Falling Skies/What Hides Beneath

What Hides Beneath
Season 1, Episode 8
Airdate	July 31, 2011
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Directed by
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Falling Skies — Season One

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What Hides Beneath is the eighth episode of the first season of Falling Skies, and the eighth episode overall.

Starring: Noah Wyle (Tom Mason), Moon Bloodgood (Anne Glass), Will Patton (Weaver), Drew Roy (Hal Mason), Maxim Knight (Matt Mason), Connor Jessup (Ben Mason), Seychelle Gabriel (Lourdes), Colin Cunningham (John Pope), Sarah Carter (Margaret)

Guest Starring:

Plot Overview

The mechs and skidders appear to be pulling back and re-grouping in Boston. Mason, Weaver and Hal go on a recon patrol to examine the structure in Boston. In Boston, they observe a tall, slender, humanoid creature that appears to be a new alien race in command of the skidders.

While pulling back, they encounter a human woman who invites them into her house. Mason and Hal go to talk to her. She tells them that she was captured and held for a while before she was eventually released.

Weaver takes one of the bikes and goes off on his own. Mason realizes Weaver has gone back to his home and follows with Hal. There they are attacked by a mech. Weaver distracts it with gunfire and a gas explosion while Mason runs up and sticks two gernades to the armor with duct tape.

Realizing the woman betrayed them they go back to her house. While there, Karen appears, harnessed. She brings food and supplies to the woman in exchange for information such as the movement of Mason and the others.

Back at the school, Anne and Lourdes do an autopsy on the skidder body. Buried inside they find a harness leading Anne to believe that putting the harness on the kids is only the first step in something larger.

Pope realizes that the mechs are using converted human style bullets, made with mech metal that are armor piercing. He stages a demonstration where he fires through mech armor with a handgun loaded with the armor piercing rounds.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• while watching the large structure in Boston, Mason, Weaver and Hal see a tall, slender, humanoid creature that appears to be in charge of the skidders
• Anne does an autopsy of a skidder and finds a harness inside.
• Pope figures out that the mechs are using regular human style bullets made with mech metal to be armor piercing.

Characters

• Karen appears again, now harnessed, at the home of a human traitor