Marcus/Season 1

Season 1 Character Summary for Marcus This article details the broad episodic events involving Marcus in first season of Raised by Wolves. For a more synoptic description of the character, please view the main article.

Pilot (Raised by Wolves)

Mother and Campion awaken to the sound of radio broadcasting. They witness other humans arriving to the scene. Marcus approaches behind them, announcing them as the Mithraic, who believed all of Earth's survivors were with them. He asks how they got here, though Mother refuses to answer. She kindly tells them to get off their land, but they are adamant on staying for dinner, and later, for the night.

At nightfall, Mother escorts the soldiers to the igloo. Inside, the soldiers let on they know she's an android, and remarks they must have gotten here faster on a smaller craft with human embryos. The cleric remarks on the orphan boy who dwells on an empty land, and his comrade adds the prophet who will discover the Mithraic mysterious. They speculate they're could be others - while the boy may be a prophet, they agree to take him with them as she's malfunctioning. They call on their android, Jinn, and order him to take her out. Jinn agrees, calling her a low end model and doesn't anticipate a struggle.

As first light, Campion catches the men gathering their crops though is dismissed by the majority. Marcus tells him to come, and he questions him on the android. Campion, refusing to lie, begs him if he can fix her as Mother overhears. He's assured by Marcus he can, as they got more than 1,000 people across the galaxy in one piece. He tells the boy to visit the Ark, but he's unsure. Marcus tells Campion she's becoming dangerous as she breaks down, but Campion doesn't want to leave Mother. At the mention of Marcus' son and live animals. Mother becomes enraged, and begins to walk to her son, though Jinn engages her in a battle. Marcus grabs Campion and runs as the boy screams for her. Inside the hut, Mother suffers a beatdown, but she overpowers Jinn. Outside, she punches the man holding Campion and in a series of supersonic screams, kills the other three soldiers. She tries to calm a scared Campion, but notices Marcus running away. Kissing him on the head, she goes after him, transforming to her metallic form and flies off.

Marcus reaches his lander and tries to power it, though the engines fail to turn on as Mother approaches, sinisterly knocking on the screen. As she strokes the surface of the ship, the camouflage feature deactivates. Marcus, realizing his fate, arms himself with a gun and shoots mother as she appears right behind him, though the shots fail to affect her. He bows his head in defeat and strokes the side of his face, sending him out of the ship, apparently dead.

Pentagram

During the year 2145 in Boston, a squadron of soldiers run through a figged out trench during the peak of the war, firing at initially unknown objects attacking from above. Caleb calls out to Mary, and they press against the ditch to hide. Above them, an outstretched airborne android fails to notice them as it continues to shriek. The pair escape, though a flying vehicle crashes ahead of them, and they run towards it. Mary ignores an android pleasantly asking for help as he burns in fire to check on the pilot, who is dead. Caleb extinguishes the android and grabs him, as the group escapes he large explosions around them. They shoot an unarmed person as they enter a building, laying the android down. Caleb discovers the android to be a type A medic used for the Mithraic, who happens to have a log of all the passengers on the Ark. Caleb comes up with a plan to disguise themselves as a passenger (incidentally, Marcus), and volunteers to go first in a cosmetic surgery by the android while Mary cooks a rat dinner.

Caleb later tests her ability to test a new voice. Some time later at night, Caleb finds Mary, now without bandages, crying in the mirror. She hates it, but he replies otherwise. He takes off his own bandages, revealing his new face. He tells her it's Marcus now, and her name is Sue as she begins to break down. The newly-christianed Marcus consoles her as she reiterates the Mithraic motto.

The pair later travel to an abandoned structure. Inside, they find a cooking pot and demand the inhabitants to show themselves. Emerging from behind the counter are the real Marcus and Sue, staring at their imposters. The real Sue begins to say the Mithraic motto, but they are shot dead by the doppelgängers. 'Marcus' shuffles through their files as 'Sue' helps herself with the food, and discovers the couple have a son, Paul, much to her shock. They find their boarding keys, with papers saying he'll be delivered to his parents in the boarding area.

At a defunct stadium underneath an Ark lander, the new Marcus and Sue are in line for the boarding gates, as an intercom announces prayers and priests bless those waiting. Marcus spots a boy sitting on a bench with other children, and thinks that the son. The couple move out of the lien and approach, nervously greeting him. The boy, Paul, replies hello to his parents without emotion. A cleric refers to Marcus as Captain Drusus, telling him Paul was taken good care of. An announcement reiterates all passengers have their identification ready, and the family get back in line. In a waiting area, where seats are replaced by seamless white pods, a large group of priests arrive and welcome the passengers as brothers and sisters, asking them to join in prayer to repent the sins committed on Earth. One priest hands Sue a circle of bread and she drinks from the goblet. Paul does likewise, though Sue reaches over to him as he says he's scared. She tells him it will be alright as Marcus finishes his ritual. The Ark's lander then launches into space, with a view form the ground revealing dogs having been left behind.

In the present day, near the abyss hole, Marcus outstretches his hands for warmth, and notices the long rope feathered nearby. He wraps himself and lies near the edge, noting he feels better. Much later, two of the extraterrestrial creatures find Marcus' still body near the edge of the abyss, and push him into it. However, the rope keeps him from falling into the hole. Suddenly, soldiers from the Mithraic find his body, and pull him up. They hoist him on a stretcher and make their journey through the barren wasteland.