Episodes of Kyle XY (season 1)
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The following are the plot synopses for the ten episodes in the first season of the U.S. television drama series Kyle XY.
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[edit] Episodes
| No. | Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Pilot” | 26 June 2006 |
| 2 | “Sleepless In Seattle” | 3 July 2006 |
| 3 | “The Lies That Bind” | 10 July 2006 |
| 4 | “Diving In” | 17 July 2006 |
| 5 | “This Is Not a Test” | 24 July 2006 |
| 6 | “Blame It On The Rain” | 31 July 2006 |
| 7 | “Kyle Got Game” | 7 August 2006 |
| 8 | “Memory Serves” | 14 August 2006 |
| 9 | “Overheard” | 21 August 2006 |
| 10 | “Endgame” | 28 August 2006 |
[edit] Plot synopses
[edit] 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. A rattlesnake attempts to bite him, and with incredible reflexes, he catches it in mid-strike. He is later 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 social mores. 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 do this to her husband Stephen.
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. 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 viewing 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.
[edit] 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 lies 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 of 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 next morning the family finds Kyle sitting outside on the front lawn (where he's soon doused by the sprinklers), waiting to "go home."
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 title comes from the movie Sleepless in Seattle.
[edit] 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. The skin cells are still intact under the fingernails despite the fact that the rest of the body was rapidly decomposed. 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 among the three of them to himself.
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.
[edit] 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 fired from a company to which he had dedicated ten years of service. The man's name is Thomas Foss, and the symbol on his key card matches the one Kyle drew. It is also mentioned that a college professor named William Kern has been missing for some time.
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 gets an erection from the close contact. Once Amanda and Kyle are out of the water, people crowd around them and start laughing, which embarrasses Kyle. Back home, Stephen explains what happened to Kyle.
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 keycard. She also shows reluctance on sending Kyle to high school.
Tom Foss goes home to his apartment to find the man who fired him from the company sitting in an armchair, waiting for his arrival. He tells Foss that when he ran the keycard he returned through the system to deactivate it, it didn't match his assignment but did match Prof. Kern's clearance. He has also discovered the files on Kyle that Foss stole from the juvenile detention hall. Later, during a second visit, Foss 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. But as he's about to hand her the drawing, 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.
[edit] This is Not a Test
Nicole is planning to enjoy a quiet afternoon in the house alone with Stephen, but suddenly, she hears an upstairs window break. Tom Foss, the mystery man, has broken in and planted bugs throughout the Trager house. But as quickly as he sneaked in, he quickly leaves undetected, then knocks on the door "just in time" to "rescue" Nicole from the break-in and "investigate." Stephen rushes home after hearing about it during a phone call to Nicole and finds 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 Foss' information to check on him later with 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 their attire, 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, but 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 teacher, who confiscates the note and gives her an after-school detention. He then introduces 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 into the empty room during a non-class period and figures out the complicated math problem with ease. He writes down the answer on the chalkboard 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 a 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 reads with extreme difficulty from the text. Embarrassed by all the laughter from the other students, he stops and refuses to continue. 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 has 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 who 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 need to have secret identities. Deichman explains 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 teacher 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 why and how he read the entire encyclopedia. She then 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, showing no effect from the fall, blocks the punch. Toby tries to hit Kyle but Kyle dodges, forcing Toby to strike the wall instead. 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, including Deichman, is amazed at Kyle's "super-abilities." The principal stops the fight as 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 teacher for detention. Seeing that he is talking to himself in confusion about the math problem, she thinks about the only person she knows who possibly could have solved it. She makes a deal with her teacher that if she can find out who it is, 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 retorts that the tests have to be completed in a 5-hour time frame 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 to spare. Kyle, of course, passes all five tests with ease and is eligible for private tutoring, but he actively refuses to accept it on account 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 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 detailed 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 Stephen check with the security company whether Tom Foss is indeed working for them; a company representative assures the Tragers that Foss is an excellent employee with a military record, so they have nothing to worry about. The closing shot is of Kyle going over the things he experienced that day while he's lying in his bathtub, ready to go to sleep. The camera pans out and becomes fuzzy as the image of Kyle in his room is now on one of three side-by-side computer monitors, with Foss spying on him and the Tragers from his apartment.
[edit] 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, everyone stays inside and plays with an Ouija board. 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. Kyle's frustration only builds when he finds Josh's notebook, which chronicles the alien-like traits Kyle has. 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. She asks him why he is at the Trager house; he is reluctant to tell her at first. Later she finds out the real reason, yet connects with him as a "friend."
Later, Kyle recognizes the raincoat-clad man he saw in his dream when he sees a picture of Prof. Kern, reported in the morning newspaper as missing.
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 is the number "781227."
The title comes from the Milli Vanilli song of the same name.
[edit] 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 Prof. Kern and his work with brain power. Nicole’s search leads her to a book, written by Kern, about his study of human brain activity that leads her to believe 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.
At the end of the episode, Nicole and Stephen watch a news report confirming that the skeleton found in the woods was that of Prof. Kern.
[edit] Memory Serves
Kyle is becoming desperate for information about his past and everyone in the Trager family is taking notice. Nicole brings a hypnotist to her home to try and uncover more about Kyle's past. The hypnotist puts Kyle into a state of hypnosis where a flashback is shown with Prof. Kern looking into the camera, then fighting with Tom Foss. The battle ends with Kern being gunned down by Foss. The hypnotist then takes Kyle to another memory, when Kyle begins speaking gibberish, when Nicole urges the hypnotist to snap Kyle out of the trance.
When Declan provides an opportunity to conduct research on Kern, Kyle and Lori join him on the search, all unbeknownst to Stephen and Nicole. Once having arrived at the University of Washington, Kyle discovers in a glass case a 20-year-old photograph of a former student of Kern's who was named Adam Baylin and bore a striking 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. He asks a secretary who knew Baylin where he can find him, but the secretary reveals that Baylin has been missing for the past 20 years.
Meanwhile, Nicole attempts to interpret Kyle's gibberish by listening to it repeatedly on a microcassette recorder, and with prompting from Josh, slows it down to reveal Kyle is actually speaking letters and numbers, which turn out to be coordinates to a spot near the college. But Stephen reveals that on ViewIt Earth (a fictional version of actual website Google Earth), that spot is blocked. The trip to the university also gives Lori and Declan insights into their own relationship. After Lori makes a new male friend, Wes, 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.
Meanwhile, Kyle discovers a paper that Adam Baylin wrote with the mysterious keycard symbol along with the same coordinates Nicole and Stephen found. Kyle and Declan go to the spot but when they get there, Kyle insists he must go alone. After he walks for a little while, he sees a fence with barbed wire and attempts to scale it, but is pulled off by a man wearing a ski mask. After a brief rumble, Kyle sneaks up on the man from behind and pulls off his mask, revealing none other than Foss, who had been waiting for him when he discovered that Nicole and Stephen knew about the spot. Foss tells Kyle that Kern is "not the man he thinks he is," and also warns him to stop asking questions, or he and the Tragers will be killed.
The episode ends with a scene of a security camera attached to a tree and overlooking the spot where Kyle and Foss met, and then fades to a sophisticated looking room with people at computers. An unidentified man shows a recording to another man from three hours before that shows Kyle attempting to climb over the fence. The other man says, "781227," and then with disbelief, "He's alive!"
[edit] 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 of super hearing and the ability to read lips, 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 overhears something that might be too much for the boys to handle.
Kyle and Declan aren’t the only ones following Foss. Cyrus Reynolds, an employee from an unidentified company who is hunting after Kyle, is hoping that Foss will lead him straight to Kyle. But with Kyle also on Foss’s tail, it doesn’t take long for Reynolds to get Kyle in his sights. Has Kyle’s search for his past taken a deadly turn for him and possibly the Tragers? Lori sees Charlie cheating on Amanda with Hillary, and Kyle's "parents" come to take him (or Noah, Kyle's supposed real name) "home."
[edit] Endgame
At the height of Kyle’s search, all of his questions may soon be answered. The rollercoaster ride for Kyle and the Tragers isn’t over after the scare at the carnival when a couple, David and Julie Peterson, who claim to be Kyle’s birth parents, unexpectedly show up at the hospital to take him home with them. After hearing the Petersons’ story of who he is, Kyle isn’t completely convinced and takes matters into his own hands as he attempts to track down Foss, demanding answers.
Kyle and Josh attend Amanda's confirmation, where Kyle remarks on religion and its place in the world. Kyle gives Amanda a pendant of the patron saint for those who lost a parent, and Amanda tells Kyle there is a saint for "nearly everything." Kyle says he needs a saint for lost memories. Later, Kyle is sitting alone in a pew inside the church when a stranger sits beside him, discussing religion and Kyle's specific problem of lost memories.
While Kyle is out walking in the park, he is being stalked by Reynolds, and is suddenly attacked by a mysterious man who knocks Kyle out with chloroform. The man turns out to be Foss, who brings Kyle to the forest to help Kyle remember the events of the night when Foss murders Kern. Foss and Kyle's time is cut short, however, as Foss is shot in the arm by Reynolds in a failed assassination attempt. Despite not knowing how to drive, Kyle gets behind the wheel of Foss' truck and is able to safely escape to a secluded area of the forest. Foss, refusing to seek medical attention, ultimately gives Kyle a few clues about where he comes from and who he really is, such as the fact that Kyle has no memories before he awoke in the woods, because according to Foss, "for all intents and purposes" Kyle "did not exist."
After their talk in the woods, Kyle returns home and claims that the Petersons are really his family, and supposedly with his memory restored. To prove this, he recounts a detailed family vacation to the Petersons, who seem to remember as well. He says they took him to Hawaii, where he saw his first palm tree, and to the Whispering Corridors. He also says he sailed on a rainbow sailboat. Kyle hastily says he can leave immediately, and prepares to leave Seattle. The distraught Tragers and others must now deal with saying good-bye to the teenager they have all come to love. Before Kyle leaves, his friends and families, with the exception of a stoic Nicole, all appear to be choked up and sad, especially Amanda, who gives Kyle a hug and tells him that it's not goodbye, but "see ya." Nicole says that she is happy Kyle found his memories. Kyle eventually leaves with his supposed parents, but not before talking to Charlie about admitting his unfaithfulness to Amanda, and telling Declan, whom he feels he can trust, that he "left some things for" him.
In the Petersons' car, Kyle tells them that they are "good liars." They respond that it's their job to protect him. Meanwhile, back at the Trager house, Nicole, alone in her bedroom, finally breaks down into tears over losing Kyle. Declan goes to Kyle's room and finds a box Kyle left for him. Inside is an issue of National Geographic (bearing the fictitious title of "Earth Geographic" in the show) with a palm tree on the cover, a postcard tucked inside, a page detailing the Whispering Corridors, and a toy sailboat with a rainbow sail, all of which indicate that Kyle fabricated his vacation memory.
The Petersons bring Kyle to a gated mansion, and it turns out that both they and Foss have been working for the long-missing Adam Baylin, who was the stranger Kyle met in the church, and looks like an older version of Kyle. He promises to tell Kyle everything. It is revealed that Kyle, or 781227, is a "failed" experiment, as he was never meant to survive in the outside world, and that "The Company" (originally called Madacorp, but revealed to be named "Zzyx") is currently making #781228, which is labeled XX and "in excellent condition." The season ends with a closeup of 781228 inside a type of incubation chamber, suspended in a pink substance.
The fact that the second part of the show's title is XY, and the fact that Kyle's "superior" experiment is XX, has led to speculation that #781228 is a female named Jessi XX.
