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Recap by Supposebly

Townsend, Wisconsin, 12.51 A.M Day 1

Flashing fire behind trees, either an explosion or, as we will learn later, (spoiler!) a downed aircraft.

A police car is driving up and Deputy Wright radios in the fire. “Suggest we dispatch fire crew. Over.”

That seems like a rather relaxed way of reporting a fire in the woods. But then, the woods in British Columbia, Pardon! Wisconsin are fairly rainy in the fall, so maybe he doesn’t expect the fire to spread very far. Still, there have been a lot of serious fires in B.C., Pardon! Wisconsin lately so you might put more urgency into your report, deputy!

The answer is distorted, which somehow prompts him to exit his car to check out this fire. Now, I get that he might want to see if someone is injured and I understand he doesn’t know that this is a Spoiler! downed aircraft but either you run there and find survivors or get into your car and race back to alarm the fire department as soon as you get better reception! He just seems strangely unconcerned, is all I’m saying.

We cut to huge satellite dishes and then to the weirdly dark (well, weird unless you live in the season 1-5 X-files universe) U.S. Space Surveillance center in or on Cheyenne Mountain Colorado. Wikipedia tells me there is a Cheyenne County and a Cheyenne Wells in Colorado, so I am assuming Cheyenne Mountain is not far off.

A military underling walks up to his superior to report an unidentified bogey. Merriam Webster is my friend so I find out that ‘bogey’ means “a numerical standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at especially in competition” or “an unidentified aircraft; especially one not positively identified as friendly and so assumed to be hostile”. Given this show, I assume we mean the latter. Or at least I would hope so. On the other hand, that makes the underling’s line redundant.

The superior who is in uniform gets up and puts his cap on. Now all I know about uniforms and the military comes from TV so I might be off base here (see what I did here, do you?!) but that seems an odd move when he just walks over to a screen to watch “the replay.”

I might as well introduce him now; his name is Colonel Calvin Henderson. And yes, everything about him screams at me to add his title to his name. He leans over a screen and we get a close-up of some green grid on a black screen where some blob is moving around. A female officer tells us about the initial trajectory and that it then started going crazy. Colonel Henderson asks whether other aircraft are in the area, to which the female officer replies that no known aircraft can manoeuvre like this. What, like going crazy and then going down? The things you learn. Female officer Karen Koretz is played by Kimberly Unger who also apparently played the black-oiled Joan Gauthier in Piper Maru.

Male underling points out that whatever it was, hit ground west of Townsend. Koretz notes that impact was calculated at 800 miles per hour. I have no idea what that means. Does that mean it didn’t just fall down but aimed for the ground? Wouldn’t that make the title wrong? Just being my nitpicky self over there in the corner. Don’t mind me.