Ep. 2- Episode two establishes the rules of the quarantined room.  As the chosen group begins to communicate with each other, we transition into the backstory of our first participant, Jessup Beckett.  The audience learns about his background in neurobiology and discovers how he became a founding member of the city-state. Jessup’s broken soul is revealed to us as the heart-breaking death of his wife is chronicled.

 

Ep. 3- Tensions increase as the participants prod Atka Quintero (the first one to be questioned) about her experience in the interview room.  Jessup gets into a physical altercation with the room’s proctor, Adrian Wallace.  Mandy is brought to tears as we transition from the present to her backstory.  A well-off Southern girl who marries a military engineer and follows him all the way to Alaska where they start their own family.

 

Ep. 4- Participant Timothy Whitaker is released due to a clerical error as Alexander Dolan is then called in to be interviewed.  Nurse Dina Kazemi helps Jessup recover as he chats with young Spencer Pace.  He tells him the most important person in the room is the quietest one, Vincent de la Cruz.  We go into Vincent’s backstory and see him rise from a second generation immigrant to mayor of Los Angeles during the worst natural disaster in the city’s history.  We follow the disgraced Cruz and his teenage son as they journey from LA up to Anchorage with the hope of finding salvation, only to end up residing in the immigrant camp outside the wall.

 

Ep. 5- Tensions build and alliances form as the Participants get familiar with each other.  Rebellious Rain Coulter is called in to be interviewed as Dina Kazemi’s backstory is revealed.  The struggle of her Palestinian family to assimilate in America is presented while Dina makes a mistake in her teenage years that forces a separation.  As she escapes to Anchorage, her family returns back to the Middle East.  While in Alaska, Dina becomes a pharmacist and soon begins administering underground drug cocktails that have an appeal for the many suffering in the City-State.

 

Ep. 6- After the lunch period, Spencer’s paranoia spins out of control as he lays into Vincent about the horrors he allowed in Los Angeles and then accuses Jessup of being a spy.  Following this outburst, his backstory is seen.  A gifted son of computer engineers, young Spencer struggles to win the affection of his parents.  After his parents divorce, he moves with his mother to Alaska, where he begins to show signs of schizophrenia. After his mother’s suicide he starts a conspiracy blog, pirating a signal to whoever will listen.  At the end of the episode, Spencer has a breakdown in the room that forces Atka to use shamanic healing to calm him down.

 

Ep. 7- The participants are dumbfounded after witnessing Spencer’s seizure and Atka’s healing powers.  They begin going over the questions each were asked in the interview room. Gordon seems to be hiding something. Atka maintains an eerie calm as we explore her backstory.  We see her raised in the ancient ways of the Eskimo, daughter of shamans.  Following their death, she leaves her village and is introduced to the ways of the White Man; impregnated and abandoned with a bastard son in Anchorage.  Back in the room, Vincent de la Cruz is called in for his interview.

 

Ep. 8- Gordon and Mandy seek solace in the word of Jesus together to the annoyance of others in the room. Rain in particular belittles their faith.  Through Gordon’s backstory we see his connection to God and the challenges he has had to face, including losing relationships with both of his children.  Vincent returns from his interview and comforts Mandy as she is the next to go in.

 

Ep. 9- Rain’s tough exterior cracks as she shows concern for Mandy.  Spencer questions the Qualitative Value Score of all the participants and posits his theory on who should be chosen.  Jessup urges everyone to shut up. Rain informs Jessup that she remembers him from the suicide clinic and we enter Rain’s backstory.  She is left behind in Anchorage as a child after her parents receive their Selection Notice and chose to leave the city.  She was then raised by her well meaning grandparents.  After high school, she struggled to find her purpose and began a complicated affair with her psychologist.  Back in the room, Mandy returns in a distraught state.  The room attempts to comfort her as Dina is called in to be interviewed.

 

Ep. 10- Alexander Dolan, the most unstable, reclusive participant in the room is featured.  In episode ten, we see the room through the synesthesia in Alexander's mind. He interacts freely and openly with everyone.  This vision is juxtaposed with the reality of him quietly talking to himself in a corner.  Through Alexander’s backstory we see him abandoned as a newborn and adopted by the Dolan family.  His poor social upbringing and psychological disorders counterbalance his ability to retain information and see through the veil of the physical world. 

 

Ep. 11- Jessup is brought back into the room after his interview.  Adrian brings him handcuffed into his office.  But instead of restrictions, he offers him some Scotch and the two men commiserate.  Adrian’s backstory is then presented but not as a participant, though as an important member of the group.  We see his tough life, losing a brother at a young age and trying to stay out of trouble.  He fought for the United States Army overseas but was brought back to fight against the AU.  He refused to fight Americans and was sent to Alaska where he stayed after the military was disbanded.  He fell in love with his wife only to lose her to the first round of the Selection Process.  Back in the room, Spencer is called in to be interviewed.  The last one in the group...

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Eps. 12~21-  The endings of each of our characters are revealed.  Order pending Network preference.