"Salvation" follows whip-smart MIT grad student Liam (Rowe) and tech billionaire Darius Tanz (Santiago Cabrera), who bring to a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery: An asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth. Liam and Darius team to launch a secret project to save the planet -- a secret Liam must keep from the ones he loves. Byers plays Jillian, is an aspiring sci-fi writer recruited by Darius to work in a think tank on a theoretical project about saving humanity... a project that might prove to be all too real.

In Season 2, the world has learned about the impending threat of an asteroid on a collision course with earth. The question is: will the truth bring out the best...or the worst in humanity?