Kyle XY episodes (season 1)
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| Created by | Eric Bress J. Mackye Gruber |
| Starring | Matt Dallas Click here for the rest |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 6 (As of July 31, 2006) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | J.C. Spink David Himelfarb Eric Tuchman |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC Family ABC |
| Release | June 26, 2006 – Present |
The following are the plot synopses for the ten episodes in the first season of the U.S. television drama series Kyle XY.
Episodes
Plot synopses
Pilot
A mysterious teenager with no belly button and no memory of his life up until that point, wakes up in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, naked and covered in a slimy pink substance. He is found wandering in traffic and is brought to a juvenile hall, where he learns how to eat and discovers the sensation of needing to use the toilet; apparently, he was previously unaware of the significance of the sensation of hunger, or of needing to use the bathroom. Although unable to speak, he is able to use crayons to create a perfect pointillist recreation of a campsite he saw in the woods.
Nicole, a social worker, is called to take on Kyle's case. She removes him from the juvenile hall, names him Kyle after the brother of the facility's administrator, and brings him home to meet her family, who initially regard him with distrust. Nicole suspects that he might be autistic. He hears a young, female neighbor playing Pachelbel's Canon on the piano and is drawn to enter her house, not recognizing the violation of a social more. The girl's mother is mortified, but the girl, Amanda, attempts to defend him. Kyle continues to remain silent until he becomes thirsty at dinner. Having heard another prisoner use rude language to obtain a beverage at juvenile hall ("Yo, juice me!"), he precisely duplicates the words and intonation, not understanding the complexities of their context. He also emulates behaviors at inappropriate times, as when he clasps Nicole intimately from behind after having seen her husband Stephen do this.
Although Kyle seems to behave like an infant, he learns at a rapid pace and demonstrates vast amounts of intelligence. For example, he completes an hour-long IQ test in merely five minutes, while still achieving a perfect score on it. In addition, an MRI machine shows that Kyle uses over 80% of his brain, while normal humans use a significantly smaller portion (a reference to a popular myth[1]). Although Kyle's actions throughout the episode imply that the MRI reading was accurate, the doctors quickly dismiss this as the machine being uncalibrated.
Later, Kyle follows Lori to a party after she sneaks out of the house, and he ends up besting a police officer after he attempts to arrest an intoxicated Lori. Kyle subsequently carries Lori home. Kyle also finds Josh's pornographic magazine and returns it to him after Nicole hides it, and helps Stephen recover files from a laptop after seeing some computer code and comprehending it instantly. These acts endear Kyle to the Trager family. Nicole's interest in Kyle's savant abilities and her continued desire to help him lead her to ask her husband and children if Kyle can stay with them indefinitely. They silently approve by filling Kyle's glass and plate at the dinner table.
In a side plot, an unidentified man in a red truck appears several times. One morning, the truck is in front of the Trager house and pulls away as Kyle comes out of the house. Later, Nicole wants to get Kyle's file from the juvenile detention center, but it has gone missing; the audience learns that the man in the truck has the file. Also, at an earlier point in the episode, Stephen is watching the news but moves away from the television and misses a report about a teenage girl who was found on a beach with no memory.
Sleepless in Seattle
Kyle encounters the concept of time and wonders why those around him focus on it. Also not understanding why people sleep, Kyle lays in bed until about 1:30 in the morning, bored and wishing to learn more. Then, he goes downstairs to the kitchen, where he samples a variety of different foods from the refrigerator, including an unpeeled banana and a raw chicken egg. Once he's full, Kyle leaves the kitchen and accidentally turns on the television to a karate movie. This awakens all the Tragers, who find Kyle downstairs imitating karate moves and speaking Cantonese.
While the Tragers clean up the mess in the kitchen, Kyle reveals that he has not slept in the time since he joined the Trager household, which is around a week. Later, a detective visits the household to ask Kyle about what he remembers about his past, but Kyle is unable to recall any details of his origin or identity. Nicole develops a theory that a traumatic event caused Kyle's amnesia. Stephen and Nicole become worried that Kyle is either anxious or concerned about something. Later, Nicole takes him to the doctor's office for a checkup. The doctor finds Kyle to be in excellent physical condition but is unsure of his mental health, and after Nicole expresses her concern about Kyle's lack of sleep, the doctor prescribes him a strong sleeping pill. Meanwhile, Kyle rapidly solves a complex jigsaw puzzle in the waiting room and finishes to a round of applause.
In an effort to help Kyle recover memories of where he came from, Nicole gives him paper and coloring utensils, telling him to draw anything about his home. He produces a number of drawings over a period of several hours, all images of the woods where he first awoke. In the lower left-hand corner one of the drawings, however, Nicole notices a black mark that seems incongruous with the rest of the scene.
That night, the Tragers try a variety of methods to relax Kyle for bed. Nicole prepares him Chamomile tea, Stephen gives him a warm bubble bath, and Kyle is given the sleeping pill. However, the pill has no effect on him, and he wanders outside around midnight, where he takes up a fascination with the stars in the night sky. As he's walking, Kyle notices the man in the red truck following him. A barking dog causes him to drive away, and Kyle quiets the animal by looking at it, much to the amazement of Amanda, who had been by her bedroom window. The two of them have a brief conversation, in which Kyle learns the meaning of "down time". When he returns to the house and the Tragers discover that he has gone outside, Stephen and Nicole put him back in bed, and not long after, Josh convinces Kyle that he is an alien. Kyle believes Josh, and the family finds Kyle sitting outside waiting to "go home" the next morning.
In an attempt to wear Kyle down, Stephen takes him running; this activity exhausts Stephen, but Kyle still doesn't feel tired. At night, he explains that even though his body is starting to ache, his mind won't stop racing. Nicole and Stephen take turns sleeping in Kyle and Josh's room to ensure that he doesn't sneak out again.
After Stephen oversleeps and misses an important meeting due to his efforts in looking after Kyle, he and Nicole argue about him. Stephen is upset that Nicole wishes to have Kyle stay in the house longer, possibly permanently. Both of them mention, in some form, that Kyle has been a hassle to the family, not knowing that Kyle is listening from Josh's room. Kyle understands this and runs off into the woods. Neither the police nor the Tragers can locate him, but Nicole realizes that the pointillist scenes of the woods Kyle had created earlier represent the only other place besides their house where he might feel some sense of familiarity.
The Trager family finds the tree stump Kyle had depicted in the woods and in turn, finds Kyle there "waiting for his family". They take him home, every member telling him they were worried and that for right now, they're his family. After a comment by Stephen, it is not so subtly implied that Kyle will be living with the Tragers permanently. Feeling tired physically and emotionally, Kyle finally falls asleep in the bathtub while listening to white noise on the radio; in a voice-over, he reflects on the importance of sleep. The final scene shows the forest once more, and the camera pans behind the stump to show a skeleton.
The Lies That Bind
Police discover a skeleton in the woods near the spot where Kyle originally appeared. Detective Breen provides Nicole with a photograph of a key card found along with the skeleton, but Kyle does not recognize the insignia on the card. The police do not think Kyle is a suspect in the apparent murder, partly because the victim's fingernails had some skin cells under them, suggesting a struggle, and Kyle was uninjured when he was found. However, viewers discover that the man in the red truck - who is spying on the Tragers using surveillance equipment - has several fresh scratches on his right hand.
Meanwhile, a variety of lies in the Trager household confuse Kyle, as dishonesty is a new concept to him. Lori is fired from her job for skipping a shift to see Declan, but she doesn't tell her parents. Josh convinces Kyle to take a summer school math test for him. Stephen's boss instructs him not to tell his employees that they are all being laid off at the end of the quarter. And after Amanda crashes her new car into several trash cans while watching Kyle jump down from the roof and land perfectly after fixing the Tragers' satellite dish, she contemplates whether or not to tell her mother the truth or conceal the damage until she can get it fixed. Kyle suggests explaining what really happened, and Amanda asks him to wish her luck.
Kyle feels uneasy at dinner as Lori lies to her parents about what she really did during the day and as Josh reports having passed his test and asks for a reward. Kyle blurts out that he took the test and wasn't at Lori's work during the day, which gets Josh and Lori into trouble. While Stephen has frequently told Kyle to "always, always tell the truth", Josh and Lori are bitter towards Kyle, who feels bad for having told on them. When Amanda's mother finds out about the wrecked car, Kyle lies to her, taking the blame for the wreck. Consequently, she warns Kyle to stay away from her property and her daughter. After Kyle returns to the Trager house, Lori and Josh apologize to him. He agrees when Lori and Josh promise they won't force him to lie for them but ask him whether they can trust him to keep what happens between the three of them to themselves.
The next morning, Nicole and Stephen wake Kyle up to show him a surprise. They had converted Stephen's workshop into a room for Kyle with a bathtub in the center instead of a bed. He seems touched by the gesture and reflects in a voice-over how he feels he finally belongs in the Trager household. After Kyle and Stephen leave for breakfast, Nicole prepares to hang up Kyle's drawings of the woods when she notices black marks in the corners of each one. Fitting all the drawings together produces the insignia in the photograph Detective Breen had earlier shown to Nicole.
Diving In
Kyle has his first dream, in which he is underwater in a pool with Amanda swimming towards him. Suddenly, she vanishes, and Kyle wakes up wondering whether the dream was something he had previously experienced or a vision of future events. The next morning, Detective Breen questions Kyle on why he drew the key card insignia in pieces across his drawings, but Kyle still doesn't remember. Later, Lori, Josh, and Kyle go to the pool while Nicole and Stephen try to enroll Kyle into high school. Meanwhile, the audience sees the mysterious man who had appeared in the red truck being discharged from a company to which he had dedicated ten years of service. The man's name is Thomas Foss, and the his key card symbol matches the one Kyle drew. It is also mentioned that a person named Kern is still missing.
At the swimming pool, Kyle learns that Amanda is a lifeguard. Lori meets with her friend Hillary, and later, Josh attempts to persuade his sister to get the name and phone number of a girl he saw at the pool. While they argue, Kyle jumps off the diving board and sinks. Amanda dives in to rescue him, and Kyle later gets an erection from the close contact. The people who had crowded around Amanda and Kyle start laughing, which embarrasses Kyle. Later, Stephen explains what happened to him.
Declan drops by the Tragers' house to ask Lori out to Jeff Preston's party that Friday. While Josh gives Kyle a pornographic magazine as a way to "handle the problem", Amanda appears at the front door to visit Kyle. She enters his empty room and notices many drawings of herself on his desk. When she turns around, she sees Kyle with Josh's magazine and quickly leaves in a flustered manner, much to Kyle's confusion. Later, Josh gets Kyle signed up for swimming lessons to give several more hours of free time during the day to Lori, who in turn acquires the information that Josh wanted from the girl, Ashleigh Redmond. He attempts to call her but hangs up from nervousness.
Kyle receives lessons from Amanda and learns very quickly. She explains how she was never angry with Kyle over his drawings, and he tells her how he draws things as he sees them in his mind, but he couldn't seem to get Amanda right. She asks him to visit her house the next afternoon so she could show him something. Back at the house, Nicole informs Stephen that Detective Breen hasn't found any known corporation with the insignia or been able to decrypt the computerized strip on the key card. She also shows reluctance on sending Kyle to high school.
Tom Foss goes home to his apartment to find the man who discharged him from the company sitting in an armchair, waiting for his arrival. He tells Tom that when he ran the key card he returned through the system to deactivate it, it didn't match his assignment but did match Kern's clearance. He has also discovered the files on Kyle that Tom stole from the juvenile detention hall. Later, during a second visit, Tom breaks the man's neck as soon as his back is turned.
At Amanda's house, Kyle learns the concept of drawing how he feels, not just what he sees. Her father had been an artist, and she tells Kyle that he died last year. Back in his room, Kyle uses both crayons and watercolors to convey how he feels into a drawing of Amanda. Josh calls Ashleigh again, and they agree to meet at Preston's party. Meanwhile, Lori slips a condom into her purse to take to the party later that night. Josh persuades Kyle to go with them to Preston's party as well by promising him that Amanda will be there; Kyle plans to give her the drawing.
At the party, Ashleigh and Josh go skinny dipping in an outside hot tub before they're forced out by chaperons. Lori leads Declan behind the shrubs outside and loses her virginity there as Hillary, who has had a crush on Kyle, throws herself on him in a drunken state. Lori comes back to force her friend off of Kyle, and out of spite, Hillary reveals that she had told Declan to ask her out and mocks her for being "so easy". Later, however, Declan defends Lori when one of his friends comments on her. When Amanda finally shows up, Kyle realizes that he loves her. As he's about to hand her the drawing though, her boyfriend Charlie shows up and gives her a kiss. Visibly hurt by this, Kyle leaves the scene and drops his drawing in a nearby pool. He had depicted Amanda swimming in the water.
This is Not a Test
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Nicole is planning to enjoy a quiet afternoon in the house by herself with Steven, but suddenly, she hears an upstairs window break. Tom Foss, the mystery man, has broken in and planted bugs throughout the Trager household. But as quickly as he sneaks in, he quickly leaves undetected only to "knock on the door" just in to time to 'rescue' Nicole from the so-called break-in and do some investigating. Steven rushes home after hearing about it on his cellphone call to Nicole and finds Tom Foss meandering around Kyle's room. He is curious as to how Tom just "happened to show up just in time" to save the day. He takes down Tom's information to check on him later through the security company.
Meanwhile, it is the first day of high school for the Trager kids and the only one excited to go is Kyle. He quickly picks up on the existence of cliques, noticing how they organize by how they dress, their vocabulary, age, and skin color. Everything is new to him, but he still has a difficult time understanding just how school works and why a bell rings every 50 minutes. Nicole is still fighting with the Principal to get Kyle private tutoring, and the principal begrudgingly agrees to give Kyle skill assessment tests on the basic subjects: Math, English, History, and Science. Kyle has 5 hours to complete the tests. Nicole leaves him to the principal for the day, promising that she'll pick him up later. Meanwhile, Kyle is instructed to take the tests in the 5 hour time limit. He is given the first test in the pile, History, and he reads over it, realizing he does not recognize any names, dates, or places. Becoming frustrated, he hears the class change bell and decides to do more "exploring", not realizing he was supposed to remain in the testing room.
Lori has just entered her first day in math class and is still fighting with Hillary over what happened at Preston's party. Lori and Hillary inadvertently chose to wear the same shirt, which Hillary is not happy about. In the middle of class, Hillary passes a note to Lori to "take it off", to which Lori responds "no way" and promptly gets herself in trouble with the Math Instructor, who gives her an after school detention. The Math Instructor then goes on to give a graduate-level problem from MIT to his students, promising that if any of them can crack it before the end of the semester, he will give them an "A". Kyle happens to wander in during a no-class period and figures out the complicated math problem with ease. He writes down the answer on the board and leaves the classroom to do some more exploring. He finds Amanda in a music class and observes her from the hall.
Josh, meanwhile, is suffering in remedial English class. He inadvertently manages to anger a hostile student, Toby. When the teacher asks Toby to read a passage from the book, he declines. The teacher insists, and he reluctantly and reads with extreme difficulty from the text. Embarrassed by all the laughter from the other students, he stops. The teacher then assigns Josh to continue reading from where Toby left off. Josh reads far better than Toby, and with a bit of smugness as well, which Toby notices. Josh quickly realizes that he's angered Toby.
Before long it is lunchtime. Kyle wanders into the cafeteria, where he sits down to have lunch with L.K. Deichman - a nerd that just happens to love superheroes. Deichman is unwilling to believe that Kyle would sit next to him voluntarily, explaining that people often call him 'Geekman' or 'Dykeman'. He explains to Kyle the fundamentals of superheroes, including their aliases. Kyle is confused as to why superheroes would have to have a secret identity. Deichman goes on to explain that it's to protect them. He is also very surprised that Kyle would not know such "basic" knowledge. Kyle explains that it's why he has come to high school - to learn. So, Deichman decides to give Kyle a little help by introducing him to the school library. Finding out that Kyle really doesn't know much about any subject and perplexed that he can be in high school with such limited knowledge, he suggests starting with the encyclopedia. Kyle picks up 3 volumes of World Book and starts reading voraciously. The math instructor comes back into his classroom to discover that his extremely complicated problem has not only been attempted, but solved. He is perplexed as to who completed it, or who could even attempt to do it. He ponders for the rest of the day about who could have solved it.
Eventually, the end of the day draws near. Amanda, with Charlie, stops in the library and, seeing Kyle, asks him how his day went and also why and how he read all the encyclopedias. She also asks Kyle if he likes her. Kyle considers what response to make, and weighs the consequences of each. He concludes that it will make Amanda happiest if he responds that they are "just friends", and so he does so. This elicits a smile out of Amanda and a handshake. Amanda then says that the end of the school day has come and it is time to go home.
Josh is walking through the hallway with his friends shortly after when he has an encounter with Toby from his English class. Toby begins to bully him, by throwing Josh's book and almost punching him in the face before Kyle attempts to stop him. Toby pushes Kyle down the stairs as he and Josh attempt to leave, and Toby tries to hit Josh again before Kyle blocks the punch. Toby tries to hit Kyle and Kyle dodges, forcing Toby to strike the wall. As Kyle attempts to leave again, Toby tries to push him again and Kyle evades the blow, causing Toby to nearly fall down the stairs, Kyle calmly grabs him by the jacket, suspending him over the stairwell. Everyone is amazed at Kyle's "super-abilities", including Deichman. The fight is stopped by the principal and the Tragers, come to pick the kids up from school. Everyone involved in the fight has to wait in the waiting room adjacent to the Principal's office while everything gets straightened out.
Meanwhile, Lori is reporting to her math instructor for detention. Seeing that he is talking to himself in confusion about the math problem, she thinks about the only person that she knows who could possibly solve that kind of problem. She asks her teacher whether, if she can find out who it is, if she can get out of detention. The teacher agrees.
Back in the principal's waiting room, the Tragers and the principal discover that Kyle didn't even attempt the tests given to him. They ask why not, and Kyle responds that he didn't know any of the people or answers, and went to study. The principal states that it's unacceptable when the math teacher bursts in with Lori. He quickly explains to the Principal what Kyle has done with his math problem and begs to work with him. He starts badgering Kyle with questions about how he solved the problem, and Kyle just responds that he "looked at it, and knew" how to do it. The math teacher insists that Kyle finish taking his tests so that he can become a student. The principal points out that the tests have to be completed in a 5 hour time block and that there's only 30 minutes left. The Tragers and the teacher beg him to let Kyle try as much as he can, and of course, Kyle finishes every test with 5 minutes left to spare. All that's left is for the principal to grade the tests, and he will approve Kyle for private tutoring, but Kyle actively refuses to accept private tutoring because he mentioned that it would hold him back from knowing the one thing he wants to know -- Why do we do the things we do?
Everyone is getting ready to leave for the day, when Kyle notices Deichman sitting outside waiting for his ride home. Kyle decides to go up and strike up a conversation with him. Some of the other students recognize him from the "super" fight with the mean kid, and stare and make comments. This embarrasses Deichman, but Kyle reassures him that "weird is good". In thanks, the nerdy kid hands over a drawing he made of Kyle, dressed in a cape, with a foot on a mountain of books, looking like the superhero of Beachwood High School. Kyle accepts and hangs it up in his room later that night.
Nicole and Steven verify with the Security company that Tom Foss is an actual worker with them and not just some passer-by looking to investigate their house for goods to steal. The Security company reassures them that Tom is an excellent employee with a military record, and that they have nothing to worry about. The closing shot is of Kyle going over the things he has experienced today while he's lying in his bathtub, ready to go to sleep. It backs out and becomes fuzzy as the image of Kyle is on a computer screen, with Tom Foss sitting in a chair staring at it, studying him and the other Tragers.
Blame It On The Rain
When the rain comes in everyone is cooped up inside and secrets start to come out. After a rough night of nightmares, Kyle is troubled about his lack of knowledge and begins to wonder if he will ever find out who he really is. Because of the rainstorm, every stays inside and play with an Ouijaboard. With the Ouija, he asks for his Birthday and gets the response 7-8-1-2-2-7. Unable to identify this, Josh just enters it into his notebook. (Near the end of the episode it is found out that the number sequence is actually the number on the security access card found near Kyle.) Kyle's anger and frustration only builds when Josh's notebook, chronicling the alien-like traits Kyle has, is found. With everyone's theories and now the nightmares, Kyle becomes determined to find out who he is and where he comes from. His curiosity is piqued even more after a chance encounter with Tom Foss, whom he strangely recognizes.
Meanwhile, Lori is dismayed that the rainstorm is keeping her cooped up in the house with Declan. After questioning him why he is really at the Trager house, Declan's family secrets start to come out.
Lori finds out the truth of why he was at the Trager house, and connect with him as a "friend."
Later, Kyle recognizes the man in the raincoat he saw in his dream from a picture of a professor missing in the morning newspaper.
At the end, detective Breen flips over a card (similar to a credit-card in shape etc.) that has the mysterious logo on it. On the back, miraculously, is "781227"...
Kyle Got Game
Troubled by Kyle’s vivid nightmares, Nicole continues searching for the man in Kyle’s dreams and the possible link this man may have to the body found in the woods. In her search, she comes across information about a professor named Dr. Kern and his work with brain power. Nicole’s search leads her to a book, written by Dr. Kern, about his study of human brain activity that leads her to believe Dr. Kern has something to do with Kyle’s past and possibly the murder.
Meanwhile, Josh realizes Kyle has abnormal skills at basketball and uses it to his advantage to make some quick cash. Once Kyle joins the school basketball team, Lori also takes advantage of the situation to get closer to Declan, who is also on the team. Josh starts to feel as if his father is appreciating Kyle's skills a little too much, and he gets jealous of Stephen's zeal for Kyle.
Memory Serves
Template:Spoiler-blank Kyle is becoming desperate for information about his past and everyone in the Trager family is taking notice. When Declan provides an opportunity to search for Professor Kern, Kyle and Lori join him on the search, all unbeknownst to Stephen and Nicole. Once having arrived at the University of Washington, Kyle stumbles upon Kern’s lab and some information about a former student Kern had named Adam, who just happens to have a remarkable resemblance to Kyle. Who is this Adam Baylin and what answers could he hold? Is this the key piece of the puzzle that he has been searching for? Kyle is determined to find out.
Meanwhile, the trip to the University of Washington also gives Lori and Declan insights to their own life. After Lori makes a new male friend, Declan realizes that he is done playing games with Lori and that he may truly care about her, more than he has been willing to admit.
Overheard
Template:Spoiler-blank "Overheard" -- After Tom Foss’ warning in the forest, Kyle decides to give up his search for his past, but with coaxing by Nicole and a new-found extraordinary talent, he decides to go back to his search. Enlisting Declan’s help, Kyle begins to follow Foss. But during their stake-out of Foss’ apartment, Kyle over hears something that might be too much for the boys to handle
Endgame
Template:Spoiler-blank "End Game" -- After Kyle’s scare at the carnival, the Tragers are relieved to find out that he’s okay. But their relief only lasts for a few short minutes when two people claiming to be Kyle’s parents show up at the hospital to take him "home,"
References
- ^ Radford, Benjamin (2000). "The Ten-Percent Myth". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2006-03-08.