V; episode 4.
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hnpccThis week's episode opened with Erica kneeling over Warehouse Guy, who'd been shot. Erica turns, and Ryan has a gun pulled on her. A subtitle: 14 hours earlier.
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astrocave: Ah, a flash forward. It's their way of saying "Just wait, something will happen"
Then we're back at the church where we left them all last week. They're talking about how they came to know about the V's. Erica is suss about Ryan, who keeps evading her questions, like "how do you know about the V's." He's not hugely convincing, but it seems to be going over the Priest's head. Unsurprisingly. Warehouse guy wants to skin a V, Priest and Ryan both think that's a bad idea. The Priest is praying that the Rapture happens. Hang on, The Rapture isn't part of Catholicism... and that's a long sidetrack I really aren't getting into here. Short version: what I just said. Can't blame him though, there's a bloody great spaceship hovering like a brick above him and reptiles everywhere looking humanoid. I'd be wanting someone else to sort stuff out too, even if it totally didn't mesh with any theology I was supposed to be following. Mayan spacecraft also welcome!
Erica is fixated on why Ryan knows so much about the V's. She loses a staring contest with him, probably because he's a reptile.
Outside the secret meeting Ryan tells Warehouse guy to never mention skinning a reptile again. Obviously that creeps him right out... which means it would probably not be a bad idea to do it actually. If a pro-human V is creeped out, then it's going to creep out an anti-human V too, and have the additional benefit of showing the humans what the V's look like. On the down side, I think all the pro-human Vs would probably run away and/or return to the V fold, so maybe not then.
On the ship the Medical V Guy ("Dr V") who hit Wash over the head actually killed him.
hnpcc: They murdered wash?!
astrocave: Yeah, last week.
hnpcc:Didn't realise he was dead!
Anna is displeased by this, as they've never had a murder on their ship before! She demands a full investigation of the medical staff.
astrocave:The 5th column - don't know what happened to the other 4
hnpcc:Well the 4th column vanished unexpectedly, the 3rd blew up... the 5th is our last best chance...
The 5th column also strikes me as being as hapless as the Resistance - you're a medical guy, Dr V! Couldn't you have, I dunno, injected Wash with something and made it look like the brain damage had caused a stroke or something? Leaving a dead, battered body on the mothership somewhere is a bit stupidly obvious wouldn't you think? Sheesh, you could have at least tried to smuggle it out of the damn ship, or chucked it in the incinerator or something!!
Erica is accessing the FBI database from home, googling Ryan.
hnpcc: Didn't know the fbi had a work from home option.
Dweeb keeps wanting to talk to her. She's too busy googling to listen. Dweeb puts the telly on, and there's Anna talking to GIRAT (his actual name is Chad, but GIRAT is still funnier. To me, anyway. Unless he gets caught up in a rope, in which case he'll be a hanging Chad. Heh.) Anna is announcing a new health initiative (what is it with these aliens? They're as full on into healthcare debate as current US politicians!) whereby they're offering free vitamin shots via their healthcare centres.
astrocave: Hey, the FDA would want to test the injections, wouldn't they?
hnpcc: Um, yeah, just a bit. Maybe they're selling them as natural therapy.
The vitamins do all sorts of things (cure cancer, boost the immune system, stop wrinkles) but turn out to have no effect on the common cold (that's the "I" in GIRAT coming out right there.) Anna also says everyone will have to rely on their normal flu shots to prevent colds, which wtf?!? Your alien knowledge and technology is completely letting you down there. A vaccine against influenza is going to have bugger-all effect on a rhinovirus infection.
astrocave: It supercharges your immune system, but doesn't help with a cold
hnpcc: Autoimmune diseases would go up too... Nothing cures the common cold! Reckon the V's are susceptible?
Dweeb finally cracks it with Erica ("It's been more than two minutes!!") and she grudgingly agrees to come and talk to him. He tries to bring up Lisa, she teases him about the semi-naked chick in his room (Yep, that'd be Lisa), he clams up a bit, her phone rings and it's Ryan. Dweeb tells her to go work already. It's always urgent. Poor Dweeb!
Ryan has remembered a sleeper cell of V scientists who were on earth, and who he's now convinced are something to do with Anna's vitamin scheme. Using Erica's laptop with the FBI connection they google them all until finally they find a lab assistant who's now a Professor of Chemistry. Presumably he did a PhD and some postdocs while waiting out his sleeper cell agent time then. Good thing he didn't have a mid-time crisis, abandon his PhD and go become a juggler or an economist or a film animator or something. They decide to follow him to see where he goes. Warehouse Guy is not happy about this. I think following is what nearly got him killed the other times.
Dweeb is moaning about his mother to his therapist, who of course is Ryan's girlfriend. He shows the Therapist his Peace Ambassador V Jacket, then leaves it draped over the couch so Lisa and Anna can watch in. Not that he knows this of course. Lisa thinks Dweeb is "ready". Anna wants to meet him. Somehow I don't think Dweeb is up for meeting the parents just yet... he's only managed to kiss her once. Then again, he has seen her half-naked.
hnpcc: Of course he's in therapy! And the jackets have sound!
The therapist is thinking about going to the healing centres as her heart medication isn't working well and she can't get hold of her doctor to change it.
astrocave: The therapist is either a V, or she's gonna die
hnpcc: Die
The GIRAT is at one of the healing centres, watching someone be healed. This involves running a purple light over them.
hnpcc:It's healing by radar!
astrocave: Radar can do anything
hnpcc:And it's purple!
GIRAT is here to do a hard-hitting investigative piece about the centres. OK, I'm kidding, it's a puff piece. He volunteers to be scanned on camera, hops on a bed and what looks remarkably like an elongated aircraft tray pops out and starts running purple light over him. It apparently doesn't hurt. Now the red light, that would hurt.
And... we're back at the parking garage from the opening flash forward. Dweeb's not answering his mother's phone calls. The V chemist finally emerges and the Stupid Resistance Cell move in.
Warehouse Guy decides to pull a gun on him, instead of just following him as asked. Huh? V Chemist pulls a gun better and manages to shoot Warehouse Guy, who goes down. Erica and Ryan hear the shooting and come running. And we're back to the flash forward. Erica kneels over Warehouse Guy, Ryan pulls a gun... and shoots V Chemist.
astrocave: So the interesting thing that happened - not as interesting as you thought
hnpcc: Understatement.
V Chemist goes down between parked cars. The Priest rocks up with a car and takes Warehouse Guy away. (Warehouse Guy claims that V Chemist shot first, which no.) Ryan goes to grab V Chemist, who calls him a traitor and then swallows a suicide pill which causes him to completely immolate.
hnpcc: And they have immolation pills! Wouldn't want to bugger that up.
Ryan turns around, and Erica's pulled a gun on him. This would have been a much more interesting flash forward moment. She calls him out as being a V. They have a staring contest, again. She loses, again. She knew he was a reptile this time too!! Ryan swears they're on the same side. Erica shrugs and gives in. Whatever. She's never going to win a staring contest with him anyway.
Anna is very displeased that no one has any idea about how Wash came to have his head battered in. She demands all 14 of the medical personnel be brought to her so she can investigate personally. Dr V (who's apparently in charge) goes off with Fellow V Guy to get them and hiss frantically about what to do. Dr V won't leave, Fellow V Guy thinks he's too important to be sacrificed. Told you they should have incinerated the body... couldn't they have given him a suicide pill and said he did it by accident?
hnpcc:This mob are seriously inept.
The Therapist has made it to a V healing centre and is being bathed in purple light. GIRAT is still wandering around, not being allowed to talk to staff and patients. Hard hitting investigative journalism, right there. This guy could work for Today/Tonight.
The Priest is stitching Warehouse Guy up. Turns out the Priest was an army chaplain and learned needlework from them. So he did military training and he still sucks this badly at being a resistance fighter?!? Great. I think Warehouse Guy should have shot him while he had the chance. Warehouse Guy tells him he needs to decide whether he's a priest or a soldier... um, I think he decided that already. He left the army, after all.
Erica is quizzing Ryan. He tells her what the 5th column is, and all V sleeper agents carry an immolation suicide pill. She's satisfied that he's OK and they keep working together. *eye roll* I'd want some more information myself. They've found a warehouse listed in V Chemist's briefcase documents which does not appear to be linked to his Professorial duties. Knowing this lot it's his Storage King unit.
Anna has the entire med staff lined up in V shape, and tells them unless the guilty party confesses she'll pick one at random and punish them. For a second Dr V looks like he's going to confess, but Fellow V Guy beats him to it. Anna sentences him to be skinned. By Dr V. Ooh, that's harsh.
astrocave: Punishment: skin him? Wouldn't that be more comfortable?
hnpcc:I assume both skins? Otherwise yeah.
Having settled Wash's Murder Case Anna goes off to meet up with Lisa and Dweeb. Dweeb gets really star struck by meeting Anna. God only knows where his fantasies are off to when he finds out she's Lisa's Mum.
Erica manages to get a security guard to come out and help her at the warehouse/shipping company by pretending to be lost. Ryan clocks him and they both enter. The Priest rocks up as well - oh God, who let him come?! This is unlikely to end well.
Anna goes on a bit about Dweeb liking motorcycles. So she takes him to see the ship's propulsion unit. The logic doesn't entirely follow.
hnpcc:Oh God, is Dweeb Anakin?
astrocave: Damn it, I was hoping for a space bike
hnpcc:Totally. Does he get to drive the ship?
astrocave: If he's Anakin? Best not
Dr V has Fellow V Guy semi-naked on a hospital bed. He's peeved that Fellow V Guy fake confessed. Fellow V Guy has sacrificed himself so Dr V can continue being an integral part of the 5th column. Dr V is really unhappy about having to flay his friend, who manages to pep talk him into it. This V culture is seriously weird. Usually the tortured don't give pep talks to the torturer.
Ryan sets off the emergency evacuation alarms, and all the V workers obediently leave. The Secret Resistance Cell rush down to the shop floor and discover that whatever Evil Ingredient the V's are attempting to give humans, it's not in the vitamins. It's in the flu vaccine! Duh duh duh!! Humans will trust the flu vaccines in a way they don't trust alien vitamins!
hnpcc:Given the flu vaccine uptake is less than 20pc, it's not a good plan
Also, to add to that - the flu vaccine is mostly given to healthcare workers, the elderly, people in contact with the elderly and other high risk groups. Unless this is some strange eugenics program I'm not really sure it'll work.
The therapist is getting the news her heart condition can be cured by purple light. But, there's more...
Back at the warehouse the evacuated staff are returning.
astrocave: Oh, they came back? I can't imagine why "Everybody please go away now" didn't work
hnpcc:Yeah after they got to the assembly point and realised it was a drill
Ryan sets the self-destruct sequence (the warehouse has a self-destruct mechanism?! Is this standard?) going for the warehouse, adding "John May Lives!" as a tag to it. Um, you're going to blow the warehouse. Why bother? This waste of seconds costs him dearly as a V jumps him and starts strangling him. Fortunately Erica manages to shoot the V. The Priest rocks up and suggests they leave as the warehouse is filling up quickly. A V jumps him, but he manages to punch him out and they all flee as the warehouse blows up.
hnpcc:Where are their flying cameras when they need them?
astrocave: Vaporised. Somebody hit them with a stick
hnpcc:Accidentally
GIRAT is being told the bad news that he has an aneursym that will go in 6 months unless he lets the V's fix it. He wants a second, human opinion. They agree to give him the scan results, but warn him that human technology lags behind V technology and that it won't be able to see it. Also, would he like a printout of his complete medical history? GIRAT gets suspicious, and says he didn't give them one. The V doctor claims that every cell in the body carries a record of everything that ever happened to you, and they can get an entire medical history from that.
hnpcc:Now they have predictive medicine? Every cell?!? My liver can tell you I fractured my ankle?!?
GIRAT still wants a second opinion, but the V doctor warns him there is a long waiting list if he chooses to go away and get one.
astrocave: A long waiting list? They just zap 'em with radar
The Secret Resistance Cell are happy about the warehouse. Erica congratulates the Priest on not screwing up for a change and actually managing to punch someone.
Anna is gloating that her plan is coming together and that Dweeb is the One. For what I'm not sure. Her PA mentions that they've lost the warehouse with the dodgy flu vaccines.
hnpcc:We misplaced a warehouse?!?
Also, the "John May Lives!" message apparently got sent to all the ships just before it blew up and now everyone's a bit edgy. Anna tells him not to worry, changes into a long white dress, steps into a pool of light and starts sending Bliss to everyone. It's a seriously weird look, like people are exploding in light. All the V's stop dead, stare at the ceiling and hear Anna's voice. While exploding in light.
hnpcc:Are they vapourising people or running a cult?
astrocave: You can do both
Dweeb is looking at Lisa and all the other Blissed Vs strangely. Lisa starts snogging him to distract him. It works.
Ryan comes home to find his Therapist girlfriend waiting. She has some news. She's pregnant! Well I totally didn't see that one coming.
hnpcc:How the hell do you get a cross species baby? And is this one robotic?
astrocave: But he's a reptile!
This unfortunately is where my mobile ran out of battery life. D'oh! It's allastrocave from here on in.
The Priest has returned to his church, where he is looking at his old handgun. He locks it away again, then hears a noise. There's a bloke sitting rocking in the church, apparently in some distress. The Priest tells him to go away, then finally remembers he's supposed to be a priest for God's sake, and goes over to ask if he's OK. It's the V he clocked at the warehouse, who stabs him and then runs. Finally some of his inept secret resistance work comes back to bite him!! He probably gave this guy his card too. Seriously though, this character is useless. He's a terrible resistance agent, he's a terrible priest ("go away, it's late" - he probably works in the Melbourne diocese), he's unbelievable as a former soldier/army chaplain and he can't be a love interest. OK, now I'm hoping the stabbing worked. He lies bleeding as his fellow priest - and again, if this church is supposed to be big enough to have two priests working at it, it's probably big enough to have late night counselling services - comes out to find him.
Really though, you look at this Resistance Cell. So far they've blown up a warehouse. In the process 2/4 of them have been injured, one hopefully fatally, and quite a large number of supporters have also been killed. These guys are terrible.
Erica comes home to find Dweeb not home. She naturally checks his computer to find an IM from his friend, saying "congrats on being invited on to the mothership". She tries ringing but even though his phone works in space he ignores it. This isn't suprising given he's in between Lisa and Anna and gazing down at NYC from space.
The camera pulls back from the ship, from earth, the solar system, the galaxy, back and back until it slows to show a massive entire fleet of V ships in V formation (of course).
astrocave: Ooh, their ships look mean
They're heading towards Earth, probably not with peace and goodwill in mind.
Cue scary music, end episode.
astrocave: So what have we learned? Don't trust free healthcare, don't trust flu vaccines, do trust vitamin supplements
Yep, that sums it up. And still nothing's happened!!! This is slower than the middle of your average Survivor season.
astrocave: Ah, a flash forward. It's their way of saying "Just wait, something will happen"Then we're back at the church where we left them all last week. They're talking about how they came to know about the V's. Erica is suss about Ryan, who keeps evading her questions, like "how do you know about the V's." He's not hugely convincing, but it seems to be going over the Priest's head. Unsurprisingly. Warehouse guy wants to skin a V, Priest and Ryan both think that's a bad idea. The Priest is praying that the Rapture happens. Hang on, The Rapture isn't part of Catholicism... and that's a long sidetrack I really aren't getting into here. Short version: what I just said. Can't blame him though, there's a bloody great spaceship hovering like a brick above him and reptiles everywhere looking humanoid. I'd be wanting someone else to sort stuff out too, even if it totally didn't mesh with any theology I was supposed to be following. Mayan spacecraft also welcome!
Erica is fixated on why Ryan knows so much about the V's. She loses a staring contest with him, probably because he's a reptile.
Outside the secret meeting Ryan tells Warehouse guy to never mention skinning a reptile again. Obviously that creeps him right out... which means it would probably not be a bad idea to do it actually. If a pro-human V is creeped out, then it's going to creep out an anti-human V too, and have the additional benefit of showing the humans what the V's look like. On the down side, I think all the pro-human Vs would probably run away and/or return to the V fold, so maybe not then.
On the ship the Medical V Guy ("Dr V") who hit Wash over the head actually killed him.
hnpcc: They murdered wash?!astrocave: Yeah, last week. hnpcc:Didn't realise he was dead!Anna is displeased by this, as they've never had a murder on their ship before! She demands a full investigation of the medical staff.
astrocave:The 5th column - don't know what happened to the other 4hnpcc:Well the 4th column vanished unexpectedly, the 3rd blew up... the 5th is our last best chance...The 5th column also strikes me as being as hapless as the Resistance - you're a medical guy, Dr V! Couldn't you have, I dunno, injected Wash with something and made it look like the brain damage had caused a stroke or something? Leaving a dead, battered body on the mothership somewhere is a bit stupidly obvious wouldn't you think? Sheesh, you could have at least tried to smuggle it out of the damn ship, or chucked it in the incinerator or something!!
Erica is accessing the FBI database from home, googling Ryan.
hnpcc: Didn't know the fbi had a work from home option.Dweeb keeps wanting to talk to her. She's too busy googling to listen. Dweeb puts the telly on, and there's Anna talking to GIRAT (his actual name is Chad, but GIRAT is still funnier. To me, anyway. Unless he gets caught up in a rope, in which case he'll be a hanging Chad. Heh.) Anna is announcing a new health initiative (what is it with these aliens? They're as full on into healthcare debate as current US politicians!) whereby they're offering free vitamin shots via their healthcare centres.
astrocave: Hey, the FDA would want to test the injections, wouldn't they?hnpcc: Um, yeah, just a bit. Maybe they're selling them as natural therapy.The vitamins do all sorts of things (cure cancer, boost the immune system, stop wrinkles) but turn out to have no effect on the common cold (that's the "I" in GIRAT coming out right there.) Anna also says everyone will have to rely on their normal flu shots to prevent colds, which wtf?!? Your alien knowledge and technology is completely letting you down there. A vaccine against influenza is going to have bugger-all effect on a rhinovirus infection.
astrocave: It supercharges your immune system, but doesn't help with a coldhnpcc: Autoimmune diseases would go up too... Nothing cures the common cold! Reckon the V's are susceptible?Dweeb finally cracks it with Erica ("It's been more than two minutes!!") and she grudgingly agrees to come and talk to him. He tries to bring up Lisa, she teases him about the semi-naked chick in his room (Yep, that'd be Lisa), he clams up a bit, her phone rings and it's Ryan. Dweeb tells her to go work already. It's always urgent. Poor Dweeb!
Ryan has remembered a sleeper cell of V scientists who were on earth, and who he's now convinced are something to do with Anna's vitamin scheme. Using Erica's laptop with the FBI connection they google them all until finally they find a lab assistant who's now a Professor of Chemistry. Presumably he did a PhD and some postdocs while waiting out his sleeper cell agent time then. Good thing he didn't have a mid-time crisis, abandon his PhD and go become a juggler or an economist or a film animator or something. They decide to follow him to see where he goes. Warehouse Guy is not happy about this. I think following is what nearly got him killed the other times.
Dweeb is moaning about his mother to his therapist, who of course is Ryan's girlfriend. He shows the Therapist his Peace Ambassador V Jacket, then leaves it draped over the couch so Lisa and Anna can watch in. Not that he knows this of course. Lisa thinks Dweeb is "ready". Anna wants to meet him. Somehow I don't think Dweeb is up for meeting the parents just yet... he's only managed to kiss her once. Then again, he has seen her half-naked.
hnpcc: Of course he's in therapy! And the jackets have sound!The therapist is thinking about going to the healing centres as her heart medication isn't working well and she can't get hold of her doctor to change it.
astrocave: The therapist is either a V, or she's gonna diehnpcc: DieThe GIRAT is at one of the healing centres, watching someone be healed. This involves running a purple light over them.
hnpcc:It's healing by radar!astrocave: Radar can do anythinghnpcc:And it's purple!GIRAT is here to do a hard-hitting investigative piece about the centres. OK, I'm kidding, it's a puff piece. He volunteers to be scanned on camera, hops on a bed and what looks remarkably like an elongated aircraft tray pops out and starts running purple light over him. It apparently doesn't hurt. Now the red light, that would hurt.
And... we're back at the parking garage from the opening flash forward. Dweeb's not answering his mother's phone calls. The V chemist finally emerges and the Stupid Resistance Cell move in.
Warehouse Guy decides to pull a gun on him, instead of just following him as asked. Huh? V Chemist pulls a gun better and manages to shoot Warehouse Guy, who goes down. Erica and Ryan hear the shooting and come running. And we're back to the flash forward. Erica kneels over Warehouse Guy, Ryan pulls a gun... and shoots V Chemist.
astrocave: So the interesting thing that happened - not as interesting as you thoughthnpcc: Understatement. V Chemist goes down between parked cars. The Priest rocks up with a car and takes Warehouse Guy away. (Warehouse Guy claims that V Chemist shot first, which no.) Ryan goes to grab V Chemist, who calls him a traitor and then swallows a suicide pill which causes him to completely immolate.
hnpcc: And they have immolation pills! Wouldn't want to bugger that up.Ryan turns around, and Erica's pulled a gun on him. This would have been a much more interesting flash forward moment. She calls him out as being a V. They have a staring contest, again. She loses, again. She knew he was a reptile this time too!! Ryan swears they're on the same side. Erica shrugs and gives in. Whatever. She's never going to win a staring contest with him anyway.
Anna is very displeased that no one has any idea about how Wash came to have his head battered in. She demands all 14 of the medical personnel be brought to her so she can investigate personally. Dr V (who's apparently in charge) goes off with Fellow V Guy to get them and hiss frantically about what to do. Dr V won't leave, Fellow V Guy thinks he's too important to be sacrificed. Told you they should have incinerated the body... couldn't they have given him a suicide pill and said he did it by accident?
hnpcc:This mob are seriously inept.The Therapist has made it to a V healing centre and is being bathed in purple light. GIRAT is still wandering around, not being allowed to talk to staff and patients. Hard hitting investigative journalism, right there. This guy could work for Today/Tonight.
The Priest is stitching Warehouse Guy up. Turns out the Priest was an army chaplain and learned needlework from them. So he did military training and he still sucks this badly at being a resistance fighter?!? Great. I think Warehouse Guy should have shot him while he had the chance. Warehouse Guy tells him he needs to decide whether he's a priest or a soldier... um, I think he decided that already. He left the army, after all.
Erica is quizzing Ryan. He tells her what the 5th column is, and all V sleeper agents carry an immolation suicide pill. She's satisfied that he's OK and they keep working together. *eye roll* I'd want some more information myself. They've found a warehouse listed in V Chemist's briefcase documents which does not appear to be linked to his Professorial duties. Knowing this lot it's his Storage King unit.
Anna has the entire med staff lined up in V shape, and tells them unless the guilty party confesses she'll pick one at random and punish them. For a second Dr V looks like he's going to confess, but Fellow V Guy beats him to it. Anna sentences him to be skinned. By Dr V. Ooh, that's harsh.
astrocave: Punishment: skin him? Wouldn't that be more comfortable?hnpcc:I assume both skins? Otherwise yeah.Having settled Wash's Murder Case Anna goes off to meet up with Lisa and Dweeb. Dweeb gets really star struck by meeting Anna. God only knows where his fantasies are off to when he finds out she's Lisa's Mum.
Erica manages to get a security guard to come out and help her at the warehouse/shipping company by pretending to be lost. Ryan clocks him and they both enter. The Priest rocks up as well - oh God, who let him come?! This is unlikely to end well.
Anna goes on a bit about Dweeb liking motorcycles. So she takes him to see the ship's propulsion unit. The logic doesn't entirely follow.
hnpcc:Oh God, is Dweeb Anakin?astrocave: Damn it, I was hoping for a space bikehnpcc:Totally. Does he get to drive the ship?astrocave: If he's Anakin? Best notDr V has Fellow V Guy semi-naked on a hospital bed. He's peeved that Fellow V Guy fake confessed. Fellow V Guy has sacrificed himself so Dr V can continue being an integral part of the 5th column. Dr V is really unhappy about having to flay his friend, who manages to pep talk him into it. This V culture is seriously weird. Usually the tortured don't give pep talks to the torturer.
Ryan sets off the emergency evacuation alarms, and all the V workers obediently leave. The Secret Resistance Cell rush down to the shop floor and discover that whatever Evil Ingredient the V's are attempting to give humans, it's not in the vitamins. It's in the flu vaccine! Duh duh duh!! Humans will trust the flu vaccines in a way they don't trust alien vitamins!
hnpcc:Given the flu vaccine uptake is less than 20pc, it's not a good planAlso, to add to that - the flu vaccine is mostly given to healthcare workers, the elderly, people in contact with the elderly and other high risk groups. Unless this is some strange eugenics program I'm not really sure it'll work.
The therapist is getting the news her heart condition can be cured by purple light. But, there's more...
Back at the warehouse the evacuated staff are returning.
astrocave: Oh, they came back? I can't imagine why "Everybody please go away now" didn't workhnpcc:Yeah after they got to the assembly point and realised it was a drillRyan sets the self-destruct sequence (the warehouse has a self-destruct mechanism?! Is this standard?) going for the warehouse, adding "John May Lives!" as a tag to it. Um, you're going to blow the warehouse. Why bother? This waste of seconds costs him dearly as a V jumps him and starts strangling him. Fortunately Erica manages to shoot the V. The Priest rocks up and suggests they leave as the warehouse is filling up quickly. A V jumps him, but he manages to punch him out and they all flee as the warehouse blows up.
hnpcc:Where are their flying cameras when they need them?astrocave: Vaporised. Somebody hit them with a stickhnpcc:AccidentallyGIRAT is being told the bad news that he has an aneursym that will go in 6 months unless he lets the V's fix it. He wants a second, human opinion. They agree to give him the scan results, but warn him that human technology lags behind V technology and that it won't be able to see it. Also, would he like a printout of his complete medical history? GIRAT gets suspicious, and says he didn't give them one. The V doctor claims that every cell in the body carries a record of everything that ever happened to you, and they can get an entire medical history from that.
hnpcc:Now they have predictive medicine? Every cell?!? My liver can tell you I fractured my ankle?!?GIRAT still wants a second opinion, but the V doctor warns him there is a long waiting list if he chooses to go away and get one.
astrocave: A long waiting list? They just zap 'em with radarThe Secret Resistance Cell are happy about the warehouse. Erica congratulates the Priest on not screwing up for a change and actually managing to punch someone.
Anna is gloating that her plan is coming together and that Dweeb is the One. For what I'm not sure. Her PA mentions that they've lost the warehouse with the dodgy flu vaccines.
hnpcc:We misplaced a warehouse?!?Also, the "John May Lives!" message apparently got sent to all the ships just before it blew up and now everyone's a bit edgy. Anna tells him not to worry, changes into a long white dress, steps into a pool of light and starts sending Bliss to everyone. It's a seriously weird look, like people are exploding in light. All the V's stop dead, stare at the ceiling and hear Anna's voice. While exploding in light.
hnpcc:Are they vapourising people or running a cult?astrocave: You can do bothDweeb is looking at Lisa and all the other Blissed Vs strangely. Lisa starts snogging him to distract him. It works.
Ryan comes home to find his Therapist girlfriend waiting. She has some news. She's pregnant! Well I totally didn't see that one coming.
hnpcc:How the hell do you get a cross species baby? And is this one robotic?astrocave: But he's a reptile!This unfortunately is where my mobile ran out of battery life. D'oh! It's all
astrocave from here on in.The Priest has returned to his church, where he is looking at his old handgun. He locks it away again, then hears a noise. There's a bloke sitting rocking in the church, apparently in some distress. The Priest tells him to go away, then finally remembers he's supposed to be a priest for God's sake, and goes over to ask if he's OK. It's the V he clocked at the warehouse, who stabs him and then runs. Finally some of his inept secret resistance work comes back to bite him!! He probably gave this guy his card too. Seriously though, this character is useless. He's a terrible resistance agent, he's a terrible priest ("go away, it's late" - he probably works in the Melbourne diocese), he's unbelievable as a former soldier/army chaplain and he can't be a love interest. OK, now I'm hoping the stabbing worked. He lies bleeding as his fellow priest - and again, if this church is supposed to be big enough to have two priests working at it, it's probably big enough to have late night counselling services - comes out to find him.
Really though, you look at this Resistance Cell. So far they've blown up a warehouse. In the process 2/4 of them have been injured, one hopefully fatally, and quite a large number of supporters have also been killed. These guys are terrible.
Erica comes home to find Dweeb not home. She naturally checks his computer to find an IM from his friend, saying "congrats on being invited on to the mothership". She tries ringing but even though his phone works in space he ignores it. This isn't suprising given he's in between Lisa and Anna and gazing down at NYC from space.
The camera pulls back from the ship, from earth, the solar system, the galaxy, back and back until it slows to show a massive entire fleet of V ships in V formation (of course).
astrocave: Ooh, their ships look meanThey're heading towards Earth, probably not with peace and goodwill in mind.
Cue scary music, end episode.
astrocave: So what have we learned? Don't trust free healthcare, don't trust flu vaccines, do trust vitamin supplementsYep, that sums it up. And still nothing's happened!!! This is slower than the middle of your average Survivor season.
