None of these plot developments will surprise sci-fi fans, who will find a great deal of familiarity in Emergence’s slight paranoid conspiracies. Unsurprisingly there is more to the plane crash, and the parade of shady characters who begin popping up around town in search of the girl, including smarmy reporter Benny Gallagher ( Owain Yeoman) who clearly knows more than he is letting on. Suspicious circumstances involving the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) eventually prompt Jo to bring the girl home and hide her – a development that sits well with her cancer-stricken father and friendly daughter, and less so with her estranged husband Alex (Faison). This means that the girl can’t remember anything, including her name she eventually dubs herself Piper at Jo’s suggestion. After befriending the nearly mute, nameless girl ( Alexa Swinton), a trip to the hospital reveals that she is physically unharmed aside from her retrograde amnesia. Jo is called in to investigate a supposed plane crash on the beach and discovers a lone pre-teen girl hiding in the bluffs. The action begins immediately with a power blackout, some electromagnetic energy and strange lights in the sky. Sheriff Jo Evans (Tolman) lives with her father Ed (Brown) and teenage daughter Bree ( Ashley Aufderheide) in a small beach town. EMERGENCE TV PILOT FULLIt is full of familiar narrative beats that are interesting, but hardly original it has a solid, likable lead actress in Allison Tolman and a supporting cast of recognizable faces ( Clancy Brown, Donald Faison) and it has a couple of Network budget-friendly action sequences interspersed among the family melodrama. Often this results in relatively close-ended storytelling with juuuuust enough potential to lure viewers back for subsequent installments.Įmergence, the new show by ABC veterans Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas (RIP Agent Carter), falls very firmly into this format. There’s a lot of heavy lifting to be done in a television pilot, particularly on Network television where a single episode determines whether a show will get the green light to go to series. Allison Tolman brings warmth to an otherwise traditional pilot for ABC’s new sci-fi mystery series.
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