V: Fruition

This was a pretty good episode. Ryan is slowly falling under the sway of Anna's bliss once more while Lisa seems to be rapidly breaking away. Erica was able to get valuable intelligence from Hobbes which allowed her to single handedly arrest a key anti-V figured, even if she would have rather recruited him into the Fifth Column. The arrest made Erica a household name and a hero to her son. Chad knows when he is being completely manipulated by Anna and he is knowingly going to give Father Jack's name to her. The Father had jack to do in this particular episode and his story line needs some pep. Hobbes on the other hand was moving and shaking all over the place which made his character a bit more interesting.

If Hobbes is the type of man who would accept payment for murder, why would he not already have been on the FBI's most wanted list? This guy is bad news so why is Erica and crew so willing to trust him? Would it be the worst thing if the Fifth Column dropped from four members to three? Would anyone notice?

Is Lisa going to sabotage the soldiers in an effort to save the Fifth Column? Would she bother saving them if she knew the entire Fifth Column was four people planet side, two doctors, and the guy that Joshua talked to that one time?

Val's water broke which means the entire gestational period of a human/V hybrid is approximately four weeks. It would follow then that the Val/Ryan baby, we will call him "Van", should have a speaking part by the second or third episode of season two. Hopefully heart to hearts with Van should pull Ryan out of Anna's bliss permanently. Unless of course giving birth to Van kills Val, in which case I am assuming Ryan will be less than emotionally available.

For someone that is not supposed to exhibit human emotion Anna smiles an awful lot. Maybe she is just a pathological lier and the only time Anna feels any type of emotion is when she lies. That would explain the ear to ear grins whenever she is pulling one over on the planet as a whole. Perhaps Anna needs big pharma to help her genuinely smile more often.

Speaking of happiness, I am fairly certain that was the first time we have seen Joshua smile on camera. When Lisa looked at him while she was supposed to be "blissing out" I assumed he was going to do a moon walk, which might have a different meaning in this context considering he is an alien.