Episode Report Card LuluBates: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Little Help From My Friends
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.27.2010
Erica came home from work to talk to Tyler, but he's not talking to her. He's still pissed that she lied or didn't lie about who his dad is or isn't. I mean, according to Erica, she didn't lie, but according to the blood tests, she did. So it's all a bit confusing and undoubtedly too much for Tyler's feeble little brain especially since the bulk of his brain cells are just flashing: *sex*sex*sex*sex*sex*sex*sex*sex*sex*pizza*. Or at least that's what I assume is going on in the heads of most teenage boys. Anyway, Tyler won't talk to Erica even though she keeps apologizing. And, can't she see he is at church, anyway? Erica finally notices that he is watching a video about the new Church of the V on his laptop. She slams the laptop shut angrily, because, really? Church of the V? But when Tyler calls her on her V hatred, once again Erica won't say anything bad about the Visitors. [Even though the all-seeing magic coat is in the other room. - Zach] I guess Ryan's advice didn't sink in. Or she doesn't trust her son, which is highly possible. Tyler suits up to go meet Lisa, and Erica asks if she can maybe meet Lisa sometime? Clothed? Tyler shrugs and heads off.
Up on the Mothership, Anna is filling Lisa in on their accelerated plans. She is inviting Tyler into the Live Aboard Program, and she expects him to say yes. Lisa nods, she won't let her mother down. Anna smiles that it is good that Tyler trusts her. He will live onboard with them until they no longer need him. Lisa and her FEELINGS perk up at that and ask: Then what? Anna just smiles slightly, turns on her heel, and leaves. Oh Lisa, they're just feelings, nothing more than feelings. Anna joins Joshua, who is overseeing some humans getting shots and wristbands. He informs Anna that the human experimentation has already started. No. 2 arrives and informs Anna that the guards he sent to capture the breeders were killed. Anna looks thoughtful and then tells him to release a Soldier. No. 2 is shocked by this decision, but he seems shocked by almost every decision she makes. Maybe he has FEELINGS, too. He reminds Anna that no Soldier has ever set foot on Earth before, and if the humans figure out the reign of destruction and terror that a Solder is capable of, people might start getting suspicious about the Vs. Anna shrugs. She tells No. 2 to follow the Soldier and clean up his mess. Aw, he's like a V pooper scooper.
Well I guess the Fab Four have moved into their luxury underground lair, because the second Kyle is left alone with the hogtied killer, he heads over to the armoire and pulls out some antiques to brag about to the assassin. Showoff! He thinks the guy will be particularly interested in a little trinket called a "Heretic's Fork," which they used with great aplomb during the Inquisition. It looks like a rusty old tuning fork, and it goes under the soft part of the chin. It looks uncomfortable and, yet again, like it also possibly came off the set of an S&M episode of CSI, and don't pretend they don't have a lot of those, because they do. I'd say it's almost a fetish for the writers. Not S&M, but the writing about it. Anyway, if you think the Heretic's Fork look ominous, you should really see the Liar's Butter Knife and the Schismatic Spork. Kyle introduces himself to the captive, "I'm Kyle Hobbes. Perhaps you've heard of me from that bombing in Dublin? Or the assassination in Dubai? No? The gun ring in Bolivia? Really? No? Huh. Well... your alien friends know me. That's why they set me up." Kyle wants answers, but just as he straps the Heretic's Fork, Father Jack opens the door, and Kyle grabs the Heretic's Fork, shoves it in his back pocket and starts whistling "Toxic," because that's innocent enough. But, what, did Kyle swipe the Heretic's Fork from Father Jack's church? Doesn't every Catholic church have a stockpile of torture implements from the Inquisition JUST IN CASE? I went to 12 years of Lutheran school, and we Protestants have a lot of suspicions about the Catholics. I hear they also have tails and put ice cubes in their wine. Father Jack gives Kyle a look, which would clearly send shivers down the spines of any Catholic school students. Father Jack wants their prisoner treated well until they know for sure that he is a species traitor. After that: Have at him. Glad to know exactly where you draw the line on torture, Padre. Kyle knows he's right, and he knows Father Jack will really regret not torturing that guy some more. Further debate on the morality of torture is paused when the V communication device illuminates. It's Joshua.