After a minibreak from ABC’s schedule, Invasion is back where it belongs. Tonight Sheriff Underlay is enlisted by an Air Force colonel to look for a military pilot on the lam. Larkin manages to run into the AWOL pilot. Meanwhile, Dave and Russell make some disturbing discoveries on Szura’s island in the Keys, and Jesse is bullied by kids at school who have changed since the hurricane.
Tyler Labine, who plays Dave on ABC’s Invasion, told SCI FI Wire that his alien-invasion theorist character will be vindicated when the series returns from its hiatus on April 19 and promised that many questions will be answered on the way to the season-ending cliffhanger. “There’s some different sides of Dave coming out here,” Labine said in an interview. “Let me just say this: I can only be pushed so far. And I think I finally snap. It’s in a very positive way, but I finally take some initiative and grow a bit stronger of a backbone. Let me just say some familial things push me to the edge.”
Labine added: “I have a lot of things coming up with Deputy Sirk, the one-armed deputy, and he’s very strongly involved in my vindication.”
Labine’s Dave, who was considered a bit of a conspiracy nut in the beginning of the series, quickly set forth his own theory about the changes in many of the local residents after Hurricane Eve hit the town of Homestead, Fla. Those changes involved so-called “extraterrestrial biological entities,” or EBEs.
The series is headed for “the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers,” Labine said. “We are steam-rolling towards the pinnacle of the show. The episodes we’ve shot have been so unbelievably well-planned throughout the whole season. There’s stuff coming up that I didn’t even remember that we shot. And it’s being tied in so cleverly. … It was like things that you felt were insignificant or out of place early on, they weren’t. They’re being tied in all over the place, and we are shooting the finale right now. It’s got a really, really huge cliffhanger shocker at the end.”
