Mommy Issues

By LuluBates

So… where were we? Oh right: Agent Erica turned Anna's eggs into one heck of an omelet. Anna is sooooooo pissed, because even though they were slimy, they were her babies. Adding insult to injury, Anna is overwrought with dirty human emotions and decides to step up the alien invasion plan, or at least turn the sky red, and not in way that delights sailors.

On earth, the red sky is getting all the humans atwitter. The FBI has their hands full, but Erica is sleeping on the job having bad dreams about Anna's revenge. On the ship, Marcus (a.k.a. Anna's No. 2) tells her that the other ship captains don't appreciate her new maternal instincts and are en route to confront her in person. She bitch slaps them into submission.

Ryan is being kept onboard the ship against his will, but he wants to be near his little babylike lizard. The little tadpole is being kept in a fish bowl, but it's really a prison. Anna does not appreciate Ryan's continued existence, but Ryan doesn't appreciate the fact that she imprisoned him, stole his daughter (it's a girl!), and killed his wife. Anna banishes him to earth. She's keeping the kid and hoping he joins the Fifth Column (not the boy band). Now that she has his offspring, she can yank him back whenever she wants. Naturally, Ryan heads straight to the Fab Four's HQ. Smart!

Chad Decker is still the mouthpiece of the Visitors, but his tone has changed. The Red Sky has made humans less thankful for the healing centers and blue energy orbs. He reports on riots at the Visitors' Visitor Center, gun stockpiles and looting. Making the situation even tenser, Anna has cut herself off from all diplomatic efforts. Agent Erica uses Tyler to gain access to the ship. Good timing, too, because it has started to rain a red bloodlike substance all over earth. After Tyler gets fixed up, Erica hollers at Anna until she tells the earth some bullshit about how Red Sky and Red Rain will reverse global warming. All the stupid, stupid earthlings cheer. Mission accomplished, Erica excuses herself and Anna pimps Lisa to Tyler. She wants another alien-human hybrid, pronto!

Scientists on earth are trying to figure out the cause of the Red Sky. Up on the ship, No. 2 tells Anna that one scientist is close to unraveling it, so naturally Anna arranges a hit on him. Lisa gives Erica his name first and they scoot to the university to get him on their team. The scientist is Sam from "Reaper," so I don't mind the addition. The newly improved crime fighting team figures out that the red rain is chock-full of phosphorous, making them perfect baby V incubators. Erica admits that when she was pregnant SHE had abnormally high levels of phosphorous in her blood. She wonders if she and Tyler could be V test subjects?

Chad Decker stops by Father Jack's church, but Father Jack won't give him sanctuary until he confesses that he saw humans being tortured on the V ship. Chad gives Father Jack recordings of his interviews with the human test subjects. Father Jack convinces Chad to join the Fifth Column as a Double Secret Spy.

Up on the ship, Anna kills the remaining offspring that survived the bombing. They were defective and caused emotions. She cries quietly to herself and then goes to see her mommy. Glad to see that mommy issues are the great universal.

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Melissa Locker a.k.a. Lulu Bates has no phosphorous in her, unless phosphorous is in Pringles. You can follow her on Twitter @woolyknickers.

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2011-01-06
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