List of Wayward Pines episodes

Wayward Pines is an American television series based on the Wayward Pines novels by Blake Crouch. Developed for television by Chad Hodge, the pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, with both as executive producers. The series premiered on Fox on May 14, 2015, and the first season concluded on July 23, 2015. On December 9, 2015, Fox renewed the series for a second season of ten episodes, which is set to premiere on May 25, 2016.^[1] As of July 23, 2015, 10 episodes of Wayward Pines have aired, concluding the first season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	10	May 14, 2015	July 23, 2015
	2	10[1]	May 25, 2016[1]	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Where Paradise Is Home"	M. Night Shyamalan	Chad Hodge	May 14, 2015	YJU101	3.76[2]
U.S. Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke awakens from a car accident on the outskirts of Wayward Pines, Idaho. After entering town and collapsing in a coffee shop, he recalls driving with Agent Stallings, searching for Agents Kate Hewson and Bill Evans. Beverly, a bartender, gives him a note with an address where he finds the decaying corpse of Agent Evans, which he reports to an uninterested Sheriff Pope. When Ethan is subsequently hospitalized, psychiatrist Dr. Jenkins suggests surgery, but Beverly helps Ethan escape. In Seattle, Dr. Jenkins meets with Ethan's boss Hassler and tells him everything is going as planned. Ethan's wife Theresa wonders if he has run off with Kate, his former mistress. Ethan finds Kate in Wayward Pines, but she is noticeably older than when he saw her five weeks earlier, and she claims to have been there for 12 years. He steals a car to leave town, only to discover that a high fence blocks the only exits from Wayward Pines. Sheriff Pope tells him that he can never leave.
2	2	"Do Not Discuss Your Life Before"	Charlotte Sieling	Chad Hodge	May 21, 2015	YJU102	4.59[3]
Defying Pope's orders to stay put, Ethan goes to the morgue to inspect Evans' clothing and retrieve his journal with a map of the area. He also learns that Evans was married and speaks with his widow, who claims her husband committed suicide in front of her. Ethan inspects the map to find a way past the fence, and he and Beverly plan to escape after removing the tracking devices implanted in them. Meanwhile, Ethan's wife Theresa and son Ben set out for Idaho to find Ethan. Before Ethan and Beverly can escape, they are invited to dinner by Kate and her husband Harold. There, Beverly slips and mentions something from her recent past, breaking one of the town's rules (for her, the year is 2000, and she has been in town since 1999). She panics, and she and Ethan leave. Kate tells Harold she is sure they will run. Phones around town begin to ring, and the townspeople are mobilized to search for Ethan and Beverly, who separate. Beverly is caught, and then executed by Sheriff Pope in front of the entire town in what he calls a "reckoning".
3	3	"Our Town, Our Law"	Zal Batmanglij	Chad Hodge	May 28, 2015	YJU103	3.97[4]
Kate warns Ethan that he has been given a rare second chance after Beverly's execution. Theresa and Ben follow Ethan to Wayward Pines, but Pope intercepts them en route. While attempting escape, Ethan finds Theresa's car, which seems to have been abandoned for years. The Burkes are reunited, but before Ethan explains the odd events to Theresa, he goes to confront Sheriff Pope. Ethan meets Kate, who explains that she tried to escape for years, but the only way to survive is to play along. After Ben sees Ethan and Kate together, he and Theresa try to leave, but Sheriff Pope stops them. Ethan intervenes, eventually killing Pope with his own gun. Ethan opens a gate in the perimeter fence with Pope's remote, but before the Burkes can drive out, something enters and drags Pope's body beyond the fence. Hearing bestial cries, Ethan closes the gate.
4	4	"One of Our Senior Realtors Has Chosen to Retire"	Zal Batmanglij	Steven Levenson	June 4, 2015	YJU104	4.20[5]
Ethan explains all he knows about Wayward Pines to Theresa, and they agree to play "happy family" until Ethan can investigate. Ethan learns from Mayor Brad Fisher that he has been named the new Sheriff. Playing along, Ethan soon finds a hidden cache of files about the town's residents, which includes information about their former lives. Ben is welcomed to Wayward Pines Academy by its principal Megan Fisher, the mayor's wife, who Ethan has learned used to be a hypnotherapist. Nurse Pam and Ethan face off over "insurgent" realtor Peter McCall. Told by a mysterious phone caller that a reckoning is required for Peter, Ethan instead takes the man to the perimeter fence in hopes of hiding him. Peter indicates the cliff-side as the only escape from the town. Knowing that Ethan needs to do as he is told in order to gain time to solve the mystery of Wayward Pines, Peter electrocutes himself on the fence. Later, Ethan begins climbing the rock face to escape and get help, as a mysterious figure awaits him at the top.
5	5	"The Truth"	James Foley	Blake Crouch and The Duffer Brothers	June 11, 2015	YJU105	4.24[6]
Ethan is slashed and stalked by violent humanoid predators as he makes his way through the woods toward Boise. During his orientation at the academy, Ben learns some of the truth about Wayward Pines: humans have evolved into "abbies" (aberrations), the result of a series of genetic mutations, and are now vicious carnivores who dominate a wasted Earth in the year 4028. The citizen-abductees of Wayward Pines were kept in hibernation chambers for over two thousand years before being awakened in the town, which is essentially an ark to re-introduce and protect the human race to ensure its future. Principal Fisher tells the students they cannot reveal this truth to their parents. Ethan comes upon the ancient ruins of Boise. A helicopter arrives with Dr. Jenkins, who introduces himself as David Pilcher, creator of Wayward Pines. He explains that the town is humanity's only sanctuary.
6	6	"Choices"	Jeff T. Thomas	The Duffer Brothers and Brett Conrad	June 25, 2015	YJU106	3.45[7]
Dr. Pilcher takes Ethan to the town's secret control center and tells him the history of Wayward Pines. In the 1990s, Pilcher discovered the mutant gene and predicted the coming of the abbies, but the scientific community shunned him. While he was able to recruit a number volunteers for his project, the bulk of participants were abducted. Keeping everyone in cryochambers for over 2000 years, Pilcher and his closest associates (including Pam) awakened in 4014 to find that they were the last remaining humans. The initial townspeople awakened—"Group A"—were told the truth about the world outside Wayward Pines. Unable to handle the truth, they all perished, either by suicide, violent anarchy or by escaping and falling victim to the abbies. The adults of the current "Group B" have not been told the truth, but Pilcher is aware that a secret faction are disaffected, and planning to breach the wall. Pilcher awakened Ethan to impose order on Wayward Pines. Ethan is willing, but only on his terms. Meanwhile the Ballingers are building a bomb as part of their plan to finally escape.
7	7	"Betrayal"	Steve Shill	Rob Fresco	July 2, 2015	YJU107	3.38[8]
Theresa thinks something nefarious has been done to Ethan when he tells her that it is the year 4028. He finds a pipe bomb in his vehicle, and begins investigating the conspiracy. Theresa investigates Plot #33 and finds that a metal structure lies beneath the empty lot. Ethan finds that a former explosives expert, Franklin Dobbs, planted the bomb and soon discovers that Harold is involved in the secret group. He correctly surmises that Kate is the group's leader. Kate thinks Ethan's story about what lies beyond the fence is the result of brainwashing, telling Theresa she got a call out to Hassler within her first week in Wayward Pines. Kate pushes up the group's plan to blast through the wall to that night. Ethan intercepts Kate and her accomplices at the fence before they succeed, but soon realizes there is another bomb that is headed to the fence in a delivery truck. He is in pursuit when the bomb—inadvertently armed by Amy—detonates early, leaving Amy injured and Ben bloody and unconscious.
8	8	"The Friendliest Place on Earth"	Tim Hunter	Patrick Aison and Rob Fresco & Chad Hodge & Blake Crouch	July 9, 2015	YJU108	3.37[9]
In the aftermath of the explosion, Ben is hospitalized and Ethan and Pilcher try to locate the remaining members of the conspiracy. Suspecting that someone on his surveillance staff is aiding the rebels, Pilcher tasks Pam to investigate. Dr. Fisher tells an awakened Ben that Ethan had the bomber in custody, but let him go because he is Kate's husband Harold. Ethan confronts a jailed Kate, who refuses to cooperate with his investigation. Harold and Alan steal a dump truck to ram the fence, but Harold stays behind for Kate. Alan makes it to the other side of the fence with the body of a fellow conspirator he hopes to bury, but the two are immediately attacked by abbies.
9	9	"A Reckoning"	Nimród Antal	The Duffer Brothers	July 16, 2015	YJU109	3.25[10]
Ethan arrives at the fence just in time to stop three abbies from breaching it. He convinces Harold to give him the names of the remaining 14 conspirators, but Ethan soon finds that they have all removed their tracking chips and gone off the grid. Three young men from "Class One of the Academy", led by Jason Higgins, storm the jail wanting to reckon Kate, Harold, Franklin and two others. They are initially thwarted by Arlene, but return later and Jason executes all except Kate, who survives only when Ethan arrives to shoot her attacker. Meanwhile, prompted by a conflicted Pam, Theresa has gone into the tunnel system under Plot #33 and finds a video of Hassler making a report from the ruins of San Francisco in the year 4020, which she shows to Ethan and Kate. Ethan tells Pilcher he now believes he must reckon Kate, and insists the whole town be there. Instead, Ethan tells them all the truth about Pilcher and Wayward Pines. Observing, Pilcher cuts power to the town—including the fence.
10	10	"Cycle"	Tim Hunter	The Duffer Brothers and Chad Hodge & Blake Crouch	July 23, 2015	YJU110	3.98[11]
Scores of aberrations breach the perimeter of Wayward Pines. Learning what Pilcher has done, Ethan and Kate direct the assembled citizens to the bunker under Plot 33, but not before the abbies begin to arrive and slaughter everyone they can. Jason, still recovering from being shot by Ethan, heads to safety in another bunker with members of Class One. Pam objects to Pilcher's intent to wipe the town clean and start over with "Group C", so he has her refrozen against her will. The townspeople flee through a tunnel from the bunker to the mountain complex, with abbies in pursuit. The volunteers, about to be refrozen by Pilcher's security force, rebel and reawaken Pam who kills Pilcher. With the survivors (including Theresa and Ben) safe in the complex, Ethan sacrifices himself to stop the rest of the abbies. Ben is injured and wakes up in the hospital; it is three years later and Amy, now a nurse, tells him that "they" are listening. Jason and Class One have seized control of Wayward Pines and frozen most of the adults. As Ben walks through the town, he finds that Jason has become the sheriff—and corpses are strung up on lampposts bearing signs saying "DO NOT TRY TO LEAVE".

Season 2

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"Enemy Lines"[12]	David Petrarca[13]	TBA	May 25, 2016[1]	TBA	TBD

Ratings

Season 1 (2015)

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Where Paradise Is Home"	May 14, 2015	1.0/3	3.76[2]	1.1	N/A	2.1[14]	N/A
2	"Do Not Discuss Your Life Before"	May 21, 2015	1.2/4	4.59[3]	1.1	2.92	2.3	7.51[15]
3	"Our Town, Our Law"	May 28, 2015	1.2/4	3.97[4]	1.0	3.05	2.2	7.02[16]
4	"One of Our Senior Realtors Has Chosen to Retire"	June 4, 2015	1.1/4	4.20[5]	1.3	3.33	2.4	7.53[17]
5	"The Truth"	June 11, 2015	1.2/4	4.24[6]	1.0	2.93	2.2	7.17[18]
6	"Choices"	June 25, 2015	1.2/4	3.45[7]	1.2	3.63	2.4	7.08[19]
7	"Betrayal"	July 2, 2015	1.0/4	3.38[8]	1.3	3.53	2.3	6.91[20]
8	"The Friendliest Place on Earth"	July 9, 2015	1.0/4	3.37[9]	1.1	3.15	2.1	6.51[21]
9	"A Reckoning"	July 16, 2015	0.9/3	3.25[10]	1.2	2.97	2.1	6.22[22]
10	"Cycle"	July 23, 2015	1.2/5	3.98[11]	1.1	2.98	2.3	6.96[23]

Season 2

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Enemy Lines"	May 25, 2016	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

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