Now this is the V that I was excited to see late last year, episode six is leagues beyond the fifth as it picks up with Ryan (Morris Chestnut), Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and company plotting an infiltration of the visitor ship. While I thought we would get a big reveal through the ultra-sound with Ryan’s lady Valerie (Lourdes Benedicto) and lizard baby, it’s pretty obvious that the man’s influence is pretty large since he gets to the doctor before her in order to stage a fake ultrasound and keep his secret. A fellow visitor (and doctor) shows his wife the ultrasound of a human baby and then warns Ryan that the pregnancy will kill his wife if he doesn’t recover phosphorous from the mother-ship.
The Fifth Column then moves into action and starting with the ship above Sydney, Australia there begins a slew of suicide bombings during Anna’s mind control, BLISS. This scares and angers Anna (Morena Baccarin) so she aims to reveal the Fifth Column by forcing all Visitors to undergo tests against human emotion. Ryan infiltrates the ship and procures his wife’s medicine but upon leaving he is detained and made to undergo the strange “test” which involves lying in a chair and watching videos of violence. The whole thing reminded me of A Clockwork Orange when Alex was made to watch violence with his eyes pinned open.
There seems to be something more about young Tyler (Logan Huffman). Wishing to get him away from the Visitors, Erica takes her son to his father in the country and leaves him. Meanwhile on the ship, Ryan’s capturers turn out to be fellow Fifth Column and they promise to plant a message into Anna’s broadcast for him. On his way out they notice his phosphorous vial and ask if it’s for a human woman. Ryan confirms and they make mention of “there’s no turning back” to which he sadly replies that he knows. Between this exchange and an earlier one where Erica and her ex-husband mention something about Tyler finding out who he truly is, there are lots of mysterious angles that I am eager to find out about. What exactly is Tyler? Why does Anna and Lisa (Laura Vandervoot) want him so badly?
During Anna’s broadcast to the world to announce a new “Live Aboard” program to integrate humans and Visitors aboard the ship, her broadcast is briefly interrupted by the words “John May Lives”. Those words were Ryan’s call to action for the Fifth Column to come out of hiding. Ryan is spotted making his way off the ship and the maniacal Georgie interrupts the guard pursuing Ryan and kills him. Things now begin to heat up in the war for humanity and with Ryan’s friend Georgie captured and aboard the Visitor ship, they begin to torture him and we don’t know if he’ll make it.
The episode ends on a creepy note- due to Lisa, the cute daughter of Anna wanting Tyler so badly. We know she wants him hardcore but none of us know why, even Anna is adamant about hooking the two up but will not reveal her reasoning. In the close of this episode six, the daughter makes a visit to Tyler’s house to see him. The seemingly innocent smile on her face revealed some naughtier intent but it ends without us finding out what it is . With an aggressive and attractive Visitor hottie, what will poor Tyler do to prevent this woman from mounting him and possibly eating him? We’ll have to find out next week.
Cinephile and opinion writer, Greg Dragon has been a fan of movies since the 80's when Kung Fu theater was all the rage and Roger Moore was James Bond. As an opinion writer that has reviewed Box Office releases on a number of prominent websites, Greg is the founder and lead critic of Spicy Movie Dogs.
