Tread Perilously

Tread Perilously rounds out '80s flashback month with the lowest rated episode of V: The Series -- "War of Illusions." Just as Diana nears completion on her battlesphere -- a device certain to end the Resistance -- Mike Donovan gets word of an impending Visitor invasion and must find a former CalTech professor to crack the code of the alien technology. The professor, meanwhile, has a son who is much better at hacking into the Visitors' network. Will they team up with Donovan? Will Diana's new boy toy round up all the Resistance fighters in Highland Park? And will Dr. Julie Parrish make any sort of appearance at all? Erik immediately declares Diana -- and actor Jane Badler -- a murder brunette. The Ashmore Alert fires a false alarm. Justin missed the battlesphere prop and is amused to discover a Spencer's Gift classic is used to represent the tech. The pair praise guest actor Conrad Janis, a mainstay of '80s TV even if you don't know his name. They also discuss their history with V. The shaky metaphor of the s