3 Weeks Later
Chad announces that the Visitors, or the Vs, as they're now called, have opened healing centres that can cure 65 diseases. The "We of are peace. Always." line is catching on fast.
Erica and Dale finally have a lead. Despite the fact that the last 20 leads have gone nowhere, and that they seem to have a leak in the department, she's found something. Satellite imagery traces back a truck that had C4 to a warehouse on Long Island. There's nothing there but Erica wonders why the surveillance photo has the truck parked next to an old shed. She finds a trap door in the shed that leads to an underground tunnel system. They find a dead guy, a bunch of forged documents and enough C4 to put a hole in the world.
Ryan gets a call from a man who needs his help. But Ryan's not that guy anymore and hangs up on him. He then proceeds to take Valerie to lunch.
Brandon and Tyler sneak away on a tour of a V mothership. We get a look inside, and it looks like a huge floating city. There is even greenspace. They are met by a pretty Visitor named Lisa who, and hand to God I'm not kidding, has her uniform unzipped almost to her navel. Ty is entranced by the cleavage Visitor. She invites them to join the Visitor Youth Ambassador program but they can't because they aren't 18. She tells them that they can join at 17 with a parent's approval but Ty knows he's not going to get that.
Back at work, Erica and Dale discover that the dead guy had been dead for less than a day. Among the fake documents, they find a passport for a creepy looking guy named Jeffrey LeClair.
Father Jack preaches against peace, love and harmony and tells his congregants not to treat their neighbours as they would like to be treated. The Vs should have to earn our trust, not just get it. Father Travis calls him on it, calling the Visitors a blessing because they have scared people back into the church. Father Jack is afraid that people will move from admiring the Visitors for their aid to worshiping them. Smart fellow. Then Roy tells them that the V's healed him, gets up out of his wheelchair and does a happy dance (nobody took that bet, did they?)
Erica and Tyler have a touching mother/son moment, where she shows him a video of him tagging a wall with a "V". It's to spread the Vs message, he says. She asks if his bad behaviour is because his father left them. He says that his dad may have left but she's never there. Burn.
Chad is selected to do Anna's first full interview but balks at the her rule that he can't ask any questions that may show the Visitors in a bad light. He pulls out his journalistic integrity and says that he reports the truth, not just what people want him to say. Anna promptly cancels the interview. He puts his integrity back into his pocket and does the interview, becoming the Vs puppet.
Erica and Dale have another lead on the terrorist cell. The dead guy's name was Owen Chapman. They go to search his house but someone beat them to it; it's been tossed. Erica finds a message directing them to a secret meeting.
A guy named Georgie Sutton, the one that's been calling him for weeks, approaches Ryan. He tells Ryan that they need his help. There are 25 of them now. Ryan remembers all the people that died last time. He has an almost fiancee now, and he doesn't want back into the life. Unfortunately Valerie thinks all the phone calls means that he's cheating on her but she doesn't come out and ask.
Back at the church, Father Jack is stopped by a man in a pew, who tells him that he is right to question the Vs. A Visitor shot him. He gives Father Jack a package and tells him that he must deliver it to the address on the envelope. Then he dies.
“He’s a lizard. He comes to and she stabs him through the heart.”
Don’t be so quick to assume. She stabbed him through the chest where a human heart would be. That is not the same as stabbing a V in the heart. :)
True enough. He closed his eyes again so I assume he’s dead but they ran away and left the body behind. You never know…
"He's a lizard. He comes to and she stabs him through the heart."
Don't be so quick to assume. She stabbed him through the chest where a human heart would be. That is not the same as stabbing a V in the heart. :)
True enough. He closed his eyes again so I assume he's dead but they ran away and left the body behind. You never know…
O/ Great recap, Featherlite! I am just watching the episode now (stupid work) and am enjoying it so far. It’s been kind of funny seeing the special FXnow compared to the original series :) I love Scott Wolf but I am not sure I am liking his character too much.
I’m hoping that he realizes what’s going on and doesn’t end up simply as a mouthpiece for the Vs. We are going to have enough characters who are like that; I want to watch the Resistance. I trust his acting; we’ll just have to wait to see what happens with the character.
O/ Great recap, Featherlite! I am just watching the episode now (stupid work) and am enjoying it so far. It's been kind of funny seeing the special FXnow compared to the original series :) I love Scott Wolf but I am not sure I am liking his character too much.
I'm hoping that he realizes what's going on and doesn't end up simply as a mouthpiece for the Vs. We are going to have enough characters who are like that; I want to watch the Resistance. I trust his acting; we'll just have to wait to see what happens with the character.
This. Show. Is. Amazing.
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So. Far.
I knew I was going into it with a problem because I was such a fan of the original series. Some of it was hit and miss to me, but the resistance scenes (and the Georgie character) were all hits!
This. Show. Is. Amazing.
…
So. Far.
I knew I was going into it with a problem because I was such a fan of the original series. Some of it was hit and miss to me, but the resistance scenes (and the Georgie character) were all hits!
Featherlite, this recap kicked ass and calmed my nerves today because it was such a damn good read. I don’t like how the Father Jack character was introduced. His message was so misconstrued even though he was right about the Vs. I felt that he would be the last person I would go to for faith before the last scene of the show where he kicked ass. I say that because for some reason I couldn’t help but ponder the scenario if the Vs weren’t evil reptilian aliens or if there was some other type of figure in the world that approached us, would Father Jack be singing the same tune. I agree with Father Jack that we shouldn’t start becoming completely enthralled idiots to the Vs like Tyler and Brandon did on sight, but I would have preached the sermon more in a “be careful and ask questions” motif than in a “don’t trust those damn things at all and they have to answer to us” mumbo jumbo, because if the Vs have traitors that can help, Father Jack has to put his prejudice to the side. Plus it only pushes more churchgoers into the Vs hands. Just my opinion.
Thanks very much. I don’t know how people like the style – I tend to write more like I’m talking to my computer as I watch the episode (thus the constant asides) rather than a completely objective view after the fact. Glad you liked it.
I liked Father Jack’s introduction, so it’s interesting to see such an opposite point of view. I got the impression that he was very disillusioned – not with God but with humanity. He knows that we are failing and the frustration was killing him. I think that he would have sung the same tune in his sermon (and at this point he didn’t know the Vs are reptilian) because he wants the world to smarten up and for us to fix ourselves; he doesn’t want ANYONE else to come in and “save” us. You do make a good point about his overwhelming prejudices when it comes to traitors; that will make for some good drama between him and Ryan.
I hope we can have more character conversations in future episodes.
Featherlite, this recap kicked ass and calmed my nerves today because it was such a damn good read. I don't like how the Father Jack character was introduced. His message was so misconstrued even though he was right about the Vs. I felt that he would be the last person I would go to for faith before the last scene of the show where he kicked ass. I say that because for some reason I couldn't help but ponder the scenario if the Vs weren't evil reptilian aliens or if there was some other type of figure in the world that approached us, would Father Jack be singing the same tune. I agree with Father Jack that we shouldn't start becoming completely enthralled idiots to the Vs like Tyler and Brandon did on sight, but I would have preached the sermon more in a "be careful and ask questions" motif than in a "don't trust those damn things at all and they have to answer to us" mumbo jumbo, because if the Vs have traitors that can help, Father Jack has to put his prejudice to the side. Plus it only pushes more churchgoers into the Vs hands. Just my opinion.
Thanks very much. I don't know how people like the style – I tend to write more like I'm talking to my computer as I watch the episode (thus the constant asides) rather than a completely objective view after the fact. Glad you liked it.
I liked Father Jack's introduction, so it's interesting to see such an opposite point of view. I got the impression that he was very disillusioned – not with God but with humanity. He knows that we are failing and the frustration was killing him. I think that he would have sung the same tune in his sermon (and at this point he didn't know the Vs are reptilian) because he wants the world to smarten up and for us to fix ourselves; he doesn't want ANYONE else to come in and "save" us. You do make a good point about his overwhelming prejudices when it comes to traitors; that will make for some good drama between him and Ryan.
I hope we can have more character conversations in future episodes.