Fifth Column (V TV Series) - 2009 Version

2009 Version

Fifth Columnists also appear in the re-imagined 2009 V series, but unlike those in the original version, most Fifth Columnists on Earth are not initially an active resistance force, at least not in the present day; reference is made to a prior resistance within the Visitor race that led to the Fifth Column going into hiding. Most seen thus far are living on Earth, posing as humans, when the Visitor fleet arrives.

It has been intimated that the Visitor leader, Anna, exerts an influence bordering on mind control upon those loyal to her, and all such Visitors appear to be near-emotionless and inexpressive; in contrast, the Fifth Columnists shown thus far exhibit emotional ranges identical to human beings, and have spoken of leaving and rejoining the main Visitor culture as "disconnecting" and "reconnecting". Fifth Columnists, including deeply embedded members like Joshua and Lisa, are resistant to Anna's "Bliss" projection.

When the Visitors openly arrive on Earth, some Fifth Columnists, aware that Anna's peaceful overtures are a smokescreen for the Visitors' true intentions, decide to join with humans who are themselves suspicious of the Visitors and form a resistance group. The human members of the resistance have also come to refer to themselves as the Fifth Column.

• John May, played by Michael Trucco, is the first Visitor agent on Earth who turned against Anna, establishing a Fifth Column cell before he was killed by Ryan Nichols.
• Ryan Nichols, played by Morris Chestnut, is a Fifth Columnist who disguised himself as a human banker. Originally an anti-Fifth Column soldier, he developed human emotions and became engaged to a human female (Valerie), their union eventually producing the first known "hybrid" Visitor/human child. In the show's final episode, Ryan attempts to rescue his daughter, but the child, influenced by Anna, kills him.
• Joshua, played by Mark Hildreth, a Fifth Columnist posing as a physician on the New York mothership who revived Dale, a Visitor sleeper stationed at the FBI's New York office. After learning that Dale's partner, Erica Evans, had tried to kill him while organizing a resistance movement, Joshua killed Dale to protect her, as she would make an excellent human ally. He remained the Fifth Column's main agent and contact aboard the New York mothership for the rest of the first season. During their mission to destroy Anna's soldier eggs, Joshua asked Erica to kill him to hide her and Lisa's involvement in the incident. He was later revived by Marcus, and his memory was wiped causing him to display renewed loyalty to the Visitors in the second season. However, his memories as a Fifth Columnist reemerges, prompting him to rejoin the movement.
• Angelo Russo, a Fifth Columnist who abandoned the cause and earns his living as a car mechanic. After treating Ryan's wound, he knocks him out, unable to trust him or anyone else and disappears. Before he disappears, he warns Ryan to leave his fiancee if he doesn't want her to get involved.
• Cyrus, a former Fifth Columnist turned traitor. Ryan approaches him to get contacts of other members, but Cyrus reveals himself as a traitor and alerts the Visitors to his presence. Cyrus gives up names of the members he knows just to be "reconnected" with Anna and the other Visitors; Ryan then calls Cyrus a junkie for craving the need to be "reconnected" with them. In the struggle with Ryan, Ryan then shoots Cyrus in the head stating "You can't reconnect if you're dead".
• David (Ryan Kennedy), was Joshua's assistant in the medical staff aboard the New York mothership as well as a Fifth Column member. When Anna is about to accuse any one of the staff of being the traitor that killed Dale, he sacrifices his life to cover up for Joshua. As punishment, Joshua is ordered by Anna to skin David alive.
• Leah Pearlman (Lexa Doig), a Visitor doctor who Ryan approaches for help regarding the R6 compound the Visitors are administering into humans using the pretext of flu vaccines. He also asks her advice on dealing with Valerie's pregnancy, something that has not happened between a human and a Visitor before.
• Samuel (Lucas Wolf), a Visitor security officer stationed in the New York mothership. He is seen working with Joshua, was exposed while giving a message to Fifth Column but was taken away for skinning. It is not known whether or not he survived.
• Lisa (Laura Vandervoort), Anna's daughter and heir to the throne. Assigned to recruit Tyler Evans for some unrevealed purpose, she fell in love, succumbing to human emotions and failing a mandatory empathy test. Joshua saved her by lying to Anna, saying that one day, Lisa would have to repay the favor. After Anna had her savagely beaten to get Tyler back, Lisa repaid by giving Erica a blue energy grenade to destroy Anna's eggs (Lisa's unborn soldier brothers) and by freeing Joshua from imprisonment. She informs Joshua that she has chosen a side, and he hails her as the new Queen. Lisa becomes the main contact for the Fifth Column on the ground when Joshua, after being shot, displayed renewed loyalties towards Anna. However, at the end of the second season, Anna creates a clone of her from a carefully preserved queen egg and locks the real Lisa at Diana's old prison for participating in Diana's failed insurrection.