Back at the Kennedy High School, Dr. Glass tries to communicate with the skitter using pictorial methods, but to no avail, while Dr. Harris scoffs at her non-violent, non-invasive, passive methods. He taunts the captive skitter with Pope’s dead skitter, whereupon it goes nuts. He then proceeds to get ready with the invasive operation. Like as if the skitter would let him probe it that easily! Also Ricky had cystic fibrosis and the harness or skitters cured him of his ailments.
On the other side of town, our group come across a nest of skitters hanging upside down and sleeping like bats. Pope wants to kill the beasts, while Mason orders them to continue on their mission path discreetly. Back at the motorcycle shop, Pope escapes and blasts three of the skitters, like the idiot he is.
Ricky, the kid who was rescued, doesn’t remember his own father. But he seems to recognize the skitter. Uh oh, ominous signs in last episode are coming true. So, the black dude goes and tries to reason with the skitter. The skitter doesn’t budge, so finally he loses his cool and puts a gun in the skitter’s mouth. The skitter goes into a shock and gets knocked down. Dr. Glass theorizes that the skitters emit a frequency, which can be picked up as radio signals, inside their minds to communicate with each other and this theory is scoffed by Harris.
In the other room, Ricky gets up and puts the harness back on himself. How stupid is it to leave him alone in the room with the skitter!! Anyway after doing a postmortem on the dead skitter, the radio comes alive with static. They all rush to the other room to see Ricky trying to let out the skitter. The skitter communicates with them through the controlled kid and tells them to kill it as it would be punished if it went back. The father rushes to rip apart the harness from him and in the process Ricky dies.
The motorcycle shop is now surrounded by children who open fire on the group. Through some tactful, quick planning they manage to escape and kill one more skitter who was controlling the children. Hal has his doubts about rescuing Ben since the children who have been harnessed won’t be the same anymore.
Weaver is much more humane in this episode. Mason goes on and on about rescuing Ben! What about Karen!! She is also basically a kid, who went with them for the sake of Hal. He doesn’t even talk about her and this pisses of Hal somewhat. And Pope may be a bastard, but even when he escaped he had made a delicious meal for them and fresh bread! He can’t be all that bad. Damn, I hope he comes back soon. He makes the show more exciting. Intellectually, he is in the same level as Tom Mason, but since his experience is based on surviving throughout his life, killing off the skitters actually made sense and made me root for him.
This show has now found its feet and the story is progressing much more smoothly. We are now caring about the characters and their plights. Also this episode had much more focus on the skitter and the cgi on it looks insanely real and wonderful. And the sweet Lourdes seems to be the Christian faith propagator on the show. While its extremely prejudiced on the part of the writers, I don’t mind it that much. All I ask is, what about the other faiths? Are there none other than Christians in the camp? This is a huge cliché in American shows.
Can they rescue Karen, Ben and the others? How can they make the kids come out of the skitters mind control? Will Pope survive alone? Will the imprisoned skitter make more troubles for them? Will they get enough drugs to treat the kids? What did you think of this week’s episode, Falling Skies fans? Did you too think that this was the best episode on the show yet?
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