By Zach Oat
A raggedy-looking guy stumbles across the twisted, mangled legs of Lisa in an alley, and immediately calls for help. Erica and Agent Malik called down to the V healing center, where they get an eyeful of Lisa's injuries, including a split lip and jagged "V" carved in her cheek, and Erica finally finds out that Lisa is a V. Lisa gives descriptions of her attackers, and the pictures Agent Malik comes up with are of a nerdy scientist type... and Kyle Hobbes. Eventually, Anna shows up and fawns over Lisa, and Erica finally finds out that her son's girlfriend is Anna's daughter. Anna has Lisa's legs fixed, but parades her facial injuries at a press conference, announcing that the Vs will be leaving, and even sending the Hong Kong ship away to show she's serious. Joshua and Erica meet face to face, and tells Erica that Anna broke her daughter's legs herself.
Hobbes has clearly been framed by the Vs, and Erica's boss wants to go after him, but Erica convinces him they aren't going to have any more luck than they've already had, so they end up focusing on the scientist, Parker. Erica gets there first, and finds out he was part of a think tank working on a deadly reptile virus, and that the man's six co-workers have all gone missing, as well as his research. The Vs clearly want him dead, and when he's brought in, it's revealed that the government has made a deal with the Vs -- they'll hand over anyone suspected of being Fifth Column, pre-trial, in exchange for blue technology. Also, they're staying. Erica tries to convince Lisa not to incriminate an innocent man, but Lisa goes through with it and identifies the scientist as her attacker, because Anna is scary. Throughout the episode, Anna and Erica speak entirely in veiled threats to each other.
Meanwhile, Chad Decker is being all pissy because Anna didn't use him to get her message out about the Vs leaving, so he uses his own initiative to go on TV and tell his viewers to let the government know that they want the Vs to stay and the Fifth Column to be eliminated. Good dog! By the end, he knows he was manipulated, though. Also, it turns out the reason the Vs want Kyle is because he was originally hired to kill Parker, but he passed on the assignment when the client didn't check out. And he actually went to Parker's place before Erica and took Parker's hard drive, which allows him to safely meet with Marcus, Anna's lieutenant, to offer an exchange -- the virus research for his name being cleared. Also, lots of money. Bastardo! -- Zach Oat
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