Emergence 1.10: The Search for Piper

Emergence was back tonight with its best episode of the season - well placed, since the series only has a few more episodes left, and is in danger of not being renewed.  Which would be unfortunate.

Because tonight's episode 1.10 had all the trimmings, as Jo set out to find Piper, including

• Jo's repartee, as when she wonders why "you design an AI and you make it a gas attendant in the middle of nowhere". That would be Pennsylvania.
• Also Jo's mastery of that little thingamajig which, when placed against - I think the left arm, is that right - of someone, you can tell if that person is a person or an AI.  Jo and the FBI pass the test.
• A good ending scene in which Jo actually finds Benny and Piper, but of course they get away.

So, here's where we - or the show - stand.  There's a more widespread group of AIs afoot or at large than we thought.   We still don't know their purpose.  We do know that Piper is something special, but in what way?  As far as we know, she's the first child AI.   And she may well have some powers that the other AIs don't have.  And we still don't know who was really making the AIs, or wanted them made.

They could be aliens from another solar system or galaxy, or humans who time traveled with their superior knowledge from the future, or just very advance humans who were born in our own time like all the rest of us.  But why did they invent the AIs - or harness, encourage, whatever the people we saw in earlier episodes as the AI progenitors?

Lots of questions and not many episodes left.  I'd be very happy if this series got another season.

See also: Emergence: May Just Make It ... Emergence 1.2: Cleaning Up ... Emergence 1.3: Robots and Androids ... Emergence 1.4: Android Child ... Emergence 1.5: Supergirl ... Emergence 1.6: The People Who Are Kindred ... Emergence 1.7: Piper's Real Mom ... Emergence 1.8: Spinning ... Emergence 1.9: Benny!





The androids are coming out into the open, for the first time in centuries ....