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"Siege"
Written by Dean Widenmann
Directed by John Behring
Original air date: February 15, 2011 |
Erica is removed
from active duty by the FBI; Eli plans grim retribution against
Ryan for his betrayal; Father Jack is laicized by the Church for
his stance against the Visitors.
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Didja Know?
This episode's title was also the title of issue #12 of the
comic book based on V80,
"Siege".
Didja Notice?
At 00:30 in the episode, we see that the name of Chad's new
co-anchor on Prime Focus, Kerry Eltoff, has been added
to the opening logo of the news show.
Father Jack's letter of dismissal from the Vatican at 4:21 in
the episode reveals that the address of St. Josephine's Church
is 107 W. 111th St., New York, NY 10026. Although this is a real
address, there is no church there; on
Google Maps, it appears to be an apartment building.
When the traitorous Ryan sneaks into Eli's New York base, Eli
says, "Judas returns to complete his betrayal." This is a
reference to the Biblical Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus to
the Roman priests.
At 6:12 in the episode, a picture of a mothership is visible on
one of the many easels in Eli's base. Was Eli plotting an attack
directly on one of the motherships? Later, we get a slightly
closer look at the image and it appears to be a diagram of
several different views of the ship, with parts of the ship
identified with labels.
At 16:12 in the episode, the WNT website shows the headline of
the breaking news story about Erica being held hostage by Eli
Cohn. Farther down the web page is another headline, "Helipad
converted to Visitor landing site."
At 18:38 in the episode, Erica is looking at pictures on her
phone of Tyler and Joe sitting at the kitchen table with the
lopsided birthday cake she baked in the previous episode,
"Concordia".
At 22:10 in the episode, we see that one of the nearby
intersecting cross-streets during the siege of Eli's building is
Church Street. This is an actual street in New York City. A few
seconds later, there is another street sign in the background
"W. Hastings St" and a couple minutes later "Burrard
St."; however, there does not appear to be any roads by
that name in New York City...but they exist in Vancouver, Canada, where
most of the series is shot. The prominent Church St. sign may
have been added as a prop on location to suggest New York City.
How was Thomas able to track down Hobbes for their meeting in
the alley? Hobbes appears to be surprised by his presence.
During Thomas' meeting with Hobbes, we finally learn that
Marcus' deal with Hobbes (revealed in
"Red Sky") concerns the ongoing safety of a woman
named Sarah who seems to be important to the mercenary. Hobbes
mentions this woman as a former lover, claiming she is now dead,
to Erica in "Uneasy Lies the
Head".
At 30:25 in the episode, as Erica is leading Eli's hostages out
of the building, we get yet another appearance by the ubiquitous
USA
Today newspaper machine!
At 36:17 in the episode, we see that, apparently, Anna's secret
entrance to the dungeon where she keeps Diana captive is simply
in the middle of a little-used corridor where anyone could
happen to walk by and see her using it (as Lisa does)!
After the events of the episode, Bolling and Kendrick seem
convinced that they were wrong about Erica being part of Fifth
Column and she is welcomed back into the folds of the FBI. But
how does she explain her photographed meetings with Father Jack
when she claimed she had no contact with him beyond his FBI
interrogation? It's never addressed in the later episodes.
It is ironic that Hobbes considers Ryan a traitor whom he should
have killed earlier when he himself becomes just as much a
traitor to the Fifth Column for almost the same reasons (the
Visitors holding someone they care for).
