V (The Final Battle)

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V: The Final Battle is a TV mini-series starring Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Robert Englund, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside and Marc Singer. It was directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Craig Buck, Diane Frolov, Peggy Goldman, Kenneth Johnson, Harry Longstreet, Renee Longstreet and Brian Taggert.

[edit] Premise

The story is set in contemporary times (the 1980s). Aliens who appear human arrive on Earth in a fleet of 50 huge saucer-like motherships, which park over all major cities. They appear to be friendly, seeking the help of humans to obtain chemicals needed to aid their ailing world. In return, the Visitors promise to share their advanced technology with humanity. The governments of Earth accept, and the Visitors gain considerable influence with authorities.

However, strange things are soon noted. Scientists find themselves facing increasing media hostility, and government restrictions on their activities and movements. Others, particularly those keen on examining the Visitors more closely, begin to disappear or face discredit. Noted scientists confess to subversive activities; some exhibiting other unusual behavior, such as suddenly demonstrating an opposite hand preference to the one they are known to have.

Journalist and TV cameraman Michael Donovan (Singer) sneaks aboard one of the Visitors' motherships and discovers that beneath their humanlike facade, the aliens are reptilian in nature, and carnivorous - preferring to eat live food, like rodents and birds. He learns from a Visitor named Martin that the story about the needed chemicals is merely a diversion. The true purpose of the Visitor's trip to Earth is to conquer and subdue the planet, steal all of the Earth's water and harvest the human race as food, leaving only a few as slaves and soldiers/cannon fodder for the Visitors' wars with other alien races. Donovan also discovers there are dissidents among the Visitors (known as the Fifth Column) who oppose their leader's plans.

Donovan gets some of this on tape, but just as this exposé is about to air, the broadcast is interrupted by a Visitor announcement, suddenly making Donovan a fugitive, pursued by both the police and the Visitors.

An experiment the Visitors performed to see if a human-Visitor hybrid could be created resulted in the birth of twins; a reptilian boy with human eyes which died and a mute human-looking girl with a forked tongue. The girl lives begins to exhibit great intelligance and odd abilities. She also grows at an accelerated rate, reaching the physical age of 5 or 6 in only a few months.

The scientists are persecuted - both to discredit them (as the part of the human population most likely to discover the Visitors' secrets) and to distract the rest of the population with a scapegoat upon whom they could focus their fears. Key human individuals are subjected to a special mind control process called "conversion", which turns them into the Visitors' pawns, leaving only subtle behavioral clues to this manipulation. Some other humans, on the other hand (including Mike Donovan's mother), willingly collaborate with the Visitors, seduced by their power.

A resistance movement is formed, determined to expose and oppose the Visitors as much as possible. The Los Angeles cell leader is Dr. Juliet (Julie) Parish. Donovan is later assimilated into the group. Soon, the members of the resistance strike their first blows against the Visitors. Meanwhile, the Visitors in the Fifth Column, lead by Martin, give aid to the Resistance.

An organism found in the intestines of the dead human-Visitor twin is found to be the cause of the baby's death. Resistance scientists culture the organism into a red dust, which is deadly to Visitors but not harmful to creatures of Earth. On a pre-approved day, the Resistance launches an attack on the ships while simultaneously releasing the dust into Earth's atmosphere, making the entire planet deadly to Visitors.

[edit] External links

• V: The Final Battle at the Internet Movie Database