As we reach the end of an interesting season of Debris, with episode 13 ‘Celestial Body’, everything seems to be turning on its head.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*

So far this season, Finola (Riann Steele) and Bryan (Jonathan Tucker) have managed to fight the good fight and keep her father (Tyrone Benskin) alive, as well as hidden from Maddox (Norbert Leo Butz).  This undertaking has been without any major incidents and has allowed them to focus on the revelations connected to Bryan’s interactions with the Debris.

DEBRIS — “Celestial Body” Episode: 113 — Pictured: Jonathan Tucker as Bryan Beneventi — (Photo by: James Dittiger/NBC)

It has also looked as if we pretty much knew how the lines were drawn between the main players, with only a few outliers yet to be explained, such as Sebastian Roche’s unknown figure occasionally stepping into the fray.  Is he Agent Brill, is he an alien?  This episode though, upends a number of our ideas of how things are, and sets the series off in a different direction.

The central mystery this week involves a substantially more powerful piece of debris than we regularly see, which has taken control over a number of people from miles around.  They have all been gathered together and are now mentally linked with the debris.  This is the debris piece that will apparently let them track all the other pieces across the globe, and so has a massive significance going forward.

DEBRIS — “Celestial Body” Episode: 113 — Pictured: (l-r) Riann Steele as Finola Jones, Tyrone Benskin as George Jones, Ben Cotton as Loeb, Scroobius Pip as Anson Ash — (Photo by: James Dittiger/NBC)

It’s intriguing and an interesting development, with a nature that seems very puzzling for Finola and Bryan, while George doesn’t seem to want to help, and just speaks more and more in an enigmatic fashion.  At first this seems like it is just due to his memory loss and just a characteristic of his somewhat irritating personality, but then there is a twist that reshapes the show.

While this has been going on we have seen the Influx agents approaching the site, and they seem all too aware of what George’s progress.  Along with Ash (Scroobius Pip), and Loeb (Ben Cotton), there is also now Otto (John Noble), who appears to have some powers.  When they arrive all becomes clear, as it turns out that George is working with them and is not who Finola thought he was all along.  This painful discovery is played pretty well, as she wrestles with reconciling the past few weeks against what the actual reality must have been.  George is convinced that she should join their cause, but she is resistant, and declares that he isn’t her father.

DEBRIS — “Celestial Body” Episode: 113 — Pictured: John Noble as Otto — (Photo by: James Dittiger/NBC)

To enable them to steal the debris, they need to disconnect it from the affected people nearby, so they send out a pulse from a macguffin they brought with them.  This will also wipe anyone’s memory, if they haven’t ingested a magic bean they happen to have, so George forces Finola to take it, leaving Bryan at the pulse’s mercy.  In theory.  In practice this doesn’t work as Bryan appears to be immune and reveals a bit more of his history involving Garcia and a third man, who turns out to be Otto.  There is still some mystery here though, as we aren’t given any details, and even Bryan wasn’t aware of Otto’s identity.

DEBRIS — “Celestial Body” Episode: 113 — Pictured: (l-r) Jonathan Tucker as Bryan Beneventi, Tyrone Benskin as George Jones, John Noble as Otto — (Photo by: James Dittiger/NBC)

All of this shifts the allegiances around, and definitely makes you re-evaluate what everyone’s motives and priorities are.  Up until now, we have been given the impression that Maddox is up to no good, which he is to a degree, but ultimately he may not be rotten to the core as expected.  George was clearly out of favour at Orbital for a reason, and there is obviously more we are unaware of that changes the moral landscape.  As for what ‘Brill’ and his crew are up to is still very much an unknown, and the episode ends with a sight that throws even more uncertainty into the mix.

It’s been an intriguing season, and has developed quite well from its early days when it was a bit too much like Fringe for its own good.  It most certainly has found its own rhythm and now has some interesting directions to go in.  At this moment we haven’t heard yet whether this has been renewed or not, but on the evidence we’ve seen, it deserves to continue.