- Erica learns her partner, Malik, is a Visitor and must fight for her life - literally - to stop Anna from finding out she's Fifth Column. Meanwhile, Anna learns that Malik is missing and orders Ryan to find her, while Lisa realizes her body is beginning to change, causing her to become more and more like her mother.—ABC Publicity
- "V" - "Laid Bare" - Jan. 18, 2010
Following last week's car crash Malik and Erica have a knock down drag out fight that ends with Erica knocking out the V. Hobbs and Father Jack catch up and they decide to kidnap Malik to get more info out of her. Erica lies to the boss when he shows up saying masked men attacked her and kidnapped Malik. In her bloodied and bruised state, shes officially off the case. Lisa is freaked out by changes in her body: her skin is changing, become green and then morphing back. But it's just because she's being readied for "breeding." (Um, yuck.) Anna assures her she's going to help get her ready for this transition. Anna then goes to her own mom and tells her that she's doing a good job with Lisa, better than Diana did with her. Diana tells her to be careful or Lisa will betray her like Anna did her. Anna says she was just trying to preserve the V race. Anna visits Ryan via futuristic computer screen communication technology and shows him that his daughter is fine now and that she's got her all blissed out. Ryan wants to know what she wants. Anna wants him to find Malik and ID those responsible and basically threatens his daughter to get her way. Back at FC HQ Erica explains to the gang about Tylers DNA being messed with and that some strands are missing, Sid the science kid says its so the Vs can "add" something. They decided to try and get answers from Malik. Because of the high pain threshold for V's, Ryan says the only way to get info is to skin her but shell only live for a half hour. Everybody seems okay with this as a last resort. But to avoid torture Ryan and Erica go to her place, find her secret safe box full of contingency money/passports and some groovy computer files on a bunch of random people. Marcus and the trackers come after them but they get away.
Back at HQ they discover the people are all missing and probably being abducted by Vs. They find a girl who is scheduled to be abducted and go to her mom to try and save her. The mom has no info since her daughters a runaway but Malik, after getting partially skinned and having her tail snapped, gives up where the kidnappees are being taken. (Ultimately, they put her out of her misery).
Hobbs and Erica and Ryan go to the spot in the woods where the people are being taken and save the girl but are unable to save others taken away on a spaceship. Erica and Ryan bring Sophie home to her mom. Erica says it feels good and tells Ryan to savor wins. He wishes he could but he's freaked about his daughter. Erica promises theyll get his daughter back. So it turns out the Vs have been kidnapping folks and literally stealing their souls, thats what that crazy torture machine does on the ship, steal souls. Why do they steal souls? Because Anna explains to Lisa, souls exert a powerful influence over humans. They believe after death it leaves the body so the V's use their machine to capture it. Anna has Joshua rock the soul stealer and notices that Lisa seems discomfited. So she then makes Lisa run the machine. Meanwhile, Anna calls on Chad to interview Father Jack on his show. He doesnt understand why since Father Jack has been preaching anti-V sermons but in his new role as intel-seeking double agent he does it. She of course has an ulterior motive. Chad does a fair and balanced interview and then later at his church a parishioner who lost family in the Fifth Column suicide bombing starts a fight. He's actually a V plant-- which Chad sees-- and even though Father Jack stops the fight and calms the warring sides, Anna sends someone to video it on their phone and uploads the video to the Internet in which it looks like Father Jack himself is violent. The video goes viral on the web.
Chad shows it to Father Jack but he's full of bravado saying he will be fine and weather the storm with faith. Chad calls him brave. Jack says theyre both brave and that Chad has to stay close to Anna, that's his role in the fight. He says its time for Chad to meet the others, and he brings him to HQ to meet Hobbs, Erica, Ryan etc. Hobbs doesnt like bringing Chad in. Father Jack defends him saying Chad is making amends and will stay close to Anna for them. The gang shows Chad the dead, partially-skinned Malik and it's his first look at the lizard skin situation. He wonders why the V's just don't kill everyone and take over. They explain the Vs need them and that the plan is much more insidious. On the ship, Anna thanks Tyler for capturing the video at the church, it turns out she sent him. She asks him to continue to protect and watch out for the V's but to be careful because hes not just a friend but like a son to her. Meanwhile her actual child Lisa goes to visit Erica, stricken after the soul-stealing thing. She says she cant fight like Erica wants her to, shes not strong enough. Erica comforts her as she cries. Anna goes to Diana and says she proved her wrong that she tested Lisa and she passed. Diana says Anna passed her tests also and that she should keep her eye on Lisa. Anna then goes to Ryan with his blissed-out daughter in her arms. She asks for the intel. He tells her he found the FC and knows who took Malik.
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