Summary

• Kate's nightmares and strange behavior point to shocking revelations about her abduction.
• Ben and Kate's missing son, Max, has powers and is a mysterious genetic anomaly that's further explored.
• The Hawthornes' journey hints at a deeper connection to the alien machinations in Patience.

The following contains spoilers for Resident Alien Season 3, Episode 5, "Lovebird," which debuted March 13 on SyFy. This article also contains a brief mention of suicide.

Resident Alien Season 3's story has quickly roped more people into the mysterious abductions in the snowy Colorado town of Patience. Initially, it was just Mayor Ben Hawthorne who had to deal with being taken up in the Greys' spaceship. He assumed he was sleepwalking, but fans know he gets taken and turned into a guinea pig periodically.

However, clues hint that more people endured similar tragedies. Surprisingly, someone close to Ben has suffered the same fate: this is none other than his wife, Kate. As the devastating bombshell leaks, it has fans wondering exactly what the endgame is for these humans at the hands of their extraterrestrial overlords.

Resident Alien Makes Kate the New Peter Bach

Kate has been suffering horrific dreams all season long, holding a baby before she is taken away by aliens. She doesn't want to be separated in these moments of love, leading to panic, trauma and hallucinations when she wakes up in the real-world. She is also somehow feeling a pull to do things she isn't accustomed to doing. Visiting Yellowstone is one of them, which Episode 3, "141 Seconds," confirmed was a place of interest for the Greys. They were making it into a giant bomb to hurt the planet, eager to ensure the caldera there could trigger fault lines and use them as dominoes in an apocalyptic scenario.

Now, Episode 5, "Lovebirds," picks back up on that thread and affirms Kate's trip was not a coincidence. Kate has been marked and used by the aliens as well. At the end of Season 2, they extracted her unborn baby from her in her bedroom. But as she talks to Deputy Liv in the present, she realizes she has been showing signs of actual adduction. Kate has been doing cryptic drawings, she has personality shifts, memory lapses, and she sees owls -- all the red flags Liv learned from her years of studying abductions.

To make matters worse, Kate finds a spot behind her neck where she has been chipped when she goes home. Viewers will know that this is similar to the Alien Tracker, Peter Bach. The same thing happened to Peter and his wife, Jenny, with the chip allowing them to visit their son Robert from time to time decades back. Unfortunately, Bach grew delusional and paranoid, going on a hunt that brought him to Patience in Seasn 2 that ended with his death.

This brings the Hawthornes' journey full-circle, because the Bachs were manipulated by the Greys to inadvertently help their machinations. It begs the question of what Kate has been doing when she wasn't in control. There is also an obscure cloud hanging overhead about whether she and Ben ever really loved each other. They had many marital disputes in the series, and often wondered if they were soulmates. Now, it feels like true love might have been an illusion that the Greys concocted.

Resident Alien's New Abduction Could Have a Happy Ending

Over the seasons, Resident Alien revealed Robert was kept in an alien nursery, but mysteriously got out. This is the same nursery that had Ben and Kate's baby. It teases that if Ben and Kate could find a way back to the nursery, they could have their child back. McCallister may be the key to this, because as it stands, she is experimenting on Bach, who isn't dead, but comatose.

Her plan is to use Peter's ability to see aliens, equip her soldiers, and then go on the hunt. With hybrids like Joseph working for the Greys on Earth, McCallister and her assistant, David Logan, have the ingredients needed to arrest and mine him for a way to the mother ship. That said, as intriguing as the retaliation arc is, life is very emotionally taxing for Resident Alien's Ben and Kate.

Notably, Peter's wife, Jenny, didn't handle things well and disappeared. She never got to meet Robert once he went free. Sadly, Robert was captured by Linda Hamilton's General McCallister and placed in a cell where she ran her own experiments. After being rescued from the military by Harry and his father, Robert was abducted again and returned to the nursery at the end of Season 2 near the Hawthorne baby. It has fans wondering if he will somehow make it back to Earth again.

Robert has shown resistance to some of the Greys' control, so there is a chance he could break out and bring the child with him, not wanting the same fate to befall the baby. No one knows how McCallister got Robert years ago, or if the Greys let him go as part of their long-term plan. But what's certain is that the show has been building him up as a trump card. This wildcard could well be the deus ex machina to help Kate realize, that while her babysitting was real on the alien ship, she does have a chance to attain this dream in reality. It would give her the closure Robert never attained with his kin.

Resident Alien's Kate Could Explain Max's Powers

Another mystery has been what happened with Ben and Kate's son, Max. These recent developments allude to the Greys experimenting on her son, Max. Since the show began, the duo of Max and Sahar have been using the boy's ability to see aliens (just like Peter) and expose Harry. It formed a playful arc, but now, there appears to be dark meaning behind the origin.

Harry said Max was a genetic anomaly, which raises questions about whether he is a hybrid, too. Harry wouldn't know for sure as the Greys are a different species with more advanced science. But it would speak to the Greys running various plots around town, similar to Marvel's Skrulls from Secret Invasion. It's not just about weaponizing Yellowstone, but co-opting key members around the locale.

Shockingly, Liv and D'Arcy have been unlocking their own memories of seeing Ben being abducted as a child. It teases no one is safe and that Resident Alien Season 3 is hiding a lot more secrets regarding memory-tampering. Even McCallister is unsure if she is a puppet. She saw her father get abducted and later, take his own life after no one believed they saw a ship. She was trying to expose the aliens fully, which has now evolved into a pure genocidal mission. Hints have been dropped in the past that more children were experimented on, suggesting the Greys have more agents than people think.

Theorists believe Max might have been a case like Robert, who also broke out his conditioning. It would explain why Harry thinks he is very special, even if they can't stand each other. Either way, Max having abilities, not by luck, but by design, would be an intricate twist to the tale. It doubles down on the notion that everyone Harry has met while trying to destroy the planet and later ceded to the Greys are linked. Exactly what the goal is remains to be seen. But ultimately, Ben, Kate and Max appear to be cogs in a giant moving machine that not even Harry can get out of at the moment.

Resident Alien airs Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. on Syfy and USA, with episodes available to stream the following day on Peacock. The first two seasons are currently available to stream on Netflix.