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The suspense drama focuses on a team of experts who, after a strange phenomenon is discovered, must try to thwart the possible global threats that stem from it.
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- 01
Blood of the ChildrenMolly and her team fear that cadets at a local military academy have been infected by the aliens after a janitor at the school viciously attacks several people before his head implodes. The investigation leads Molly to suspect that an infected cadet may be attempting to send an alien signal across the Internet that could affect millions of people. - 02
The BurningAn inmate at an Ohio psychiatric institute escapes and Molly believes he may have been infected by the aliens after paintings of glass trees, like the ones in her dreams, are found in his cell. The inmate, who has been incarcerated since 1979 for burning down his house with his family inside when he was 13, then breaks into a woman's ground-floor apartment and starts digging through the floor for a mysterious object he buried 26 years ago. - 03
ShockPark, one of the infected crewmen from the Big Horn, kills a detective at a Baltimore port during a shoot-out with an Asian gang that is smuggling highly sophisticated computer microchips. When Molly arrives on the scene, she learns that Park survived being shot at the docks and electrocuted on a nearby fence while he was trying to escape. But what she learns next worries her the most: human technology can create the deadly alien signal.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01
Trees Made of Glass, Part 1September 16, 2005An alien craft's appearance near a cargo freighter in the Atlantic Ocean seems linked to the deaths of most of the crew. Dr. Molly Caffrey, - S01E02
Trees Made of Glass , Part 2September 16, 2005Gunneson attacks Molly in her home, but he escapes and the Threshold team tracks him to a water-treatment plant, where they encounter anothe - S01E03Season's bestBlood of the ChildrenSeptember 23, 2005Molly and her team fear that cadets at a local military academy have been infected by the aliens after a janitor at the school viciously att
- S01E04The BurningSeptember 30, 2005An inmate at an Ohio psychiatric institute escapes and Molly believes he may have been infected by the aliens after paintings of glass trees
- S01E05ShockOctober 7, 2005Park, one of the infected crewmen from the Big Horn, kills a detective at a Baltimore port during a shoot-out with an Asian gang that is smu
- S01E06
PulseOctober 14, 2005Molly and her crew descend on Miami after partygoers there are exposed to the alien signal and begin bleeding and fighting one another. The - S01E07
The OrderOctober 21, 2005While a security leak threatens to put the Threshold plan in jeopardy, Molly fears that residents in a small Rhode Island town may have been - S01E08
RevelationsNovember 4, 2005Molly travels to Indiana after a Threshold agent who was watching the boyhood home of an infected Big Horn crewman disappears. While she's t - S01E09
ProgenyNovember 22, 2005Three women in the D.C. area come to the attention of Molly and her team when an artist beheads her husband, an oil billionaire's wife attac - S01E10
The CrossingThree of the alien prisoners being held at the Threshold command center escape, which leads Molly to formulate a plan to move five infected - S01E11
OutbreakLucas is infected with the alien DNA from something he ate. The infectees have harvested crops with the alien DNA. Caffrey must find a way t - S01E12
VigilanteWhen a number of infectees and seemingly innocent people are killed, it becomes apparent that someone is going after people affected by the - S01E13
AlienvilleMolly and Cavennaugh go to a town called Allenville in search of a doctor who they think is infected and find more than they were looking fo
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