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Previously on V.

Today we welcome the very first group of humans selected to participate in our

Live Aboard program.

I'm moving up on that ship.

There's nothing you can do about it. Members of our race are falling prey to

human emotion.

Everyone will be tested.

I failed.

But that has to be wrong.

I want you to investigate the fifth column. My intel says they were planning

terrorist attack against the visitors.

Anna's worried about a group of resistance fighters.

If I hear anything, I'll let you know. I've started looking into the group you

told me about. I might have something for you.

25 seconds to acquire target or the battery's spent.

Something's not right.

Jack. Jack,

get back here.

Let's split now. We don't have time for this.

Go ahead.

Got someplace to be, Evan?

No. Just trying to figure out how to schedule this.

Kelso here.

Hello.

Ryan? Yeah, hold on.

Ryan, what's up, babe?

Jack, the cops are almost here. We've got to get out of here before someone

us. No, there might be survivors.

You need to tell me what you're seeing out there.

Ryan? There are no survivors.

What? You can't do anything for them.

What's going on?

Ryan, talk to me, please. What's going on?

There wasn't a B -tracker team on that shuttle.

They were human.

What?

Dad, come on! We're going!

Our shuttle was successfully shut down as you expected

it would.

The human remains have been found.

There will be a strong public outcry.

Human law enforcement will take swift and immediate action against those

responsible for this atrocity.

Fifth column.

Ryan, it's Joshua.

What's going on with Joshua?

Since you stopped the soldier that was sent after Val, Anna knows that the

column is growing stronger.

I received word from another fifth column on the ship. She's sending a

down filled with trackers to locate those responsible.

Trackers? When? Today.

Ryan, if those trackers hit the ground and disperse, it'll be impossible to

locate them all.

I can't let them hit the ground.

We just have to blow that shuttle up before it lands.

No human technology can knock one down.

But V technology could.

If I could acquire a missile, could we alter it so it can breach a V shuttle's

defenses?

Only if V code was uploaded to the seeker electronics in the missile's

chip. Then give me that code.

You don't have much time.

You have to move fast.

Drop on your right.

Yeah?

I suppose you could do better.

I wouldn't want to embarrass you.

More.

Oh, wait. You're backing down from a challenge?

I must be mistaken. I thought you were Special Agent Erica Evans.

Really? Yeah.

Come.

Uh -oh. Mm -hmm.

Need help with those gloves?

I got it. Thanks.

That's how I breathe.

Oh.

Like thorn birds in here.

They're like girls' box here, right?

Yeah.

Women, too.

I've heard.

You know the sport?

I have four brothers.

I learned a thing or two about fighting.

Who's your favorite boxer?

Sugar Ray Leonard.

Lightning hands, fast on his feet, good balance, never off his form.

You're bursting with opinions this morning, Hobbs. Who's yours?

Jack!

Hey.

We need to get our hands on a stinker.

We're having some fun around here. What are you talking about, Ryan?

Anna's sending down a shuttle filled with B -trackers to hunt down those

responsible for stopping her soldier.

That would be us.

Trackers? Yeah, they have heightened senses.

They're like soldiers, but they blend in. They could follow a scent, work a

crime scene, evaluate evidence.

Why not just send another soldier after us? Oh, she will.

But first she'll send a tracker to identify us, paint targets on our

And then she'll send in the soldiers to finish us off. When is this shuttle

coming? It's six o 'clock.

But it's never going to get here.

Because we're going to blow it out of the sky.

What? You can't be serious. Hold on. We're talking about blowing up a

No, we're talking about blowing up a V shuttle.

But you're right to be worried on one count.

Strategically, we can't have fifth column coming off like terror.

We'll need to control the public blowback if we do this thing. There

any. The last thing I want is the big media mess.

FBI crawling all over the wreckage.

Not with the V remains on the site.

All she's going to do is just say there was a shuttle malfunction so they can

clean it up with no interference.

Are we really considering this, my son?

Flies on those shuttles. People fly on those shuttles. Exactly. How do we know

that no one innocent will be hurt?

Joshua's already confirmed that there's only going to be V -trackers on those

shuttles. No human. What if it lands on a house or a school? I know the flight

plan, okay? It's landing in a remote location.

And make no mistake, if that shuttle touches the ground, we don't stand a

chance. Those trackers, they will find us.

You want to risk your own life over a fit of conscience?

That's fine.

How about Tyler's?

Ryan is your intel good?

Perfect.

Finding peace, Father.

Some days easier than others.

Even for a priest?

For everyone, Chad.

I've been on this ship a lot since the last time we talked.

Anna has the liver boards eating out of the palm of her hand.

And I know, in my gut, it's not safe for them to be so trusting.

I want to join the fight.

I was hoping you could point me to the fifth column, like we talked about.

It's been quiet, I'm afraid, among my parishioners.

All right, too bad.

I could be very useful.

I'm behind the scenes with Anna.

I travel with her and Marcus.

I have unrestricted access to and from the mothership.

I even travel in the V -only shuttles.

I overhear things.

You ride the V -only shuttles?

I'm back and forth in them all the time.

I could be a big -ass hit to the fifth column, Father.

You ride the shuttles today?

Yes, most days I do.

Maybe you should stay away from the Viona shuttles today, Chad.

What do you mean by that?

Just some whisper among the parishioners. It might not be safe.

I understand.

Thank you, Father.

Are you all right?

She had a nightmare last night.

About what?

Here, I'll put her down for now.

Hi.

It's no trouble.

You can tell me.

In my dream, I was being taken by doctors down a dark corridor here on the

There were glowing arrows on the... ceiling.

I'm new to live aboard, and I'm scared.

I couldn't help but stop. And then there were needles.

Hundreds of them being poked into me.

All over.

I know it was just a dream, but I can't shake it.

Can't shake what?

How real it felt.

You all right?

It was just a nightmare.

You're safe up here.

Good morning.

Good morning, Chad.

I really enjoyed your report on the Liverboard program.

I just wanted to thank you. My pleasure. I'm glad you liked it.

I've been keeping my ear to the ground, looking for any information on the fifth

column. What have you heard?

There are whispers of a threat.

To the shuttles transporting these only today.

You've come a long way since we've arrived, Chad.

Professionally.

Personally.

I think you'd understand that any threat to my people is a threat to all of us.

It might be nothing.

I thought I should bring it up just in case.

Where did you learn this? You have to understand how this works.

I can get you this information because my sources, trust me, if I start naming

names, that'll choke off the flow of information.

I understand.

But there's no need yet.

We don't have any V -only shuttles running today.

Mr. Decker, will you please excuse us for the moment?

Actually, I was on my way out.

We haven't eliminated all fifth column from the ship.

Someone leaked news of the trackers we were to send out on that shuttle today.

I will look into this.

In the meantime, I will tighten the flow of information.

Again, in light of this threat, do you still want to send down the trackers?

I have a better idea.

If the fifth column wants to take down a shuttle, we'll let them.

I've got that V -code. I've loaded it into the missile electronics.

I'm assuming it does what it's supposed to.

We're all systems go.

Hey, guys.

Ryan, are we sure we really want to do this?

You double -checked your intel with Joshua.

You're sure? I'm positive.

If we don't do this now, it's going to be too late.

We're running out of time to do this.

What's going on?

There wasn't a beat tracker team on that shuttle.

They were human.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Pick up, baby.

Pick up, baby. Come on.

Please, God. Please, God. Please pick up.

Hello? Are you okay?

Mom, Mom, what's wrong?

A V shuttle went down. What? When? Just now?

The area just north of Taconic State Parkway. This possible terrorist attack

comes a mere three days after the commencement of the Live Aboard program.

Stunned and shocked people from all over the world... Mom, Lisa could have been

on that shuttle. I'm sure she's okay.

How do you know, Mom?

I don't. It went down in a secluded area, so why would they send peace

ambassadors there?

What if you're wrong, Mom? What if you're wrong about who was on that

How did this happen?

Ryan, we need answers.

I don't have any.

Joshua doesn't need it. He's doing everything he can to figure it out.

Figure it out?

Maybe he set us up.

You didn't hear his voice when I told him.

He didn't set us up.

So what? It was a mistake?

It was the wrong shuttle?

I asked you, Ryan.

I asked all of you. We did everything that we could have done, all right? The

odds were slim to none.

Under this in Iraq, we won't use those excuses.

If we wage war against the V's, if we strike preemptively, there is zero

of air fraud.

Zero.

Either we value life or we are the V's.

It's not that simple. It is precisely that simple!

Where are you with this?

With you.

Well, you can't afford to be.

Because we've got other problems now.

We were all over that crime scene. We were late getting out.

Cops were on top of us.

It wasn't a clean getaway. We might have left evidence.

I don't want to do this anymore.

I'm out.

Floyd Patterson.

What? My favourite boxer.

It's Floyd Patterson.

He got knocked down seven times in one round against Joe Hanson.

Seven times.

You know what he said?

They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most.

But I also got up the most.

So my question to you two is this.

Which do you want to be?

The guy who gets knocked down?

Or the guy who gets back up?

Lisa, is Lisa okay?

I mean, I saw the footage of the shuttle crashing and I thought if she was on

it... Lisa's fine.

Nothing was going to keep you from her.

She was gone. I don't know what I'd do.

I'm doing a little board.

Lisa will be very pleased.

I'll let her know.

Don't worry.

Go home and pack.

Soon enough, you'll be with her all the time.

Adam.

Where the hell have you been?

My son spends time on that ship. I had to track him down, make sure he wasn't

the shuttle.

Fine. Good.

Good. I need every evil body on this thing.

Given our stance on terrorism, this is a global embarrassment.

The evidence indicates domestic.

Everything's pointing to fifth column.

What have we got?

I'm Alex, working up a list of known terrorists who could pull something like

this off, even with a grudge against the visitors.

We picked up good tread marks at the edge of the trees where we have reason

believe the terrorist parked.

Not much else.

Shuttle's engines run on blue energy, highly explosive stuff, so when they

up, they left very little forensic evidence.

Now, they'll be on the boarding dock. That's the number between 15 and 20

people.

You've seen the remains.

From the looks of it, we're going to have to pull in a forensic

to do the DNA work. It'll take weeks.

We shut down the highway immediately after the crash.

Here and here. So they would have had to pass through this toll booth we've been

seeing. The good news?

Toll booth has security cameras.

Nice. We matched the tread that seven vehicles make.

So once we pull footage, we can cross -reference.

Erica,

I can't reach Jack.

He wouldn't pick up.

One of the bones is smooth.

You're all right? What's going on?

Bones crack when they're burned in the flesh, Ryan. But bones from a skeleton

stay smooth in a fire.

Why would there be a skeleton on a shuttle full of tourists?

They wouldn't.

They wouldn't put a skeleton with humans. The other people... Ryan, we

this. We didn't kill anyone. The people on that shuttle, they were already dead.

That'll set us up.

You got photos of this? Hard evidence?

Yeah. I'm staring at my monitor right now. It... No, no, no. No.

It disappeared.

Someone deleted it.

Disappeared?

Who would cover up something like that?

Alex.

Cover the office.

We'll have to grab that toll booth footage.

On it.

Ryan, the FBI just launched. You need to get there and wipe that footage before

they do it. This is going to get pinned on us. Get moving.

Now.

Get in there and show up at the server exactly like I said.

25, this is Michael.

That's the eye.

I got it. I'm here.

You're about to get it.

You were protecting me by warning me about the shuttles.

Trying to save my life. I was just passing on a rumor I heard.

I didn't know that would happen.

What exactly was the fifth column's plan?

Why would they kill humans?

I don't know any circumstances under which they could condone that.

I'm sure the fifth column knows what they're doing, I'm sure.

They know what's necessary.

And for me to be useful, I have to do what's necessary too.

Meaning? I have to report on this attack to keep my position with Anna intact.

It can't seem like I'm sympathetic to the cause. I have to come down hard.

What I'm saying is, if you're fifth column, things are about to get very bad

you.

Good thing I'm not fifth column.

And I never saw it coming, you know.

She'd heard nothing about any threats. Why, you asked her?

Well, indirectly, of course.

The fifth column caught her off guard.

Which, believe me, is hard to do.

We value life above all else.

Every... single life.

But this column reacted exactly as I suspected.

Shooting down that shuttle backfired.

Tonight they will be introduced to the world just as I planned it.

As terrorists.

Mother, you wanted to see me?

We value life above all else.

Every single life.

We value life above all else.

Every single life.

Which is more effective, Marcus?

I think they're all sufficient.

Lisa?

The second one.

It seems more sincere.

Your grasp of human emotion is impressive.

Thank you, Mother.

Jack?

Are you all right?

My faith is shaken, Father.

Your faith in God?

My faith in myself.

Well, in times like this, it's best to get back to basics.

Your core values.

I've made choices, Father.

Terrible choices with people's lives on the line.

You mean when you were at war? I'm not talking about the past.

If this is an issue of law, Jack, then perhaps you need to make a confession of

a different type?

Yeah. Erica, it's Ryan. We're good. We wiped the footage. Good.

Any luck?

Yes, actually.

We got to the security facility and wiped the footage from after the attack.

Damn it.

Since they seem like pros, I figured they'd scouted the route and done a dry

earlier. So I grabbed the footage from this morning.

Archived to a different server.

We reviewed it there.

Thanks.

Any suspects?

One name rang the cherries.

Not exactly a typical terrorist.

These were taken this morning near the site of the attack.

Your tire tracks are there, too. You want to explain that?

Come on, Father.

At least give me your cover story. I'm sure you thought that through.

I thought nothing through.

I've sat across from a lot of suspects in that chair.

Some of them were remorseful, sure, but not you.

I can read the guilt in your eyes, Father.

I'm giving you a chance to unburden yourself.

This is a game!

Would you mind bringing Malik in here with his crime scene photos?

He loaded that shuttle with dead bodies. They set us up. We didn't kill anyone.

Look really scared.

We can hold you for 48 hours without charging you. Do you think your collar

protect you in there?

Blame them.

Those tires aren't unique to my van.

The church bought a whole fleet. There must be, I don't know, thousands of

vehicles with that tread.

Why are we at the toll booth?

It's a state parkway. I was going to see a parishioner.

I'm sure he'll be happy to confirm your story.

I was consulting her on matters of adultery.

Her name's Confidential.

Convenient. Not to her husband.

Please tell me you didn't drag me away from my parish because of a common tire

impression and a picture of me traveling in a public parkway. Because I can't

imagine you'd be wasting your time harassing a priest during an

this high profile.

So you better charge me or let me go.

There were glowing arrows on the ceiling.

Glowing arrows on the ceiling.

I was being taken by doctors in our corridor.

Corridor. Here on the ship.

I was scared.

I felt messed up.

Hundreds of them being pulled into me.

All over.

All over.

I

know it was a

dream, but I can't shake it.

I'm glad you came by to bring me to the ship.

That's not why I stopped by, Tyler.

I don't want you to move on to the ship with me.

What?

Why?

You're a nice guy, Tyler, but I don't have the same feelings for you as you do

for me.

What are you talking about?

You've been just as into this as I have.

My mother really likes you, Tyler.

I didn't want to disappoint her.

So what about us on the shuttle?

I mean, what was that?

I just wanted to see what it felt like.

That's all.

You can go.

We value life above all else.

Every single life.

I just wish we could have done something to save the lives that were tragically

taken today by this unprovoked attack.

Perhaps our greatest flaw is that we are too trusting.

There are those that don't share our regard for life.

The fifth column seeks to destroy us because we're from another place.

Because they think we don't belong here.

Because we're different.

Get up to the ship.

Make sure it gets conveyed to Anna that the FBI is doing everything it can.

Since our presence here is causing such strife, that humans have been caught in

the crossfire, we've been forced to reconsider being here at all.

I don't think I could bear another tragedy like this.

We are we are always

Kendrick needs to talk to you about your involvement with Fifth Column.

He wants you in the war room.

Now.

I'm not going to let anything or anyone else harm the visitors.

Period.

I have orders from the highest level to form a task force to zero in on fifth

column.

Evans.

I'm assigning you to head it up.

You'll have every means at your disposal.

The full resources of this office.

And you'll be partnered with Agent Malick.

Agent Malick from the FBI.

I'm here to see Marcus about the shuttle crash.

It is an honor to see you again, my queen.

Only two of the crime scene photos were damning.

I deleted them and destroyed the evidence.

before anything could be forwarded to the forensic anthropologist.

Malik, cover the office. I'm rolling out to grab that total of footage.

On it.

You've done superb work.

Under great pressure.

Permitting that missile to strike the shuttle accomplished precisely what you

had hoped.

The task force has been formed.

I am now free to serve our people and hunt down Fifth Column with the full

weight of the United States government behind me.

We have seen a massive amount of unprecedented sympathy for the Vs and an

international outcry against the Fifth Column.

and this atrocity carried out at their hands.

At this time, there is very... Now that you're a prime suspect in the bombing,

it's going to be even more dangerous for us to be seen with you.

Uh, we did this.

See, it better have my back.

We're in it together, like it or not.

Jack?

He rides a private V shuttle, so I warned him.

Chad Becker?

He asked Anna about it, and that's how she found out.

He's a potential ally. He doesn't know anything. I've been careful. I told you,

you can't trust anyone.

He could have died on that shuttle. All this. You wrote all this down on our

heads because you didn't want to risk that guy's life?

One life? I won't ever forget what one life is worth.

If we're going to win this war, we can't go off the rails.

We can't lose sight of who we are.

Jack's right.

We can never be like them.

See, that's what Anna does.

She takes our emotions, uses it against us.

Can't ever do that.

You know, you can call yourselves freedom fighters. You can call

rebels.

But make no mistake, kids.

We're terrorists now.

Are you willing to bear that cross so that people can sleep well at night?

Yeah.

Why?

Because we're the only ones willing to.

Hey, Padre.

Welcome back.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry about going behind your back, Mom.

You were right.

You were right about everything.

Lisa?

She didn't care about me, Mom.

She's just... She's just refusing me.

Did she say that?

Okay. Hey.

Okay. This is stupid.

Why am I that much of an idiot? Oh, no.

Oh, sorry. Of course not.

You just cared about someone.

But I did.

Was it worth it?

You never know why anyone does what they do.

Okay.

World leaders have been calling, offering their condolences, vowing to

our fight against Fifth Column.

They're concerned we might leave.

Good.

We'll use their fear to our advantage, just as we did the Americans today.

I'm sorry, Mother.

I've failed.

Tyler won't be coming to live aboard.

I pushed too hard, and he doesn't want to see me anymore.

I did everything I could, but I believe the pull of his mother was too strong

for him.

I understand.

We'll have to find a greater incentive for him.

You were injured in the fifth column attack.

Don't worry, daughter.

We'll get him back.

There is no greater incentive for a human male than a damsel in distress.

Break her legs.