Juliet Parrish is one of the major characters in V (1983-85), who was a doctor, the leader of the Resistance and a scientist, working for the Science Frontiers.
Biography[]
Juliet "Julie" Parrish was a fourth-year medical student and protégé of Doctor Rudolph Metz and a friend to Doctor Benjamin Taylor at the time of the First Invasion.
When the Visitors arrived, she saw such an event as a chance to further scientific research, to be specific, study the DNA of the aliens. She learned very soon, however, that with the Visitors arrival, new problems came to Earth. A news report reveals that Metz is part of a "conspiracy" of scientists opposed to the Visitors, prompting Julie to begin looking into these accusations.
Not long after her suspicions are risen, she founded a small group of concerned people that would eventually become the cell-structure organisation method that would remain essential to their survival. Among this embryonic first group, aside from herself, was Ben and several local business owners and an LAPD officer, Brad. The businesspeople report that the price of provisions and supplies have gone up significantly. Brad reports that regulations he and his fellow officers must follow change frequently and that crimes that were minor are now treated much more harshly. Julie suggests that the group cautiously find out all the information they can about the changes that are taking place, contact people who have been appointed to high-ranking positions with the Visitors (like Kristine Walsh, whom Julie volunteers to make contact with), how they can contact other groups like themselves in other cities and that everyone present at the meeting bring at least a few more people with them to the next meeting. Julie is initially was despondent over leading the Resistance, as she was a scientist, not a soldier, but was comforted by Ruby Engels, that she was the most suitable person for the post of their leader.
Julie attempts to meet with Kristine Walsh but is unsuccessful; when she arrives at Kristine's apartment building, she spots Mike Donovan trying to sneak in ahead of her. Mike is turned in by Kristine and escapes a squad of Visitor shock troops sent to capture him, halting Julie's plan.
When Julie and Ben steal a load of medical equipment and supplies from the hospital where they worked, they are found by a shock trooper unit. Julie drives off in the truck and Ben is left behind. As he runs down a parking ramp, he's shot by a trooper and falls a good distance. When Julie finds him, she is hit in her hip while trying to help him. She is able to get him into her car and races him to his brother, Elias. Ben, first telling his brother to join up with Julie and the Resistance, dies from his injuries. Elias is convinced enough to join up with Julie to honor his brother's memory.
When the Resistance launches a strike to steal weapons from a downtown LA depot, Julie participates in the raid. During the operation, the Visitors, having found out where the Resistance's remote mountain camp is located, lead their own raid, led personally by Diana. Julie and her comrades make it back to the camp and fight off the invading fleet with small arms and LAAZ rockets. Assisting them is Mike Donovan, who'd been given a Visitor fighter ship by Martin to escape the LA mothership. When Tony's wife is killed during the attack, Julie takes up her pistol and begins shooting at Diana's ship. Diana tells her pilot to circle around and take another strafing run on Julie. Julie survives and takes command of the ragtag group in the aftermath of the attack.
As the months continued, the members of the resistance saw her more and more as the leader of the group. She was the lead person in the assault at the medical center and personally ripped John’s mask off in front of the world. However, in their escape, she became separated from the group. During an attempt to flee in an ambulance, the truck was crashed after Daniel Bernstein shot the driver, Fred King. Julie was pulled out of the wreck and held at gunpoint by Daniel until Diana arrived. After Diana slapped her and stating that she needed an "attitude adjustment", Julie was kidnapped and taken to the mothership to undergo the conversion process. Diana decided to personally supervise Julie's conversion, claiming she would be able to control her. The procedure is nearly fatal for Julie and she's eventually set free to be a potential spy for Diana. Julie constantly doubts her mental stability and loyalty to the group but is able mostly to overcome the conversion process and not be a major threat to her group.
Julie is the lead doctor when Robin Maxwell gives birth to her child, fathered with a Visitor named Brian. To everyone's astonishment, Robin bears twins, a human-looking child and a reptilian child, that crawls out of Robin's womb unaided. The human baby lives and grows very healthy while the Visitor baby dies, leading Julie to discover a bacterium in its body that can be a potential weapon against their enemy. Julie also makes a rash decision to the be the toxin's first human test subject when she enters a chamber to breathe it in after it's shown to be lethal to Brian. She and the rest of the scientific unit of the Resistance quickly culture it and produce a weapon that can drive the occupiers off the planet.
Julie is part of the Resistance crew that attacks the LA mothership. While half the crew sprays the red dust through the ship's ventilation system, Julie, Martin, Mike and Lorraine make their way to the ship's bridge. They quickly take control but Diana has already activated her ship's doomsday weapon, which could destroy Earth. While Mike and Lorraine try to defuse the weapon, Julie is charged with holding Diana at bay. Diana is able to appeal to Julie's lingering conversion and escape. The weapon is deactivated by Elizabeth and Martin flies everyone home.
erpiece". Julie was stripped and placed in the conversion chamber. It was discovered that she had a congenital heart condition and that she had a fear and loathing of anything abandoned or deserted. Diana began her attempt, making Juliet hallucinate that she was wandering errie hallways, being pursued by some unseen creature. Julie was able to deny this was happening. Diana increased the power to mode 2 and Julie imagined that she was being attacked by some sort of monster. Again, she was able to fight off the hallucinations, forcing Diana to increase the power again to level 3. As a blue beam of light spun rapidly arround her, Diana offered to help Julie. She raised her hands to accept, but at the last moment, realized what she was doing and yanked them back to her sides. In her visions, a lizard busted through a wall towards her. She suddenly went into cardiac arrest and nearly died.
Determined to break Julie, Diana continues the conversion process on Julie. Despite a warning from her technicians that it could be dangerous, she upped the power of the chamber to maximum. As she screamed in intense pain, Julie began to imagine that she was being chased by a large creature. She runs faster, but is unable to escape their pursuit. As her heartbeat became irregular again, she comes to another door and a large snake strikes at her. It proved to be too much for her and Julie is finally broken. Diana offers to help her and Julie's arms reach out for her. Diana askes her what she wants and Julie says to be hers and begs for her to stop the pain. With Julie converted, Diana ordered the chamber shut down. Without warning, Mike Donovan bursts into the room. Just as he was about to shoot Diana, Jake killed Donovan, which proved to be a setback in Julie's conversion. However, it turned out to be a fifth column member dressed to look like Donovan. Martin recommended that all important prisoners be transferred to earth. During the transfer, Julie was rescued by the Resistance. However, during this attack, Ruby was shot and killed by Daniel.
After her return, Ham Tyler tried to take leadership of the group, stating that Julie “thinks like a lizard now”. While the group did state their concerns about Julie’s condition, they backed her instead of Tyler. She had doubts of her own, as she caught herself using her left hand on more than one occasion. She voiced these concerns to Mike Donovan and a romance blossomed between the two. She brought them information on the pumping station and assisted in planning and carrying out the successful attack. However, during the attack, she noticed more lingering effects of her brainwashing.
Sadly many of her friends, such as Benjamin and Ruby, died during the conflict. She delivered Robin Maxwell's hybrid babies and, when the largely-Sirian infant died, discovered the organism in its corpse that was the basis for the Red Dust toxin.
Julie was part of the assault team on the Los Angeles Mothership, and successfully seized control of its command center. However, Diana was able to use her conversion of Julie to stall her long enough to escape. With the self-destruct disabled and the Visitors unable to remain on Earth due to the Red Dust toxin now in the planet's atmosphere, Julie returned to Earth with the Mothership under Resistance control.
One year after Liberation Day, Julie was working for Science Frontiers, the corporation responsible for mass production of the Red Dust. By this time she ended her relationship with Mike, because "she didn't have time for anything else". Juliet was put in charge of research of the captured Mothership by Nathan Bates (who seemed to have developed a romantic attraction for her, but she did not reciprocate). She tried to access the secret area onboard the mothership, but Diana had put a security code on it before she left in her fighter.
When the Second Invasion began after Diana's escape, Julie joined the reformed Resistance movement, but served in a lesser capacity, as she had to retain her position at Science Frontiers to throw off suspicion. Her place as leader was succeeded by Mike Donovan. She initially served as a Resistance's mole at Science Frontiers, smuggling information to the group and accessing the company's highly advanced technology to their advantage.
Eventually, Mr. Chiang, the head of Science Frontiers security, exposed her as a spy and Julie was forced to flee. Despite being forced underground, she nonetheless served as an important member, and served as the coordinator and organizer for many Resistance operations across the United States. Diana and her assitant James tried to kill Julie, but failed to do so as were placed under arrest by Philip.
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