• Willie and Elizabeth are chased in their van, which is also carrying a hurt man, by a Visitor laser jeep.  As they near a bridge, Kyle jumps out from behind cover and shoots the jeep off the road.  Jumping inside the van, the three hurry to reach Julie.  They arrive at a ranch-style house, where Julie is caring for the victims of a diphtheria epidemic that has spread throughout their valley.  As they enter, she is covering a victim with a blanket -- one man who didn't survive the plague.  Julie prescribes ampicillin for the man from the van, only to be told that their supply of the drug is gone.  The Resistance leader is told that the Visitors have a supply at their medical storehouse in town, but there are not enough people to raid the facility.   Kyle suggests that they radio Mike, still in L.A. to lead a refinery raid, but Julie worries that Mike will not be able to reach the valley in time.  When a townswoman suggests the Wildcats, a group of wild kids living in the hills that cannot be trusted, Kyle decides to approach them, and he leaves with Willie.

• As they drive through Widows Canyon, Willie and Kyle hear howling, and are stopped by a bunch of teenagers driving various cars and a dune buggy.  After slashing his hand to prove that he's not a Visitor, Kyle explains about the diphtheria plague and plan to raid the Visitor storehouse.  The Wildcats agree to listen to the Resistance plan.

• On the Mothership, Philip reminds Diana and Lydia of their galactic law -- when a Supreme Commander is murdered, his murderer is to be buried with him, and if no murderer can be found, all suspects are judged guilty and accompany the Supreme Commander on his final journey.  Charles' burial is set for the next day.  The fingerprints on the bottle of cat poison are identified -- a picture of a Visitor appears on the screen, which is then adjusted to show Marta's photo.  While Philip leaves to speak to her, Diana and Lydia are placed under house arrest.

• Kyle leads the raid on the Visitor medical storehouse.  Sending Willie in with an ampicillin request, Kyle and the Wildcats wait at the side of the building.  While waiting, Kyle talks with one of the Wildcats, Ellen.  He learns that she and her brother, Tony, (the Wildcats leader) had returned home from school to find their parents taken by the Visitors.  The other Wildcats had similar situations: Bart lost his parents, and Andy lost his parents and little brother.   The ampicillin is loaded into Willie's van, but Kyle notices guards readying on the roof and warns the others of an ambush.  After a brief firefight, both the Resistance members and the Wildcats manage to escape.

• Back on the Mothership, Marta denies any involvement with Charles' murder, and points out that her fingerprints were on the poison because she is the ships pharmacist.  She insists that she admired Charles from afar but had no other interest in him.

• At the ranch, the Wildcats and Resistance are in the midst of a celebration, when Juliet discovers that they were given baking powder instead of ampicillin.  She knows that the only way this could have happened was if there is a spy among them.  While the Wildcats all deny it, Kyle and Julie decide to radio Mike for help.

• Mike, in L.A. planning another raid, agrees to fly out to the valley with the necessary ampicillin.  Kyle agrees to radio him later with the specifics.

• Lt. James reports to Philip that Juliet has been spotted, and obtains permission to go after her.  His spy informs him of the Resistance plan to have Donovan meet them at an airstrip.  Meanwhile, Diana and Lydia decide to work together to save their lives.  Diana tells Lydia that she will handle the specifics while Lydia takes care of their guards.

• The Wildcats and Resistance agree to meet at an abandoned airstrip.  While waiting for the others to arrive, Ellen flirts with Willie and takes his hand.  Willie is obviously flustered, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Tony, Andy and the other Resistance members.  Tony and Kyle continue to snipe at each other, and Julie separates them.  As they leave to clear the rocks and debris from the runway, Tony notices that Bart is not with them -- but he arrives a moment later.

• Marta is put on trial for the murder of Charles.  A holovideo of Marta is shown where she states her love of Charles, and that he must die if she cannot have him.  Lydia is impressed with Diana's handiwork.  Despite Marta's claims of innocence, Philip pronounces her guilty -- she is sentenced to spend eternity with Charles in his sarcophagus.  Diana and Lydia exchange pleased smiles.

• Back in the valley, the Resistance van runs into a Visitor roadblock.  While Kyle, Julie, Bart, and Tony provide covering fire, the others flee into the woods.  They all agree to meet at the Wildcats camp.  In the woods, Willie sees that Ellen has been captured.  Using a tree as a screen, he says something in his mother tongue to the Visitor carrying her; thus distracted, Willie is able to knock him out using a tree branch.  Ellen kisses Willie, and confesses that she is falling in love with him.  Willie tries to tell her the truth about himself, but Tony arrives in his dune buggy before he can do so.  At the roadblock, Lt. James expresses little concern over their failure, as he knows that his spy will inform him of the groups' next move.

• That night at the Wildcats camp, Ellen again comes to Willie and gives him a necklace that had belonged to her Grandmother, who had told Ellen to give it to the man she loves.  Willie nervously tries to explain who he is, but Ellen doesn't believe him.  Finally he is forced to peel back a layer of the pseudo-skin on his arm to prove it.  Shocked, Ellen cries and runs out into the night.

• Diana goes to visit Oswald, who is preparing Marta's body for Charles' funeral.  Diana insists that Oswald ensure that Marta be alive and conscious during the ceremony.

• Juliet radios Mike, already in flight, to warn him about their spy.  Mike refuses to turn back, and informs Julie that he will be arriving at 6AM.  Julie agrees to try to provide him with ground cover.  In an equipment shed, Bart and Tony are startled when Willie runs in to inform them that Ellen is missing.  They pull their guns on Willie who raises his hands in surrender, and Bart and Tony then see the Visitors skin revealed.  Believing Willie is a Visitor spy, they begin questioning him about Ellen.  As Tony raises his gun to hit Willie, the others in the group arrive.

• Elizabeth begins to sense that Ellen is trapped by a fall that she has taken.  When Tony doesn't believe her, he raises his gun in their direction, and Elizabeth uses her powers to knock the three Wildcats backwards into some crates.  They all agree to go with Elizabeth to find Ellen, leaving Andy behind at the shed in case Ellen returns.  En route, Julie realizes that she has left her medical bag behind.  Returning to get in, she catches Andy in radio conversation with the Visitors -- his Walkman is actually a two way radio.  Julie cuts his transmission and ties him up, not sympathetic with Andy's explanation that the Visitors have his brother, who is dying of the diphtheria plague, and whom the Visitors promised to release if Andy co-operated with them.

• Elizabeth leads the others to a ravine, where Ellen is trapped.  She uses her powers to lift Ellen, uninjured, out of the ravine.  Elizabeth collapses into Kyle's arms from the strain.

• Back at the camp, the Wildcats have a hard time believing that Andy is the traitor, but are finally forced to.  Leaving Andy tied and gagged, they try to come up with an alternate plan for their rendezvous with Mike.

• The next morning, Kyle and Willie separate from the main group to take out some of the Visitors in a sneak attack.  Andy, meanwhile, manages to struggle free of his bonds and jumps into his car.  At the airstrip, a group of Visitors arrive and begin firing.  While Tony and Bart return fire, Julie and Ellen circle behind the Visitors and take out the remainder.  Thinking this is the complete Visitor force, they are shocked to see two more jeeps, a car and a Visitor van all heading towards them.  Noting that Mike's plane is already in descent, they have to fight even though they are vastly outnumbered.  However, Andy's car suddenly appears on the road and he heads straight for the Visitor vehicles, smashing head on and obliterating them.

• Mike parachutes out of the plane, leaving the remaining Visitors to chase it.   The Resistance and the Wildcats rush to meet him, while Kyle and Tony shake hands and Ellen apologizes to Willie, telling him that he will always be family to her.

• Back on the Mothership, Marta awakens during Charles' funeral service to find herself sharing a double-sized glass sarcophagus with his rotting corpse.  Marta beats on the walls of sarcophagus, but her screams of terror cannot be heard as the coffin is sent into space.

Freedom Network Medal of Valour - There was no Freedom Network broadcast this week.
 

Bloopers and Nitpicks -

• This nitpick comes from Tracy:  When they discover Marta's "fingerprints" on the bottle of cat poison            and show a picture of her on the computer screen, she's in her natural Visitor state.  No one recognizes           her.  Then, when they say "zoom in", they add her human disguise and instantly it becomes clear who              she is.  Other than making things clearer for the viewing audience, what's with that?  They should have            recognized her in her true Visitor state.

• Kris, though, has a nitpick with the above nitpick!  She says:  How could they have recognized Marta          without her human 'mask', since she'd been wearing it for all, or at least most, of the invasion?

• During the ambush, Kyle's bullet hits the Visitor vehicle (sparks are seen from the shot) yet the Visitor           behind the vehicle falls dead.

• During the final shoot-out, Tony, Julie and the others kill a good many Visitors, yet when the Visitors               are shown returning fire there are always the same amount of them!

• Why doesn't Elizabeth ever have a gun?!!!

• When Andy's car collides with the lead Visitor vehicle, the two cars are still obviously quite a distance           apart!  Also, at least four Visitor vehicles are shown heading down the road towards the airstrip.                    Assuming Andy took out the two lead vehicles, that would still leave one car and one van full of Visitors          heading their way!

• Two guards escort Charles' sarcophagus to a portal, where it is sucked out into the vacuum of space.           Since the guards are standing directly beside the sarcophagus, why is it that they are not sucked into             space as well?

• Neil says:  When the Wildcats and Kyle ambush the Visitor medical centre, the explosions from the grenades thrown are nowhere near the locations that the grenades actually fall.

• (The holovideo of Marta is shown at her trial)                                                                                                  Lydia:  How did you do it?                                                                                                                                   Diana:  Lydia dear, when are you going to realize that I'm . . . gifted.

• (Diana arranges Marta's funeral)                                                                                                                          Oswald:  Are you sure you want her to go out alive?                                                                                       Diana:    Not only alive, but conscious.  I don't want her in a Procorp haze.                                                    Oswald:  Yes, but I've never prepared a funeral service for anyone who was still breathing.                           Diana:    Well then, this will be a memorable first.                                                                                          Oswald:  Yes, but you see . . .                                                                                                                        Diana:     No 'buts', Oswald!  If she stops breathing, so do you.

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