(S01E03) When you're mounting a resistance against an alien presence that way outclasses you in technology, and even outclasses you in propaganda and being good-looking, you're going to need help, and preferably of the "inside" variety. With V scheduled to go on a long hiatus after next week's episode, it's important that the resistance come together by then.

While we made good progress this episode, and learned some more good information, I fear they won't get us to a compelling hook before they go into hibernation for the winter. People will forget about this show if we don't get hooked in good next week. Unless ABC wants to promote its relaunch like another new series, they need to grab us by the jowls and sink their teeth in ... or at least unhinge our jaws and cram a guinea pig of awesome down our gullets.

The Fifth Column is a move in the right direction. The intrigue of the new series is that there are sleeper cells of Visitors that have been on Earth for decades. It would make sense that some of them would come to sympathize with humanity and want to call off the invasion, or stop it.

I was fully expecting Erica to be absolutely and completely screwed when her former partner, and alien spy, Dale suddenly remembered who she was and that she'd seen his true, reptilian face. Thank goodness Joshua, the man who was giving him the mental therapy, was a part of the internal Visitor resistance. Now he knows a face to the human aspect of the rebellion. Plus, it helps that that human face just saved Anna's right-hand man, even if the whole assassination attempt was a set-up by Anna.

Get in close and make them trust you. Anna thinks she is the master manipulator, but her arrogance will likely be her undoing. She was able to quell a potential public outcry against the Visitors just by meeting with the wife of one of the hundreds of people who died when the Visitors arrived. It was harrowing watching her practice how she would talk to the woman, complete with a big old crocodile tear (and I mean that even more literally than I'd originally intended).

Do you think she gave the woman some of the "bliss" some of the Earthbound Visitors were talking about. Either all of, or some sects of, the Visitor society is apparently addicted to whatever this is; some kind of alien narcotic that you connect to and can be disconnected from. It may have an even more profound affect on human physiology.

Or just the fact that the Visitors know enough about our physical make-up to be able to offer cures to things we've been looking for for centuries, it's not at all far-fetched to consider that they'd manufacture and even use a drug to help pacify us. They're not to that point yet, because I would guess a drug could be detected, but if this "Ms. Nice Alien" approach hits a brick wall, or isn't as effective as Anna would like, I can see her pulling the plug on sweet and going all in.

it was a nice reveal, if a little expected, that Lisa is Anna's daughter. That her getting close to Tyler is a mission is completely obvious, but maybe she'll grow to genuinely care about him. After seeing her in her underwear, I'm sure he's grown to genuinely care about her even more than he did before.

I was glad to see Ryan hooking up with Jack and Erica by the end. I'm not sure before he'll reveal his true nature -- probably after an accident or injury reveals it for him -- but it's good that the key figures of what will make up the resistance are meeting. Hopefully, they can figure out that Tyler is leaning toward the other side, and not have any meetings at Erica's house. Particularly if his suit has a camera on it. Oh who am I kidding! Why would they reveal the cameras if it wasn't so our heroes could get screwed by one soon enough.

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