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The Gifted Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
eXposed
Mon, Oct 2, 201747 mins
Public prosecutor and suburban family father Reed Strucker supervises the secret federal agency Sentinel services, which 'firmly' handles mutants. After locking up Lorna 'Polaris' Dane in a grim top-security facility, he's shocked to hear from his wife that his doted teen son Andrew 'Andy', who freaked out shattering the locker-room after school bullies abused him to despair in the showers. Before Reed gets home, the agency arrives, but Andy's elder sister Lauren, who just confided into their ma Kate to be a mutant too, used her powers to hold them off. Reed decides to run with his family, seeking assistance to go in Mexican hiding from Marcos 'Eclipse' Diaz, who co-runs the regional chapter of the underground mutant 'resistance' and accepts only if Reed helps free his lover, Lorna. The help of other mutants proves necessary as Sentinel is on their trail, now with a specially equipped arrest team.
Episode 2
rX
Mon, Oct 9, 201745 mins
Marcos 'Eclipse' Diaz's experience must be flexibly used with his 'reinforced' group, making use of powers they are learning to master and combine to ward off the Sentinel attacks, while Clarice 'Blink' Fong's great power spins dangerously out of control. Captured prosecutor Reed Strucker must now use inversely his legal skills to fight abuse of power against his own 'freak' family.
Episode 3
eXodus
Mon, Oct 16, 201744 mins
Eclipse mobilizes everyone, learning his co-leader Lorna 'Polaris' Dane is about to be moved to an even stricter Sentinel facility. Breaking into the present one is too hard, but they manage t free her during the transport by convoy and airplane. Reed risk everything by breaking deal to help Sentinel but ends up free too, while his kids continue developing their freak gifts and like their mother Caitlin seek integration in the group.
Episode 4
eXit strategy
Mon, Oct 23, 201743 mins
The mutants devise a plan to take down Sentinel Services; Eclipse looks to an old friend to obtain information; Lauren and Andy attempt to combine their powers to help the group.
Episode 5
boXed in
Mon, Oct 30, 201744 mins
Jace, motivated by a tragic event from his past, throws all the power of the Sentinel Services into finding the Mutant Underground Way Station; Blink's vivid dreams lead her to confront Dreamer.
Episode 6
got your siX
Mon, Nov 6, 201743 mins
Determined to find out more information behind what Sentinel Services did to an old friend of his, Thunderbird spearheads a mission to get answers. Meanwhile, Lauren encounters a new friend with useful powers and Blink makes a big decision regarding her future.
Episode 7
eXtreme measures
Mon, Nov 13, 201746 mins
Eclipse receives a call from his ex-lover, Carmen, and must revisit his dark past in order to protect the Underground. Reed and Sage comb through some secret files they recovered and find alarming information about Lauren's new friend. Meanwhile, Thunderbird helps Blink open up about her past life and Jace greenlights a special surveillance program with the help of Dr. Campbell.
Episode 8
threat of eXtinction
Mon, Nov 20, 201744 mins
The group faces a threat when they discover a new refugee is a spy working for Sentinel Services; Reed visits his estranged father and learns secrets that could prove useful.
Episode 9
outfoX
Mon, Dec 4, 201746 mins
The team develops a risky plan to help mutants in Sentinel Service's custody; Reed reveals details about his family history.
Episode 10
eXploited
Mon, Dec 11, 201744 mins
Jace is forced to hand over something valuable to Dr. Campbell; the team is divided on what they should do next, so Reed and Caitlin take matters into their own hands.
Episode 11
3 X 1
Mon, Jan 1, 201846 mins
Both sides bury casualties, bitterly resolving revenge. Marcos 'Eclipse' has an ever harder tie keeping his mutant community together. Strife is deliberately and successfully maximized by the Frost triplet sisters, as they promised to the hedge fund plotter, then they offer a deal to bring down Sentinel together, which culminates mutant division. Reed Strucker decides it's time to evacuate his family to Mexico, against the finally integrated twins' wishes, but the half-way safe-house turns out to be run by Wes, whom they adore, and comes under siege by a new Sentinel strike team, as Dr. Roderick Campbell convinces Jace to field his program's 'combined freak weapons'.
Episode 12
eXtraction
Mon, Jan 15, 201844 mins
After the Sentinel attack with Hounds, the mutants are ever more divided whether to flee, make a stand or turn into total war mode. Marcos refuses to stoop to their persecutors' inhumane methods, but can't talk Lorna who carries his baby out of joining the Cuckoo triplets, who plead their own casualties outweigh collateral damage to innocent 'humans'. While they embark on a mission to stop Dr. Roderick Campbell and Senator Matthew Montez from promoting a full-scale hounds program to a national conference by destroying heir airplane, and Marcos tries to stop them in vain, Reed Strucker decides it's time to evacuate his family, which Andy opposes to make best of his full twin powers, but it's too late as a new Sentinel team with hounds found and surrounds the HQ, which is fully destroyed while the mutants escape last minute. Disgusted to be blamed for the failure his bureaucratic superiors sanctioned, the Sentinel resigned, bitter over all sacrifices.
Episode 13
X-roads
Mon, Jan 15, 201844 mins
Polaris learns more about her past; Mutant HQ comes under attack.
