him, but Eleanor plainly refused and left. They tried to follow her to steal the device from her, but she was always one step ahead. But unfortunately, by the time the adult Eleanor showed the alien device to Howard Wright, the man had already started to believe that he had lost his mind, and that what he saw wasn’t a UFO but an air balloon. Eleanor tried her best to convince him otherwise, but it was of no use. In the end, she gave back the device to Harry, but D’Arcy didn’t want Eleanor to give up easily. She told Eleanor that her father wouldn’t listen to her because she wasn’t his daughter, but he would really listen to his “real” daughter in this timeline, and that was when future Eleanor approached her younger self and convinced her to tell her father she saw the UFO too, thereby stopping her younger self from committing the same mistake she did. Eleanor decided to spend some time with the family while Harry and D’Arcy returned to their original timeline.
Harry Learns a Much-Needed Lesson
While traveling back home, Harry told D’Arcy that he was going to trade his people’s technology to get his alien energy back. Until now, D’Arcy wasn’t aware that the Greys would use the alien tech to annihilate Harry’s whole race, which was why she told Harry that he would end up all alone if he was going to destroy his whole planet for his selfish interest. Harry tried to defend himself by saying that he was doing it to save Earth from the Mantid, but it was obvious that he badly wanted his energy back, as he didn’t want to feel vulnerable and helpless. Well, by the end of episode 3, it seemed like Harry did understand what D’Arcy was trying to say, or at least bits of it, so he won’t be handing the device to the Greys for the time being, and will put a lot of thought into it before taking such a drastic step.
Heather Kills the Mantid
In episode 3’s ending, Bridget and Max, Kate’s eldest son who can see the aliens, went into the woods to eliminate the Mantid all by themselves. But to their horror, the Mantid overpowered them and captured Max. He was about to literally chew his head off when Heather, Harry’s lover, suddenly arrived on the planet and killed the Mantid to bring an end to his evil. Later, when Harry returned to his cabin, Heather gave him a surprise visit. She even brought with her their six children, and Harry couldn’t find the right words to tell Heather that he wasn’t an alien anymore. And even though Harry didn’t need to worry about the Mantid anymore, I guess he would want to have his powers back for the sake of his lover and children, or maybe the couple together will be able to find another solution? Well, we will find out more about it in the season 4 finale.
Kate Is Getting Her Memory Back
Soon after Kate removed the chip implanted in her neck by the Greys, she started recovering fragments of her memory. In episode 3, she recalled a few events from the night she was on the moon space station, where she had met D’Arcy while trying to rescue her baby from the aliens. In episode 3’s ending, she saw D’Arcy again, sitting inside the diner. She got a vision of her walking by her side on the alien ship, which, I guess, made her believe that either D’Arcy was an alien or she knew where her baby was. I believe, in the next episode, Kate is going to confront D’Arcy, following which the latter will finally reveal Daisy’s location and give the baby back. I mean, Kate no longer has the chip on her neck, so the aliens can’t abduct her anymore, right? So maybe that would make D’Arcy believe that it is safe for the baby to go back to her biological mother. Let’s see how it all unfolds in the season 4 finale.
