- Weaver asks Tom to go to a motorcycle shop with Pope and his team to see if the acquire motorcycles and parts to repair their bikers. They see a nest of Skitters sleeping under a bridge, but Tom does not let Pope to attack them. They arrive at the shop and Pope flees and blows up the nest, attracting Mechs. Meanwhile in the school, Anne and Harris disagrees how to treat the Skitter made prisoner and Rick tries to defend the alien.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tom and his team head out to track down more motorcycles for the 2nd Mass., relying on Pope to guide them to a good location. They hit the jackpot until they meet some skitters and harnessed teenagers at the bike shop. Back at the base, Dr. Harris and Anne disagree over the best method to gather more intelligence on the aliens.—TNT Publicity
- Dr. Harris gets ready to examine the skitter that Tom caught. They wonder what it's thinking and study it. It gets agitated and they zap it. Tom promises it he'll remember it, too.
Mike waits for his son Ricky to wake up after having his harness removed. Dr. Harris gives Ricky more morphine to wean him off the alien drugs.
Weaver calls Tom to a meeting. Pope has told him about a place with motorcycles, he wants to send Tom after them. Tom wants to go get Ben first, but Weaver explains that they need the bikes to get more drugs so that when they get Ben they can wean him, too.
Tom reluctantly agrees. Pope wants to go along because he's been there and can't give directions. Tom says yes, as long as he is unarmed.
Anne checks on Ricky. It appears his cystic fibrosis has gone into complete remission as a result of the harness.
Tom asks her about Rick's recovery. Anne says as long as they have enough drugs to wean him, he should be OK. She asks why he's having issues with Harris and he tells her that Harris saw his wife Rebecca die.
Maggie comes back late from recon on foot. She reports seeing harnessed kids being led into a hospital. One of the fighters thought they saw Tom's kid. There's no sign of Hal's girlfriend Karen.
Maggie asks Weaver why she had his guys keeping tabs on her. He says she's under suspicion because she was with Pope. She protests that it was not her choice, but he says she had a gun that whole time and could have used it.
As they're leaving, Matt runs out and asks his dad if he can go along. He wants to learn how to shoot guns. Pope hears Tom tell him no and then says Tom isn't doing Matt any favors. Tom thinks Matt deserves a childhood.
Out on their expedition to get the bikes, Tom leads a group of four including Dai, Hal and Pope. Pope enjoys the fresh hair and needles Anthony, a former police officer.
Tom tries to check on Hal, but he doesn't want to talk. Tom wishes Rebecca was there to talk to him.
Jimmy finds Lourdes looking at the wall of children. She was premed before the attack. She's praying for the missing.
Dr. Harris mocks Anne for showing the captured skitter pictures of earth and the galaxy. She thinks it's terrified.
Uncle Scott shows Weaver a radio he got up and running. He wants Matt to wind the radio and monitor it, since he's looking for something to do. "Guess what? He just made you the communications officer," Scott tells Matt.
As they're walking through a field, Pope notices skitters -- they're asleep, hanging upside down from a freeway overpass like bats.
Dai reports mechs nearby in sleep mode. Pope wants to hose them, but Tom worries the mechs will come. Pope is upset at having to leave them alive.
Anne offers the skitter water. She's gently puts it through a small gate in its cage, but is interrupted by Dr. Harris. He wants to provoke a response from it so he's brought a dead one in. He uncovers it and the caged skitter goes nuts.
Listening to the radio in another room, Matt hears a sudden burst of static.
Harris and Anne struggle to shut the cage on the skitter. The radio static stops when it calms down.
Maggie finds Weaver and warns him that letting Pope go with Tom was a mistake.
Meanwhile, Tom and his group reach the bike store. Dai and Pope head to the repair bay for gas.
Tom finds Hal looking at a pink motorcycle keychain. He thinks Karen would have loved it. Hal is upset Karen was along on the mission. Tom tries to give the advice he thinks his wife would have, and Hal gently mocks him for his ineptitude.
Back with the alien, Dr. Harris is ready to cut into it. Anne tries to talk him out of it, saying they need to study it and attempt to communicate with it. Harris brushes her off, saying it's his call. The skitter appears to pay attention.
Mike sits by Ricky as he starts to wait up.
"Who are you?" Ricky asks. He doesn't recognize his dad. They're in the same room with the skitter. Ricky looks at it then puts his head down.
Mike goes over to the caged skitter. He tells it Ricky his son and is healthy, probably because of the skitter. "That's why you get this chance to live -- or not," he says.
Anne visits Uncle Scott, bothered about something.
Mike asks the skitter to talk to him, to explain itself. He shows it a picture of earth and a piece of paper and asks it to point to a picture and make a sound. He asks why they attacked. When the skitter does nothing, Mike picks up his gun.
He aims it at the skitter.
Back with the radio, Matt gets static again. Scott tells Anne they heard it a minute ago, too. They don't know what's causing it.
Mike keeps aiming his gun at the skitter and demands it make a sound. He jams the gun into its mouth and commands it to speak. The radio makes more noise in the other room. Mike jabs again and the skitter collapses.
After examining it, Harris explains that there seems to be a pressure point in the skitter's mouth and Mike probably gave it a concussion and knocked it out. Anne has Scott bring the radio. She connects the dots about the timing of the radio noise.
Harris is skeptical and mocks her idea as he prepares to examine a dead skitter's brain for signs of radio.
Back in the shop, Pope knocks Dai unconscious and takes off. They're happy to see him go and don't follow.
Pope goes back to the sleeping skitters. He throws a grenade hooked to a gas can at the hanging bunch and they explode in a ball of fire.
Back at the bike shop they hear the noise and see a giant cloud of smoke. They know it'll attract attention.
In the school, the caged skitter makes soft noises and Rick wakes up again. The removed harness is laying near him. He picks it up and places it on his back. It reattaches quickly. He walks over to the skitter.
Mike checks on Anne and Harris. They got nothing from the dead one, its brain was too mushy. They hear the radio static again. Harris says that's proof Anne is wrong since the skitter is alone, but Mike realizes Ricky is with it.
They run back to the room and find Ricky at the skitters cage. Harris talks to Ricky, who answers for the skitter. He wants to go and says this child is one of "ours" and he'll be punished for losing him. He says they can help him by killing him.
Mike runs to his son and takes the harness off him. Ricky collapses. He doesn't understand how Ricky could do that to himself.
Hal runs back from checking on Pope's destruction. He saw harnessed kids nearby. The kids walk into the clearing in front of the shop holding automatic weapons. The kids open fire, but Tom won't shoot back. Dai is hit in the leg.
Tom thinks if they find the skitter controlling them they can kill it. He realizes the kids only shoot when there's a target.
They throw out a gas can as a decoy and Hal and Anthony make it out on bikes. Tom puts Dai on his bike in the shop and they prepare to make a run for it, when they see a skitter in the shop. They fire on it and speed off. Tom has to leave the kids, but says they'll get them next time.
Back at the school, Tom and Weaver discuss the tactic of using the harnessed kids as soldiers. Tom thinks it shows the skitters think like humans, which means they might be able to find a way to beat them.
"You know, your optimism is starting to get a little annoying," Weaver says. Tom tells Weaver that tomorrow he's going for more drugs and then the harnessed kids. Weaver agrees.
Tom finds Hal with the last "Harry Potter" book, which Tom was reading to Ben before he was captured. Hal thinks Ben will be different when they find him. He says when Ben took Karen, he was staring at him and he didn't seem like Ben. Tom thinks he'll be fine.
Anne catches Tom up on the radio signals. She says they're not strong, or the skitter could have summoned help. She tells him about Matt's job. Anne has patched up Dai, and goes to get him a crutch.
The dinner bell rings.
Maggie has heard about Tom's planned drug run and suggests she has an idea. In the cafeteria, Tom finds that Pope's farewell gift to everyone was fresh baked bread.
Lourdes prays over her dinner, giving thanks. Weaver thinks it's a little silly, but Hal says he's thankful for the motorcycles and Anne is thankful for friends. Tom literally breaks bread with Weaver.
Anne suggests Lourdes say another prayer after she has everyone's attention. They all hold hands and pray.
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