Pilot
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| Pilot | |
| Air Date | June 26, 2006 |
| Written by | Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber |
| Director | Gil Junger |
| Episode number | 101 |
| Next episode | "Sleepless in Seattle" |
A family welcomes a lost boy into their home and soon discovers that he possesses powerful talents they can't explain.
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[edit] Synopsis
A mysterious teenager with no belly button and no memory of his life up until that point, wakes up in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, naked and covered in a slimy pink substance.
A rattlesnake attempts to bite him, and with incredible reflexes, he catches it in mid-strike. He wanders around the forest until he hears moaning from a red tent. Kyle looks inside and sees two naked teenagers kissing and having sex. The teenagers screamed in horror as Kyle looked inside. Later, he is found wandering in traffic and is brought to a juvenile hall, where he learns how to eat and discovers the sensation of needing to use the toilet; apparently, he was previously unaware of the significance of the sensation of hunger, or of needing to use the bathroom. Although unable to speak, he is able to use crayons to create a perfect pointillist recreation of a campsite he saw in the woods.
Nicole Trager, a social worker, is called to take on Kyle's case. She removes him from the juvenile hall, names him Kyle after the brother of the facility's administrator, and brings him home to meet her family, who initially regard him with distrust. Nicole suspects that he might be autistic.
He hears a young, female neighbor playing Pachelbel's Canon on the piano and is drawn to enter her house, not recognizing the violation of social mores.
The girl's mother is mortified, but the girl, Amanda, attempts to defend him. Kyle continues to remain silent until he becomes thirsty at dinner. Having heard another prisoner use rude language to obtain a beverage at juvenile hall ("Yo, juice me!"), he precisely duplicates the words and intonation, not understanding the complexities of their context.
He also emulates behaviors at inappropriate times, as when he clasps Nicole intimately from behind after having seen her do this to her husband Stephen Trager.
Although Kyle seems to behave like an infant, he learns at a rapid pace and demonstrates vast amounts of intelligence. For example, he completes an hour-long IQ test in merely five minutes, while still achieving a perfect score on it. In addition, an MRI machine shows that Kyle uses over 80% of his brain, while normal humans use a significantly smaller portion. Although Kyle's actions throughout the episode imply that the MRI reading was accurate, the doctors quickly dismiss this as the machine being uncalibrated.
Later, Kyle follows Lori Trager to Declan McDonough's party after she sneaks out of the house, and he ends up besting a police officer after he attempts to arrest an intoxicated Lori. Kyle subsequently carries Lori home.
Kyle also finds Josh's pornographic magazine and returns it to him after Nicole hides it, and helps Stephen recover files from a laptop after seeing some computer code and comprehending it instantly. These acts endear Kyle to the Trager family. Nicole's interest in Kyle's savant abilities and her continued desire to help him lead her to ask her husband and children if Kyle can stay with them indefinitely. They silently approve by filling Kyle's glass and plate at the dinner table.
In a side plot, an unidentified man in a red truck appears several times. One morning, the truck is in front of the Trager house and pulls away as Kyle comes out of the house. Later, Nicole wants to get Kyle's file from the juvenile detention center, but it has gone missing; the viewing audience learns that the man in the truck has the file. Also, at an earlier point in the episode, Stephen is watching the news but moves away from the television and misses a report about a teenage girl who was found on a beach with no memory.
[edit] Featured Music
- "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" - McLusky
- "Born on the Cusp" - American Analog Set
- "Canon in D Major" - Johann Pachelbel
- "Hold the Line" - Pilot Speed
- "Sounds" - Earlimart
- "Flock" - DJ Harry
- "Supposed to Be" - Cary Brothers
[edit] Dramatis Personae
[edit] Starring
- Matt Dallas as Kyle
- Marguerite MacIntyre as Nicole Trager
- Bruce Thomas as Stephen Trager
- April Matson as Lori Trager
- Jean-Luc Bilodeau as Josh Trager
- Chris Olivero as Declan McDonough
- Kirsten Prout as Amanda Bloom
[edit] Guest starring
- Nicholas Lea as Mystery Man
- Chelan Simmons as Hillary
- Teryl Rothery as Carol Bloom
- Justen Ortiz as Conroy
- Rhys Williams as Skeeter
- Kevin Durand as Officer Wolner
- Dorian Harewood as Lou Daniels
- Amber Borycki as Jessica Birch
- Andrew Hedge as police officer
- Taylor Kitsch as Male camper
- Holly Dignard as Female camper
- Mi-Jung Lee as News anchor
- Chris Gauthier as Technician
- Andrew McNee as Radiologist
- Dan Joffre as Orderly
- Marcus Sim as Kid
[edit] See also
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