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As the ten-episode season starts we’ve jumped seven months. A lot seems to have happened in that time. As a mole betrays top-level secrets Hal begins having bizarre dreams. Ben decides to pass on surgery to remove his implants if it means losing his strength, needing glasses again and asthma meds. Matt is suddenly a gangly rebellious teenager. Tom has returned with a new alien and the handsome Robert Sean Leonard is unrecognizable as the reclusive mad scientist Kadar. Tom and Ann Glass have a baby girl Lexie who shows preternaturally precocious tendencies only to her mother. The action this season centres around Charleston. Episode 7 provides a flashback that shows life in professor Tom Mason’s household pre-invasion and a chance to see the cast in unique roles. Cut through all the sci-fi, the action-adventure and it is still the family relationships that hold this series together.