Resistance (V) - Juliet Parrish

Juliet Parrish

Juliet "Julie" Parrish was a fourth-year medical student and protégé of Doctor Rudolph Metz and friend to Doctor Benjamin Taylor at the time of the First Invasion. She founded the Resistance in Los Angeles and created the cell-structure organisation method that would remain essential to the organisation's survival. She initially became despondent over leading the Resistance, as she was a scientist, not a soldier, but was comforted by Ruby Engels. She eventually got used to the role and kept fighting the Visitors and scoring a large victory when she personally exposed John on national television as reptilian in nature. She was separated from the rest of the resistance in the escape. She tried to make her escape in an ambulance, but the driver was shot and the ambulance crashed. She was easily captured and taken to the mothership. Juliet was stripped and put into the conversion chamber. Diana planned to brainwash the resistance leader into a spy for the Visitors. Diana decided to personally supervise her conversion, claiming Julie would be her "masterpiece". Diana learned she had a heart condition and a fear and loathing of anything abandoned or deserted, a result of some childhood trauma. She began the session as flashing lights began to surround Julie. The chamber tortured Julie with terrifying hallucinations, making her believe she was being chased by a monster. Diana offered to help Julie, but she was able to resist. Diana took the process to mode 2 and a gas began to fill the chamber. In her hallucination, Julie reached for a blinking light in the dark corridors. However, just as she was about to reach it, a thick green liquid was spit into her face. Some creature fell from above her and grabbed her, dragging her down the eerie hallways. Again, Julie was able to fight back, claiming they were a mind game. Diana went to mode 3 and a blue light began to quickly circle Julie. With Julie's grip on reality slipping, Diana offered to help her again. She began to reach for Diana, but she realized what was happening and jerked them back to her sides. With her heartbeat becoming irregular, she imagined a large lizard busting through a wall towards her. Julie then goes into cardiac arrest and nearly dies as Diana ends the session.

Despite Julie's cardiac arrest, Diana puts her through another conversion session. Frustrated with Julie's resistance to the process, Diana ordered the chamber taken to maximum intensity. Red beams shot into Julie's face, causing her to scream in agony. Diana offered to help again and Julie somehow resists. Diana tells her to run for her life, and Julie images she is running down a hallway. She reaches a door and another creature lunges for her. A tech warns Diana that her heartbeat is becoming irregular again, but Diana ignores him, watching Julie writhe in pain in the chamber. She runs down the hallways, the creature in pursuit. She reaches another door and a giant snake strikes at her. Mentally and physically exhausted, Julie screams. Diana steps into the chamber and offer to help Julie. Julie's arms slowly rose from her sides towards Diana, crying out for help. Diana asks her what she wants and Julie pledges her allegiance and begs her to stop the pain. With Julie now converted, Diana stops the session. A rescue/assassination attempt by a visitor dressed like Mike Donovan occurs, but he is shot and killed, leaving Julie still Diana's prisoner. However, the sight of Donovan seemed to snap Julie out of her brainwashing somewhat. She was eventually rescued during a prisoner transfer suggested by Martin. Ham Tyler questioned her loyalty upon her return, believing her to be converted. But the majority of the resistance stuck by her. In private, however, Julie was very shaken by her kidnapping. She found herself using her left hand, a side effect of conversion. Sadly many of her friends, such as Benjamin and Ruby, died during the conflict. She delivered Robin Maxwell's hybrid babies and, when the largely Syrian infant died, discovered the organism in its corpse that was the basis for the Red Dust toxin. Julie was part of the assault team on the Los Angeles Mothership, and successfully seized control of its command center. However, Diana was able to use her conversion of Julie to stall her long enough to escape. With the self-destruct disabled and the Visitors unable to remain on Earth due to the Red Dust toxin now in the planet's atmosphere, Julie returned to Earth with the Mothership under Resistance control.

One year after Liberation Day, Julie is working for Science Frontiers; the corporation responsible for mass production of the Red Dust, and has ended her relationship with Mike because "she didn't have time for anything else". She was put in charge of research of the captured Mothership by Nathan Bates (who seemed to have developed a romantic attraction for her, but she did not reciprocate) She tried to access the secret area on board the mothership but Diana had put a security code on it before she left in her fighter. When the Second Invasion began after Diana's escape, Julie joined the reformed Resistance movement, but served in a lesser capacity, as she had to retain her position at Science Frontiers to throw off suspicion. Her place as leader was succeeded by Mike Donovan. She initially served as the Resistance's mole at Science Frontiers; smuggling information to the group and accessing the company's highly advanced technology to their advantage. Eventually, Mr. Chiang, the head of Science Frontiers security, exposed her as a spy and Julie was forced to flee. Despite being forced underground, she nonetheless served as an important member, and served as the coordinator and organizer for many Resistance operations across the United States. Although Julie was killed in the unaired second season premiere, since the show was not picked up for an additional season, her death is not regarded as canonical. Furthermore, as the novel, V: The Second Generation takes place 20 years after the events of the first miniseries, Julie's death effectively was retconned away as well.