Is There a Sheriff In the House? - Resident Alien
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Seventy years ago, a young girl plays with a snow globe while her family camps in the woods. A rumbling sound attracts her, and she spots an alien and drops the snow globe. The alien picks it up.

Max has two new friends that he takes to see the alien. Harry wonders where grumpy head scarf is, marveling that she moved away and left Max alone like a chicken with its head cut off. He has started an alien club and introduces his buddies, Mari and Leo.

Max asks for Harry to reveal himself, and when he doesn't, Max pulls out the taser. As much as he wants it, Harry decides not to get the taser. The kids leave, and Harry ponders why humans have such a need to feel special, even in death with tombstones and plaques. Outside, Max tases himself as Harry predicted.

Joseph has given Harry a ticket. In his mind, he calls him an asshole, and tosses the ticket to the ground. That's another $50 fine. Harry decides to dump his coffee out instead, since it's not littering. Now he needs another coffee.

D'Arcy isn't happy about Asta playing a role helping Harry with Joseph. She wants to go with her on the date. D'Arcy thinks Asta can't take care of herself, and Asta only moderately disagrees.

Harry is making cake for her suicide mission. D'Arcy is like, uh, see?

Judy hasn't passed the real estate test, but Kate wants to put the house on the market. Judy has spent a lot of time watching fix it or list it, apparently. Kate had no idea her house was a murder house. Ben even wrote a story about it in elementary school. Judy remembers it vividly, right down to how he used red for blood and brown for when the lady crapped her pants.

There might even be a body in the basement.

Liv has many baked goods, but none of them are for Mike. She offers him one of Ben's blueberry muffins, and he counts the berries, saying no thank you.

Mike and Detective Torres are no longer talking. Liv drags out of him that Lena bought them an all-expenses-paid trip for next month, and the money thing really bothers him.

Ben is hoping that putting a pool in might keep Kate from selling the house. Mike isn't into swimming, which he calls teabagging. Mike has the answer to Ben's problems, and it's in Ben's foot.

Harry is feeling pretty good about defeating Joseph, as his people always defeat the Greys. Defeating one human-alien hybrid should be easy. And then D'Arcy arrives.

D'Arcy is excited to possibly take a shit in Joseph's steam shower.

Harry rappels up the side of the building without rope. That's fun! If he doesn't help her get up there, she promises to make up stories about him, like that he's a dog kicker.

Liv finds the magnet that fell out of the Alien Tracker's son's duffle bag. She thinks it belongs with the paper clips, so she dumps it in there, thinking nothing of it.

Mike's big idea to help Ben make money includes foot photography. Ben gives Mike advice about Lena while talking about his own problems. He's very worried that Kate is scared because Fear has always been Ben's thing.

Mike finds a lump in Ben's foot. He thinks that could derail Mike's foot modeling career, but Ben has had it since he was a kid. Is it an alien tracking device?

D'Arcy apologizes after lumping Harry and the Greys into one box, and she apologizes, wondering how their breeds differ. Harry says they are protectors, while the Greys are just cruel. Greys cannot even live long in the atmosphere. They don't belong here, he says, while D'Arcy calls him out on being racist.

Harry spots pizza. Jack Spot!

On their next date, Joseph tries to connect with Asta over them both losing their mothers at a young age.

Harry's need for crushed red pepper on his pizza sets a trap, capturing him and D'Arcy inside without the pizza! Joseph is alerted to the intrusion and capture. He looks at Asta, saying she can drop the act now. He knows that she knows what he is.

Joseph uses his hostages to drag information about Harry out of Asta. As Harry and D'Arcy struggle with the trap, Joseph makes more threats against people Asta loves, so she kicks him. He wants her to act normal, and she assures him that's totally normal.

When Asta says he can't kill Harry because of intergalactic rules, he threatens D'Arcy instead. Asta pushes Jay away, and Jay tells Dan Joseph is bad news. No worries, Dan's got this.

Lena visits Mike. She wants him to be happy, not uncomfortable. She's decided they should end this right now. He is who he is, and she is who she is. She lavishes gifts on the people she loves. If he's not willing to accept her as she is, then she can't be with him.

Kate doesn't want to leave, after all. She doesn't feel right, but now she realizes it's more than that. It's just her. A part of her is missing or something. Maybe they should take a trip. He's got the perfect place. Yellowstone. She thought Paris, but OK.

Harry is feeling worthless. He is nothing but a big human-shaped stupid failure. He failed destroying earth, and now he's failing to save it. D'Arcy understands how he feels, and they discuss their failures.

The box is closing in on them.

Asta tells Joseph that Harry's real name is Mork, from Ork. He reports to Orson. Joseph jots down the info gratefully.

D'Arcy and Harry talk to each other about their special qualities. They're not failures. They're stuck in there because no one else would even try.

Once they realize that and share it with the world, they also cling to each other as the box continues to get smaller. Max finds them there and needs Harry to reveal his alienness to his friends. But, they're in an alien's house, so it's a win.

Meanwhile, Joseph is asking about Mindy's role in Mork's life.

Joseph thinks it would be as easy as walking Asta out of the diner. Dan stops him in his tracks, and Asta injects him.

Mike's drinking at the bar when Liv delivers bad news about the fingerprints. There are no matches. She asks him to dinner for John's favorite so he's not just sitting there alone. Hard pass.

Mike likes to look gift horses in the mouth.

Joseph wakes up in Harry's cabin. He's not tied up. Harry figured he'd break the restraints and broken his chair. He imagines the fight they would have had and how many things would annoy him. Broken chair, broken refrigerator, talkative repair man. Joseph offers an alternate scenario in which he is the victor, stepping on Harry's stupid alien head and killing him.

Bringing Harry into his imagination about the repair man is enough to temper their anger against each other.

Harry wonders why the Greys are on earth. He's a full alien, while Joseph is just a hybrid. Then he realizes that Joseph doesn't know anything about his mission. He threatens to tell the Greys how many people know Joseph is an alien. They taunt each other childishly before Joseph leaves his house.

The general calls Harry. He hangs up without giving her any info. Her cohort wonders, you won't tell him about the Darling Project? Nope. It's strictly need to know, and he doesn't.

She's listening to the Alien Tracker podcast about how losing someone taken stays with you forever.

Harry ruminates about how stupid humans are (it's their national sport) and realizes he's getting stupider with his humanity.

Mike wakes up in bed with Judy.

Ben wants Harry to look at the bump in his foot. Harry recognizes it almost immediately. He hypnotizes Ben to learn about his abductions.

There's a huge pile of children's shoes on the ship and something inside. The snow globe. It says Yellowstone.

 

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Resident Alien Season 3 Episode 2 Quotes

Here. Deputy Liv made you some lopsided muffins.

Mike [to Ben]

There's six blueberries in one half and two blueberries in the other. Was your oven on its side? No, thank you.

Mike