List of Helix episodes

Helix is an American science fiction thriller television series that premiered on Syfy on January 10, 2014.[1] The series follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who travel to a research facility in the Arctic to investigate a potential outbreak of disease. While there, they find themselves stuck in a life-or-death situation that could decide the future of mankind.

On April 29, 2015, the series was cancelled.[2] During the course of the series, 26 episodes of Helix aired over two seasons.

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 13 January 10, 2014 March 28, 2014
2 13 January 16, 2015 April 10, 2015

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"Pilot"Jeffrey ReinerCameron PorsandehJanuary 10, 2014 (2014-01-10)1.82[3]
Dr. Alan Farragut and his team of CDC scientists are called to a remote Arctic Research Base where his brother got infected with a deadly and unknown virus. Soon Alan and his team have to realize that there are secrets being kept.
22"Vector"Brad TurnerKeith HuffJanuary 10, 2014 (2014-01-10)1.82[3]
The CDC team tries to find a treatment for the infected patients and contain the virus by hunting down the ones who were exposed to the virus. Meanwhile, panic rises amongst the people on the station.
33"274"Steven A. AdelsonMisha GreenJanuary 17, 2014 (2014-01-17)[lower-alpha 1]1.34[4]
On day 3, Peter seeks Alan's help before he collapses, Sarah finds a rapid response test for infected patients, Julia begins to slowly feel the effects of Peter's attack while Balleseros helps Doreen get another monkey sample.
44"Single Strand"Duane ClarkStory by : Cameron Porsandeh
Teleplay by : Javier Grillo-Marxuach		January 24, 2014 (2014-01-24)1.39[5]
On day 4, the quarantined people on Level R force Dr. Hatake to re-establish communication by cutting off the air supply. Meanwhile, Peter's condition worsens quickly, forcing Alan to try the untested universal treatment, Sarah has to question her rapid response test and Doreen gets closer to figuring out Balleseros.
55"The White Room"Duane ClarkMisha GreenJanuary 31, 2014 (2014-01-31)1.13[6]
On day 5, Alan tries to find out what happened to Doreen after discovering her body, Julia finds a helpful friend on Level R, Sarah keeps hiding an infected patient in her room and Balleseros tries to find the mysterious Dr. Hvit.
66"Aniqatiga"Mike RohlAdam Lash & Cori UchidaFebruary 7, 2014 (2014-02-07)1.33[7]
Alan and Jordan's work on decoding the virus is seeing progress, while Julia is being cured by Hatake.
77"Survivor Zero"Mike RohlSean CrouchFebruary 14, 2014 (2014-02-14)1.17[8]
Constance Sutton of Ilaria Corporation arrives with mercenaries; Daniel makes a discovery; Julia learns something about herself and Hatake protects her from the mercenaries.
88"Bloodline"Bradley WalshMark Thomas HaslettFebruary 21, 2014 (2014-02-21)1.48[9]
Julia, feeling healthy and very hungry, plays a practical joke on Alan and Sarah. A vector breaks in to a food storage area and contaminates the base's food supply. Constance tells Hatake that she has learned Julia's secret. Julia escapes into the base's ventilation ducts and Constance sends Ilaria security guards after Julia. As Anana is leaving the base, she finds Balleseros trying to hotwire her snow vehicle. Anana realizes that Ballesteros has used her, but he counters that he warned her not to trust him. An Ilaria guard informs Constance that Balleseros helped Anana escape the base. Constance tells Daniel that Hatake "has lost his way"; Daniel assures Constance that he is loyal to Ilaria. Hatake confronts Constance and kills her, taking back control of the base.
99"Level X"Bradley WalshSean CrouchFebruary 28, 2014 (2014-02-28)1.28[10]
Secrets come to the light and unlikely alliances are established; at the same time, Alan and Walker take on a dangerous mission to destroy what's left of the NARVIK virus. Walker learns something world shattering about her past.
1010"Fushigi"Jeremiah ChechikMisha GreenMarch 7, 2014 (2014-03-07)1.28[11]
Alan and Julia travel to an abandoned satellite station in a last-ditch effort to call for help. Once there, they come across the truth behind Hatake's plan and Julia's condition. Meanwhile, Dr. Jordan (Sarah) makes a startling discovery of her own, which could mean a cure for cancer.
1111"Black Rain"Jeremiah ChechikTiffany Greschler & Javier Grillo-MarxuachMarch 14, 2014 (2014-03-14)1.18[12]
Peter Farragut and vectors attempt to spread the virus in a desperate, final attempt. Meanwhile, the scientists of the CDC create a cure for the virus by working together, just as a threat from deadly mercenaries of the Ilaria Corporation threaten their very lives. The Ilaria assassin, The Scythe, kills the remaining survivors that have not yet made it to the bunker, and is then revealed to be a teenage boy.
1212"The Reaping"Brad TurnerStory by : Adam Lash & Cori Uchida
Teleplay by : Cameron Porsandeh		March 21, 2014 (2014-03-21)1.24[13]
The Scythe is revealed to be the immortal Spencer Chiswick, who has the outward appearance of a 16-year-old, and is Constance Sutton's son. Alan and Hatake lure Spencer and one of his agents outside where they plan to lay a trap; Hatake throws a canister, allegedly containing the virus, onto the snow and causes one of Spencer's operatives who attempts to retrieve the virus to fall into a chasm. Spencer learns Julia is Hatake's daughter and abducts her. He gives Hatake a choice of lives to save—Julia's or Daniel's, but Daniel sacrifices himself. Julia realizes that a package Spencer brought with him contains her mother.
1313"Dans L'ombre"Brad TurnerStory by : Ed Decter
Teleplay by : Steven Maeda		March 28, 2014 (2014-03-28)1.38[14]
Day 13: Balleseros agrees to hand over the virus, already reported in Puerto Rico, if Hatake turns over the list of displaced Inuit children. Peter is revealed to be working for Ilaria and frees the Scythe, who blows up the base, stealing both the virus and cure. He also takes Julia hostage, after killing her mother. Alan tries to free Julia, but only succeeds in taking back either the virus or the cure.
Day 235: Alan, along with Peter, searches in Paris for Julia, who is shown to now be an Ilaria executive.

Season 2 (2015)

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
141"San Jose"Steven A. AdelsonSteven MaedaJanuary 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)1.00[15]
Peter, Sarah and Dr. Kyle Sommers travel to a Northern Pacific island where a new disease has broken out. They are taken to a base for their safety, which is led by Brother Michael. Meanwhile, Julia travels to the same island and is captured by a mysterious person who repeatedly asks her, "Do you know the way to San Jose?" Later it is revealed that Julia is on the island 30 years in the future, and she is shown Alan's grave near the ruins of the base.
152"Reunion"Steven A. AdelsonTimothy J. LeaJanuary 23, 2015 (2015-01-23)0.70[16]
As the CDC team continues to investigate the island, a sick child appears. After the child’s miraculous healing, Jordan suspects that not all is right in the abbey. Sarah finds that Alan is one of the followers, and he implores her to gather her team and leave while they can, but cannot explain why. Meanwhile, in the future, Walker and Caleb dig up Alan’s grave and make a discovery that furthers the mystery of the island.
163"Scion"Jeremiah S. ChechikAllison MillerJanuary 30, 2015 (2015-01-30)0.63[17]
Alan investigates a storage room at the abbey. Sarah and Peter learn that there are infected people roaming the island. Brother Michael is researching grafting, where a scion is joined with a stock. The children of the abbey are given a plant-based drug, and they attack Kyle while under its influence. Meanwhile, in the future, Dr. Hatake is seen to be living in a cabin on the island. He takes Julia there and drugs her to get answers. Julia mentions a worldwide pandemic and reveals to him that she is infected.
174"Densho"Jeremiah S. ChechikTiffany GreshlerFebruary 6, 2015 (2015-02-06)0.48[18]
A worker is stung by a bee and later develops the disease. Peter contacts Balleseros at Ilaria HQ via satellite phone and asks for instructions on what to do about Alan. Kyle investigates the bees. Sarah tries to find Soren, the child who recovered from the disease, and is stabbed by his mother. In the future, Julia escapes from Hatake and fatally wounds him in the process. He gives his sword "Densho" to her.
185"Oubliette"Grant HarveyLeigh Dana JacksonFebruary 13, 2015 (2015-02-13)0.44[19]
In a flashback to three months ago, Kyle is recruited to the team by the CDC with instructions to gather intelligence on Alan so they can make an arrest. In the present, Peter reveals to Brother Michael that "Jerome" is actually Alan. Michael responds by putting both Peter and Alan in a dungeon. Alan escapes with Peter's help but leaves Peter behind because he overheard his conversation with Ilaria. The beehive is destroyed but two jars of honey are retained. Sarah is nursed back to health. Brother Michael is revealed to be immortal and he learns that Sarah is as well. In the future, Julia recovers with Caleb's help but he leaves with "Densho" while she sleeps.
196"M. Domestica"Grant HarveyJavier Grillo-MarxuachFebruary 20, 2015 (2015-02-20)0.47[20]
The Ilaria Board votes to proceed with a plan to release NARVIK-C to reduce the world's population by 75%, with Julia being the lone dissenter. She plans to alert the CDC, but is asked to meet Mademoiselle Durant, who advises her to get help on St. Germain. In the present, the CDC team sees that the disease is spread by fungus that resembles apple fungus, yet the apples themselves are not tainted. Sister Amy suspects that Brother Michael killed Sister Agnes, and is repulsed by the idea of bearing a child for him, so she has Landry infect several followers with the tainted honey and later frames Sister Anne for the act. Michael learns from Peter that Sarah is pregnant with an immortal child. He demands to know how she became immortal. Landry uses the plant-based drug on Alan and he attacks Sarah while under its influence.
207"Cross-Pollination"Steven A. AdelsonAdria LangFebruary 27, 2015 (2015-02-27)0.46[21]
Durant explains that in 1601, Michael married a woman who then bore a child from a different father. He swore it would not happen again and began work on a way to sterilize mortal men. In the present, Alan wakes up with vague memories of taking Sarah to a room where a bloody procedure was carried out. Later he does an ultrasound on her and they find the baby is gone. He tells her that he thinks he took her there and she accuses him of doing it on purpose. Michael expects Amy to bear many children for him despite her protests. He starts to lose control over the followers and decides it is time to "thin the crop", and prepares and administers poison to most of the uninfected followers.
218"Vade in Pace"Steven A. AdelsonBobak EsfarjaniMarch 6, 2015 (2015-03-06)0.52[22]
Amy entombs Michael alive in the dungeon and takes control of the abbey. The Coast Guard arrives to evacuate the CDC team to a neighboring island with an outbreak, but they stay to investigate a red sap that is prolonging the life of the infected. Sarah tells Kyle that she is immortal, and to prove it she eats some of the tainted honey. Amy reveals to Sarah that the baby is being kept alive in a tank, and offers to exchange it for the secret of immortality. In the future, Julia frees Michael and asks him to help find the baby, whose stem cells may hold the key to a cure. Michael tries to kill her, but is beheaded by Caleb with "Densho".
229"Ectogenesis"Jeremiah S. ChechikTimothy J. LeaMarch 13, 2015 (2015-03-13)0.55[23]
Kyle is captured by infected who dine on the uninfected. He infects himself to avoid being eaten. Sarah reveals to Amy that a transfusion of spinal fluid from an immortal will grant immortality. Amy does not trust Sarah so Landry volunteers to be the first test subject. Julia and Sergio arrive on the island in the present to find Michael's method of sterilizing mortal men. The apples are the result; they are seedless because they are all grafted from a plant called "Mother". When they go to check on Mother, they find that it is missing.
2310"Mother"Jeremiah S. ChechikTiffany GreshlerMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)0.57[24]
Kyle's condition worsens, as does the situation on the neighboring island. Soren leads the team to the Bleeding Tree. Amy retrieves Mother from its hiding place in the bell tower, and Landry and Sergio both fall from a great height. Anne shows Peter the full extent of Michael's gruesome breeding program. The test on Landry was a failure, which Sarah feels could be made to work with more research. Julia tells Amy that it would be faster to grant her immortality by implanting the baby in Amy's womb, to Sarah's horror.
2411"Plan B"Jeff RenfroeLeigh Dana Jackson & Adria LangMarch 27, 2015 (2015-03-27)0.52[25]
Alan starts analyzing the red sap and Soren's blood, in hopes of finding a cure. Peter declares that nobody will leave the island, especially Alan. Julia and Sarah begin the procedure on Amy, who wakes up with the silvery eyes of an immortal. The Navy implements "Plan B", and sprays the island with an agent that kills on contact. This apparently eliminates the Coast Guard crew as well as damaging Mother. Amy quickly finds that she has been tricked.
2512"The Ascendant"Jeff RenfroeJavier Grillo-Marxuach & David GoldblumApril 3, 2015 (2015-04-03)0.54[26]
Alan creates the cure and uses it on Kyle, and asks him to carry a sample of it off the island. Peter is renamed "Eli" and takes control of the abbey. His first order is to eliminate the CDC team. Soren's mother alerts them to the threat. Kyle, Sarah and Soren call in a helicopter to evacuate them, but the attempt is thwarted when Eli opens fire on it. Julia and Alan find that the abbey was built on top of the Mother Tree, and it has sufficient material to carry out the sterilization plan. Alan questions why she is doing it, especially since NARVIK-C may not even exist. They pull guns on each other and as the screen goes black, a shot rings out.
2613"O Brave New World"Steven A. AdelsonSteven Maeda & Tiffany GreschlerApril 10, 2015 (2015-04-10)0.44[27]

Day 13: Julia tends to Alan's gunshot wound to the neck. When she leaves the room, Alan takes the samples from Mother to the Mother Tree, intending to set fire to it all. However, Eli traps him there and sets the fire around him. He is rescued by Julia. A helicopter evacuates everyone as the abbey burns.

Day 14: At a hospital in Seattle, Kyle delivers the cure to the government, and convinces his superiors that Peter is the real criminal, who is subsequently arrested instead of Alan. Moments before being arrested, Peter gives the material from Mother to one of the heads of Ilaria, who denies ever saying anything about NARVIK-C. Alan nearly dies, but Sarah saves his life by making him immortal.

In the year 2029: Any woman who wants a baby now must come to an Ilaria center. Sarah is seen working there.

30 years in the future: Caleb reveals himself to be Soren. He says that Alan and Hatake created the TXM-7 virus that is infecting the immortals. He offers his blood as a cure.

Notes

  1. ↑ "274" was originally made available on iTunes and Hulu starting on January 11.

References

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