An earthquake rocks New York City (which isn't particularly exciting unless it's done in full CGI, and it wasn't), but the quakes are not plate tectonics in action, but alien motherships making an entrance. Anna, the face of their organization, claims they come in peace in search of communion and a mineral. The aliens are overjoyed to find out they are not alone in the universe and they are sorry for, you know, scaring the tuna salad out of everyone on the entire planet and causing the priest to question his calling. But since everyone needs religion in a time of aliens, at least the priest has job security. While the Vatican is on board with the Visitors as part of god's plan, the priest takes a more skeptical view, especially when the Vs start recreating the Biblical miracles. His doubts are solidified when a dying man shows up in his church and directs him to an underground group that is organizing against the V invasion. They know what the Visitors really want and they are fighting back.

The FBI agent formerly known as Juliet from Lost tries to juggle terrorist alerts, alien invasions and single motherhood. Gloria Steinem would be proud. While the rest of the world is learning all about aliens, she and her partner are sticking with their day jobs and tracking a terrorist cell. They unearth a stockpile of C4 and track the clues to a group of conspiracy theorists. The group believes the Vs have been on Earth for years, have reptile faces, and embedded themselves into every level of government, faith and life in order to foment unrest. Once the world is full of strife, the Vs swoop in and offer peace, tranquility, and, er… universal health care. Well, if Congress can't do it, I guess the Vs are the next best choice. Agent Erica doesn't believe any of it until the priest shows the hard-won proof of Vs amongst us. Agent Erica hasn't been tracking a terrorist cell, but a sleeper cell of Vs.

Unbeknownst to her, Agent Erica's teenage son gets tickets to tour the mothership and ends up falling for a mother of a hot alien. Hormones are universal, apparently. And so are cults. The alien hottie encourages him to join the Vs' "Peace Ambassador Program," and brainwashes him into thinking that tagging "V" all over the place is an awesome way to spread their message. You would have thought they would do better market research about what earthlings find annoying.

And Scott Wolf makes his triumphant return to television as an intrepid reporter who discovers the Visitors have an important and valuable characteristic: a sense of flirting. More importantly, Anna, the lead alien, takes a personal interest in him. She offers him a private one-on-one… interview on national television. Things go badly when his journalistic integrity is put on the line. But he's only about 70% ethical, and he swaps that in exchange for easy fame and a direct line to the V front office.

Before the secret meeting can progress and form a plan, the Vs launch a surprise attack, killing everyone in sight. It's a brutal scene, and Agent Erica struggles for a gun while the priest gets in a few good whacks. The leader of the group has been trying to get his friend Ryan to join the resistance, and he does, but when Ryan reveals he is a rebel V, no one knows what to think. When Agent Erica's partner shows up, she's relieved to see him, until he chokes the relief right out of her. Guess he's the one who's been tipping off the sleeper cell. Also, he has reptile skin under his face.