It’s too bad about Jacob Hardy.  I was just starting to like him for his willingness to speak truth to power . . . ful stench of modern art.^[3]  Sadly we do not get to see the referenced work “Problem Stain 11” before a meteor streaks through the atmosphere and shoots a lugie into Jacob’s melon.  He falls to the ground with blood pouring out of the wound, creating both a bigger problem and a bigger stain.

He is taken to the morgue and we get a good look at that wound.  There is no exit, so Dr. Ian Michaels reaches in and pulls out a metal projectile the size of his thumb if he had a larger weiner.  A tentacle pops out of the hole and flails about before retreating back into Jacob’s noggin.  Even more shocking, Jacob gets up and walks out of the morgue.

That night, Ian dutifully goes to visit his wife Daria who is in the hospital.  She expresses no shock or surprise at her husband’s story, but that might just be the coma.

Jacob’s girlfriend is surprised when he walks in the front door.  He seems changed, cold and distant.  Within seconds, he packs some clothes and says, “I have to go away.”  Wait, did they delete a sex scene?  He makes her promise not to reveal his plans which he didn’t reveal to her, then he leaves.

He meets up with 2 other people who had similar experiences with meteor tentacles in their heads.  Whatever it is that they are going to do, it is agreed they have 6 days and 10 hours to do it. ^[1]  It is important because Jacob says, “Everything depends on us.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Michaels has discovered online that in addition to Jacob, Curtis Sawyer and Kelly Risely were apparently killed by the meteor that night, then got better.  Dr. Michaels somehow thinks their recoveries might hold the solution for bringing Daria out of her coma.

Jacob funds the team with $500,000 in 2 days of day-trading with a Clintonesque level of success.  Kelly bones up on metallurgy at the library, and Curtis gets a consulting gig at a tech firm.  They use these resources and one of the slugs in their head to create a large device.  They test it out on a cat, zapping it out of existence.

Next they round up patients both old and young who don’t have much time to live, and take them to the device.  Daria is among the patients.  There is a good reason for their actions that boil down to “Life for life.”

Interesting justification for their actions, but a pretty average episode with pretty average performances.

Other Stuff:

• [1] We have the standard twerp who is compelled to point out it is really 6 days, 9 hours and 40 minutes.  That’s OK here, but it bugs me when a character says something will happen in 6.2 seconds.  Is that from when they start speaking, or from when they say “6.2”‘, or from the end of the sentence?  I’m lookin’ at you, Star Trek!  But not on CBS All Access.^[2]
• [2] What f***ing idiots are encouraging CBS by subscribing?  Just say NO, people, and it will be free.  You know, like NetFlix, Amazon, HBO or Hulu.
• [3] Honestly, this sentence seemed like a good idea last night.