ABC's "Invasion" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy is one of the famous Cassidy family. He was born in September of 1958 to Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. He is the older brother of Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy and the younger half-brother of David Cassidy. David Cassidy and his step-mother Shirley Jones co-starred on "The Partridge Family". Shaun co-starred with Parker Stevenson in the short-lived TV series "The Hardy Boys" in the 1970s. Ryan is a set director on "Invasion" and Patrick played Johnny Castle in the 1988 series "Dirty Dancing".

Answer: Eve

When the show debuted, it had only been three weeks since the devastating landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and Hurricane Rita was heading toward Texas. In the show, Hurricane Eve brought many mysteries to the Florida Everglades. Mysterious orange lights fell from the sky and remained in the water, observed by both Dave Groves and Rose Varon.

Answer: medical doctor

Mariel is a doctor at the local hospital and goes missing during Hurricane Eve. It is Russell's current wife, Larkin, that is the journalist. Larkin's brother Dave is the resident conspiracy theorist, and alien believer, who goes online and blogs {an online journal} the survivors' plights after the storm in a local internet cafe. The beautiful actress Kari Matchett plays Dr. Mariel Underlay. Kari made many guest appearances in the following TV series, "Earth: Final Conflict", "A Nero Wolfe Mystery", and three on "Wonderfalls" in 2004.

She was born in Canada in 1970 and was in the 2001 movie "Angel Eyes".

Answer: True

There really is a Homestead, Florida. It is also known as Greater Homestead/Florida City, and they are two separate cities very near one another, both names were used. Florida City was used for the first few episodes, but later you see Homestead on all the businesses.

The real Homestead hosts a racetrack for Nascar racing called Homestead Miami Speedway, and in August 1992 received a direct hit from the force known as Hurricane Andrew. Homestead is located within Biscayne and Everglades National Parks, both which are referenced on the show.

Answer: Dave

Dave finds a skeleton out in the water and transports it into the trunk of his car. He shares the finding with his brother-in-law Russell, who's a park ranger for the either the Everglades or Biscayne park. As season one unfolds, it becomes more and more clear that the skeleton is that of Sheriff Tom Underlay. Tom survived a plane crash in the region in 1996. Like many survivors of Eve, Tom spent a lot of time in the water and came out without any injuries of any kind. Tom's wife perished in the crash, but she was survived by their daughter, Kira. Tom's step-son, Mariel and Russell's biological child, Jesse has a crush on Tom's daughter Kira. Dave and Russell find a wedding band on the skeletal remains, which has the same inscription and date ('two become one' February 14th 1986) as is written on a picture in Tom and Mariel's home.

Answer: Larkin

Larkin is Dave's sister, and married to Russell, Mariel's ex-husband. Mariel and Russell share two children from their marriage, Jesse and Rose. Jesse is fourteen and Rose is around seven or eight. Dave lives in an outbuilding, which I think is their garage, at Russell and Larkin's home. Larkin spends an episode where she comes close to losing the pregnancy, after being run off of the road for snooping about the real circumstances surrounding the storm. After Mariel almost kills Jesse with a blood transfusion of her own blood, she joins a local support system of people who'd spent the night out in the storm and survived.

The more she comes to accept the changes inside herself, the more worried Tom Underlay becomes. He asks her at one point if she would like to have a baby with him.

He explains to her that he didn't think they could have children together, but now he wanted to try. He is ready now because they are both body-snatched alien/human hybrids. So, they could now breed if they choose to.

Answer: No

Russell told his son Jesse that he came over from Cuba in 1980. He was alone on a boat at ten years old, but his parents were supposed to follow him. His parents never showed up, and Russ had to live with his gangster uncle. If Russ was ten at the time, that would make him 35 years old now and 21 when Jesse was born.
We later find out, in a scene with Russ and Larkin, that Russ snapped and murdered his uncle. The man had murdered Russ' best friend, a sweet disabled boy, right in front of Russ. After he killed his uncle, Russ spent time in a youth camp.

Answer: Sheriff Underlay

Tom Underlay is a puzzling character. We know he is one of the hybrids, and we known he's been for about ten years. Sometimes he seems peaceful and protective over all the people in his life, and sometimes he appears oddly cold and sinister. In this episode, he pays Gerard to use a big squid to throw Larkin off of her investigation.

She has been on a military base, been privy to the alien talk of Dave and Russell, and seen the marks on Dave's body after he was hauled into the water by one of the creatures. Larkin does not really believe the squid is the creature she seeks, but she is in no shape to do much about it. Gerard is instructed to keep her out of the way until Tom can get rid of the people trying to kill Larkin and insure her silence. So, here he displays protectiveness toward her.

Answer: EBEs

EBE stands for Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities. He first uses the term when talking to Russell, and later fills his blogs with it as well. The blogs draw the attention of two people also searching for the truth, like Dave and Larkin. Russell, while wanting the truth, remains the Dana Scully of "Invasion" to Dave's Fox Mulder.
The three choices I made up could stand for Alien Biological Lifeforms, Extra-terrestrial Alien Lifeforms, and plain old Extra-terrestrials.
Dave gets another close hand look at the creature, when Russell cuts open the body of a huge alligator and ones falls out. They discover that the creature has a natural acidic defense mechanism and its cells contain human DNA.

Answer: Pria and Healey

Pria is the "fan" girl from the internet cafe. She'd approached Dave several times in the cafe, but given another name. After being abducted, Dave gets the name Healey from Pria's accomplice, but he admits that is not his real name. Dave recognizes Pria when he finally sees her. They tried to explain to Dave that they too had witnessed the lights. Pria's husband had killed himself just days after going into the water down in Brazil. Healey recounted a similar situation in Cuba, and all were after major storms. The men in Cuba (prison guards) had not only killed themselves, but all the inmates in the prison there.
Russell had followed the clues to Dave's location, and once there received all the confirmation he and Dave had been waiting for. Pria and Healey were the ones who stole Dave's mystery skeleton, and Pria had been able to reconstruct and create a face from the skull. The face belonged to Tom Underlay.
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