By M. Giant
Erica receives an intriguing invitation through Tyler: Anna wants the four of them -- herself, Erica, Tyler, and Lisa -- to have an intimate little dinner together aboard the mothership. Erica plans to come for the food and stay for the opportunity to blow the shit out of Anna's soldier-eggs. There are just a number of logistical issues to be overcome. First and chief among these is the fact that Joshua is forced to ditch his secret communication device before his part in the plan can be finalized, so he decides it's time to call in that favor Lisa owes him. Father Jack tries to get a message up to Joshua through Chad, hoping that the message will be cryptic enough to keep everyone out of trouble while testing Chad's loyalties. Chad flunks that test with flying colors, and Joshua is exposed and confined. Joshua does his best to convince Chad that the Vs are not our friends, and tells him where to look for proof. Sure enough, Chad secretly finds the chamber of horrors, but it's not immediately clear what his move is other than to have to listen to some of Anna's veiled threats.
Kyle's job, meanwhile, is to keep Marcus off the ship during the operation. That goes well enough, but Marcus has an agenda of his own: he expects Kyle to infiltrate the Fifth Column and spy on them for the Vs, counting on Kyle's history of retail loyalty. Kyle doesn't offer a discount for having half the job completed already.
What else is going wrong with the plan? Well, the tiny purse Erica used to smuggle a tiny bomb aboard is confiscated before dinner, and the scheduled diversion Joshua was supposed to create doesn't seem to be materializing. Fortunately, when Erica makes an excuse to leave the table, Lisa "busts" her, tells her she's on her side, gives her a new and better blue energy bomb, then springs Joshua so he can create the diversion as planned. Erica finds her way to the (unattended) egg chamber so she can blow the place to shit, which she does. And then she kills Joshua, at his insistence, to keep herself above suspicion. Which also works, and Erica and Tyler leave after Anna assures them that Joshua was a human in a V uniform.
In other news, Val has been rudely abducted, right in the middle of labor. Upon hearing that Val's been nabbed, Ryan bulls his way up onto the ship, but only because Anna wants to take a shot at bringing him back to her side anyway. Out of Ryan's sight, Val pops the little beastie out, and then is killed by Anna. Afterward, she denies the latter act to Ryan, and offers to take Val's place. And then she hauls off and Blisses him. As for the child, we don't get a look at it, but we know it makes electronically altered cooing noises and has a digital reptilian tail.
Even after such a busy evening, Erica and Kyle make it back to the church in time to hear Father Jack commit professional suicide, speaking out against the Vs to the congregation in defiance of Father Travis's orders and all but clearing the place out before getting his own ass fired. But Chad's there too, and it looks like he's chosen his side.
Given all the irons she's had in the fire, it's perhaps understandable that Anna's so slow to discover the massacre of her soldier eggs. She gives quite an impressive emotional display for a first-timer, ugly-cry and all. In revenge, Anna does something that turns the skies worldwide to a roiling pink. Prematurely or not, she's getting Biblical on humanity's ass.
And finally, Joshua is brought back to life, presumably so Marcus can ask him who he was working with. If Erica's serious about fighting Vs, she's really going to have to get a lot better at killing them.
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