The last time viewers saw Tom Mason and the 2nd Mass, they were on their way out of Charleston, S.C. when an entirely new breed of alien dropped down at their doorstep.

Seven months later, Falling Skies' Mason is now president. Actor Noah Wyle talks about his character and making the big time jump between seasons.

"When we find him this year, he is in fact the president of the United States, which is 14 square blocks around Charleston, S.C.," Wyle told News Ok. "It's more of a ceremonial title. He's gone back on everything he said he wanted to do at the end of last season, and we find him in a completely different place."

Tom rejected the military rule of General Bressler and his accompanying job offer at the end of season 2. Instead, he wanted to fight and he was not about to write off his son Ben's idea of rebel Skitters. When the final episode, "A More Perfect Union," came to a close, his family was together and about to gain a new member.

However, Tom is faced with more parenting woes in the post-apocalyptic world. He has one son, Ben, who communes with skitters and another, Hal (Drew Roy), who has been infected with an eyeworm, Meanwhile the youngest, Matt (Maxim Knight) is struggling with coming of age and seeking independence in a violent world while Tom and Anne (Moon Bloodgood) prepare to bring yet another child into an alien infested planet.

"In the beginning it was all about giving his youngest son some semblance of a childhood in the context of this horrible situation," Wyle says of Tom's parenting decisions in season 3, according to Metro. "And then at the end of the second season and the beginning of the third, his new philosophy is that the kindest, most responsible parenting philosophy he can espouse is to arm his kids and train his kids and hope that they can defend themselves."

All of this unfolds while the characters test the waters with their new alien alies, the Volm.

Falling Skies season premiere airs on Sunday at 9 on TNT.

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