The 5th Column
Martin
Introduced in V The Mini Series. Martin and a few other Visitors do not believe in what the Leader of their homeworld is doing to Earth. They have formed a Fifth Column that is willing to undermine Visitor activity, but without compromising their members. Only with the persuasion of his friend Mike Donovan does Martin agree to take bigger risks. Martin is, however, Diana's trusted aide, putting him in the valuable position of being close to command, aware of much of what the Visitors are doing, and able to penetrate high security areas. Martin becomes Donovan's cameraman in the months after the war. When he learns that Diana has escaped custody thanks to a faked assassination, he takes it upon himself to kill her, but is killed by Diana.
Loraine
Introduced in V The Mini Series: The Final Battle. She helps Martin keep the broadcast on the air after the resistance attacks the Los Angeles Medical Center, and also assists the resistance when they make their final attack on the Mothership.
Oliver
Introduced in V: The Final Battle. He introduced himself to Donovan when the latter was captured, and offered him a suicide pill in order to avoid revealing anything about the Fifth Column, but is murdered by Jake and Diana before Donovan can take the pill.
William
Introduced in V The Mini Series. Willie is a Visitor technician who does not harbor malice toward the people of Earth, but feels he has no choice but to assist the Visitors with their true mission. One of Willie's distinguishing character traits is his innocent mangling of the English language, since his "second language" was to be Arabic, not English. His orders were mixed up by the military bureaucracy. (First example, "I am just" instead of "I am lost"; in French, "Je suis pere" (I am father) instead of "Je suis perdu".) Willie has somehow become a vegetarian, but his skill to hunt live prey is not lost.
Barbara
Introduced in V The Mini Series. She is Martin's assistant. She offers her uniform to Mike Donovan when he escapes the mother ship after his capture, and willingly takes the blast of a Visitor weapon to make it look like Donovan escaped by force. As she is undressing, Donovan ogles her seemingly-human form and quips, "Funny, you don't look like an iguana..."
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