Episode Report Card LuluBates: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT God Bless You, George Sutton
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 04.13.2010
Chad Decker has a deal for Anna. He has gone through the backgrounds of all the guests that they had on his show today and he has noticed a pattern. All the invitees for the Live Aboard Program have a great deal of potential, but are somehow broken. Like the violin virtuoso who is nuts or the cat lady with the hyper-fertile family. Is hyper-fertility really a gift? I mean, sure, it's worked out for the Duggars, Octomom, and arguably the Gosselins, but does the cat lady really aspire to show off her two left feet on Dancing with the Stars? Anna coolly tells Chad that humans are very shallow and miss the true inner beauty and potential of people. She is personally going to rectify that situation. Yeah, still not seeing how stunted hyper-fertility fits in with that. Chad isn't buying it either. So he has a deal. He gets very very close to Anna's face and explains that he is going to keep digging into the story, but he won't release his findings to the public so long as Anna keeps things interesting between them. She needs to give him a bigger story or he's going with this one. Anna promises that they will be helping each other out for a long time. Chad lets out a big old sigh of relief as he walks away from Anna. It's hard to tell whether he just decided to choose his career over his desire to help Father Jack or whether he is up to something. I also wonder when he will be getting that big call from the network executives expressing some concern that he is starting to lose any credibility as a journalist and any semblance of journalistic ethics when he sits right next to Anna throwing soft ball questions at her hand-picked guests. I mean, hell, Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin way tougher questions than Chad tosses at Anna. And almost no one takes her seriously.
Father Jack has invited Erica, Kyle, and Ryan back to the church to wait for Joshua to get in touch. It seems like they have been waiting for hours when the communication device finally lights up. Ryan rushes to it and Joshua is standing in the torture lab with Georgie. He explains that Georgie isn't looking so good, but he's not dead yet and probably won't be for at least a few days. He can't move him, though. Maybe once the Live Aboard Program starts he can smuggle him onto an outbound shuttle, but that's not for several days. Ryan asks to talk to Georgie and Joshua brings the superball over. Ryan asks Georgie how it's hanging and Georgie is glad to hear that Ryan is safe and off the ship. He doesn't want to be rescued. He knows the Vs are just waiting for it so they can follow him and track down the Fifth Column. He appreciates the thought, but he doesn't have a few more days anyway. He tells Ryan that he wants to talk to Father Jack. It's hard to tell whether Georgie wants absolution or the Last Rites or just to say goodbye to a friend. Father Jack is doing a heart-wrenching job with this scene as his eyes fill with tears and he says goodbye. Georgie knows what he wants and knows that he is ready to go be with his family. Father Jack nods and says, "God bless you, George Sutton." Joshua realizes what is required of him and as soon as Georgie is done talking, Joshua injects him with something. Georgie goes gentle into that good night. As the communication device goes dark, the Fab Four retreat to separate corners of the room to mourn the loss and the sacrifice of George Sutton. Later, someone pours the Scotch and everyone toasts the life of George Sutton who they hope did not die in vain.
Ryan flashes back to John May's wake. He comforts James who is holding his stepfather's compass and crying. Ryan wipes the tear off his face and stares at his hand like it is covered in boogers instead of a young boy's tears. He wipes it off surreptitiously and sits and stares at all the Emotions! Feelings! Warm Fuzzies! The Sads! Also in the room is Val. She watches as Ryan comforts James and falls in love right then and there. Girls are suckers for that sort of thing. Ryan calls Val, but when she declines his call, he leaves her a very heartfelt voice mail. There is something he needs to talk to her about when he gets home. He is not who she thinks he is. He wants her to know the truth. Oh Ryan, Val has already found her own truth. It involves a bunch of passports under different names, currency from across the globe, and a couple of ultrasound pictures with a tail. She can't handle the truth.
Erica comes home and finds Tyler sitting on the floor. And thus commences the worst two minutes of acting you will probably ever see on a primetime network television show. Seriously they should get some sort of award for fake crying. Tyler tells Erica that he knows the truth and Erica swears it is not true. The tests are wrong, she never...she didn't...Joe is definitely his dad! She never told him because she just kept waiting for someone to tell her it was a mistake! She is fake crying, fake gasping, the supposedly overwhelming sorrow isn't reaching past her mouth. And as bad as Erica is, Tyler is worse. He just can't believe she didn't tell him! He thought he could trust her! Except for all those times he didn't! Their relationship is ruined! Or at least the same as it was before! They sob like they are in a junior high rendition of the funeral scene from Tom Sawyer and they are both playing Aunt Polly. I don't expect much from Tyler, but I have seen Elizabeth Mitchell hit the tearful- heartbroken-overwrought thing out of the park as Juliet on Lost, so this crap is as inexcusable as it is confusing.
Up on the mothership, Anna is angrily watching the human news report on the mystery of the 'John May Lives' message. The earthlings aren't sure what to make of it, but it is seemingly sending Anna into a hyperventilating tizzy. No. 2 comes in to report that Georgie Sutton died. The emotional trauma must have been too much for him. Anna growls, but continues staring and breathing heavily. Also, sweating. No. 2 looks over her shoulder at the news and remarks that the 'John May Lives' message is trite and untrue but delivers the message. It has also started a groundswell of emotion against the Visitors. Anna glares at the screen. She allows the Fifth Column this one victory, because she is about to deliver them a thousand defeats. Oh! She's in labor! That explains the sweating and Lamaze breathing. She has opted for a water birth for her lil tadpoles. She steps into a hot tub and releases the eggs of a thousand soldiers. She also appears to be bleeding from the eyes. Nobody said birth was pretty.