Another AWESOME episode!!!!
We begin the episode with Erica running toward the Peace Ambassador Center, under some “Do Not Cross” tape toward 3 hanging bodies with masks on their faces. She’s extremely worried that Tyler is among one of them, so she pulls off each mask one by one, and is relieved that her son is not among them, but also filled with grief for the deaths of them.
Enter Tyler, who pushes through the crowd, embraces his mother who hides the horrific scene. When he finds out what happened, he is horrified to find three of his friends dead. (Wonder why there was never a scene with those Visitors if they were his friends? The only Visitor he has had scenes with has been Lisa.)
That fuels his anger toward the Fifth Column so much in a later scene at his place along with Lisa, who asks him if he wants to do something fun, take their minds off these events for awhile… (anyone think Shuttle Fun like in 1×8 We Cannot Win?)
“You’re right, we need to do something!” he says… and rounds up a few of his other Visitor buddies to vandalize the Church, even manhandles the elderly priest… while Lisa pleads with him to stop and not do this. Good choice of her running away before the vandalizing starts.
(I wonder what would have happened if Leoni would have been there, since they would be the threesome/love triangle. Maybe when Leoni and Lisa realize they can’t get through to Tyler, they sneak off to make out. Vandalize, you lose Ty! aka Snooze you lose, Ty! LOL.)
From some other reviews that I have seen, Tyler isn’t a favorite among many. There’s even one theory that he is the one who dies, based on a character who went down a similar path in the original series.
Anywhoo, back to the review!
Ryan spends some time with his child, while Anna still wants to find out who it was who kidnapped Agent Malik. Morena has this awesome quote and that isn’t the only one in this episode. “Your daughter’s so peaceful when she is in pain.” Anna threatens to remove her bliss from his child if he doesn’t come forward with what she wants to know.
Anna and Chad are off to the Vatican!!
They’re slowly getting it, the V producers, there is a Cardinal named JANus. Jan from the US, ya savvy? LOL.
While at the Vatican, she tries to get one of the priests ‘expelled’ so to speak. Of course she is after Father Jack Landry.
At first it doesn’t work, then she asks them to reconvene one last time and finally gets what she wants in the end.
Among one of them, she spots someone who didn’t look at her AND who she vaguely remembers from her childhood. It’s revealed that he is a Visitor and has been planted there by the former Queen Diana, Anna’s Mother.
Even Chad notices it, because during a display of Blue Energy, those Cardinal’s eyes don’t follow the amazing Blue Energy.
Earlier in the Vatican, Anna has a talk with one of the Cardinals about the human soul.
Anna has a talk with the Cardinal who is a Visitor, who says he won’t bow down to her, that he is still loyal to Diana. Morena delivers another awesome quote: “You wanna see your Queen? She’s in Hell, with all the other damned.”
That same Cardinal is announced to be the first man of faith who is allowed to live on the Mothership, when in fact it is to get him back on the Mothership.
He is shown his former Queen, who gives him the most loyal way to die. She sinks her lizardy teeth into his neck.
Anna stares at her Mother, appalled. “What have you done?”
Through all of this, Erica is forced to work with another partner, one she has a past with at FBI Academy. They interrogate Father Jack, but it is Erica’s partner who reveals that during the war Father Jack shot three people. Erica is shocked to have that part of her Fifth Column colleague revealed.
The New York Fifth Column goes after the terrorist who killed those three young Peace Ambassadors, and discovers Eli Cohen is behind them. They agree to meet him, and follow Jack due to some Visitor tracking device Ryan has.
The tracking device leads them to a cabin in the woods where they come face to face with Eli Cohen.
Why did he do what he did? Because years ago, his wife gave birth to a son and the Visitors did something to his wife and to his child. Very similar like Erica’s current life…
The Fifth Column hatch a plan to have the remains of Malik there so they can pin the suspicion on them instead.
Father Jack returns to the Church and discovers the destruction.
Then suddenly a cellphone goes off… and we’re greeted with Lisa’s face! Uhoh… Tyler left his phone!
He presses a button and then sees a video of the kids destroying the church.
He calls Erica and shows her the video. Erica breaks down and he embraces her and tells him that he will always be there for him.
As a sidenote, there are a lot of people who would like to either see Jack and Erica together, or Hobbes and Erica. Funny.
The last scene is of the head of the FBI and Erica’s new partner. She had said that she has never had any contact with Father Jack Landry before, but as they see a video taken a few days ago, they see that they have met before!
O_o Someone’s on to Erica!!
Next episode is 2×5 Concordia! Until then