Episode Report Card LuluBates: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Red Sky
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.18.2010
Val has finally managed to push the baby out. As she collapses back on the cold metal table, she demands to see her child. The doctor has wrapped it in a blanket and shows Val her little bundle of oy. Even though they are pulling some Rosemary's Baby malarkey and we don't get to see the baby, judging from Val's face, we know the kiddo ain't going to be running for any Gerber baby competitions any time soon. The doctor notes the look of "yechh" on Val's face and takes the baby away. Anna arrives just then and looks at the babe. She tells the doctor that she is happy the baby survived, but is sad that the mother didn't. She then walks over and injects Val with something toxic that was just helpfully sitting there you know just in case Val got mouthy or something. Anna stares into Val's eyes as she dies. So long Val. I will really miss...oh Christ, nevermind.
After attending to her little situation of murder, Anna walks back to join her dinner guests. No word as to whether she washed her hands between. Anna gushes over Erica balancing a busy career as an FBI agent and head of the Fifth Column task force and being a single mom to a teenage son. Erica smiles that she and Anna have so much in common and should definitely form an intergalactic single working mothers support group. Just then Erica's phone rings and she wanders into Anna's private chamber to answer the fake call and look for the egg hatchery. As she looks for the correct door, Lisa finds her. Erica claims she was just looking for her purse, but Lisa scoffs. She knows why Erica is there. She takes a deep breath and points out the correct door. Then she hands Erica the salt shaker (I am loathe to think of where she was hiding that since her skin tight dress does not have pockets) and explains that it is a blue energy grenade. She tells Erica how to use it, but tells her she has to wait. She can't be gone from the table that long. Erica explains that there was supposed to be a diversion, but something went wrong. Lisa says she will figure something out. Erica heads back out to eat with the enemy. Lisa walks to Joshua's lab and finds him caught in his blue Habitrail prison looking glum. When Lisa sees him she asks what happened and he quickly tells her that, "Bitch set me up!" Everyone has been rounded up, but if Lisa sets him free he can still cause a diversion. Lisa has chosen sides and quickly releases him from the tube. Before he runs off to create a diversion so Erica can blow up the babies, she pauses, looks him in the eye and tells him he is very brave. He bows his head and thanks "his queen". Lisa looks touched and stunned, but runs back to dinner before things go kablooie.
Chad Decker's inner journalist has forced him to track down the secret corridor that Joshua mentioned. He hears the screams as soon as he enters. He sees the Machine of a Thousand Needles with a human woman strapped inside screaming in terror. He does not look pleased. Jackass.
Anna's intimate dinner party is interrupted by a security guard announcing that she has to be moved to a secure location because they are under attack by the Fifth Column. Erica offers to help, but she will need her gun. Anna agrees, because Erica is an ally. I think "frenemy" is more apt. As Anna is scuttled away, Erica has free run of the ship. With her weapon drawn, she heads straight for the hatchery. She enters the room and makes a serious Mr. Yuck face. She fights her heebie jeebies long enough to toast to Anna's future, chuck the grenade, and make a run for it. Erica jumps out the doors on a wave of blue energy. She rushes into the hallway and finds Joshua holed up shooting. She quickly tells him that it's done, so all that's left is to get him off the ship. Joshua knows it is impossible. There can be no suspicion that Erica is Fifth Column. She has to shoot him. Erica tries to think of another option, but Joshua is right. He trains his gun on her and she gulps and fires two rounds into his heart. He goes down. I hope she got the right side of the body this time! Later, Anna thanks Erica for taking out the terrorist and saving Visitors' lives. Erica smiles blandly. Anna asks if Erica was able to see the shooter, but Erica claims all she saw was a V uniform. Anna quickly claims that the shooter was a human who snuck aboard and stole a V uniform. It was definitely an evil human, not a Visitor. Erica blinks twice and then apologizes to Anna for the inconvenience her species has caused her. Anna spots Chad Decker and excuses herself. She wants to thank Chad for delivering that message and exposing the Fifth Column members. Chad looks a little paler than he did before and wanly says that he hopes nothing drives the Visitors away. Anna smiles broadly that they are here to stay. She then thanks Chad for all his loyalty. He has trusted them with his career AND his health. Without them he would have nothing. Now, this may just be me, but THAT was a really crap thank you. It kind of sounded more like a threat, really. Chad blanches even more and wanders off to the shuttle. Anna returns to Erica and Tyler and Lisa. Erica thanks her for the eventful evening and Anna promises they will do it again soon. Erica and Tyler head back to earth as Anna stares after them.
Oh yeah, Val is dead. Ryan is crouched over her body stroking her dead face and looking sad when Anna finds him. Ryan stands to glare at Anna and asks, "You killed her, didn't you?" He wraps his hand around her throat, because THAT WAS RHETORICAL, BITCH! Anna pulls his hand off of her reminding him that she had *air quotes* use for Val and didn't want her dead. She swears they did everything in their power to try and save Val's life, but, really, it's Ryan's fault for not bringing Val to the ship sooner. Nice blaming the victim, Anna! And, Ryan, THIS is why you don't leave your girlfriend alone in the delivery room. Chucklehead. Anna swears again that she didn't do it and is really sorry that Ryan is having all these Feelings making him feel like shit. She was trying to protect him from human emotions. So clearly this is his fault, too. Does he want a hug?
Despite their busy evening, Erica and Kyle make it to Father Jack's church in time to hear his homily. Is this a regular occurrence or did they both just need a little religion in their lives after their big nights? Personally I would be doing shots in the parking lot, but I also don't tend to pal around with priests. Kyle congratulates Erica on getting out alive and she thanks him for following through on his task and getting No. 2 off the ship. She totally thought he would fuck it up, so mazel tov! Oh, is that okay to say in a Catholic church? Probably in New York it is. Father Jack starts in with his anti-Visitor sermon. He was a man who was lost, but now is found. He has found his calling in his decision to denounce the Vs. He warns his parishioners that they cannot serve two masters and they must choose between god and the Visitors. Alternatively, god and Justin Bieber or god and pie. You just can't serve two masters! A bunch of people get up to go and the Senior Padre is glaring furiously at Jack. Jack keeps on keeping on as Erica and Kyle watch, impressed, even though, honestly, it's kind of a stupid move, because clearly this will put Father Jack on the Visitors' radar. As Jack warns about a war for the souls of humanity, up on the ship, Ryan is still sadly stroking Val's dead arm when Anna grabs him and forces him to Bliss. He struggles at first, but then gives in to Anna's words of peace and wholeness and no pain and no heartache. Jack's congregation has emptied out, save for a few brave souls who are ready to fight the Visitors. As Jack declares that V should no longer stand for Visitor, but for Victory (but not for vendetta because they would have to be paying some royalties and: No), he asks who will stand with him? Erica and Kyle stand up, and so do the remaining members of the congregation although a few look like they really want to leave, but the baby is asleep or someone stole their walker and they can't move. Then Father Travis comes up to holler at Jack. He wa