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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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Want more? The full recap starts right below!So... where were we? Oh right: Aliens landed! They were bee-yoo-ti-ful and wise and kind. Except, of course, that they really weren't. They were slimy-souled and ugly on the inside where it counts. They had healing centers that fixed all the ills that befell the poor weak humans. But those healing centers also acted as distribution centers for creepy alien inventions masquerading as vaccines. The Visitors got themselves a mouthpiece named Chad Decker who was willing to tow the party line for ratings, because, yeah, that's what matters most in life. The priest, Father Jack, tried to set Chad on the right path, but Chad really wanted an exclusive (nudge nudge, wink wink) with Alien Anna because she is one smoking hot alien and wouldn't that be a story to tell the guys at the gym? Father Jack joined the resistance when a parishioner died in his pews. There he met Agent Erica who thought she was tracking terrorists, but in reality she was tracking her partner who was an undercover operative for the Visitors. They also met Ryan, a Visitor with a pregnant fiancée who didn't know she was breeding with the enemy. Eventually bad boy Kyle joined their resistance league and they formed the Fab Four, which sounds like a boy band, but not as much as the Fifth Column, which is the name of the V resistance. I'm hoping that much like the Backstreet Boys and the New Kids On the Block have come to make beautiful music together, soon the Fab Four and the Fifth Column will join forces and really show those aliens what is up. Maybe a few dance steps too. Step step, slide, clap, step back.
The first major action that the Fab Four took was blowing up a warehouse of alien drugs. Then they used a rocket launcher to take down a V shuttle, but they were set up thanks to Chad Decker and the loose-lipped priest. After some bad PR, they had to go even further underground, but with their alien BFF Dr. Joshua up on the ship they still got word of Anna's evil plan to kill them all with baby soldiers. So under the guise of breaking bread with the future in-laws, Agent Erica came aboard the Mothership and with the help of Anna's jealous, attention-seeking older daughter, Lisa, turned Anna's new special baby eggs into Egg Beaters. This ensured that Lisa would always be her mommy's special little angel and that Erica would have a lot of frittatas in her future. While Anna is a cold-hearted snake who normally would have no qualms about eating her young, her human skin is infecting her with all sorts of yucko human emotions and she heads straight to the anger portion of her stages of grief. She is sooooooo pissed about the scrambled eggs that were her babies that she turns the skies red red red. Marcus a.k.a. No.2 tut tuts about this human reaction, but Anna doesn't care. She's already moved on to the "listening to the Cure, drinking wine, and smoking clove cigarettes" stage of grief.
And so it begins. Agent Erica wakes up and finds all other human life is still unconscious. Bodies lie around her, the streets are filled with wrecked cars. It pretty much looks like they just cut-and-pasted the black out scene from that other thumbs-down sci fi drama that tanked on ABC last year. Yes, I mean Flash Forward. Yes, I know that some people were heartbroken at the cancellation, because some people just can't get enough of watching Joseph Fiennes flare his nostrils dramatically as a substitute for actual dramatic acting. Anyway, this scene is identical to the post blackout scene where everyone is passed out on the ground and the highways are littered with destroyed cars. Erica is up and grabs her son Tyler's jacket and runs screaming for him. She finds him sitting alone blaming her for the destruction of the earth. As Erica cradles her son in her arms, his face melts off. First: ew. Second, this is truly the finest acting either Erica or Tyler has done on this show, so kudos! Let's have some more face melting, eh?
Anna appears in the distance and tells Erica that since Erica killed her babies, Anna killed Tyler. Fair's fair, right? Erica wakes up with a start, because even she is surprised that the writers would actually start the second season of a show that is clearly on probation with a DREAM SEQUENCE. What is this, sixth grade creative writing class where ending every story with, "And then I woke. It was all a dream." was considered high art? Come on now. You can do better. So Erica wakes up and she is at her desk at FBI HQ and she is all discombobulated, until she sees a picture of her not-burned-to-a-crisp son Tyler. She heads out to the main room and finds the place in a hubbub. We see on a television screen that it is the fourth day of the red sky and Erica marches up to her boss and demands to know if while she was, you know, sleeping at her desk anyone managed to get a meeting with Anna. Instead of snapping at her for, you know, sleeping at her desk, he tells her that world leaders keep reaching out to Anna, but she won't respond. Erica decides to wade in where world leaders have failed and orders someone, anyone, to take action. Agent Malik who is, of course, actually a Visitor, reminds Erica that there is no proof that the Visitors caused this phenomenon. Erica does the wise thing and doinks her in the forehead, because: DUH.
Up on the ship, Marcus a.k.a. No. 2 reminds Anna that ignoring the puny humans' pleas for open dialogue is bad for business, but Anna does not care. She likes Red Sky and she likes the peace and quiet that complete isolationism gives her. No. 2 gently points out that the longer Red Sky goes on the more likely it is that the humans will figure out what it is. Anna doesn't really care because it's not so much what it is as what it does. No. 2 smiles soothingly at the crazy lady and hands her a memo documenting his efforts to monitor the human scientists' activities and research and there is one guy who is pretty close to uncovering the truth about Red Sky. Anna shrugs and tells him to the kill the scientist. No. 2 nods, which, really, couldn't No. 2 have figured that one out for himself? I mean, the V Human Operations Manual seems to be pretty straightforward in practice: Someone bugging you? Exterminate them. DONE. Anna rolls her eyes at him and turns to go, but No. 2 stops her. Did he forget to mention that the captains of all the ships are on their way to confront her in person? They weren't too happy about her decision to unleash Red Sky early and without warning and they are on their way to have a Human Emotion Intervention for her. She'd better get herself to an Emotions Anonymous meeting right quick. ("My name is Anna and I once had a feeling not based on logic. It's been four days since my last emotion.") Anna glares at No. 2 as he relays the news and then tells him to alert her the second that the captains have arrived because she is going to teach them a few things about feeling. Namely, feeling her hand around their throats. But before Anna can go prepare herself for the meeting, she has one more issue to deal with: Ryan is loose on the ship.
Let's take a little trip down memory lane: Val was taken to the Mothership while she was in labor with her alien-human baby by an alien Soldier. Ryan busted his way onto the ship to try and save her. Anna greeted the family with open arms and saved the baby, but then killed Val, because who needs an ultra whiny human around? No one. Ryan then seemed to succumb to Anna's bliss and while he was still sad about the death of Val, even he had to recognize that she was pretty freaking annoying most of the time and he and his baby would be fine without her. Now we see that Ryan is not happy about his life on board the ship. His baby was taken from him and put in an aquarium. Actually I'm going to out myself as a dork and make a Star Wars comparison: You know in the Empire Strikes Back when Luke is almost frozen to death on Hoth and he gets defrosted in that tank of water? That's what Ryan's baby is being held in. Well, like Empire Strikes Back with a touch of Chinese restaurant aquarium thrown
in.
Ryan has broken out of custody and tracked down his little baby girl, who wiggles her tail at her daddy. She bears a striking resemblance to the alien from Enemy Mine and does not at all look like Val. Anna finds him making googly eyes at the lil baby fish. She reminds him that she has done a lot for him, but he is unimpressed with the accommodations. He just wants to take his baby and go. Anna agrees that he can go, but insists that his daughter -- as the first human-alien hybrid -- has to stay. She kicks him off the ship, never to return. Ryan puts up a fight about leaving his daughter, but deep down he knows that he would be shunned by the mommies at the playground and no one would sit to him at Music for Aardvarks. I mean, do they even make Bugaboo strollers that could fit a fish tank? It's better this way, Ryan.
Chad Decker is on the air reminding the population that it has been two months since Anna and the Visitors (also not a band) arrived on Earth. But instead of just singing his usual tune of praise and adoration for the Alien Queen, Chad reports that the ominous nature of Red Sky has turned the human population against the Visitors. People are looting and rioting, arming themselves, and filling the houses of worship seeking solace and answers. The Visitors' Visitor Center has been besieged by angry mobs and poor Lisa and Tyler haven't been able to text, IM, Facebook, or Skype, let alone have some alone time in days. To prove this point we see Lisa and her perfect posture staring bleakly out the window of the Mothership singing "Somewhere Out There" to Tyler, on the ground, staring skyward. Awwwwww.
Back at FBI HQ, Erica has realized that where diplomacy and governmental organizations have failed, she will succeed. She tells her boss that she is going to go home and catch some Zs, but by the way she purposefully strides out of the office arms akimbo, ready for action, you can tell she definitely has a bigger and better plan than napping. Besides, she totally slept in the office already.
No. 2 reports to Anna that Ryan Nichols has been returned to Earth. There is something in his puppy dog stare that makes her feel the need to explain her reasons for Ryan's release: They have his daughter, so whatever Ryan has planned they can turn him at any second. Speaking of Ryan, he comes traipsing into the Fab Four's HQ like it's no big thing. He explains that he was held prisoner for four days, Val is dead, they have his baby, and he's free to eat some Ben & Jerry's, jerk off, and watch the Knicks game. Lalalala. Naturally, Kyle is just a touch suspicious that Anna would just turn him loose, but Erica and Father Jack are not at all doubtful and give Ryan big old bear hugs. I mean, Kyle's just being paranoid, right? Anna wouldn't have put a tracker on Ryan, or turned him into a humanish bomb or anything, right? Nah. Erica's phone rings before anything can get too tense or anyone can ask any questions or furrow their brows. It's Tyler. He's at the Visitors' Visitor Center and there are riots. Agent Erica is already out the door.
Up on the ship, the captains have arrived for Anna's intervention. But since she's their Queen, they can't talk back about how her emotions make them feel. So they just stand at attention while she assures them that the early release of Red Sky was all part of her plan and was in no way shape or form related to her moon cycle or, worse, human feelings. Anna assures them that they have no cause for concern, she is all alien. She flails the skin off one of the captains to prove that she knows what she is underneath. Then she kills the guy to prove that she is still Queen B. No. 2 takes it all in from the sideline and as soon as Anna is done he takes that memo straight to HR, because he is not going to risk his job because Anna is losing her edge. Paper trails are universal.
Erica finds Tyler in the middle of the riot. Being a complete moron, Tyler didn't bother even trying to leave until his mommy got there. So people are rioting all around him and he's hugging a tree in the middle of the melee. His mom tells him she will get him out of there, but instead punches a guy in the face, leaving Tyler to get billy clubbed. Apparently a bleeding and bludgeoned Tyler is all part of Erica's scheme, though, as she grabs him and leads him to the closest Visitor on duty. She gives him her name and tells him that Anna will want to give Tyler immediate medical attention. The guy shrugs and gets approval to bring Tyler up to the Mothership. Just in time, too, because suddenly the skies open and Red Rain starts pouring down on everyone. Everyone is, like, super grossed out because it looks like that scene from Carrie with the pig's blood and then everyone starts smiling because they get "Red Rain" by Peter Gabriel stuck in their heads and that song is magic. Erica and Tyler get the approval to go to the Mothership and run through the rain for the shuttle.
Father Jack's church is crowded, because, you know, raining blood is some seriously biblical shit. What's , cats and dogs living together? Father Jack is trying to calm the masses when Chad Decker comes inside begging for sanctuary. Father Jack rolls up his sleeves to kick his weasly traitor-to-the-human-race behind back out the door. But Father Jack realizes that chucking a reporter out into blood rain is going to seriously harsh the parishioners' mellow, so he allows Chad to beg for clemency. Chad wants forgiveness and a chance to fight for humanity. He saw things on the ship! Testing done on the humans living aboard the Mothership! There were needles! Father Jack pauses, then tells Chad to beg Jesus for forgiveness, not him. If he wants to work with Father Jack and make amends for encouraging people to join the Live Aboard Program he is going to have to earn his trust. Up on the Mothership, Lisa is anxious for word of Tyler's health and welfare. Erica assures her Tyler's fine. No one would notice brain damage on him anyway. She just used his head injury as an excuse to get on the ship and see Lisa and find out what the heck is going on. Lisa doesn't know anything about the Red Sky, but thinks Marcus might. She hacks into his computer system and finds out something involving some Colonel Sanders looking white dude. Elsewhere, Tyler's head is all patched up and Anna comes to check on her daughter's boo. Erica seizes the opportunity to holler at her: People are freaking the fuck out on earth and Anna is ignoring them. Anna glares at her and then goes to rectify the situation. RIGHT NOW. Erica pats herself on the back for a job well done. She knew a little mother-to-mother chat would straighten up this whole intergalactic mess.
Anna dials up AOL and starts her Face-cast, broadcasting her pretty visage from New York to Rome to Beijing and back again. She explains that she knows people are concerned, but this has all been a test, and there is nothing to be feared. Instead Red Sky and Red Rain will repair the earth and reverse global warming and give the ground a new beginning. All the people who just moments before were rioting and picketing down on earth now start cheering and high fiving each other because people are dumb and do not ever learn to be suspicious or doubt the words of a beautiful lady. That's why QVC manages to keep the lights on.
After her message to the stupid earthlings, Erica thanks Anna for rectifying the situation. Erica wants to head back to terra firma ASAP, but Tyler wants to stay and spend some alone time with his lady. Erica hugs him hard because of HER DREAM and Anna's promise to take good care of him. Erica then hugs Lisa who passes on the name of the Col. Sanders lookalike and the whereabouts of his secret recipe. Erica departs and Anna pulls Lisa aside to remind her that she has to perform ALL of her duties with Tyler, no matter how debasing, disgusting, or disease-y. It is her job. Lisa shudders at the thought, and also because: Ew, Tyler. Also because no one wants t
heir mommy dictating who they do or do not schtup even if it's supposedly for the preservation of the species. I mean, how is Lisa supposed to rebel now? By NOT fornicating? By saving her precious gift for marriage? How very... human.
Down on earth, Erica meets with Ryan and Kyle outside of New York University, which is not at all NYU nor is it the usual fake NYU a.k.a. Hudson University that they always use on Law & Order. It's some college with white-pillared buildings and lions and other hallmarks for Quality Education. Kyle can't believe that people are buying into Anna's malarkey. She's obviously covering up something big. Erica and Ryan head inside the halls of education, leaving Kyle, who is not fit for civilized society, outside. They walk in and some guy (Sam! From Reaper! Aww R.I.P., good show) wearing headphones asks them if they are looking for someone. Right, like a guy in headphones is playing concierge. Erica helpfully removes his headphones and tells them they are looking for Col. Sanders. The guy thinks he is probably out golfing because that is what rich white guys with beards do, but he is his assistant Dr. Sidney Miller. Can he be of assistance? Dear Casting Agents: If the script calls for a doctor of either the MD or PhD variety don't choose an actor who is barely pushing 30. While I am happy to see little Bret Harrison back on the small screen, it's not very believable that he is a doctor of anything other than love and he was only called that once by his college sweetheart after several Jello shots.
Just then Ryan notices a V tracker is behind them. He and Erica have a whole conversation about how the tracker will kill them and drag their bloodied corpses to Anna right in front of Sidney who is staring at them like they are completely insane. Then they take off after the tracker, leaving Sidney to really regret ever asking them if they needed assistance. Like, duh. What kind of NYU grad student are you? Ryan and the tracker (in a tracksuit, natch!) leap whole staircases in a single bound whilst shoving old people out of the way. Kyle stops the guy outside with a gun and Ryan starts taking out all his V-ggression on the guy. Even Kyle thinks it is a bit much, which is, you know, BAD. So he takes a moment, counts to ten, goes to his happy place, and then shoves the guy's suicide pill down his throat. For some reason Sam has decided to follow the crazy people outside into the "parking lot" at "NYU". Hmm...what's wrong with that sentence? So so many things. He arrives just in time to see the V go up in flames. Erica explains that the Visitors are actually evildoers who are out to get his boss and all the Trix, which are SO clearly just for kids. Sidney blanches and opines that the Vs aren't after his co-worker, Col. Sanders, they are after him. He has something to show them inside. He was on a research dig in New Mexico and he found a mass grave filled with human bones. Well, one set of bones was not exactly human. He opens a freezer to reveal the skeletal remains of a Visitor. Ryan confirms it, "It's one of us." Sidney doesn't look particularly relieved by this. After Ryan explains that he is snake on the inside, Sidney gets all doctor-y and tries to touch Ryan's skin suit, which is clearly verboten. Ryan brushes off his hand, like whoa whoa don't touch the skin unless you're a sexy lady or a Thai masseuse. As Sidney is wearing flannel, it is highly unlikely he is either of those.
Sidney backs off and explains that he guessed the skeletal remains were extraterrestrial, but he didn't want his sanity questioned so no one knows about it. Also, he's been working on the Red Sky issue and has a few ideas, but nothing solid. Erica starts wandering around the room muttering to herself about alien technology and then reaches a crescendo where she blurts: We need you on our team! Sidney does not want to be on a team with the crazy people, but as he has an alien in his storage locker, he doesn't have much of a choice. Kyle laughs ha haha: If you don't join us, we'll kill you. JK JK JK, not jk. Sidney doesn't look so happy.
Chad Decker has returned to Father Jack's church with a laptop and a dream of redemption. He has interviewed a bazillion people (okay, 20) about their experiences living aboard the Visitors' ships. They all report the same thing: Happiness and light and then needles in their eyeballs and nightmares. Every interviewee had the same nightmare, over and over. Chad shows the interviews to Father Jack to prove that he is seeking the path of redemption. He wants Father Jack to use those interviews in the fight, he wants Father Jack to use HIM in the fight. He wants to broadcast the interviews and show the world what the Visitors are doing. He doesn't know what else to do.
Talk about awkward segues, we go from a Catholic church to a teenage love nest. Pope Benedict does NOT approve of condom use to prevent alien-human hybrids. Despite that dictum, up on the Mothership, Lisa and Tyler are about to do something naughty. Lisa really missed Tyler during the four days they were apart. Tyler, being a moron and/or brain damaged, thought four days radio silence was a sign that Lisa didn't want to be with him anymore. To prove how wrong that is, Lisa takes her dress off revealing Victoria's Secret's finest. Tyler swiftly rips off his shirt and takes Lisa in his arms. As the dulcet tones of Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" starts playing, the two crazy kids fall to the bed and mush their mouths together seductively. Good thing they are only on naked first base, because Anna is totally watching through Lisa's iSight inJacket camera. I totally saw this on SVU last week. Someone call Stabler, stat!
Anna applauds her daughter's "performance" and reports to No. 2 that Lisa will make a great queen someday. No. 2 wrinkles his nose with a serious case of the yucks at having Anna rate her daughter's dalliances. I mean, I know they are aliens, but watching your daughter mate has got to be a universal gross out. Anna finally turns off her personal porn channel to talk business with No. 2. He has the solemn duty of reporting... oh, who are we kidding, everything with that guy is solemn. So he walks up and tells her that her soldier babies who survived the attack have taken a turn for the worse and she needs to see them. Anna nods emotionlessly and remarks that soon the phosphorus levels in humans will be high enough. For what? FOR WHAT?! The cliffhangers on this show!
Back at NYU (new and improved with parking lots!) Sidney is working on a brain teaser. How can Anna be a lizard when she's so hot?? Ha ha JK JK, he jokes when he's nervous. And who wouldn't be nervous with Erica, Ryan, and Kyle all standing within arm's reach of him breathing heavily? I mean, give a guy a little space, eh? Sidney is stumped until he realizes that he used Col. Sanders' computer the other day to run a test on the Red Rain. There was a compound in it that was identical to an unidentifiable compound in his V skeleton. The Visitors must have thought it was Col. Sanders doing the work and that's why they want to kill him. Sidney seems more relieved that the Vs don't know it's him than concerned for his colleague. Is this the academia our children will be reared in? This level of vitriol and invective cannot be a good learning environment for our children. What about the children, I say? What about the children??
Erica demands that Sidney show them all his research on the mystery compound. With one look at the compound, Ryan V-know-it-all that he is, knows exactly what it is: A type of phosphorous only found on their home planet. He explains that Visitors need phosphorous to survive and breed. He had to give it to Val while she was pregnant. They all start brainstorming about what elevated levels of phosphorous on earth could mean: It's in the soil, in the water, in the air, in every single human. There's only one reason they would need that: For breeding. * cue ominous music (may I suggest Whitney Houston?) * Kyle lays it out even more plainly: First they want to bite us, then they want to shag us? Erica is too busy staring at the V skeleton to laugh. Ryan finally calls out, "Whatcha lookin' at Erica?" In her best Vincent Price voice, Erica puts a flashlight under her chin and tells the gathered menfolk a horror story: When she was pregnant she had preeclampsia and the doctor ran blood tests and found that she had very high levels of phosphorous. The men don't get it: And? Erica wants to know if the Visitors could have been experimenting on humans long before anyone knew. Could they have experimented on her? Everyone shrugs. Sidney finally suggests that maybe he could run a blood test? Erica grabs a handy scalpel (like, why is that just lying there, exactly?) and slices her hand open. One, ew. Two, bitch is hardcore. Three, has Erica never been to a doctor before? Perhaps a syringe and a vial of blood would be a heck of a lot more useful for blood tests than a gash on the hand. Four, what kind of doctor is Sidney, exactly?
Anna calls Lisa in for a performance review. In general she did excellent work with Tyler, but time maybe a little more tongue and a little less hand? Lisa nods at her mother's critique. Mommy knows best! Especially in the bedroom. Did endless episodes of Toddlers and Tiaras teach you nothing? Anna reminds Lisa that her mission is of the utmost importance and she can allow no one -- Visitor or human -- to get in her way. Lisa's curiosity is piqued: Visitor? Anna reminds her that there are traitors among them. Anna assures her daughter that the traitors will soon be routed out because the greatest traitor of them all, Joshua, has been awoken. Lisa looks nervous as she turns away from Mommy Dearest.
Father Jack has joined the party at NYU and is showing them Chad Decker's video project. Sidney cannot believe that the Visitors would test on humans. Meanwhile, his lab rabbits twitch in their cages. Not really! Just kidding, PETA! Erica thinks that Chad would be most useful maintaining his close personal relationship with Anna, but Father Jack doesn't think Chad will do it because he is now terrified of her. Erica doesn't know what to do, but Ryan does: He's going home. To an empty house. That sounds fulfilling. Order some takeout and watch Montel while you're at it. Better yet, watch Brothers & Sisters and rejoice in the fact that you have no family. As Ryan leaves, Father Jack asks Erica if she is worried about Ryan. She thinks he can be trusted, but that's not what Father Jack meant. He asks her to consider what she would do if Tyler were in Anna's clutches. Erica stares blankly at him, because has he met Tyler? I mean, who is going to fight to keep that guy around?
Up on the ship, Joshua is alive! Lisa goes to talk to him to get their stories straight before the interrogation begins. She holds his hand and is so happy to see him alive and well and on her side. She doesn't know if she can do this without him. She is emoting all over the place and Joshua notes it and remarks that her behavior is not befitting a future queen. Lisa asks him if he remembers anything from before, about getting shot, anything? He does not. Lisa starts backing slowly out of the room, which is probably a wise move so she can keep her eyes on him.
Chad stops by the church to talk to Father Jack about the step in the plan. Father Jack urges him to think strategically. The Visitors' ships can overpower the military in a blink of an eye. Chad has unique access to Anna that is far more valuable than a revolution that can't be backed up with fighting power. They need Chad onboard that ship. Chad asks doubtfully, "As a spy?" And father Jack replies, "As a member of the Fifth Column*". (*Not a band.) Chad looks wide-eyed at the idea and it almost makes you wonder which side he is on. Well done, Scott Wolf. That's the best acting we've seen all season from anyone, really.
Up on the ship again, Anna is surveying her remaining soldier babies fighting for their lives after the cruel attack by the salt shaker bomb. She holds the hand of one stringy little alien and almost tears up, but fights back the sticky icky emotion invading her ice queen visage. As No. 2 comes in to report on the babies' status, Anna quickly drops the hand she's holding and stiff upper lips it. She announces that it was the babies who caused her prior emotional outburst (It was the hormones! Post partum depression! I can't do anything but laugh alone with my salad and sing sad songs into my hairbrush! I have cramps! OMG! Chocolaattteeeeee Nooowwwww!) She needs to ensure that will NEVER happen again. She purposefully marches around the infirmary and turns off all the life support and KILLS HER BABIES. I can't wait to see the Lifetime movie based on this killer mother. Suck it, Diane Downs. Even No. 2 looks impressed as Anna kills them all. Anna marches past him with no eye contact, walks into an empty hall, types a few numbers on a floating control panel and sinks into the ground. She lowers into a dark room filled with... what is that, rope? Netting? Basically it looks like she landed inside a sleestak. A pod dangles in the middle of the room. A stilettoed foot emerges from the sac. What? It looks like a sac. No "k". That kind of sac. Anyway, a stiletto emerges, attached to a fishnet stockinged leg, attached to a woman in a red floor length dress. She emerges from the sac, stands upright, adjusts her dress, and faces Anna. Anna greets her coolly, "Hello, mother." OH GOOD. Mommy issues are universal. Brilliant.
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