By LuluBates
Erica, Kyle and Father Jack have the Vs' hired human assassin in custody, but he isn't much use to them, since he doesn't have the stolen list of the other Fifth Column members. Plus, he claims that the Visitors threatened his family if he didn't help them. Kyle has a few medieval ideas to get more answers out of him. But Erica goes to talk to his wife and finds out that the assassin's daughter was saved by the Visitors, and he would do anything to help them. Yes, that extends to killing innocent people. Erica finds the missing hard drive at the assassin's house and finally gets the address they are looking for. The torture might be a bit much for our beloved priest, though.
Up on the Mothership, Anna is pretty sure that the human-Visitor baby will be the end of the Visitor way of life. If a Visitor is born with human emotions, the Fifth Column could breed an army of hybrids to fight the Visitors. When the normal V retrieval team fails, she sets loose a Hot Tub Soldier to bring Ryan and Val and Ryan Jr. back to the ship.
Anna also accelerates the plans for the humans involved in the Live Aboard Program. We still don't know what that means, exactly, but it can't possibly be good. Tyler has been given an invitation, and he happily accepts, except for a niggling concern that his mom might be a tetch unhappy. Anna assigns Lisa the task of convincing Erica that the Live Aboard Program would be just like sleep-away camp but without the pesky mosquitoes and lousy grub. But when Lisa goes to talk to Erica, Erica cries Real Person Tears and Lisa's new feelings interfere with her mission and she ends up telling Tyler that he shouldn't join the program. This ticks Tyler off to no end and he blames his mother, obvi. What he doesn't know is that Anna wants to kill him when she's done with him and Lisa isn't too keen on that. But sure, Tyler, blame your mom. She's used to it!
Chad Decker is finally getting that Aneurysm of the Future taken care of, and, taking a page out of Katie Couric's Book of Journalism, he feels it is his duty to do it on camera. Anna sits by his bedside to make sure he doesn't wake up alone and this one act of manufactured kindness convinces Chad to help Erica spread the word about the evil of the Fifth Column. So who does he go to for answers? Father Jack.
On the lam, Ryan finally tells Val his secret and the only reason she still wants to be with him is for the sake of the baby. And she's going to need Ryan's help, since the entire Visitor army is after her. Dr. Pearlman joins up with Ryan to offer Val some on-the-run prenatal care, because that baby is MAGIC. Ryan takes Val to some old friends who ran the Fifth Column Underground Railroad back in the day. But Anna's soldier knows where they live and stakes out the house. He attacks and quickly takes out Ryan's friends. Ryan barely manages to get Val out of the house while struggling with the soldier. Erica and Father Jack show up just in time to fire a few rounds into the soldier, which does not stop him. Nor does the axe that Kyle slams into his chest. Ryan bids farewell to the Fab Four to go take care of Val, but he didn't check with her. Val doesn't forgive him and she doesn't want to see him again. She leaves him alone on the train platform.
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Melissa Locker a.k.a. Lulu Bates would definitely let Tyler join the Live Aboard Program. You can follow her on Twitter @woolyknickers.