The latest casting news for the second season of ABC’s alien invasion remake, V, is exciting for Fifth Column supporters – Oded Fehr (Law And Order: Los Angeles, Resident Evil) has been cast as Eli Cohn, a “leader in a new radical Fifth Column resistance movement whose hard-line stance against the Visitors pose a special new challenge for our core group of rebels.”

Executive producer Scott Rosenbaum talks about Fehr’s character:

“[Eli’s] ex-Mossad, and one of the interesting things that we’re doing with the show this year is that we’re introducing a group of Fifth Column which is much more radical than our group.  Eli’s philosophy is, ‘We need to attack now, strike now and start this war now,’ rather than wait.”

Fehr’s character will have more knowledge of the Visitors’ agenda than our core team of Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell), Jack (Joel Gretsch), and Ryan (Morris Chestnut), and Hobbes (Charles Mesure).

Rosenbaum continues:

“And what [Eli]’s learned is that the longer we wait to fight the more we play into Anna and the Visitors’ hands, because everything she’s doing is a Trojan Horse. The Blue Energy is a gift, but really it’s just to get us all stuck on Blue Energy so they can turn it off.”

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[Above: Erica, played by Elizabeth Mitchell]

Will the core team join up with Eli? Rosenbaum adds that the dynamic between Eli and Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) will add an interesting dimension to the story:

“Erica does not want collateral damage, but over the course of the arc maybe she’ll come to learn that he’s not much different than she is. She’s also going to find, and I can’t tell you what it is, a very shocking reveal. The two of them have something in common that she never would have guessed.”

V’s second season is slated to return in November on ABC.

[Source] IGN