WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Debris Season 1, Episode 6, “Supernova.”
NBC’s Debris has placed the MI6’s Finola (Riann Steele) and the CIA’s Bryan (Jonathan Tucker) in between a rock and a hard place as the former no longer trusts Bryan for holding out secrets about her dad, George, being alive. The debris expert is suddenly rolling with the terrorist cell, Influx, which the CIA wants to keep under wraps as it seems George has secrets of theirs to give away. This leads to tension while working their latest case on missing elderly persons in rural Tennessee. What makes it even scarier is it’s a warped take on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that leaves Fin really if life’s worth wasting by trying to play Bryan for her bosses back in England.
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At first, the team thinks their new case involves cult kidnapping. However, as they probe and find no evidence, they discover the missing individuals went willingly. In fact, the cult leader, Kurt, is the one planning the “abductions” with his guilt-ridden wife, Clara, using a piece of debris that’s warping her body. They’re testing its range but eventually, one of the cult members is caught. The agents interrogate the man about a missing old guy, Caspian, which they discover is actually him but younger.
It turns out, the debris de-ages people and Kurt has been recruiting a cult of sorts for experiments. Unlike David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, aging backward is not a natural defect in Debris. However, the episode follows a similar format where Kurt tries to see how far they can go before the effects of eternal youth wear off. Kurt believes the more people they recruit, the further they can go from the debris, so they can eventually form a community.
When the team catches another member, Subash, they feel sympathy as he tells them Kurt is offering a second chance to the elderly who’ve been forsaken by their family. Thus, they see Kurt as a messiah. When Fin and Co. get him on the walkie-talkie, they realize Clara’s the linchpin. She was dying when the debris fell and old Kurt found it, so to him, it’s a celestial cure.
However, as Fin confesses, it’s an unnatural process, meaning they can’t predict how long the debris will keep them young. Kurt ends the chat but rather than escape, Clara wants them to give up. She’s appreciative of all the extra time they had and convinces him to jump off a cliff with her, leaving the alien material behind.
Fin’s now able to treat the others and this existential case causes her to reveal the truth to Bryan about George. She isn’t happy that he and his boss, Maddox, lied to her, but she understands why and thinks her boss, Priya, is manipulating her too. Although, after this unusual experience, she just wants to get to her dad to see if he’s real.
Created by J.H. Wyman, Debris stars Riann Steele, Jonathan Tucker, Norbert Leo Butz and Scroobius Pip. The series airs Mondays at 10 pm EST on NBC.
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