Episode Report Card LuluBates: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blue Balls
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.20.2010
not amusing among the cold-blooded brethren. The fight breaks up long enough for Erica to explain about the murders. Father Jack feels instantly guilty and Kyle is instantly not sorry because this is war, man. Erica explains that a high school teacher named Alex Caruso got away and they need to find him. He is off the grid, but she thinks he checked in with his dying father at the Veterans' Hospital. Father Jack does a quick calculation (Caruso? That sounds Italian. He's probably heard of Catholicism) and offers to pimp out his priest collar to go talk to the man. Erica excuses Ryan from his Fifth Column duties for the day and he leaves the group to continue his search for Val. When he leaves, Erica tells a priest that she wants to kill some Vs, which probably violates a few commandments.Up on the Mothership, Lisa is watching home movies of Tyler when Joshua finds her. He has been giving empathy tests to everyone on the ship. She is the last person on his list. She agrees to the test and Joshua administers it to her. When it is over, he coldly reports that SHE FAILED. She is startled, she protests, she denies it. Then she starts to rationalize: Her assignment to make Tyler fall in love with her has skewed the results. She is not really empathetic. She swears! Joshua just stands there staring at her. She starts to get more nervous and reminds Joshua that he has known her since the day she was born (hatched?) and there is no way he can question her loyalty. Joshua replies that her mother's orders were clear: Kill anyone who failed the test. No exceptions. Yikes. Lisa starts looking mighty empathetic for herself.
Back in Geneva, Anna is introduced to the Secretary General with Chad Decker by her side. The Secretary General acknowledges Chad's existence, but looks skeptical about what exactly he is doing there. He also reminds Anna that while she is welcome to attend the proceedings, the privilege of making a presentation to the world's leaders is reserved for invited guests. Ooh Anna got bounced! Me likey the Secretary General. Anna calmly replies that she hoped the Secretary General would stand by her side as she presented her gift of blue energy to the world (in song, I hope). Just as calmly the awesome SG replies that he would, like, totally be into that, but some people (he points his head at the Canadian rep and winks) are real sticklers for protocol. In short, no can do, space sister. Chad Decker decides to butt in and asks the Secretary General his thoughts on protocol. Before he can answer with a lengthy quote from Emily Post, Anna smiles that she is sure he is objective. The Secretary General takes his leave, smirking because he totally schooled her. Chad tells Anna that she had to know there was going to be opposition and Anna smiles that she LOVES opposition. It only strengthens her agenda (so they DO have Successories in space!). Chad gets all boy reporter on her and asks, "Agenda? I thought it was a gift?" And Anna leaves without answering. The camera however definitely has an opinion on this as it zooms really close to Chad's face and then up and down again. Somebody has been watching their Hitchcock!
Father Jack heads in to visit Mr. Caruso the Elder in his hospital room. He makes his big entrance quoting Psalms, because that's always a hit at the old folks home. Caruso taps his toe to the old favorite but doesn't seem moved to join in the chorus. So when religion fails, turn to the military: Father Jack notes the First Battalion Rangers tattoo on Caruso's forearm and whips out his dog tags. He tells him that he did two tours in Iraq as army chaplain and he's a lot more than just a pretty face over a clerical collar. Caruso can't trust anyone and Father Jack understands. Caruso asks Jack to come closer and closer and closer. He grabs him by the head and checks for the V mark behind Jack's ear. His cut is still healing, which makes me very confused about both the timeline and the V medical care. Wouldn't they have noticed that? Or healed it? Anyway, this proves to Caruso that he can trust Father Jack. If Father Jack promises to help his son -- who told him the truth about the Visitors -- then he will tell him where he is. Father Jack nods. Cut to a rooftop where Erica, Kyle and Father Jack's calls to Alex Caruso are greeted with a sloppy volley of gunfire. Erica and Kyle whip out their pieces while Father Jack pleads for peace. He's a priest! God is love! Arms are for hugging! He begs Alex to come out, stop shooting, and talk to them. His father sent them for chrissake! Oh, pretend he didn't say that part. Gunshots send Father Jack back into hiding. Kyle moves into fighting position while Erica gambles that Alex won't actually shoot her if she tells him she's a mother. She holds up her hands and walks within firing range explaining that she knows this is overwhelming for him, that the Visitors killed his friends, that he's just a lowly school teacher. Alex comes out and demands to know how he can believe they aren't Visitors. Erica points at Kyle who has a gun pointed at Alex's head and shrugs that if they were Visitors he'd be dead already. She has a point there, buddy. Alex drops the gun and cries because schoolteachers are a sensitive lot.