The Gifted season 1, episode 8 synopsis: threat of eXtinction

The Gifted brings fans into Reed Strucker’s past this Monday, so what will we learn? Here’s the official The Gifted season 1, episode 8 synopsis.

Reed Strucker is the next character to get The Gifted‘s backstory treatment, as the FOX series focuses on his history and his estranged father in Monday’s next new episode. This could get all kinds of awkward.

Season 1, episode 8 is called “threat of eXtinction” and it’s a family affair. After revealing that his father worked for Trask Industries at the end of last week’s episode, Reed (Stephen Moyer) seeks out his dad to see what he might know about the government’s enigmatic new project. Naturally, this then becomes the perfect episode to learn more about Reed himself and how he became the federal prosecutor we met at the start of The Gifted season 1.

What skeletons are going to come out of the Strucker family closet? After all, there’s a reason that these two haven’t been hanging out.

But perhaps the best part of this episode is that Reed’s father is played by Raymond J. Barry. You will recognize him because he also played Raylan Givens’ (Timothy Olyphant) father on FX’s Justified, and Lilly Rush’s (Kathryn Morris) dad on CBS’s Cold Case. This is kind of what he does now. Of course, it’s worth noting both of those past characters were not great people. Will he be trouble again in The Gifted season 1?

Here’s how FOX officially describes the episode:

"More refugees pour into the Mutant Underground, but the group faces a threat when they discover one of them is a spy working for Sentinel Services. Meanwhile, Reed visits his estranged father and learns that secrets from his family’s past could prove useful."

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